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- 02 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Telecommuting: Dangerous to Health?
must set expectations for and maintain regular contact with their telecommuters. Those who telecommute extensively point out the need for, in Scott Lichtman's words, "networking in person at least two times per week, having other...
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by James Heskett
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
their own work and family life strategy. Charting Your Course debuted in May 2000 when fifty alumnae, most of them from the MBA reunion classes of '81, '86 and '91, met on campus for two days. Hart, who like Welsh is a member of the HBS...
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by Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
to the global population was a challenge. Health care costs accounted for 10% of world GDP by 2013. In the U.S., health care costs were expected to top $3.1 trillion in 2014. New technologies, shortages of trained personnel, and...
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Carmen Nobel
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407039 PublicationsAndy Grove: The Life and Times of an American Author:Richard Tedlow Publication:Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Group USA, 2006 Abstract Andy...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
opportunities to cheat on tests are likely to engage in self-deception, inferring that their elevated performance is a sign of intelligence. This short-term psychological benefit of self-deception, however, can come with longer-term costs: when predicting future...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
determining the expected return of, and hence the optimal allocation to, less persistent, more turnover-intensive characteristics. The mean-variance optimal tilts toward value, size, and profitability are roughly equal to each other and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
exercising discretion. Doctors tend to deviate more, and deviations tend to be less detrimental with experience, yet deviations remain harmful even for high levels of experience. Moreover, doctors tend to deviate to follow two common ordering strategies: shortest View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
something we really need to reexamine because so many of the problems that we’ve seen in this crisis can be traced back to the application of mathematical models in an inappropriate way to financial risk management. Do you expect that...
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Growing Together - Annual Report 2014
Tata Group, donated $50 million for its construction. With its arced shape and two glass-walled floors offering transparency to and from the Charles River, Tata Hall embodies the centrality of residential life to the learning experience...
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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
self-interested. Our cases show that regardless of the precise motivational starting point, as long as cross-sector collaborations continue to serve the interests of all partners, their motivations are likely to evolve. In most real life...
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- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
plan for: The HBS survey found that 83 percent of alumnae expected to successfully combine their jobs and their personal lives, while only 47 percent said their expectations matched with the reality; 86...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
Should OnRamp hire locally with the expectation of being able to reap the benefits of an in-person experience at some unknown point in the future? Or should the founders commit to hiring the best people, regardless of their geography, and...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 30 Sep 2024
- News
The Making of a Streaming Sensation
the character of Harriet neurodiverse. Holly herself was diagnosed later in life, knocking on age 40, as autistic. And for her it was a huge moment of revelation because suddenly for her, so much of her teenage years and her life made...
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- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
have a clear idea of why it is involved in CSR and the expected outcomes. They should know whether CSR benefits the brand, boosts the reputation of the business, affects customer retention, reduces waste, or provides a boost to employee...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
productivity are hellishly difficult to sort out. This is due to the difficulty of measuring such amorphous factors as intellectual property creation and the long time lag before any expected return on investment. The sector's tendency to...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
the Middle East, Armenia, and the Philippines have buoyed sales and enabled Scharfman to double the size of his workforce to 100 over the last five years. “Our selling point is that we make ‘homemade,’ ethnically authentic cheeses, but with the quality and shelf View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
inevitably lose because they paid a premium price. They lose to the people who have more patience and more discipline. Third, it’s easy to talk in the abstract, but in real life you see situations that are just plain mispriced, where an...
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- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
wedding in 2003. Then life got very complicated. Less than twelve months after getting married, Jen was diagnosed with MFH sarcoma, a rare cancer of the soft tissue. For two years, she endured painful rounds of chemotherapy in her valiant...
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- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
the ask is not avoided and factors that may be viewed self-servingly are neither introduced nor highlighted. In doing so, results from a field study and complementary online study document evidence that less prosocial behavior results from the mere View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
allowable constraints. The method then designs a point system that is based on the selected priority criteria and approximately maximizes medical efficiency, i.e., life year gains from transplant, while simultaneously enforcing selected...
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Sean Silverthorne