Time Stress - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 13, 2007

contribute to longer term complementary effects which work to overcome the losses from cannibalization. Our results are based on both interrupted time series analysis and a difference-in-differences analysis of six years of proprietary... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.

and, by the time any relief arrives, the CO2 from those fossil fuels will be in our air and in our oceans for hundreds of years. The Chinese choice tells that they believe that the certain better life today offered by low-cost energy is... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Unlocking Your Investment Capital

measures used by banks, insurance companies, and asset management pools to describe the risk differences among assets. It measures how much the asset value could decline within a specified future time period and within a certain... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

10 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

and face the dire condition of the US government's finances. In fact, it's time to press snooze. First, the fiscal stress on the United States is not imminent. Borrowing costs for the government are at... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings

hammered home the need for companies to return to stressing the basics: hiring good people, producing a good product, delivering it and supporting it. For the first time in history, he said, companies have... View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

17 Apr 2013
Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

difference, stereotypes, organizational change, and work/family. In her presentation on difference, Dartmouth's Ella Bell stressed the importance of multicultural gender studies. "It's not just about white women," she said,... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

16 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

behavior. We examine the role of experience over time in the emergence of the Gambler's Fallacy in binary prediction tasks. Theories of the Gambler's Fallacy and models of binary prediction suggest that recency bias, elicited by... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

several years ago in Asian Business magazine's annual most admired companies survey, Siam Cement Group (SCG) was one of the first firms in Thailand to develop its own written code of ethics. SCG's philosophy is rooted in the Buddhist concept of fairness and also View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

22 Apr 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

you'll find that very few actually wind up in the industrial sector, which had been the focus of the long-standing Business Policy course. When Kim Clark became Dean, he stressed that entrepreneurship—the pursuit of opportunity beyond the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

19 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 19, 2008

survey. We find that the end-of-month inventory significantly increased in four of the six retail segments studied and that, after controlling for sales and macroeconomic factors, the positive time trends for the end-of-month inventory... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Nov 2024
Op-Ed

How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy

03 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

social norms shift away from single-sex education, the school's enrollment is falling and deficits are becoming the norm. At the same time, the modern vision for girls' education requires an even greater investment in science and sports—at a View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road

automobiles. Unilever and Nestlé account for 40 percent of the entire U.S. ice cream market. Yet quantitative data suggests that the return on assets of foreign-owned companies in the U.S. is consistently lower than U.S.-owned firms. While a favourite explanation for... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace

07 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips

That being said, I feel very fortunate to have had an exercise and diet regime going into the interview process. One of the most stressful aspects of the job market is the lack of control. We spend five or six years getting to this one... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting; Education

06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

likely to rely on public welfare—they tend to be poorer and have more kids than native-born individuals—the opposite happens over a time horizon of 15 to 20 years. In aging societies, by paying taxes and preventing the decline of the size... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

29 Apr 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks

that friction in the market between what the price is and what it should be, Cohen and Malloy stress the importance of identifying a "catalyst" that will cause the market to catch up. "It's one thing to say I am going to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

22 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

easier, and reduced the influence of the integration stages. The courtship stage isn’t necessarily taking up more time during the pandemic—in fact, it may take less since recruits’ schedules are more flexible and there’s less expectation... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

Sorenstam didn't win, what measure would capture the sense of success that the public and this athlete clearly felt? There were many scores out there: David Owen of the New York Times summarized her success in terms of beating out forty... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

its own performance was critically dependent on the ability of its key suppliers to manufacture goods quickly, responsively, and at low cost. Kenyon developed a sourcing leadership theme on its strategy map that stressed development and... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

11 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Financial Services 24/7

likes to look at this complicated new world in terms of what is changing and what is staying the same. A longtime observer of technology's impact on business, McFarlan has been intrigued by recent developments in the financial services industry. He notes that while the... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

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