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- 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
- 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
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?
It's a startling idea: Instead of relying on regulators to protect our privacy against telemarketers, data miners, and consumer companies, we should capitalize on the value of our personal information and get something of value in return.... View Details
- 26 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore
Robotics. “We wanted to focus on the leadership questions around AI, especially on how AI is applied to business today,” says Chow, who used AI to generate a fictitious HBS case with a protagonist in Hong Kong facing the problem of how to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
Alumni Books Smarter Together: How Communities Are Shaping the Next Revolution in Business By Rob Bernshteyn (MBA 2001) Greenleaf Book Group Press Driving value today requires information. Lots of information. Most of us are becoming good at distilling the View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024
momentum in scaling data and generative AI products, including tutorbots and feedback tools designed to enhance student learning. BiGS recently announced its third cohort of visiting fellows. In... View Details
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
wrote. “They are too general to cause a reasonable investor to rely upon them.” That’s typical of the way that many people and even employees view codes of conduct, says Eugene F. Soltes, Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
schedules slip and targets are missed...." Above all, leadership is generally thought to be critical to the successful application of stretch. Edward Hare reminded us that "the essence of great management, leadership even, is... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
2023, according to the property data firm CoStar, with another 200 in the planning stages. Policymakers have greeted the trend with enthusiasm, as it seems to offer a single solution to twin real estate crises that were amplified by the... View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Paul W. Marshall, the MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Management Practice and course head for The Entrepreneurial Manager, and Richard G. Hamermesh, senior lecturer and instructor for the course, to discuss the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
whether there are similar benefits to relatedness at an operating unit level and whether such benefits stem from spillovers between operating activities. Using data from the hospital industry, we first examine the relationship between... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 06 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
find out how accurately this ratio predicted a stock’s returns, the authors gathered data from Standard & Poor’s Compustat and The Center for Research in Security Prices, or CRSP, and mutual fund holdings from Thomson Reuters S12.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
and clear that knowledge is something to be shared throughout the firm, not hoarded. In the long run, Garvin observes, a learning organization doesn't rely on old answers to new problems but stimulates each generation of employees to... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 28 Oct 2024
- Op-Ed
Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.
asked, if each group voted like they did in the last election, who would win the next one? “Our analysis of data combining voters’ opinions with party platforms showed that where voters lead, parties tend to follow.” It turns out that... View Details
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
to evaluate the link between dismissal costs and productivity. Drawing on establishment-level data from the Annual Survey of Manufacturers and the Longitudinal Business Database, our estimates suggest that wrongful-discharge protections... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
responses interact with those of other actors, and how these individual and collective responses unfold over time to generate outcomes. Second, we call for stronger unification of theory within the entrepreneurial resource mobilization... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
there is financial data available in the years before and after their initial public offering (IPO), I differentiate between those that have private equity sponsorship (PE-backed firms) and those that do not (non-PE-backed firms). The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace