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Get to Know the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to...
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Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know - Blog - Business & Environment
Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business & Environment Initiative Careers...
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- 02 Jun 2015
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Pointing the Way to a Better World
people involved and to show they care in order to bring about change It’s not going to work to assume there are...
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Margie Kelley
- 2011
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Group Size and Incentives to Contribute: A Natural Experiment at Chinese Wikipedia
By: Michael Zhang and Feng Zhu
In this paper, we examine the causal relationship between group size and incentives to contribute in the setting of Chinese Wikipedia, the Chinese language version of an online encyclopedia that relies entirely on voluntary contributions. The group at Chinese Wikipedia...
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Rights;
Motivation and Incentives;
Internet and the Web;
Valuation;
Groups and Teams;
Knowledge Sharing;
Behavior;
Satisfaction;
Size;
Government and Politics;
Economics;
Information Technology Industry;
Hong Kong;
Taiwan;
Singapore
Zhang, Michael, and Feng Zhu. "Group Size and Incentives to Contribute: A Natural Experiment at Chinese Wikipedia." American Economic Review 101, no. 4 (June 2011): 1601–1615.
- 20 Aug 2020
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From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives
For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day
should consider whether the structure of the school day is ideal. Should we have more breaks to ensure that low-performing children can recover, for instance? Two, in accountability systems we often compare and evaluate based on test...
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- 2018
- Chapter
Why Do So Many Chinese Students Come to the United States?
By: William C. Kirby
Many books offer information about China, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. The questions addressed in this unique volume provide a window onto the challenges China faces today and the uncertainties its meteoric ascent on the global horizon has provoked....
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Asia;
China;
Emerging Country;
Students;
Education;
Higher Education;
Globalization;
International Relations;
History;
Society;
Education Industry;
Asia;
China;
United States
Kirby, William C. "Why Do So Many Chinese Students Come to the United States?" Chap. 27 in The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power, edited by Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi, 219–230. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.
- 25 Nov 2015
- News
Pfizer-Allergan Merger Won't Lead to New, Innovative Drugs
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
resources for the full length of the research, he also provided pro-bono, unlimited access to one year of Burning Glass data to analyze the middle skills gap in America. The...
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- 11 Apr 2017
- News
Some Strategies to Limit Sugary Drinks May Backfire
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
government: Aid that’s easier to access The US government also needs to do its part and extend aid efforts, Mills says. The Paycheck Protection Program allocated $659 billion...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
sector, taking what we had learned about name selection and availability and making it accessible inexpensively to everyone, everywhere,” says Master. Say you have a name in mind for a financial planning...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Aug 2023
- What Do You Think?
As Leaders, Why Do We Continue to Reward A, While Hoping for B?
educational system.” For example, in politics, citizens support ideas associated with what academics call “high-acceptance, low-quality goals,” as in: “All citizens are entitled to health care.” Acceptance begins dropping, however, as the...
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by James Heskett
- 09 May 2016
- Blog Post
What To Know For An International Job Search
connects people virtually, it’s never the same as being physically present, so transitioning back ‘home’ is not that easy. Go Beyond Job Postings As an HBS alumnus/ae, you have access to Alumni Career Hub...
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- September 2014 (Revised May 2017)
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Fresno's Social Impact Bond for Asthma
By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez
In 2014, Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) were quickly gaining popularity as an investment vehicle which joined together private investors and nonprofits to tackle social issues. Although numerous SIB projects and proposals had cropped up across the U.S. following the launch...
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Social Enterprise;
Health Care;
Marketing;
Bonds;
Financing;
Asthma;
Air Pollution;
Air Quality;
Chronic Disease;
Public Health;
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Finance;
Health Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Quelch, John A., and Margaret L. Rodriguez. "Fresno's Social Impact Bond for Asthma." Harvard Business School Case 515-028, September 2014. (Revised May 2017.)
- 23 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.
January to August using court records through the federal Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) and the Federal Judicial Center (FJC) databases. PACER records...
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by Rachel Layne
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
through persuasion or coercion.” But where does this power come from? It derives from controlling access to what others value, such as income, status, achievement, belonging, autonomy, and moral purpose....
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 20 Jun 2018
- News
Graphic images speak to consumers of sugary drinks
- 04 Apr 2007
- News
Health-care Players looking to Protect their cut
- 18 Nov 2014
- News
Enabling families to navigate the aging process
Caring for her aging parents led Janet Simpson Benvenuti (MBA 1985) to launch a company that helps other families find resources that are right for their own parents’ needs. (Published November 2014)
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