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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Jensen Donates Grant
HBS professor emeritus Michael Jensen, an influential expert in the areas of agency theory, organizational design, and incentives, was awarded the 2009 Morgan Stanley–American Finance Association Award for... View Details
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
©iStock.com/GuidoVrola The bundled payment idea is part of a larger reform proposal called Value-Based Health Care Delivery, based on research by Michael E. Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
every field of business endeavor. Their impact has been significant and broad-based: according to research by Associate Professor Amarnath V. Bhidé, more than one-third of HBS alumni currently manage their own firms twenty years after... View Details
- 26 Sep 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Negotiation
a family business? What's the strategic way to make concessions? How Can I Negotiate More Skillfully And Confidently? Negotiating in Three Dimensions "Negotiation is increasingly a way of life for effective managers," say HBS professor... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
“Rufina, my host mom, lives in a house with a courtyard, a Ford Explorer, a full kitchen, and running water. Not too rough and definitely not what I expected,” writes Michael Newton (MBA ’09) in his journal, a requirement of the Mexico... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
Rivkin and Porter: HBS alumni are in a position to help put America back on a more competitive footing in the world economy. View the survey results Watch Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin introduce... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
technology. Do they have a clearer vision than the one some of us thought we had eighteen years ago? Has the New Economy finally arrived? What do you think? References: Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson, Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future (W. W.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Online AI Course | HBS Online
Amazon, Microsoft, Moderna, Mozilla, and Novartis. Description of silent animated video above: Learner scrolls through video interviews from prominent business leaders About the Professors Karim Lakhani AI Essentials for Business Dorothy... View Details
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
Brain Sciences Vicarious Contagion Decreases Differentiation—and Comes with Costs By: Sezer, Ovul, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Baumeister et al. propose that individual differentiation is a crucial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
directions and the implications of this work for rethinking traditional categories of organizations, namely business and charity. September 2014 Perspectives on Psychological Science How Much (More) Should CEOs Make? A Universal Desire for More Equal Pay By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- April 2013
- Article
Making a Difference Matters: Impact Unlocks the Emotional Benefits of Prosocial Spending
By: Lara B. Aknin, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Ashley V. Whillans, Adam M. Grant and Michael I. Norton
When does giving lead to happiness? Here, we present two studies demonstrating that the
emotional benefits of spending money on others (prosocial spending) are unleashed when
givers are aware of their positive impact. In Study 1, an experiment using real... View Details
Keywords: Prosocial Spending; Prosocial Impact; Subjective Well Being; Donations; Happiness; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
Aknin, Lara B., Elizabeth W. Dunn, Ashley V. Whillans, Adam M. Grant, and Michael I. Norton. "Making a Difference Matters: Impact Unlocks the Emotional Benefits of Prosocial Spending." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 88 (April 2013): 90–95.
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
PORTER WITH RWANDA’S PRESIDENT PAUL KAGAME: Beyond best practices, understanding principles of global health-care delivery. It’s no surprise to find HBS professor Michael Porter meeting with powerful people... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Rock Gift to Support Entrepreneurial Studies
(MBA ’84), chair, HBSA/NC; Toni Rembe Rock; Rock; Dean Clark; Ann Peckenpaugh (MBA ’80), HBSA/NC Executive Committee; Nelson; and HBS professor Howard Stevenson. Legendary venture capitalist Arthur Rock (MBA ’51) has made an unprecedented... View Details
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
David, Goliath, and Disruption
As elegantly described by HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen in his 1997 bestseller, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, so-called disruptive technologies are upstart innovations that manage to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2013
- News
Muneer Satter, MBA 1987
“I invest in HBS because I care about leadership. My time at HBS was one of the best periods of my life. The intellectual stimulation was phenomenal. Professor Michael Porter’s work is the foundation of my... View Details
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
game is supposed to be quality up and cost down. And this is one where that has not happened. And it's been very slow with the quality movement." Professor Regina Herzlinger, who has studied the health care system for three decades,... View Details
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The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth: Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-being Data
By: Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, George Ward, Femke De Keulenaer, Bert Van Landeghem, Georgios Kavetsos and Michael I. Norton
Are individuals more sensitive to losses than gains in terms of economic growth? We find that measures of subjective well-being are more than twice as sensitive to negative as compared to positive economic growth. We use Gallup World Poll data from over 150 countries,... View Details
De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, George Ward, Femke De Keulenaer, Bert Van Landeghem, Georgios Kavetsos, and Michael I. Norton. "The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth: Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-being Data." Review of Economics and Statistics 100, no. 2 (May 2018): 362–375.
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Katherine Switz (MBA 2000)
(photo by Michael Hanson) I had a psychotic break in late fall of my second year at HBS. I thought I was Jesus, that I could walk on the Charles and baptize people. I was at McLean over winter break, and the same day that I got out I... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
BAZERMAN: There are many examples of predictable surprises at the corporate level. In a succession of wakeful nights after the attacks of 9/11, HBS professor Max Bazerman began to ponder the question of how the terrorists’ actions could... View Details
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
all patients, all needs, and through all channels. Professor Michael Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg in their book, Redefining Health Care, use the term “strategy vacuum” to describe what’s happening... View Details