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- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
sense of time affluence can be increased: compared with wasting time, spending time on oneself, and even gaining a windfall of "free" time, spending time on others increases feelings of time affluence. The impact of giving time... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1320187 Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation Authors:Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, and M. Utku Ünver Abstract Markets sometimes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Why Home Construction Has Slumped for Decades | Working Knowledge
That productivity growth is what we would anticipate and expect. Why compare cars and homes? Kerr: Productivity in those two sectors was actually quite comparable for a period of time, and then diverges with... View Details
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
actively enhance the beneficial effect of sleep on creativity by covertly reactivating the creativity task during sleep. Individuals' creative performance was compared after three different conditions: sleep-with-conditioned-odor;... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30
significant role. An experiment compared a condition where participants sequentially predicted the colored outcomes of a virtual roulette wheel spin with a condition where the wheel's past outcomes were presented all at once. In a third... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Alice Yang
our first year, comparing the U.S. and UK health-care systems. We spent intensive time in Boston and in London, learning from leading health-care policymakers, practitioners, and administrators.” That experience of traveling and learning... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
Shames and Peter Barton (MBA 1982) “This book is about a man on his deathbed (Barton) looking back at his life and appreciating the energy and enthusiasm with which he has lived it, and another man (Shames) comparing his own as he... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
the unconscious thought condition compared to both conscious thought and mere distraction. As there were no differences in sequence memory for the film, it remains unclear what mechanism was responsible for this effect. These results... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
unfair to people who are just as into it, but based on how some of those communities went, I never really self-identified. So honestly I've never gone to a meet up, never sat down with another person to talk about this, never really View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- What Do You Think?
To Whom Should Boards be Accountable?
discount in price in order to sell to an organization with a comparable journalistic reputation, the fear of a shareholder lawsuit limited the size of the discount, even in a company with a semi-public, family-controlled ownership. What,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 May 2019
- News
HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni
single-payer health systems and the 37-page Glass-Steagall Act, which prohibited banks from making risky investments. Deffarges compares that to the 2,300-page Dodd-Frank legislation, which “added immense complexity” to the law. “I was... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
emphasis on function reflected conference chair Professor Kenneth A. Froot's decision to bring a different message to the gathering. "With a functional approach, you do less comparison of the institutions for corporate governance and instead View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector
students were all thoroughly trained in the technology's use. Five years later, the test scores of the school's students - 95 percent Black and Hispanic - are double the New Jersey average, and 100 percent of the students want to attend college, View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
Compare this with the American saying “the squeaky wheel gets the grease,” and it’s clear that different cultures teach different values, which often translate into distinct ways of doing business. In today’s global business world,... View Details
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
of violations, as well as the dollar amount of penalties, at firms’ local facilities after a local newspaper folded and compared those figures with a control group in an area where a newspaper continued to publish. The spikes in... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
Lakhani compares blockchain to TCP/IP, a network communications technology that spurred the internet’s growth. No one today, he says, thinks about how TCP/IP works. “They just use FaceTime, they just use email,” Lakhani says. Blockchain... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
reputation-enhancing ratings on one platform. Compared to a small or midsized city, more entrants will vie for dominance in a large city. In a winner-take-all battle between five players, there's essentially a four-out-of-five chance of... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
interesting for researchers because the changes these countries are making are enormous for the local economy, and it is also a point in time where, in the case of India, there is very good recordkeeping and data. Even if you wanted to study these questions in the... View Details
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
histories until 1914. Part III suggests, from this small sample, a series of hypotheses and tentative conclusions about their experiences and influence. Part IV compares the financial environment of the nineteenth century with that of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
in press Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Compared to Men, Women View Professional Advancement as Equally Attainable, but Less Desirable By: Gino, Francesca, Caroline A. Wilmuth, and Alison... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel