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- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
across contestants of different abilities, most respond negatively to competition, and highest-skilled contestants respond positively. In counterfactual simulations, we interpret a number of tournament design policies (number of competitors, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
proposals but invested in only a small percentage of them. The firm's prized portfolio companies included Circo Products (automobile tools); High Voltage Engineering Corp (high-powered generators and nuclear particle accelerators);... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
when a print byline still carries all the glory, and prized sources would rather see their names on paper? Many writers and editors also don’t buy the cost accounting, or lack thereof, in grand proclamations of online profitability. Do... View Details
- 03 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
9 Lessons from the Class of 2019
immediate payments all in one place. Will Ely's groundbreaking idea secured him the winning prize in HBS' 2019 New Venture Competition and we can't wait to see the difference My Toolbox makes on the lives and careers of so many. View... View Details
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
place an undue burden on workers who don't have the interest, time, or expertise to manage their finances. A pioneer in translating finance and mathematics into practical, Wall Street-ready models, Merton was awarded the 1997 Nobel Memorial View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
I draw inspiration from the advice of one of our professors at Harvard Kennedy School, Samantha Power: “Shrink the change.” Though anxiety can easily turn into inaction, I find the conviction to move in something that is certain: the importance and urgency of our... View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
prizes that are awarded to high-quality innovations may encourage future innovation. U.S. patent data indicate a 40% increase after 1851 in patenting for prizewinners compared with other exhibits. Results are robust to controlling for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
experiment, children chose how to assign a good or bad prize to themselves and another participant by either unilaterally deciding who would get each prize or by using a fair procedure-flipping a coin in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
In 2012, two seasoned scholars shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their research on designing markets. Lloyd Shapley had developed theoretical methods to create stable matches in unstable markets. Alvin Roth had... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
Indeed, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Muhammad Yunus and the microcredit Grameen Bank he founded in Bangladesh more than two decades ago. With interest rates ranging from zero to 20 percent, Grameen’s average loan (no... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast When the United States Congress passed the Inflation... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
$1,500 he and two MIT friends scraped together from personal funds and a $10,000 prize for winning MIT’s business plan contest. In 1996, the youthful trio sold the company to Artisoft for $13 million. Prior to HBS, Cassidy had earned two... View Details
- 17 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures
Watch Solara at the 2024 New Venture Competition. 2024 Social Enterprise Track Crowd Favorite: SeaCycle - Hande Ilhan (MBA 2025), Jakob Spiess (MBA 2025) - Pioneering sustainable biopolymer production. 2024 Tough Technology Prize Winner:... View Details
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Advocating for Best Practices on Tech Boards - Blog: RGE Report
in a nice breeze but with solid sand underfoot. She is “someone who is light-hearted and very kind but also unmoving in her expectations and the foundation she sets,” said Banks, who won the $1 million top prize from the nonprofit Black... View Details
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
public clearinghouse for information about hackathons around the world, including participants, prize winners, and sponsors. They then combined that with data from GitHub, an online service in which developers upload code for ongoing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
assistant principal of the school she now leads, an institution with a proud, 174-year history that counts a constellation of distinguished professionals, political leaders, judges, philanthropists, and a Pulitzer Prize winner among its... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
specifics—a prized oboe player who was recruited and has stayed for years, a famous Israeli violinist who’s made several guest appearances. “Carlos has made it easy for musicians to come to this orchestra,” he says. “But they wouldn’t... View Details
- 29 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
HBS, A Dream and Trey: How HBS Helped Me Launch My Social Enterprise
to build skills required to succeed as an early stage entrepreneur. Next, we advanced to the semifinal round of the New Venture Competition (NVC), an annual entrepreneurship competition that awards $300,000 in cash prizes to HBS startup... View Details
- 05 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together
chemical recycling technology that is able to remove contamination and reproduce virgin plastic qualities. Earthbond: Digital platform that combines traditional group guarantees with carbon accounting and innovative financing to make solar affordable for urban Africans... View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/818089-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 919-401 The Reputation of the 'World's Most Prestigious Award': The Nobel Prize Nobel Foundation leadership is addressing a range of issues related to its... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman