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- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
data, is computationally light and allows for flexible substitution patterns. We apply the model to a data set containing browsing and purchase information from a retailer stocking over 500 products, recover the elasticity matrix, and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
Debt Redemption and Reserve Accumulation By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—Foreign participation in local-currency bond markets in emerging countries has increased dramatically over the past decade. In light of this trend, we...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni
Sessions Case studies and topical discussions led by faculty and staff. Deeper Dive: Gaps in the Capital Stack Presenters: Spencer Glendon (Harvard PhD 1999) , HBS Executive Fellow for Climate; Founder, Probable Futures Lynn Schenk ,...
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Loeb House | About
ground, reducing the amount of polluted storm water to the Charles River. The renovations also incorporated lighting upgrades to reduce energy usage, such as installation of high-efficiency LED View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
Conconi Abstract—In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages....
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Carmen Nobel
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
Conflict Management Research (forthcoming) Abstract Routine and persistent acts of dishonesty prevail in everyday life, yet most people resist shining a critical moral light on their own behavior, thereby maintaining and oftentimes...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
worldwide, their effectiveness and the channels through which they affect the real economy have been at the center of a policy and academic debate. The authors find that central bank QE1 MBS purchases substantially increased refinancing activity, reduced interest...
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- 10 Nov 2015
- Op-Ed
Authentic Leadership Rediscovered
inner jerk, or focus on themselves will not work in the long-run. In light of this public discussion, it’s important to rediscover authentic leadership as well as examine some of the recent mischaracterizations of it. Authentic leadership...
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by Bill George
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
services, others deliver complete solutions to their customer, and still others innovate with high-technology products. About the only common element all these diverse successful strategy implementers have in common is exceptional and visionary leadership. In every...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf
The room lights up when Peter Harf talks about perfume. His enthusiasm is contagious as he discusses a new cosmetics collection. The chairman and CEO of Coty Inc., one of the world's leading fragrance and cosmetics companies with $1.7...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Again and Again
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Jason Holley Whenever he’s presenting to a large audience, Professor Michael Norton likes to pose this question to the crowd: After you get up in the morning, do you brush your teeth first and then shower, or vice versa?...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when...
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- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?
of information and perspectives between the two firms, and led to a novel type of agreement. ABB would design and build the plant at a far lower cost than standard. Then, if ABB could reduce the cost even further, it would receive a...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?
Putten report, based on extensive data, that they have found a correlation between executive pay and long-term total returns to shareholders. But CEO pay increased substantially even in low-performing firms in their study. Their book represents a useful effort to shed...
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by Jim Heskett
- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
my god,” replied the lawyer, finally noticing the bloody left shoulder where his arm once was. “Where's my Rolex?!” Do you think your friends would find that joke amusing—well, maybe those who aren’t lawyers? A research team led by...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Recommended Reading - Advancing Racial Equity
Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the American credo that "you can make it if you try". The consequence is a brew of anger and frustration that has fueled populist protest and extreme polarization, and led...
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- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
he continued, businesses can be 'raced' by drivers whose peripheral vision has failed. "They could see the clear track ahead of them as they initially led their markets but failed to notice the competitor coming up on the inside...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
9 p.m. Friday, about the time, Timken says, “when the beer hits the bloodstream.” A traffic stop on a Honda Civic (probable cause: brake light out) turns up an 18-year-old driver, Alejandro, with no license and no insurance. With him is...
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- 27 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams
hospital's emergency department around temporary teams called pods. The low-cost redesign led to dramatic improvements, both qualitatively and quantitatively, including a 40 percent reduction in how long a patient would remain in the ED...
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- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
of Keynesian theory in the post-war years gave the subject greater prestige, and the 1958 reports on the state of business education in America by the Carnegie Corporation and the Ford Foundation led to a greater emphasis on the social...
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