Financial Education - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016

Organization Tax Aversion in Labor Supply By: Kessler, Judd B., and Michael I. Norton Abstract—In a real-effort laboratory experiment, labor supply decreases more with the introduction of a tax than with a financially equivalent drop in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 May 2019
News

A More Perfect Union

group. Membership is a commitment to Leadership Now’s principles and to investing your time, expertise, and financial resources toward these issues and participating in our annual meeting. We’re really about three things: First, getting... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

15 Dec 2015
News

The Year in Ideas 2015

sons whose mothers were employed spend more time caring for family members, a much-cited working paper by Professor Kathleen McGinn, Elizabeth Long Lingo (PhDOB 2005), and their coauthor found. Darrell Huntsman (MBA 1998) founded the Corrective View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

01 Dec 2018
News

Hard Choices

regulation are essential to limit the harm, as well as the reputational and financial damage. But governance and regulation exist on pendulums that swing to and fro, and may overshoot in one direction and then in the other. One of... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

17 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5

suspicion blackness prompts, while walking or running near our homes, also fills governmental bodies, educational institutions, and business organizations. Whether we want to admit it or not, the racism that kills is on the same spectrum... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

Rescue & Recovery

like Cisco, Microsoft, and Airbnb to scale their impact. Since its programs are driven by local needs across 40 geographies, they run the gamut, from agriculture and financial inclusion to food security, market development, policy, and... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Stephen Voss; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

business endeavors through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England’s economy via trade with the New World, the author traces an entrepreneurial golden line through men such as Thomas Pitt, savior of the East India... View Details

01 Feb 2002
News

Redefining Success: Women & Work.

her community. New Priorities, New Skills Forced layoffs often cause women to reevaluate their priorities, and severance pay can ease the financial burden, allowing them time to figure out what they want to do. But even without such... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

19 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future

On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

rebalancing in the financial portfolio of participants. These patterns conceal strong household-level evidence of active rebalancing, which on average offsets about one half of idiosyncratic passive variations in the risky asset share.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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recent graduates, including: Instabase, FreeWill, Spring Health, Ribbon Health, Snackpass, Parade, Fireflies, Reverie Labs, Getaway, Cobalt Robotics, LogRocket, Pavlov (acquired by Coinbase), and Legalist. Prior to his time at GC, Peter worked for online View Details

12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016

socioeconomic disparities in health and mortality is a well-established fact. Many pathways have been adduced to explain inequality in life spans. In this article we examine one factor that has been somewhat neglected: people with different levels of View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2011
News

The City Solution

processes generally, to more closely track and, when necessary, adjust energy expenditures; and educating citizens that if they want to reduce carbon emissions, they must reduce their energy use.” Without sweeping incentives and forceful... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Dec 2015
News

Golden State of Mind

legislative process. Both can seek support from a select group of investors to help enact the proposals as law. This and Draper’s six-state push are not even his first forays into the public sector. After pulling his children from public schools, he served on... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

10 Nov 2014
HBS Case

How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World

with them. Keinan: It's interesting that both of these chefs may have different passions and solutions, but that [they] started not only business ventures, but ventures with larger visions or missions behind it. It's a very interesting dilemma of how do you balance... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

2011
Article

Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation

By: Ethan S. Bernstein and Frank J. Barrett

How can leaders adopt a mindset that maximizes learning, remains responsive to short-term emergent opportunities, and simultaneously strengthens longer-term dynamic capabilities of the organization? This chapter explores the organizational decisions and practices... View Details

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07 Feb 2012
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that they click fewer advertisements, controlling for the number of advertisements they actually click. Results are most pronounced for commercial searches and for vulnerable users with low education and little online experience. Read the... View Details