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  • 05 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

Limits of Peer Effects on Startup Team Performance By: Hasan, Sharique, and Rembrand Koning Abstract— We conduct a field experiment at an entrepreneurship bootcamp to investigate whether interaction with... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 23, 2008

correlated with less individualism. We provide three short models that help interpret this correlation. One implication of this finding is that societies that depend heavily on oil, and perhaps natural resources more generally, will View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 May 2020
  • Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 29 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

and design assignments. The education facilitated his transition into management when he was finally promoted two years later. Once in middle management, Williams's career took off; he was charged with coordinating the engineering, manufacturing, and View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
  • 19 Jan 2021
  • In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

being called out. There was a randomness and arbitrariness to it that was disorienting. Similarly, companies with significant international operations would find themselves suddenly disrupted. Companies were concerned about being caught... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

markets allow the backward linkages between foreign and domestic firms to turn into FDI spillovers. Our calibration exercises indicate that a) holding the extent of foreign presence constant, financially well-developed economies View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

versus persistent) of performance feedback affects an employee's job productivity. Specifically, through field experiments at a Japanese bank, they investigate the extent to which job performance is affected... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • Profile

Sheila Lirio Marcelo

“I was always intrigued by that.“ With pressure from her Asian parents to pursue a law career, Marcelo applied to Harvard Law School but deferred her acceptance. She wasn’t sure she wanted to be a lawyer and instead she took a litigation consulting job that... View Details
  • Web

How Sharing Smart Ideas on Social Can Boost Sales | Working Knowledge

department and likewise nothing is as fantastic as a well filled-up soda department either,” the post read in part. Nearly 600 stores across 11 regions To test the impact of structured knowledge sharing, Sandino and Li worked with 587 stores across 11 regions in a... View Details
  • Web

Photograph Albums - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

Aviation Meet, 1910 WK 764B B74 1 volume, 150 prints This volume contains photographs of the Harvard-Boston Aviation Meet held September 3 to September 13, 1910. Included are photographs taken for the Boston Globe on the aviation field... View Details
  • Web

Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

that he underwent the most significant metamorphosis of his life, transforming himself from a professor of business into a world-class builder of innovative new enterprises." 30 Doriot's understanding of the risks and rewards of investing in new technologies stemmed in... View Details
  • 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015

desire to signal to others. We present a field experiment where participants could choose to give up money if they did not follow through with an action. If their commitment choice was made public rather... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Intercultural tensions and conflicts are inevitable in the global workplace. This paper introduces the concept of ambient cultural disharmony-indirect experience of intercultural tensions and conflicts in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 30

harmonization decisions. The analysis is based on field studies in three jurisdictions: Canada, China, and India. Across these jurisdictions, I first describe unique elements of domestic political economies that are shaping IFRS policies.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22

experience high costs of capital that are only partly mitigated by the presence of venture capital, the evidence for high costs of R&D capital for large firms is mixed. Nevertheless, large established firms do appear to prefer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Apr 2016
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April 19, 2016

a friend likes a brand, in the offline sense. Taken together, five experiments and two meta-analyses (N > 14,000) suggest that turning “liking” into improved brand attitudes and increased purchasing by either consumers or their friends... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

about what Madhav should do next. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110001-PDF-ENG An Overview of Project Finance and Infrastructure Finance—2009 Update Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia Jr. Harvard Business School Note 210-061 Provides an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6

in which matching is made contingent on the percentage of others who give (e.g., "if X% of others give, we will match all donations"). A field experiment shows that a 75% contingent match (where... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Aug 2024
  • News

Quantum Leap

noisy, generating both heat and interference. Sending signals back and forth between ultra-cold and room-temperature environments also causes delays, or latency, which further degrades performance. Error correction, which involves catching and fixing the View Details
  • 06 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

and unequal, there is little direct evidence on the magnitude and sources of these frictions. We conduct a field experiment with 752 employees at a multibillion-dollar corporation to address these questions.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman