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- 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
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
hours of hard work flow into a piece that none of them has ever heard before and will never hear again. Like jazz, communication is improvisational. Each time you communicate with another person, you're playing it by ear. You may have...
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by Kathleen L. McGinn
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Exceptions Participant Discount Learning Requirements Course Platform Certificate Programs Participants are expected to fully complete all work on the course platform in English in a thoughtful and timely manner. This means completing...
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- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-114.pdf Platforms and Limits to Network Effects (revised) Authors:Hanna Halaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We model conditions under which agents in two-sided matching markets would rationally View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
the twentieth century, companies relied on a "full-service" agency for most or all of their advertising service needs, including both creative development and media planning and buying. Agencies were compensated primarily by commissions related to the volume of media...
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- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But...
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- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
govern partnering relationships through fixed-price contracts, whereas in others, firms use more flexible time and materials or performance-based contracts. How do these choices affect the costs and benefits that arise from greater levels...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
variable labor supply, social security benefits and portfolio choice over safe bonds and risky equities. Our analysis reinforces prior findings that equities are the preferred asset for young households, with the optimal share of equities...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Another provides a secure portal for patients to make appointments, request prescriptions, and see their test results. Yet another helps doctors get their claims paid on time more easily—according to company research, providers see a 12...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
more focus and intention to the organization’s future state. Over a two-hour strategy session with the McKinsey team and her regional directors in August, McKenna takes notes in a Moleskine notebook. (She prefers the ones lined with graph...
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- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
employees became particularly salient when the employees block the CEO's proposal to acquire 50% of the Financial Times Deutschland. Faced with the new balance of power, Rudolf's eldest son Jakob Augstein is forced to rethink the role...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
coverage of the government's corruption scandals by 0.23 of a front page per month, or 18% of a standard deviation in coverage. The results are robust to the inclusion of newspaper, month, newspaper president, and individual-corruption scandal fixed effects as well as...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
inputs that are 19 percent cheaper," says Masha. "We get them the knowledge to increase their yields up to three times the national average, and sell their produce for about 37 percent higher than what they can get themselves." When Masha...
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- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
Reserve's Tenth Annual Report of 1923. The three principles I focus on are 1) the discouraging of speculative lending by commercial banks, 2) the desire to meet the credit needs of business, and 3) the preference of a focus on credit over...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
name servers host typosquatting domains as much as four times as often as the web as a whole. Download the paper: http://www.benedelman.org/typosquatting/typosquatting.pdf Working PapersLocation Strategies for Agglomeration Economies...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
beneficial for society. This theme was later replaced by preference for disciplinary knowledge, and finally by a market logic that regards business education as a marketable commodity rather than a professional education. It has been an...
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- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
http://hbr.org/2013/01/when-the-crowd-fights-corruption/ar/1 Negotiating with Emotion Authors:Leary, Kimberlyn, Julianna Pillemer, and Michael Wheeler Publication:Harvard Business Review Abstract Abstract is unavailable at this time...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
strategy-proof) student optimal mechanism, if the same student preferences would have been revealed. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-076.pdf Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets Author:Alvin E. Roth Abstract This...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
adoption. The "extensive" margin refers to the timing of a country's adoption of a new technology; the "intensive" margin refers to how many units are adopted (for a given size economy). At the aggregate level, our...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
preferred to recruit straight from a school’s admission list. In an increasingly globalized world, deans and recruiters generally believe that business schools have not gotten globalization right. They want students with heightened...
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