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- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?
first installment. People who got the more flexible contract invested significantly more in their businesses and earned higher returns as a result. Their businesses were bigger three years later, and they are still bigger now, 10 years... View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
David F., Eric C. So, and Charles C.Y. Wang Publication:Journal of Accounting & Economics Abstract Firms with central or well-connected boards of directors earn superior risk-adjusted stock returns. Initiating a long position in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
related to the workforce, including the skills gap, degree inflation, care economics, the role of artificial intelligence in employment outcomes, the effectiveness of social entrepreneurs in improving education to employment outcomes, mechanisms for enhancing the View Details
- 16 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Understanding the ‘Want’ vs. ’Should’ Decision
choice to vote. Katy is also pursuing a study of the earnings forecasts made by sell-side stock analysts. Along with John, she is examining biases in the way analysts update their earnings forecasts in View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- Op-Ed
Employee Feedback: The Key to Retention During the Great Resignation
isolating at home, the remaining workers asked for KN95 masks, better testing protocols, and the right to turn away illegally unmasked customers. These requests were flatly refused—a surprising response from a company whose founder,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
supplement of $600 per week, available until at least August 1, increases their earnings beyond their pre-COVID compensation. On the other hand, given massive unemployment across the nation, if offered a return to work, many may respond... View Details
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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online
Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online. What you earn . Overview Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Approach problems using... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Carla A. Harris, MBA 1987
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1962 Born, Port Arthur, Texas 1984 Earns AB, Economics, Harvard University 1984 Joins Booz Allen Hamilton, Consultant 1987 Earns MBA 1987 Joins Morgan... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Health Care - Faculty & Research
motivation and, contrary to existing laboratory evidence, financial incentives do not appear to crowd it out. Third, the responses to both types of incentives are stronger when their relative value is higher. Indeed, financial rewards are... View Details
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
transcripts of 70,042 earnings calls—conference calls where executives discuss quarterly results with investors, analysts, and the media—that were held by 3,613 firms during 2002-2008. This involved searching for 14 terms used by... View Details
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Online Management Course | HBS Online
offer. Management Essentials $1,850 Next 8-week session starts May 7th Enroll Now Master four vital managerial processes: decision-making, implementation, organizational learning, and change management. 8 weeks 4-7 hours per week 4 modules Self-Paced This course View Details
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
Specifically, focusing attention on "interested" legislators' behavior captures important information seemingly ignored by the market. A long-short portfolio based on these legislators' views earns abnormal returns of over 90... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
lens of their research. Deepak Malhotra The US response to events in the Middle East and North Africa needs to be guided by three key tenets of effective diplomacy. First, diplomacy needs to consider our enemies tomorrow, not just our... View Details
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Data - Advancing Racial Equity
citizenship or U.S. ethnic minority data. 4) Executive Education began to ask U.S. citizens for race/ethnicity data and expanded gender response choices in December of 2020. 5) Executive Education added 'Prefer not to answer' as a View Details
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Abstract—We study the effect of different levels of information on two-sided platform profits under monopoly and competition. One side (developers) is always informed about all prices and therefore forms responsive expectations. In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2023
- News
New School
Foundation. At the same time, Curriculum Associates has transitioned from a solely print-based company to a largely online one, earned local and national best-places-to-work awards, seen revenues increase 20 times over. “It turns out... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
supervisors and chatted with workers in green jumpsuits. She then sped over to DSNY headquarters, just a few blocks north of City Hall, to discuss the details of the agency’s emergency snow response with her executive team. “Don’t screw... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is “Executive Intelligence” for Leaders?
Summing Up Judging from the number of responses to the July column, Justin Menkes, author of the book Executive Intelligence, appears to have tapped into a hot issue with his concern that what he terms "executive intelligence"... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online
Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online. What you earn . Overview Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Speak the language of... View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens
to retain these New York advantages? What are the broader lessons for those facing similarly challenging negotiations? Building sufficient consensus The goal should be to build “sufficient consensus” for a “winning coalition” in spite of potential blockers. This means... View Details