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- 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016
to first dates, people frequently experience performance anxiety. And when experienced immediately before or during performance, anxiety harms performance. Across a series of experiments, we explore the efficacy of a common strategy that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
Now some have criticized the efficacy of campaigns like the one that you ran with the Georgia Meth Project saying that it's very difficult to prove success and to attribute success to particular ads. How do you measure success? Langford:... View Details
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
measures' informativeness about managerial effort and talent depends critically on the judicious selection of peer firms as performance benchmarks. By evaluating the efficacy of firms' chosen relative TSR benchmarks in performance-based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
can increase, decrease, or remain unchanged due to a carbon tariff. Therefore a carbon tariff's general benefit is not protectionism disguised as climate policy, as some argue. Rather, a carbon tariff improves the efficacy of emissions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
models and evaluating their efficacy in standalone fashion—just as engineers test new technologies or products. However, the success or failure of a company's business model depends largely on how it interacts with those of the other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
and confusion confound the four phenomena so that the efficacy and potential power of each is seriously diminished. We show that defining integrity as honoring one's word, as we have defined "honoring one's word," 1) provides an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
taught by Professor Ross Graham Walker and others, a company’s numbers had value far beyond mere record-keeping. Statistical data could instead be used proactively as a general management tool for analyzing an organization’s production and operations and measuring the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
efficacy would lead to organizational impact. Moving vertically, quadrant #2 refers to organizations that have reached deeper into the target population by scaling their activities, reaching transformative scale. Moving horizontally to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
continuous efficacy and efficiency improvements that poverty-reduction initiatives must have to succeed," says Antares cofounder and HBS senior lecturer Michael Chu. Chu speaks from personal experience. After leaving a lucrative Wall... View Details
- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
both worlds. Q: What are you working on currently? A: I am furthering my understanding of markets and communities for innovation by conducting field experiments in software development. My colleagues and I hope to provide experimental evidence behind the View Details
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
employees, arguing that while agency theory provides a useful framework for analyzing compensation, it fails to consider several psychological factors that increase costs from performance-based pay. We examine how psychological costs from social comparison and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
well, but it was manual, requiring several redesigns and tweaks to perfect the models. It was frustrating. So Sabin designed a machine learning program that would test all of various parameters of club head design, iterate countless models, and then simulate their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
national study on the efficacy of charter schools, and the results were jarring: Just 17 percent of charter schools outperformed their traditional public-school peers, while 37 percent performed significantly worse. And while charter... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
the availability of critical resources, and the efficacy of both pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions. The company has created a set of free publicly available visual analytic dashboards. "The algorithms highlight the... View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
significant scope in choosing where to work, these uncompensated risks may undermine the efficacy of accountability reforms by limiting the ability of low-performing schools to attract and retain effective leaders. This paper empirically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
vaccine met the high safety expectations and a good balanced immune answer, it had a proof of efficacy of only 30%, far below the 70% mark the company had targeted. Guillaume Leroy, vice president of the Dengue Company at Sanofi Pasteur,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
whether the testimonial's efficacy increases when information is added about an affiliation the quoted individual shares with the recipient. Research Design and Methods: A total of 5,498 union members were randomly assigned to receive 1... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
hamper the growth of the Android platform may have merely shifted the sales to weak IP countries. This study sheds light on the emerging patent enforcement strategy literature by highlighting the heterogeneity in the efficacy of national... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
believe in the efficacy of their ideas and in themselves." And finally, O'Donnell, who says that as a young man he never listened to those who gave him advice, reluctantly offers the following: "It's basic," he says. "Be honest with... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
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institutional portfolio manager and considering the efficacy of value investing, arbitrage, and other active investment strategies. Educational Objectives The goal of this course is for you to develop an investment philosophy, a set of... View Details