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- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
regulation as a general theory of politics. George Stigler himself claimed that "temporary accidents aside," exceptions "simply will not arise: our extensive experience with the general View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
Implementing Patient-Focused Care (A) (Abridged) Harvard Business School Case 608-070 Reading Rehab Hospital has experimented with a popular concept in health care—patient-focused care—intended to increase quality and reduce costs by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Is Business School Right for You?
lot of rhetoric out there about the value of an MBA in today’s dynamic marketplace. Harvard Business School’s Peek helps you cut through it and experience the value of an MBA for yourself – providing you with a low risk, sneak-peek to... View Details
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
the World Bank gave committed officials the political opportunity to experiment with new programs in underperforming regions, which they progressively extended across the country. These incremental reforms supplied the institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff
Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff Kurt Wulff (MBA 1967) credits Harvard Business School with changing the way he viewed decision making. Even after 50 years, he remembers Dr. Howard Raifa’s courses on game theory and decision analysis. A... View Details
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
Institutions, Entrepreneurs, and the Case of Hedge Funds Authors:Pamela Tolbert and Shon R. Hiatt Publication:In Research in the Sociology of Work. Vol. 20, edited by Wesley Sine and Robert David. Institutions and Entrepreneurship. Emerald Press, forthcoming Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 18
Them In or Revealing Their Best? Reframing Socialization Around Newcomer Self-Expression Authors:Dan M. Cable, Francesca Gino, and Brad Staats Abstract Socialization theory has focused on enculturating new employees such that they develop... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
narratives and frames that influence the perception of green building; and future directions for the theory and practice of sustainable construction. The essays offer uniquely multidisciplinary insights into the transformative potential... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
Forty years ago, in September 1966, a young mission analyst named Jay Light left the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and headed east to Harvard Business School. At JPL, Light used his undergraduate engineering physics training to lead a space-mission... View Details
- Profile
Eric Chavez
balance, and stable career.” But something was missing. It took me a while to understand why I was not fully passionate about what I was doing—I wanted something with impact beyond my four walls.” His personal life matured as well. In his mid-twenties, Eric came out... View Details
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
Imagine two software engineers with similar technical training, both vying for recognition. One is located in London and the other in Bangalore. Both likely do similar work and may experience threats—distinct in intensity and nature—to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog
expertise, packaging your expertise and striking a successful deal. The lessons will be most useful to anyone entering today’s labor market, entrepreneurs starting new ventures, and investors. Students will develop their strategy through simulated negotiation... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Shaping the Way Business Does Business: HBR at 75
intended both to improve the oper-ation of business by linking economic theory with practice and to serve as a showpiece for HBS research. The magazine's first decades were marked by financial losses. But in the late 1940s the School took... View Details
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
in State-Controlled Firms By: Pargendler, Mariana, Aldo Musacchio, and Sergio G. Lazzarini Abstract—A large legal and economic literature describes how state-owned enterprises (SOEs) suffer from a variety of agency and political problems. Less View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation edited by Edward J. Balleisen and David A. Moss (Cambridge University Press) After years of emphasis on governmental inefficiency and the need for deregulation, interest is growing... View Details
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where founders trade off the simplicity of accepting an equal split, with the costs of negotiating a differentiated allocation of founder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
Among the most popular elective courses at Harvard Business School is Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (BSSE). Developed by Professor Clayton M. Christensen, the course teaches future leaders how to use well-researched academic View Details
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
economic theory with field experiments. "Field experiments give you scientific rigor while being close to practice," says. "Unless you really have a bulletproof argument that you can't poke holes in, it's... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
of India's Public R&D Laboratories By: Khanna, Tarun, and Prithwiraj Choudhury Abstract—In this paper, we build on the standard resource dependence theory and its departure suggested by Vernon to offer a novel explanation for why... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne