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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
and increased fuel costs, according to a 2011 Texas Transportation Institute study. And that's not just rush-hour mobs. A 2006 study of New York City and Los Angeles estimated that up to one-third of the traffic in those cities consisted... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
- 16 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology
over the last three decades, educational performance in the United States has shown only marginal improvement, and lags that of other developed countries in Europe and Asia. While some school districts have excelled, the majority of districts, including most View Details
- 15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15
Publication:The Accounting Review 86, no. 2 (March 2011) Abstract Recent accounting scholarship has used statistical analysis on asset prices, financial reports and disclosures, laboratory experiments, and surveys of practice. The research has View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs
have built national or global organizations that have achieved social impact. This focus on success stories has led to a skewed view of social entrepreneurship as nothing more or less than a field of huge, realized dreams. “A big weakness of the existing qualitative... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
period—some 31,160 new ventures listed in the NCCS-GuideStar National Nonprofit Research Database, produced by the National Center for Charitable Statistics at the Urban Institute. The findings in this second analysis mirrored the first:... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3
searches.) Studies show that customers prefer waiting when the work being done is transparent—even when the waits are longer or the results are no better than those obtained with shorter waits. Read the article:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22
Working PapersMixed Source Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gastón Llanes Abstract We study competitive interaction between profit-maximizing firms that sell software and complementary goods or services. In addition to tactical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
How risk can be the key to a sustainable future with Sophie Levin (MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences 2022
cell-cultured meat—especially in transforming industries like pet food. An environmental impact study found that pet food - with its high protein content - is responsible for 25-30% of the environmental impact of animal agriculture. What... View Details
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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Stern School of Business. She studies the psychology of good people, or “bounded ethicality”. Dolly teaches MBA courses in leadership, management, and negotiations. Additionally, she has taught at a men’s prison through the NYU Prison... View Details
- 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24
as dangerous as Power and others speculate. Based on two detailed case studies and 53 additional interviews with risk-management staff at five other major banks over 2001-2010, this paper shows that relentless risk measurement is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
Only difference: Piskorski has spent years studying users of online social networks (SN) and has developed surprising findings about the needs that they fulfill, how men and women use these services differently, and how Twitter—the newest... View Details
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Historical Research - India
rule of the British government) and from 1857 to 1947. Topics covered in varying depth include social history, urban history, trade, wars, agriculture, travel and antiquities, and Indian and Imperial politics. Making of the Modern World,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
to bulletin@hbs.edu Case Study Update: GAIA Design When they launched Gaia Design in 2014, Philippe Cahuzac (MBA 2014) and his cofounders set their sights on building an iconic modern furniture brand for Mexico’s young urbanites. But by... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
with the country’s recent economic slowdown, China has more billionaires than the United States. Behind that fairly startling statistic are troubling related issues such as corruption among China’s elite and very wide variance in income, standard of living, and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller
between leading urban centers and rural areas. Here, the project’s faculty chairs, William Kerr, the Dimitri V. D’Arbeloff—MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration, and Joseph Fuller, professor of management practice,... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20
be complemented with quantitative analyses. The development of quantitative methods for the study of business models, however, has trailed that of their qualitative peers. In this paper, we develop an analytical framework based on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
where his father eventually landed a job at a General Motors factory in Doraville. Stan O’Neal attended the General Motors Institute (which later became Kettering University), a co-op program where he alternated between studying... View Details
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
decided to write a case study to bring the conversation into the classroom and to business leaders who would be able to direct capital, economic opportunities, and social services to an often-overlooked region of the country." Please talk... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
Photography by Neal Hamberg If your middle-school science class is studying New England’s green crab population, chances are you’ll get a lot more excited about the origin, life cycle, and environmental impact of this remarkable invasive... View Details
- 30 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 30
PublicationsEmotion-induced Engagement in Internet Video Ads Authors:Thales S. Teixeira, Michel Wedel, and Rik Pieters Publication:Journal of Marketing Research (forthcoming) Abstract This study shows how advertisers can leverage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne