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- 02 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?
men who view most profiles are least likely to message." Piskorski said. "These results show that people who expect rejection may simply refrain from writing, unless the site gives them an encouragement to do so." The... View Details
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
many valuable ways that one side can meet its own interests by helping the other side with the other's "internal," "behind-the-table," or "Level II" constituency challenges. Sebenius (2013) offered a moderately theoretical treatment of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Nov 2013
- Op-Ed
Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?
good. What's missing is the confirmation of a profit formula that turns volume into serious cash. Another theory we think about in new growth situations is something we call "good money/bad money." It asserts that in the early stages of... View Details
- 23 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?
has been discussed for decades. Here is research and writing from Harvard Business School that discusses both the concept in theory and examples of CSR in practice. A Good Place to Start Statement on the Purpose of a... View Details
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An Emerging Entrepreneur | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
for the Collective Academy, a for-profit institution of higher learning expected to enroll its first students in early 2016. Initially based in Mexico City, Bichara hopes to expand operations around Mexico and beyond with a curriculum... View Details
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
their first year in the role. I reveal the complexity of the transition, highlighting the expectations of these managers, their subordinates, and their superiors. I hear the new managers describe how they reframed their understanding of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
are the opposite of what we'd expect based on large-company compensation patterns. Q: Can you explain the difference between stewardship theory and agency theory? How do these View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
logic than firms utilize to organize market resources.) Second, there has been very little (if any) significant research linking firm strategy to both nonmarket outcomes and firm performance. Most research has developed theories and/or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing... View Details
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
Structure Matrices and Design Rule Theory Authors:Matthew J. LaMantia, Yuanfang Cai, Alan David MacCormack, and John Rusnak Abstract Designers often seek modular architectures to better accommodate expected... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?
decisions that we expect we will make based on our finely developed plans are often different from how we actually behave. We get sidetracked. We set a new career path, we choose a diet to follow, we make plans to save for retirement, we... View Details
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SPACE: Space, Public and Commercial Economics - Course Catalog
solid theory of what role NASA will play. And the best place to start building that theory is with NASA’s current flagship program: Artemis. Class session 8: Special session with space entrepreneurs Summary:... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
Carliss Baldwin first enrolled at HBS, her goal was to work on Wall Street. But things did not go exactly as planned. "During my last year at MIT," she explains, "I had taken some courses from [current HBS professor] Bob Merton on the View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 25 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Advancing a More Sustainable World with an MBA/MPA-ID
and final year of the joint degree, I can say that the program has far exceeded my expectations in helping me prepare for a career as a leader in sustainability. The first-year MPA-ID curriculum combines rigorous training in graduate... View Details
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Lessons from the 2025 Race, Gender & Equity at Work Symposium - Blog: RGE Report
Equity at Work Symposium HBS Staff Author HBS Staff Spotlight : Gulika Reddy on the power of transformative hope How does hope become a practice? As our exploration of hope traversed through overtures of its possibilities to an excavation of its pitfalls, we arrived... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
isolation, and as a consequence avoid deviating much-for any given subset-from the expected overall distribution of judgments. For instance, an interviewer who has already highly recommended three applicants on a given day may be... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract Abstract We propose and test a catering theory of nominal stock prices. The theory predicts that when investors place higher valuations on low-price firms, managers will maintain... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
and even though the entrepreneur holds all of the market power in the model. Furthermore, although perfectly competitive investors expect zero alpha in equilibrium, the nature of the three-way interaction results in a correlation between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Student-Profile
Talia Gillis
consumer finance. I am interested in how the market and regulatory structure impact the way people interact with financial institutions and engage in financial transactions. The study of the process by which regulators adopt policies, and the implicit View Details
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
firm-level, and that recording back-up solutions is most valuable at medium levels of environmental change. Optimal Taxation in Theory and Practice Authors:N. Gregory Mankiw, Matthew C. Weinzierl, and Danny Yagan Publication:Journal of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace