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- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
Project Antares with colleagues at the Harvard School of Public Health. The effort aims to create a system for devising commercial incentives that provide affordable public health initiatives, such as delivering medicines at very low cost. A speedy organ transplant can... View Details
- 04 May 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Do Managers Think?
"Interesting to make analogies, but the basics of medical decision making are grounded in scientific fact whereas there is no unified body of knowledge based on science for the manager." As Todd Rhoad put it, " doctors are... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
venture money? A: The vast majority of venture capital is allocated to technology-driven businesses: software, hardware, Internet-related spaces. There is also significant investment in the life sciences and... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
encourage production. Negotiating in Three Dimensions "Negotiation is increasingly a way of life for effective managers," say HBS professor James Sebenius and colleague David Lax. Their new book, 3-D Negotiation, describes how... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
PublicationsAn Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions Authors:Craig J.Chapman, Thomas J. Steenburgh Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract Prior research hypothesizes that managers use "real... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
investors alike that, as Gaurav Goel put it, "Sustainable businesses have lesser risks associated with their future earnings ... triple bottom line (economic, social, and environmental sustainability) reduces uncertainty." Or as P. Nanjunda Pratap said,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
Authors:Michael I. Norton, Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin, and Elizabeth W. Dunn Publication:Social Psychological and Personality Science (forthcoming) Abstract Three studies examine the extent to which laypeople endorse Thomas Hobbes' (1651)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
Crisis or Opportunity? Psychological Science Ayse Yemiscigil, A.V. Whillans, and N. Powdthavee “Does retirement lead to an existential crisis or present an opportunity to experience a renewed sense of purpose in life? In a nationally... View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?
Noam Wasserman is an assistant professor and MBA Class of 1961 Fellow in the entrepreneurial management unit at Harvard Business School. His paper "Founder-CEO Succession and the Paradox of Entrepreneurial Success," published in Organization View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
The more fundamental question that firms and policy makers need to be thinking about is just what type of good is software?—Siobhán O'Mahony Similar issues surface in the biotechnology world, where university and market conceptions of the View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
Publications September 2013 Management Science Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India By: Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton Abstract—This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
Which U.S. Market Interactions Affect CEO Pay? Evidence from UK Companies Authors: Joseph Gerakos, Joseph Piotroski, and Suraj Srinivasan Publication: Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines how different types of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks
on the faculty at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business," Stuart says. "I was part of a committee examining why there wasn't a more vibrant life sciences industry in the Chicago... View Details
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
substantial breakthroughs in life sciences technologies and continued breakthroughs in information technology. While there is no entirely new technology cluster evident on the horizon, new segments will be... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century
of novel consumer goods—ready-made shirts, watches, Japanned fans, celluloid baby rattles, Swiss buttermilk soap, and much more. Heinz could also sense that the pace of urban life was quickening, spurred on by transportation and... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn
- 12 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers
jointly decide to donate their bodies to science after they die. In Individuals' Decision to Co-Donate or Donate Alone: An Archival Study of Married Whole Body Donors in Hawaii, published online by the Public Library of Science, the... View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
LevelUp considers adjustments to make the service attractive to both consumers and merchants, while trying to accelerate deployment at reasonable cost. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/pivots-and-incentives-at-levelup/an/915001-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
Schlesinger I have just begun Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Nobel Prize-winner Angus Deaton. This book represents a well- crafted effort of social science research applied to the urgent matters of View Details
- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
risky projects or projects related to COVID-19, primarily in the life sciences sector, as the latter might have higher expected returns. As a result, entrepreneurs outside of the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
a dime and move into life sciences or whatever the next trend is, he said. Firms also need to grapple with their mission, added Kania (HBS MBA'82). Venture capital as an investment profession can be... View Details