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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Diversifying HBS's Case Collection
better understand the challenges various groups face and appreciate what each person brings to the table. “A core general management skill today and tomorrow is the ability to make the most out of human differences,” Rivkin notes.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
defining societal issue of the 21st century. The debate over “who gets what’ underlies policy debates ranging from taxation to health care to wages and permeates society at all levels, attracting increasing interest from policymakers, academia, and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?
stakes at play in the San Bernardino iPhone case. Christian Camerota: Was it a good strategic move on Apple’s part to bring the FBI’s request into the public eye? Sunil Gupta: There are arguments on both sides. The FBI was smart in making a very specific request rather... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
How did you become interested in the impact of high-skill immigrant labor? In the 1990s I helped develop a wireless data technology for a Korean company. The inventor was a Korean scientist living in Silicon Valley, so I spent a lot of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Monaco's Digital Transformation
launch 5G, and it recently introduced Monaco Cloud, the software, services, and security systems that power the country’s computers and facilitate data storage. While it was created in partnership with Amazon and Dell, Monaco Cloud is... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- Web
Field Course: Business of the Arts - Course Catalog
sample syllabus for this course Overview The nonprofit arts and culture industry generates more than $166.billions of economic activity in the US—approximately $64 billion in spending by arts and cultural organizations and an additional... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Charting the Year Ahead
Alumni Relations team in Boston for their outstanding organization and attention to every detail. As we head into the 2006–2007 academic year, we welcome twelve new alumni board members and bid farewell and thanks to those retiring for their View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries
SOCIALIZATION LEAD TO CLUSTERING? In order to get a handle on how much this socialization leads to clustering, Kerr and Mandorff studied US census data on immigrant groups, using the degree of intermarriage within each group as a proxy... View Details
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Maura Sullivan
my own. It's a great privilege to study in sections with high-caliber students who hold such diverse perspectives." The cases bring an urgent realism to the classroom. "You don't know which data really matter," says Maura.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
“Contact tracing is a 500-year-old solution. It was then, and is now, a matter of using personal data to secure public health. That raises both its promise and its perils, and the leadership task is to navigate the balance.” —PROFESSOR... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
data cover two field experiments run by a large stock-photography agency. We find that substantially reducing the requested amount generates a small increase in the settlement rate. However, for the same... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
drive up the cost of capital and curb investment. This paper evaluates the effects of capital controls on firm-level stock returns and real investment using data from Brazil. On average, there is a statistically significant drop in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
not just relying on the printed word—why can we not do research by referring to video, sound, and the like? There is so much mathematics devoted today to extraction of quantitative data from all sorts of View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
waded through pitching data for every Major League Baseball game from 2004 to 2008. When the data was analyzed, they found that indeed, race matters. When umpires and pitchers are a different race or... View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
affect the bids of higher-ranked advertisers. Consider an advertiser ("A") who obtains the next-to-last slot. The fee paid by the lowest advertiser ("B") is generally set by Google's minimum bid. But A needs to set its... View Details
- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
consumer behavior, Ngwe and Chen analyzed sales data from Southeast Asian fashion retailer Zalora in the Philippines. Because the data included the company's startup period, encompassing more than two... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
into a variety of conflict resolution and collaboration models. Business and political leadership is transitioning from a family or clan-based structure to one of greater heterogeneity and professionalization. It is also transitioning from a European-trained View Details
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
were the basis of a second proxy. When corporate income taxes decline, investment opportunities of the firms improve—fewer taxes means companies can keep a larger fraction of the profits they generate with their investments. A Surprising... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Leadership Project Codifies Elusive Traits
launched two years ago. The original intent of the research project was to begin to collect data that would contribute to a “canon of business leadership” — a compendium of business leaders who have defined the way we live, work, and... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
analytics-focused consulting firm made sense at a time when technology breakthroughs were fueling exponential growth in data generation and consumption. His three former employers—Answerthink, Bain, and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg