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- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
account for such agglomeration have been proposed. We note that these theories make different predictions about which pairs of industries should be coagglomerated. We discuss the measurement of coagglomeration and use data from the Census...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Adjusting the Fit for Government
press governments to allow space for business to work and innovate. The tenet of predictability is vital, said Wagle. "If people are going to invest in very bad conditions, they have to know the rules of the game," he charged....
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by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
in a survey conducted of 45 experts before the study, including academics, nonprofit staffers, and government or private sector employees. These experts predicted a median 7 percentage point reduction in depression tied to the debt....
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- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
but interviewers commented that they felt “all law students would benefit from such a program.” “I would be lost without the knowledge I gained in CORe,” says Cera. “Because I now have a foundational understanding of how businesses operate and what they care most...
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- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
Clayton up this weekend for seven Academy Awards. (Any predictions out there on the winners?) Samuels drew an analogy between the real estate industry and filmmaking. “I look at a movie script the same way I look at an empty piece of...
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- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
arbitrariness of the set. Drawing on Gestalt psychology, we develop a conceptual account that predicts what will—and will not—act as a pseudo-set and defines the psychological process through which these pseudo-sets affect behavior,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
measures of national political instability—Alesina and Perotti's (1996) well-known index of instability, a subsequent index derived from Banks' (2005) work, and two indices of managerial perceptions of nation-by-nation political instability—persistently View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
-1,000 otherwise" over "0 with certainty." Studies 3, 4, and 5 address the apparent discrepancy between these results and the evidence for loss aversion documented in previous research. The results reveal that only under very specific conditions does the...
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Martha Lagace
- January 2021
- Supplement
Aster DM Healthcare: Budget Exercise
By: V.G. Narayanan and Amy Klopfenstein
In April 2020, Alisha Moopen, Deputy Managing Director of Aster DM Healthcare, a network of clinics, hospitals, and pharmacies in the Middle East and India, must create her company’s budget for the 2021 fiscal year in light of the onset of Covid-19. The pandemic had...
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Decisions;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Judgments;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Cost vs Benefits;
Finance;
Borrowing and Debt;
Financial Institutions;
Banks and Banking;
Financial Condition;
Financial Liquidity;
Accounting;
Budgets and Budgeting;
Management;
Crisis Management;
Health Pandemics;
Health Industry;
Asia;
India;
United Arab Emirates;
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- April 1993 (Revised June 1994)
- Supplement
MathSoft, Inc. (B)
Describes the president's decision regarding MathSoft's marketing channels and communications methods, and the company's sales results during the next five quarters. The (A) case market response model is also updated.
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Communication Technology;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Curriculum and Courses;
Learning;
Knowledge Sharing;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Marketing Channels;
Education Industry
Rangan, V. Kasturi. "MathSoft, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 593-095, April 1993. (Revised June 1994.)
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
and then develop theories that will help predict behavior in the future. I don’t know that I had a clear hypothesis about this research question at the start. You hear so much said about how much people don’t like open offices, but...
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Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
Documenting the actual levels of inequality within and across countries is generally considered a critical input to the design of economic and social policy (7–10); we suggest that assessing laypeople’s understanding of those levels, and how that understanding View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
ratios. Conversely, peer firms identified by Google and Yahoo Finance, as well as product market competitors gleaned from 10-K disclosures, turned in consistently worse performances. We contextualize these results in a simple model that View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world...
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- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
predicted he wouldn’t graduate grade school, yet he graduated college with honors because my family focused on what he was capable of and believed in him. “With ArtLifting, our mission is to empower disadvantaged individuals through the...
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- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
predict changes in the number of overall establishments and restaurants in County Business Patterns. Contemporaneous and lagged Yelp data can generate an algorithm that is able to explain 29.2% of the residual variance after accounting...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
http://www.springer.com/economics/development/book/978-1-4614-1878-8?changeHeader Employee Selection as a Control System Authors:Dennis Campbell Publication:Journal of Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract Theories from the economics, management control, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
context of this crisis underscores a big limitation of our current system of health insurance, which is based on covering a predictable set of needs for surgical procedures, office visits, and hospitalizations across a given population....
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
combination of beliefs and preferences that drives his or her motivation, decision making, and leadership style. The authors discuss four types of highly successful “business builder” personalities: the Driver, the Explorer, the Crusader, and the Captain, each...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
modern life." As computer technology emerged in the 1950s, initial reactions in the Bulletin were mixed. "One of the most dramatic developments in the business world is the growth of automatic data processing," wrote a faculty member in 1955, who also View Details