by Anna Secino - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Unconscious Executive

by our unconscious mind” Both decision-making methods have strengths and weaknesses, says Harvard Business School postdoctoral fellow Maarten Bos. Our conscious mind is pretty good at following rules, but our unconscious mind—our ability... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Oct 2018
News

7 projects win Harvard Global Institute grants

22 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 22

control over the use of remittances. In partnership with a Salvadoran bank, we offered U.S.-based migrants from El Salvador bank accounts in their home country into which they could send remittances. We randomly varied migrant control over El Salvador-based savings... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 1998
News

C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe

persuasion, which takes time and a lot of patience." In a tribute occasioned by Spangler's UNC retirement, a recent North Carolina television program made clear the important role that Spangler's wife, Meredith Riggs Spangler, and... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne

16 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

platform and its evolution. We describe three ways of representing platform architectures: network graphs, design structure matrices, and layer maps. We conclude by addressing a number of fundamental strategic questions suggested View Details

01 Sep 2024
News

Back to School

because there is absolutely no other thing that compares. And believe me, I’ve tried it all. How to: Break a World Record Our instructor: Ming Chen (MBA 1998), Chief Culture Officer, Education First (EF) When I was in school in New Jersey, the senior class raised money... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustrations by Josh Cochran

30 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 30

theorists differ as to whether exploitation undermines or enhances exploration. The debate reflects a gap—the missing theoretical mechanism by which organizations break free of old routines and discover new ones. We propose that the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Sep 2019
News

Hollywood Ending

Stranger Things cost about $130,000 a minute by comparison.) Just as Anna Kendrick’s Dummy was originally written as a film, these projects will be serialized in seven- to ten-minute morsels that a viewer... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo

Research Summary

Airline Schedule Disruptions

Increasing congestion and frequent schedule disruptions throughout the National Air Transportation System, both at airports and en route, have led to significant flight and passenger delays. Professor Fearing's primary research focus is on measuring and reducing... View Details

Keywords: Performance Measurement; Air Transportation; Traffic Flow Management; Air Transportation Industry

Summer 2013
Article

Real Estate Prices During the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression

By: Tom Nicholas and Anna Scherbina

Using new data on market-based transactions we construct real estate price indexes for Manhattan between 1920 and 1939. During the 1920s prices reached their highest level in the third quarter of 1929 before falling by 67% at the end of 1932 and hovering around that... View Details

Keywords: Property; Market Transactions; Price; Value; Financial Crisis; Investment; Real Estate Industry; New York (state, US)

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February 2019 (Revised February 2020)
Case

Theranos: Who Has Blood on Their Hands? (A)

By: Nien-hê Hsieh, Christina R. Wing, Emilie Fournier and Anna Resman

This case covers the rise and fall of Theranos, the company founded by Elizabeth Holmes in 2004 to revolutionize the blood testing industry by creating a device that could provide from a small finger prick the same results and accuracy as intravenous blood draws. As... View Details

Keywords: Health Testing and Trials; Corporate Accountability; Organizational Culture; Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Entrepreneurship; Lawsuits and Litigation

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16 Oct 2015
Blog Post

HBS and the Arts

public school students from all over New York City would meet to discuss one or two works of art from the collection in depth. The conversation was moderated by a wonderful museum educator named Rika Burnham, who had a talent for allowing... View Details

07 Sep 2021
News

New HBS Fund Chairs Take the Helm

Courtesy Anna Spangler Nelson and Thomas C. Nelson Courtesy Anna Spangler Nelson and Thomas C. Nelson Anna Spangler Nelson and Thomas C. Nelson (both MBA 1988) became chairs of... View Details

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Podcast - Business & Environment

decarbonization and public health. While decarbonization requires shifting away from fossil fuels, this episode emphasizes the equally crucial health reasons to do so – especially for natural gas stoves. Tune in for a thoughtful conversation led View Details

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Spangler Center | About

interaction. The 122,000-square-foot, red brick and limestone building, which complements McKim, Mead & White’s 1920s master plan for the campus, was designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects and is considered the main student center for... View Details

Sep 20 2018
Testimonial

Getting Out In The Field, And Ahead Of The Competition

01 Aug 1998
News

Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center

Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot: "Let us do something while we have the chance. It is not every day that we are needed." Together with his wife, Meredith Riggs Spangler, and two daughters, Anna Spangler Nelson (MBA '88) and Abigail... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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Student Research - Doctoral

pediatric inpatient (GPI) unit closures and openings nationally and by state; (2) how often closures or openings are caused by GPI unit changes only or caused by... 2024 Working Paper Capital Market... View Details

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Women at HBS - Alumni

Werk , founded by Anna Auerbach (MBA 2010) and Annie Dean (a recovering Wall Street attorney), Werk makes companies flexible. Their technology puts flexibility insights and data into the hands of companies... View Details

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

in which agents recruited by a public health organization to sell condoms are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group are hired as volunteers, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive, respectively, a... View Details

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