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  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

season. We first document relatively low levels of adoption of this new risk management technology: only 5%-10% of households purchase insurance, even though rainfall variability is overwhelmingly cited by households as the most important risk they face. We then... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 20, 2016

artificial worlds for hypothesis testing and theory building. Agent-based models (ABMs) offer unprecedented control and statistical power by allowing researchers to precisely specify the behavior of any number of agents and observe their... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

Nava, Diego Aycinena, Claudia Martínez A., and Dean Yang Abstract—While remittance flows to developing countries are very large, it is unknown whether migrants desire more control over how remittances are used. This research uses a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market

overlook the significance of these certifications and typically lack the necessary operational capacity to pursue them, underscoring a divide in the adoption of sustainable practices within the RFH community. RFH also champions eco-friendly cultivation methods, such as... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI

Clarke Rowan Clarke Can a Chatbot Be an Entrepreneurship Mentor? In the first-known randomized test of the impact of GenAI on firms in a developing economy, Rembrand Koning, the Mary V. and Mark A. Stevens Associate Professor of Business... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

Tried and Tested

have control over that. When employees don’t have control over something that matters to them, this usually points toward potential policy interventions and also naturally occurring interventions that we can... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Scientific Research and Development Services
  • 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51040 forthcoming American Journal of Health Promotion The Effect of Cost Sharing on an Employee Weight Loss Program: A Randomized Trial By:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • January 2009 (Revised July 2009)
  • Case

Targanta Therapeutics: Hitting a Moving Target

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
This case explores regulatory, product testing, and business strategy at Targanta Therapeutics, a biotech company preparing its first new drug application to the FDA. In October 2007, Mark Leuchtenberger, president and CEO of Targanta—which has just held a successful... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Testing and Trials; Product Development; Business and Government Relations; Business Strategy; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

The Race Against Resistance

warning that antibiotic resistance presents one of the greatest threats to health, food security, and development worldwide. And according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each year in the United States at least 2... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
  • 23 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

substantial variation exists across organizations with regard to management, suggesting frictions in the broader diffusion of management knowledge. We argue that peer networks may allow for the diffusion of productive management across firms. Using a View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 May 2020
  • News

“Walking a Tightrope”

age of innovation. There are people all over the country in universities and colleges who are actually doing research and conducting randomized control trials to determine what... View Details
  • 08 Apr 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care

screening participants in drug trials and make it possible to track and troubleshoot unexpected problems that show up after a drug is introduced into the general population, like what happened with Vioxx. The potential of this technology... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Health
  • 01 Dec 2021
  • What Do You Think?

How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?

takes away productivity." Fans of the television show, Alter Ego, in which avatars controlled by contestants competing to become the next pop star, would argue that Alter Ego is little more than an introduction to the Metaverse. They’re... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 25 Apr 2012
  • What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

of direct process control in which decisions have to be made "in the flow" in situations where there isn't time for conventional analysis (at least by humans). Is this a glimpse into the future of decision-making (without analysis... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 06 Jan 2011
  • What Do You Think?

How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?

intended victim. (Ironically, in the meantime we have learned that the "worm" that attacked Iran's nuclear centrifuges and sent them whirling out of control and into self-destruction in all likelihood was carefully engineered... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
  • 14 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 14

flexible random coefficients aggregate discrete choice model that accommodates heterogeneity in preferences for school quality and athletic success, and an extensive set of school fixed effects to control... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Aug 2024
  • News

Quantum Leap

data centers that contain thousands of them. SEEQC is attempting to replace all that room-temperature equipment with digital control chips that measure one centimeter on a side and function at the same unimaginably low temperatures as the... View Details
  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

more likely to return to work when initial socialization focused on personal identity as compared to a focus on organizational identity or a control condition. In addition, authentic self-expression mediated these relationships. We call... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

recommendations for stocks with larger market capitalizations and lower return volatility than their sell-side peers, consistent with their facing fewer conflicts of interest and having a preference for liquid stocks. Tests with no View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 11

change initiatives-Predictability, Teaming and Open Communication, and Results Only Work Environment-that alter the structure and culture of work in ways that enable better work and better lives. August 2013 Tax Administration Review View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne