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  • 18 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?

the satire publication The Onion headlined, "Woman A Leading Authority On What Shouldn't Be In Poor People's Grocery Carts." This study's results could have implications for everything from social and economic policymaking to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 26 May 2022
  • HBS Case

Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?

expectation that a company will have a position on social and political issues." A Harvard Business School case study and its revision, Apple: Privacy vs. Safety (A) and (B), illustrates the complex ramifications that companies should... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • August 2019 (Revised February 2020)
  • Teaching Note

Sidewalk Labs: Privacy in a City Built from the Internet Up

By: Leslie John and Mitch Weiss
Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.

The case serves as a microcosm of issues of digital privacy: the availability of data – personal data in particular – has tremendous potential to improve people’s lives... View Details
Keywords: Privacy; Privacy By Design; Privacy Regulation; Platforms; Data; Data Security; Behavioral Science; Analytics and Data Science; Safety; Entrepreneurship; Business and Government Relations; Consumer Behavior; Digital Platforms
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Regional Winners - Alumni

Region: Central U.S. Fastline - Global Runner-up and Crowd Favorite FastLine is the first device to allow central venous catheters to be placed with continuous ultrasound guidance and to automatically perform gold-standard safety checks... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2006
  • What Do You Think?

How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?

implications for public policy. As for jobs and what has come to be known as outsourcing, Gaurav Goel commented, "Low-cost labor is not the deciding factor in the success of outsourcing (vs.) people with the right attitude ."... View Details
Keywords: by by Jim Heskett
  • Web

Events & Presentations - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Resources Resources Video Courses Data Events & Presentations Frameworks News Publications Events & Presentations Events & Presentations The Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness frequently hosts events and conferences. We... View Details
  • 23 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified

that are widely seen as measures of gentrification are accompanied by growth in the number of businesses in every category we examined.” Creating better public policy Gentrification has swept through some of America’s largest cities,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

developments in the Bangladesh ready-made garment industry after the fire at Tazreen Fashions factory, including formation of the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Accord (“Accord”) and the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2004
  • News

Working the Street

Stripped to the waist in a clinic examining room, Mike, a burly white guy in his late 30s, is an illustrated man. His arms, chest, and neck are a tattooed maze of letters, numbers, and designs signaling his allegiance to the Aryan Nation gang. The Nazi SS lightning... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; tattoo; removal; program; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities
  • Web

The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership

West and Southwest Influence: High 90 1990 s Immigration tops 9 million (largest number since first decade) Baby boomers age Hispanics become fastest-growing minority Population grows from 250 million to 281 million Influence: Medium-High 1900 s 19 Model T Plastic... View Details
  • 21 Jul 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?

Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • Web

Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

opened a branch office in Chicago in the 1930s and another in Los Angeles in the 1940s. Manhattan: William Street, 1923. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. Digital Equipment Corporation. Programmed Data Processor-1 Brochure.... View Details
  • Web

Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

tech-enabled nannies. Social Enterprise Track, 2017 Flare Quinn Fitzgerald (MBA 2017) Sara de Zarraga (MBA 2017) Social Enterprise Track Winner Flare is reinventing personal security by creating tech-enabled safety devices for women. Juva... View Details
  • 23 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 23

problems (and the ways they reinforce each other), this paper offers a new approach to community transformation which calls for leaders to use technology to inform and connect people. We need to convert the social safety net into a social... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 2, 2016

relationships with customers, the Bansals immediately drafted an apology and terminated the seller's agreement with Flipkart. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516017-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-049 DPDHL Group: Employee View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Aug 2021
  • Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

shantytowns. But in an effort to grow her organization and help more people, she eventually began courting private donors, public authorities, and the general public. By 2016, her nonprofit had helped 70,000 people. As her own position of... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 26 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

intake linked to commercial products. Media (including social media) coverage about the safety and cost of many consumer goods, both medical (drugs, devices) and nonmedical, reflect profound public concerns.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Aug 2022
  • Research & Ideas

6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies

A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

in U.S. politics: CEOs are taking very public stands on thorny political issues that have nothing to do with their firms’ bottom lines. Business leaders like Tim Cook of Apple, Howard Schultz of Starbucks, and Marc Benioff of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Dec 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

forthcoming New York: Dey Street Books Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and Life By: Gino, F. Abstract—The world’s best chef. An airline captain who brought his flight to safety in a daring water landing. A magician... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne