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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market
small lender rose to prominence around the turn of the twentieth century: the salary lender, or “loan shark.” One study of 1894 estimated that one in five American households owed money to one of these lenders. Because the legal lending...
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- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Simple Ways to Take Gender Bias Out of Your Jobs
in their job listings, research shows that the language of job descriptions often subtly adheres to gender stereotypes. And that deters members of the opposite gender from applying to those jobs. For example, a few years ago, social...
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- 03 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts
flavijus For the first time, a link has been drawn between public sentiment about a company’s sustainability practices and how that company is valued in the market. The results are important both for investors searching for under-valued, socially responsible companies,...
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by Rachel Layne
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
all from the unanticipated increase in spending," Coval reports. Over a 40-year period, the study looked at increases in local earmarks and other federal spending that flowed to states after the senator or representative rose to the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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Values Matter—No Matter Where You Are | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
not pedantic; music and the arts were as much a passion as justice. Her father played trumpet; his brother, Maceo Parker, is the famed jazz/funk saxophonist who rose to fame with James Brown; Shilla’s brother, Kellindo Parker, is now lead...
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- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
The United States housing market is no longer the boat anchor dragging down economic growth. Data from the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices show that average home prices in an assortment of American cities have been on the upswing,...
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Commencement 2017 Address | About
responsibility by behaving ethically, and by showing concern for interests other than your own. You can fulfill it by living by a managerial version of the Hippocratic Oath taken by the students graduating across the river today at...
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- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
Health's MegaBLAST. The best achieved both greater accuracy and speed (1,000 times greater). Here we show the potential of using online prize-based contests to access individuals without domain-specific backgrounds to address big-data...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
announced the split, the price rose nearly tenfold. With the stock split came an increase in publicity, which helped maintain capital inflows from individual investors. The media has drawn a lot of attention to Horie's boyish antics—he is...
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- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
specifically, we show how forgetting in a firm's ongoing rhetorical history-here, the bulletins' repeated omission of contradictory elements in the firm's past (i.e., structural omission) or attempts to neutralize them with valued...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2018
schools tracked by HBS. Harvard Business Publishing All three of HBP’s market-facing groups delivered stronger-than-anticipated growth in fiscal 2018. Total revenue rose by $19 million, or nearly 9 percent, to $240 million, from $221...
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- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
Economic difficulties need not mean that we lower our standards for leadership. If anything, we should raise our sights. New work by HBS professor Michael Beer and colleagues shows that there is still a place for what they term...
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by Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist
companies must serve a social purpose. “Society is demanding that companies, both public and private, serve a social purpose,” Fink wrote. “To prosper over time, every company must not only deliver financial performance but also show how...
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- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
gestures in negotiations because people feel comfortable initiating negotiations with them and believe they signal cooperation (Study 1). We show that handshakes increase cooperative behaviors, affecting outcomes for integrative and...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2019
million, or 9 percent, to $262 million, from $240 million a year earlier, exceeding the School’s cautious forecast for zero growth. International sales rose 14 percent, comprising 36 percent of Publishing’s total annual revenues. Harvard...
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- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
The results, written up in new working paper Effectiveness of Paid Search Advertising: Experimental Evidence, showed these restaurants enjoyed a significant spike in exposure, in actions such as map requests and calls to restaurants, and...
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- 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7
productive even when they are engaging in leisure activities, as they "check off" items on an "experiential check list" and build their "experiential CV." A series of laboratory and field studies shows that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
Immigration will be a central issue in the upcoming US presidential election, just as it motivated the recent snap elections in France. After all, the number of migrants rose 27 percent to 281 million globally in 2020, compared with 2010,...
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by Marco Tabellini
- 14 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides
Urbana-Champaign. The team's research suggested the contrary: that the higher a woman rose to power, the less likely she might be to help other women do the same. According to their studies, female tokens in "high-prestige workgroups"...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
power plant, she ultimately rose to be president of Michigan Gas Utilities Corporation and Minnesota Energy Resources Corporation, within the Integrys Energy Group. “I had several instrumental leaders who believed in me, who saw my...
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Margie Kelley