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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
inflation, so from that perspective, complaints are understandable. On the other side, there are benefits. Mortality for many diseases has dropped dramatically over the last forty years. Analysis shows that 40 percent of that decline was...
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- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
look up to. Someone who’s inspired by the surf or skate team we sponsor will likely identify with our product. If you’re an NBA fan, and you see Derrick Rose wearing Skullcandy headphones, that’s pretty powerful. Social media is another...
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- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
negotiation? That's a big motivation for us. When we think about what might make women walk into a negotiation with, say, lower expectations than men, one of the explanations for that comes from social psychology. It's called the entitlement effect. That research View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
future at the same time. It is like changing the engine of a plane while it is flying. Based on almost ten years of research, this book provides a framework for companies to reimagine their business. Using rich case studies and rigorous research, it View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-114.pdf Platforms and Limits to Network Effects (revised) Authors:Hanna Halaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We model conditions under which agents in two-sided matching markets would rationally prefer a platform-limiting...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
faculty response was by John Russell, our Ops professor, who walked in, cold-called five of our sectionmates (which he had never done before), wrote “bingo” on the blackboard, and asked who had the pot. The guy with the pot sheepishly walked up to him. John View Details
- 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007
management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. I show that university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers in the mold of doctors and lawyers but have...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue...
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- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
management friendly provisions, we identify the economic determinants of the resulting trade-offs for shareholder value. Consistent with the theory, our empirical analysis shows that provisions that allow managers to delay takeovers have...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
Weighs In "This discussion has been about binary choices," observed Kundra with a smile as he rose to address the class. "I would like to step back a bit and share with you some of the motivations behind Data.gov."...
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- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
do managers forecast total revenue? You can get a sense of that from looking at investment analysts' forecasts. While it is true that managers have information that analysts lack, analysts' estimates and management's guidance on earning (as opposed to sales) View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
first became interested in marketing and retailing while in college, working part-time at Bloomingdale’s and then in a New York buying office for a large group of department stores. After earning an MBA (1954) and DBA (1960) at HBS, he View Details
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
and created an opportunity for individuals to reopen schools as charters. A number of teachers and principals rose to the challenge. Today around half of the 80 schools in New Orleans are charter schools. The rest are traditional public...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
look up to. Someone who’s inspired by the surf or skate team we sponsor will likely identify with our product. If you’re an NBA fan, and you see Derrick Rose wearing Skullcandy headphones, that’s pretty powerful. Social media is another...
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- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
funds' holdings of securitizations to examine which investors are susceptible to such boom-time thinking. We show that firsthand experience plays a key role in shaping investors' beliefs. During the 2003–2007 mortgage boom, inexperienced...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
Bulls In The News While not in the realm of incentives, per se, another of Parsons's papers also shows how extremely open to influence people can be. It stands to reason that news can influence events as much as it reports on them—but...
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- 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11
Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 117 (2012) Abstract We investigate how, why and when activating economic schemas reduces the compassion that individuals extend to others in need when delivering bad news. Across three experiments, we...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
vacuum, sweep, or dust. Five women and one man array their mats around a rose quartz sphere. “Dedicate your practice to a prayer in your life,” he tells them. “Ideally, one of personal transformation.” It’s a traditional approach that...
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Deborah Halber
- 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21
concentrated long-term family ownership, few shareholders, and family management. This structure was successful within the historical context of the 1960s but came under attack during the crisis-ridden decades that followed. By tracing these changes, the paper...
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- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and...
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