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- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
have preferences over relative outcomes, we derive predictions about the antecedents and consequences of dividing equity equally among all founders. Using proprietary survey data, we empirically test the predictions. Our central finding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
experience planted a seed for Pomeranz's future research: how to promote financial savings among "microentrepreneurs" such as food cart owners, street vendors, and cosmetics saleswomen, whose income is low and often fluctuates.... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 26 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?
day.” Testing the unique benefits of work By all accounts, overcrowding, extreme poverty, and the experience of forced displacement inside the camps has taken a profound toll. Doctors Without Borders has provided almost 1.4 million... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
Officer Susan Rogers, an accomplished HBS administrator with a wealth of experience in technology and other projects, including total responsibility for the recent reconstruction of Morgan Hall. Ground Wires As Upton and others involved... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
expected to generate social value in addition to profit. As a result, they also increasingly face the distinct challenge of pursuing social and financial goals at the same time. Social enterprises have a great deal of experience dealing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
Negotiation Game simulates the experience negotiating the sale, purchase, or financing of a property. The class competes as either a lender, buyer, or one of two groups of sellers, Raleigh, North Carolina and Las Vegas, Nevada. This is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
analysis are based on publicly available information, and also, and perhaps even more importantly, on our Chief Executive's survey we have conducted earlier this year. More than 4,500 Chief Executive Officers have responded to that... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places
business publication, for example, recently cited a survey that found that two-thirds of the world's largest companies had replaced their CEOs since 1995. More than one thousand left US companies last year alone. Khurana's interest in CEO... View Details
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What We Do | Research Associates
in specific skills involving research methodologies, library resources, data analysis, case writing, and software. The experiences and skills our research associates develop lead to some exciting opportunities, including graduate programs... View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
researchers then analyzed the data, totaling some 12,000 daily diaries, looking for commonalities that influenced "inner work life," which the book defines as "the confluence of perceptions, emotions, and motivations that individuals View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates
variation of online shopping. Rather than just study the problem, they also came up with a possible solution: Virtual Dates. The researchers began their work by talking to online-dating-site users about their experiences, supplementing these conversations with View Details
- 08 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?
to improvement,” he says. Issues of trust and transparency People analytics will inevitably highlight tensions if employees wonder whether and how companies will use digital trace data and survey responses. Employees may rightly ask, “If... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
peer-to-peer (P2P) organizations—are redefining the market: In the United States, 22 percent of businesses with revenues between $100,000 and $1 million turn to online lenders for loans, and 30 percent of even smaller businesses go online for loans, according to a 2015... View Details
Keywords: Nancy Miller
- 08 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief
“might have a perverse incentive to allow underperforming employees to keep underperforming because it makes it easier to decide whom to lay off,” Hagerty says. Let the doctor decide The idea for the research came from Barasz’s personal View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
solving many of the same problems along the way but in isolation. So she wrote the manual. Drawing on her own experiences and the road map established by Grommet’s ventures, Pieri’s book, How We Make Stuff Now: Turn Ideas into Products... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
interactivity across geographic distance than has been possible up until now. We've had some forms of interactive technologies for a long time (e.g., telephone) and many kinds of media too, but real-time interactivity at a distance that comes anywhere near what we... View Details
- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
Buried in the middle layers of many organizations resides a strata of highly skilled experts, from HR managers to risk evaluators, whose collective wisdom and experience could prove invaluable in informing strategic decisions at the... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
contribution rates differ between employees hired before versus after the Roth introduction, which means that the amount of retirement consumption being purchased by 401(k) contributions increases after the Roth introduction. A survey... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
experimenting with teaching courses open to undergraduates. Perhaps the best example of collaboration, though, is the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab) that HBS launched in 2011. It has become a magnet for students, faculty, and alumni from... View Details
- 14 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors
Toffel. "We decided to bridge this impasse by creating the experiment inherent in MapEcos, providing a diverse group of companies the opportunity to disclose their environmental management efforts. The map provides both the stimulus... View Details