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- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
study, it is the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S. Its economic burden is also high, since it is linked to other afflictions such as heart and renal disease and blindness. And, she added, one of the most important aspects of this... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
Economic Activity.") Abstract This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on growth by focusing on the complementarities between FDI in flows and financial markets. In our earlier work, we find that FDI is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
inclusive, merit-based society," she recalls. As a Harvard undergraduate, Thomas- Graham majored in economics and briefly considered entering the Ph.D. program, but realized she was most intrigued by law and business issues. The joint... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
a nurse, often discussed economic theory, especially as it applied to health care. An economics degree from Princeton was the springboard to a business career that began on Wall Street at Kidder, Peabody. "I... View Details
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
in State-Controlled Firms By: Pargendler, Mariana, Aldo Musacchio, and Sergio G. Lazzarini Abstract—A large legal and economic literature describes how state-owned enterprises (SOEs) suffer from a variety of agency and political problems.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home Sweet Home
those communities. “This is not just a matter of social equity,” Terwilliger stated. “The shortage of workforce housing is compromising the economic well-being of our cities.” And for the residents of exclusive areas such as Hilton Head,... View Details
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
penetrated the field of negotiation and then presents a framework for bridging the gap between these two literatures. The paper notes that one of the reasons for its limited impact on negotiation research is that extant research on social influence focuses almost... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The New “In” Crowd
was packed for the keynote address at 8:30 a.m. — well before the usual Sunday start time for most students. I was lured to the event in part by the buildup it had gotten in the press. Weeks beforehand, Forbes named it one of the top business gatherings for 2009,... View Details
- 21 Mar 2024
- News
OC Alumni Get Clarity on AI; Inequality and Climate Change Explored in DC
Clubs News Clubs News Demystifying AI at Orange County Leadership Breakfast At its first HBS Leadership Breakfast event since before the pandemic, the HBS Association of Orange County (HBSAOC) tackled the potential of AI with a talk titled The Dawning of Artificial... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 Nov 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?
contribute to decision theory and management. Their work most applicable to business, however, was often overshadowed by that of economists. But as the assumptions of rational behavior and "perfect information" that formed the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55030 Governance Through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation and Corporate Behavior By: Chattopadhyay, Akash, Matthew D. Shaffer, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—After decades of both... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
the state’s Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. He also started a Harvard-Hawaii initiative that involved creating paid internships with nonprofits in Hawaii for HBS and Kennedy School students, as well as sharing... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
Galinsky Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract In four studies employing multiple manipulations of psychological closeness, we found that feeling connected to another individual who... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
intervention that amounted to less than $10 per person (but at no cost to the farmer). Even more encouraging to Cole was news that another colleague, Harvard economics professor Michael Kremer, had seen similar results in Kenya. “We were... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Turning Point: Addiction’s Impact
needed for the most important problems of our time.” The opioid epidemic is devastating our country and undermining our economic competitiveness, from the streets to the C-suites. It is a scourge whose complexities span the geopolitical... View Details
Keywords: Melissa Weiksnar (MBA 1982)
- March 2014
- Teaching Note
Uptake of Rapid Diagnostic Tests: A Development Challenge
By: Nava Ashraf, Andrew Boozary and Kristin Johnson
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Health Pandemics; Technology; Health Care and Treatment; Policy; Behavior; Prejudice and Bias; Zambia
Ashraf, Nava, Andrew Boozary, and Kristin Johnson. "Uptake of Rapid Diagnostic Tests: A Development Challenge." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 914-042, March 2014.
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
individual action, against which individual biases can be lessened and competing interests balanced. At BP, the overriding concern was economic efficiency. What was not considered, argue the authors, were external costs: the potentially... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
Columbia, where he studied economics and history. It was during a college break that he first met his lifelong partner, Myra. He was out with friends and she was on a date, but when they caught each other's eyes, Kraft felt a spark that... View Details
- 13 Jun 2014
- Op-Ed
World Cup Soccer: 770 Billion Minutes of Attention
buy the right to retransmit the games and sell ad space to their local advertisers. Another key principle of the Economics of Attention is that attention is valued in a "superlinear" manner, which means that advertisers place... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Books
might easily convince anyone that the old adage is true: “Business ethics” is a contradiction in terms. But ironically, says HBS professor Lynn Sharp Paine, it may well be the steady rise in expectations for corporate behavior that has... View Details