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- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
me to bring about fundamental change." The agency Rossotti took over had 102,000 employees who annually collected $1.5 trillion in taxes, processed a billion documents, and churned out 80 million refunds. Amid so many transactions,...
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- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
pre-selected alternative. The intervention increases plan enrollment rates by 10 to 20 percentage points. We find that a similar intervention can be used to increase contribution rates among employees who are already participating in a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
or beat key benchmarks. This paper examines this hypothesis by testing how different types of marketing expenditures are used to boost earnings for a durable commodity consumer product which can be easily stockpiled by end-consumers as...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
the ones who are the real experts, you know?" In the eventual field experiment, researchers launched two recruitment campaigns. Each targeted half of 48 randomly selected rural districts across the country. In 24 districts, potential View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
capitalization), one that defied the old rules for productivity, income increases, and economic growth. We are told by widely-quoted scholars such as Erik Brynholfsson and Andrew McAfee that innovation and new information technologies are creating a "second...
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Evolving Executive Education: Five Lessons from the Senior Associate Dean
wanted to take a minute to share some of the key lessons we've learned over the past year and a half. Lifelong learning is more important today than ever. The pandemic disrupted much more than learning. Businesses struggled (and still...
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- 19 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market
In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of their Immersive Field Course...
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- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
We tend to think of the moment of insight and creativity in sudden and shocking terms: the bathtub overflowing (Archimedes), the apple beaning off the head (Newton), the bolt of lightning shivering the key at the end of a kite (Franklin)....
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by Michael Blanding
- 12 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 12
find that paying above-market wages, per se, does not have an effect on effort relative to paying market wages. However, structuring a portion of the wage as a clear and unexpected gift (by hiring at a given wage, and then offering a raise with no further conditions...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
brand associated with ArtLifting's message of empowerment for artists who are homeless or disabled. Customers see that. Clients see that. More importantly, employees and CEOs are reminded of it every day. And then externally, the...
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- 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4
industries and exploit cross-section and time-series variation in import tariffs to examine their impact on firm boundaries. Our empirical results provide strong support for the view that output prices are a key determinant of vertical...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
Alidina, Natalie J. Henrich, Lisa R. Hirschhorn, William R. Berry, Atul A. Gawande, Doris Peter, Rory McDonald, Donna L. Caldwell, Janet H. Muri, Debra Bingham, Aaron B. Caughey, Eugene R. Declercq, and Neel T. Shah Abstract—Objective: To define, measure, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
communities) and the moderating effects of team leader experience. We test our moderated mediation model in a sample of 121 teams that filed patents in a Fortune 50 company’s India R&D center between 2005 and 2015 using proprietary View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
Through a working agreement with the PGA TOUR, we have obtained access to proprietary "ShotLink" data that pinpoints the location of every shot taken on the PGA TOUR. Using these data, we develop distance-based models for two...
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- 19 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission
help families save money for college. That experience convinced me of the power of for-profit, mission-driven companies as a force for change. Because they are for-profit, they can attract amazing talent and command huge resources. Because they are mission-driven, they...
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- 13 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
How To Hire A Millennial
on location. So GE is moving the mountain to Mohammed. There are a number of key aspects of the old deal offered by companies that simply aren’t as compelling to the rising generation born after 1981 as they were to their boomer parents:...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
skills for our students. We’re fully convinced this is going to be fundamental mainstream investing in 20 years. Vikram Gandhi: One key driver is investor demand.If you look at the big pools of capital—family offices, pension plans,...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 14 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 14
and the fulfillment of business needs meets some resistance from employees who were accustomed to so-called pure basic research. The case looks at the Spoken Web project, a good example of use-inspired research for which management has...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
underground economic activities work to put cyber currencies in context, the book discusses the benefits and drawbacks of the increased role of cyber currencies in today's underground economy. It also includes an appendix of illuminating primary documents, providing...
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
company can ever be completely safe — even if a firm disconnects from the Internet, unauthorized personnel or disgruntled employees inside the company’s facilities can figure out ways to access its computers — some firms, especially those...
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