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- 01 Sep 2012
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High Honors
launched Tokyo-based Rakuten, a 10,000-person company that began as an online shopping mall and now includes banking, travel, e-book, and credit card divisions. With a market capitalization of approximately $14 billion in fiscal year...
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- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
this environment. What CEOs told us “Priorities have changed, personally and professionally. There can be no thought paralysis. What will the new norm look like and how do we adapt? I ask myself that on a daily basis.” “In order to...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
forthcoming Journal of Investment Consulting Cloaked Trading By: Cohen, Lauren, Dong Lou, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract—Using a novel, proprietary database of micro-level trading activities by asset managers, we show strong evidence of asset managers engaging in...
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Carmen Nobel
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
come closer to creative in order to run creative—in other words, I had to understand how the widgets were made to run the factory,” he says. In the course of doing that, however, Singer became increasingly intrigued by making the widgets....
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
that employers struggle to recruit at scale is because every university was so fragmented. Each institution required you to show up at a career fair, have an info session, and sit at a career fair booth in order to build a brand with...
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- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
and/or number of display-only items have no significant impact on these decisions. These findings reveal a novel choice behavior in commonly encountered settings such as online marketplaces. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28
interactive online demonstration enables first-hand exploration of the parameter space (www.mpmlab.org/groups), and available source code (supplementary materials) provides a guide to implementing psychological agent-based models....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
fulfillment. You must share the reason why you exist and infuse it into everything you do in order to thrive. Many leaders see the shift in the market and make an effort to adapt. Companies quickly learn that one-off workshops and...
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- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
isolate elements that cause people to stop watching and to find ones that keep them engaged. In addition, they make it possible to determine what kinds of ads are most likely to be shared and what types of people are most likely to share them. Here are five big...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-027.pdf Highbrow Films Gather Dust: Time-inconsistent Preferences and Online DVD Rentals (revised) Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We report on a field study...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Pulsipher tells Bill about the school’s innovative online model, which delivers a proficiency-based curriculum to working adults and members of underserved groups. With over 115,000 full-time students, WGU plans to reach an even wider...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
benefits of having flexible work policies and actually being more remote than onsite in the future, which is my expectation. We use Zoom and Microsoft Teams as ways to engage people online in meetings. Again, these were not tools that we...
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- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
couple it with loss aversion, and you put people in a position where they're more likely to go out and exercise." StickK has incorporated another economic principle—the power of social norms—to keep people on track. Users create an online...
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- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
earlier, Freed-Finnegan and Wall had founded Index after observing the technological advantages that Amazon and other online retailers had over brick-and-mortar retailers. Index’s first product was a customer database tool that allowed...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17
how, all the way through the 1970s, the U.S. not only failed to resist pressure to defend American investments, but also remained unsuccessful at altering internal institutions of other countries in order to make property rights secure in...
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20
lines in order to illuminate the ways that U.S. states take advantage of federal ambiguity and are able to shape corporate practices to their benefit. We specifically examine how patterns of bank acquisitions are shaped by the crucial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
powerful insights and practical guidelines that allow managers to bridge professional divides and organizational boundaries in order to work together effectively, this is a new exploration of the challenges involved in today's global...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 4
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51107 Ideological Segregation Among Online Collaborators: Evidence from Wikipedians By: Greenstein, Shane, Yuan Gu, and Feng Zhu Abstract—Do online communities...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
A may prefer to accept lower future profits in order to interact with a monopolist complement in B. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-009.pdf Unraveling Yields Inefficient Matchings: Evidence from Post-Season College...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
bridge that gap. So as an example, some of the things we’ve been experimenting with is watching, when it looks as though people who are online and not in person want to actually participate in the conversation but are having a hard time,...
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