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- 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
equalize the distribution of small (or large) tokens rather than equalizing total earnings. When payoffs are comprised of time and money, subjects similarly equalize the distribution of time (or money)... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
increases," write the authors of How to Identify the Best Customers for Your Business, published in the Winter 2013 issue of the MIT Sloan Management Review. “Ineffective opportunity management eventually leads to loss of money, time, and positioning with... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
Systems Approach in Venezuela: Laying the Foundation for Shared Value in a Time of Crisis No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/917409-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 617-014 Korea... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007
can increase use. We test this hypothesis in a field experiment in Zambia using door-to-door marketing of a home water purification solution. Our methodology separates the screening effect of prices (charging more changes the mix of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
Kerr and Lincoln analyzed Current Population Survey data on that time period. Not surprisingly, growth in the H-1B program directly correlated with an uptick in the number of immigrants working in science and engineering. More... View Details
- 30 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 30, 2008
are identified by exploiting random assignment and a separate instrumental variables procedure. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1264038 Welfare Payments and Crime Author:C. Fritz Foley Abstract This paper tests the hypothesis that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
interactivity across geographic distance than has been possible up until now. We've had some forms of interactive technologies for a long time (e.g., telephone) and many kinds of media too, but real-time interactivity at a distance that... View Details
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
profit. How do these chefs express the full extent of their culinary innovativeness while at the same time as creating a return for investors? Two recent Harvard Business School case studies explore this tension through the experience of... View Details
- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
merchandise sales, with sales so far topping only $30 million, compared to Vancouver's $51 million. Such lackluster performance spells trouble not only for the Games themselves, but also for all of the brands that hope to ride its bobsled to View Details
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
into an underserved market by allowing clients to invest as little as $5,000. Wealthfront doesn’t even charge a fee for assets of less than $10,000—and even after that charges a 0.25 percent fee, as opposed to fees of 2 to 3 percent by... View Details
- 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
contrast, we don’t find evidence of a secular shift in the cross-country correlations of stock market volatility shocks, which have remained fairly low through time except during the financial crisis of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable
"A lot of times we get this ridiculous false dichotomy made in management: that there are creative people, and then there are disciplined people," Pisano said. "Well, the best chefs in the world are both. They're both... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
place? Was it time to give in to the mounting pressure, or to hold firm? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709040 F-Secure Corporation: Software as a Service (SaaS) in the Security... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building Communities as Well as Companies
said, only 4 percent of the money raised by venture capital funds went to women- and minority-led business plans; at the same time, these ventures were growing at two to three times the rate of other businesses. View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
taxpayers and politicians, afflicted with disaster fatigue, will likely have limited appetite for subsidizing struggling cities like Detroit or Rochester or St. Louis. Steven Rattner's recent New York Times op-ed "We Have to Step in... View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
perturbation enables efficient exploration in the midst of intense exploitation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-011.pdf Understanding Inflation-Indexed Bond Markets Authors:John Y. Campbell, Robert J. Shiller, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
kept getting longer, and I finally realized I might be able to do a service by putting all this information into one package. Silverthorne: Is the academic job market for accounting PhDs a difficult field to break into? Rouen: Every year,... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
is even more important as markets and buying processes change, and key levers for linking strategy and selling behaviors. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49188 June 2015 ThinkSales It Doesn't Matter If... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
encouraged them to take risks. Bill Sahlman: Also, when we graduated from HBS, the economy was in recession, inflation and interest rates were high, productivity growth was low, and the stock market was in the tank. It is not at all... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
to study must have had a compounded annual growth rate in revenues, profits, and market capitalization that exceeded the 50th percentile of industry peers between 1997 and 2006 or for the CEO's tenure. Corresponding figures were used for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace