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- 19 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Climbing the Great Wall of Trust
deals. The problem, according to these executives, is that foreigners are rarely invited. "It's really a perception that foreigners can't appreciate the culture," says Chua. In practice, it means that foreign businesspeople are at a disadvantage View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?
traumatic experiences and deep uncertainty about one's future erode or elevate the psychosocial benefits of work. Starting this winter, the team will compare how 1,000 Rohingya households at the Kutupalong camp react to one of three... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing
technology to process and compare where school spending is going well," he said. Companies Work On Getting The Question Just Right In working with organizations, both DeJulio and Lipstein said a lot of work goes into crafting questions to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?
Timex or Polar, the fact that you can't wear it in the water is a drawback—something that hasn't been discussed much in the media. We also don't yet know how well it will hold up to abuse in the gym. Finally, the $350 asking price is still a considerable jump View Details
- 28 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Property Ownership Changes Your World View
Quarterly Journal of Economics, HBS professor Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani of the University of Washington, St. Louis, and Ernesto Schargrodsky of the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella delve into this question by comparing the beliefs... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
physical experience of weight is associated with the emotional experience of guilt and thus that weight intensifies the experience of guilt. Across four studies, we found that participants who wore a heavy backpack experienced higher levels of guilt as View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value
out from under any owners planning to use this rule as a tool. It was a unique situation for [research] because it was unpredicted and legally important for a subset of firms with large activist owners who might take advantage of a proxy access rule." The... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Cathy Zhou
start-up. How has HBS helped you make an impact? I remember one of my HBS professors comparing the case method to the game tape that sports teams watch in preparation for a big game. It's not because you expect the game to play out... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China
Mexico, among other countries, have seen an increase in their share of American imports. Alfaro compares China’s situation to that of Japan 60 years ago. In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States imposed tariffs on Japanese goods. In... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries
“Most of my kids’ playmates are Finnish, and they have a Saturday morning school where they learn the Finnish language,” he says. “There are probably 8 to 10 organizations catering to the Finnish community in Boston.” All that socialization can give immigrants... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures
be examined, he said. International entrepreneurial finance, or IEF for short, is like 3-D chess compared to the two-dimensional chess of entrepreneurial finance, quipped HBS professor William Sahlman, who offered introductory remarks at... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
Fireside Chats with Harvard Faculty: A COVID-19 Symposium
Macroeconomics of a Novel Crisis View Video Professors Carmen Reinhart and Laura Alfaro discuss the impacts COVID-19 has on the local and global economy, comparing it's immediate effects to the Great Depression. Perspectives What Becomes... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Statement of Activity & Cash Flows
Endowment Income (4) (5) (6) Decapitilization of Endowments 5 4 1 Other Non-Reserve Activity (57) (56) 7 Changes in Debt & Other $(61) $(63) $(5) Increase (Decrease) in Reserves $20 $16 $37 Beginning Reserves Balance $227 $211 $174 Ending Reserves Balance $247 $227... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Research Brief: Pocket Change
Julia Cagé, and Edgard Dewitte found that women comprise 54.1 percent of small donors (or those who give less than $200 in an election cycle) compared to only 35.5 percent of large donors. And while minorities are underrepresented in both... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Research Brief: Lost in Translation
intraday trading volumes and more modest price movements in stocks compared with calls led by more fluent speakers. “Executives typically speak English quite well when they’ve had time to prepare and rehearse,” says Yu. “But when they... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 20 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
in sport. Tampa Bay is historically a non-traditional hockey market. The case has substantial comparative team and league data. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/919403-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 319-030... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
intermediaries—called outsourcing agencies—have emerged in these markets. This paper shows that agencies signal to employers that inexperienced workers are high quality. Workers affiliated with an agency have substantially higher job-finding probabilities and wages at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs
put this information in front of them on a quarterly basis as an integral part of the corporate governance system, it will help CEOs understand how closely they are tied to the firm and its stockholders." Finally, in a recent study with HBS professor George Baker,... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
percent of health care costs. Furthermore, when comparing health care at US hospitals, "The bell curve for quality and results does not match the bell curve for costs," he said. "There is a huge opportunity—in fact, a... View Details
- 21 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
executive might get caught up in comparing the graphics capabilities and audio quality of various options, when in fact the only factors of importance to users are the size, weight, and security features. Worse yet, even if they narrow... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel