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  • 19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54599 When Gender Discrimination Is Not About Gender By: Coffman, Katherine B., Christine L. Exley, and Muriel Niederle Abstract—We use an experiment to show that employers prefer to hire male over female workers for a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Aug 2022
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The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto

by solving a very computationally difficult task. The first one that solves the task basically gets a cryptographic certificate that says, “You solved this task.” These certificates are hard to construct but easy to verify. So all the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

consumption fluctuations faced by individuals, households, and firms. Yet much of this promise remains unrealized. In this paper, we study the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product designed to compensate low-income Indian... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

demonstrates that SFP always enables truth to speak to power safely, and in a majority of cases enables senior teams to transform silent barriers into strengths, realign their organization's design and strategic management process with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

but this article shows it has never been true historically. Using longitudinal data on individual firms from the nineteenth century onwards, it reveals evidence of how entrepreneurs and firms with multinational activity faced by market imperfections changed the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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From the Chief Financial Officer - Annual Report 2020

spurred global protests for racial justice. On the School’s campus, Dean Nitin Nohria formed an Anti-Racism Task Force composed of faculty, staff, students, and alumni to develop ideas for how the HBS might advance racial equity. In... View Details
  • 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

Truth and Deception, edited by M. S. McGlone and M. L. Knapp. Routledge, 2008 Abstract When people behave in ways that might appear selfish, prejudiced or perverted, they engage in a host of strategies designed to justify questionable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

First, Study 1 shows that chronic matchmaking is associated with higher well-being. Studies 2 and 3 show that matching others on the basis of how well they will get along leads to a greater increase in happiness and is more intrinsically rewarding than other View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008

development organizations, involved in both research and program design and delivery. This case explores CCL's approach to leadership and management education for executives and presents some of the challenges the CCL faces as many... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

Reinventing Work and Life by Linda Rossetti (MBA 1991) (Palgrave MacMillan) Rossetti introduces women to a new way of thinking about the events that shape their adult lives—like marriage, job loss, or empty nests—and offers a step-by-step toolkit View Details
  • 01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care

care today is not how expensive it is. It's that we're held down by force, our money is taken, and then we're shoved into a medical system that is not responsive to us." Athenahealth's cloud-based services are designed to make... View Details
Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

older age. The design of purchased products varies strongly with household characteristics, suggesting the importance of heterogeneity in preferences and financial circumstances. A simple portfolio choice model shows that household loss... View Details
  • 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

Abstract—Liability laws designed to compensate for harms caused by defective products may also affect innovation. We examine this issue by exploiting a major quasi-exogenous increase in liability risk faced by U.S. suppliers of polymers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

To confirm causation and explore the mechanisms underlying the effects, we replicated the results in a laboratory experiment. We found that individuals working temporarily as part of a research team were more engaged and satisfied with their work, performed their View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

OCTOBER 6 Rajendra Aneja (AMP 175, 2008) brought his expertise in marketing in rural areas to the task of stopping the spread of the COVID-19, which he deems “the biggest and most serious problem facing mankind since World War II.” In... View Details
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

designed to enhance safety and effectiveness created a culture that unintentionally released men from societal imperatives for "manly" behavior, prompting them to let go of masculine-image concerns and to behave instead in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne