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- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
says. By allowing everyone to feel safe about reporting bad behavior, the onus is taken off of only women to step forward and encourages men to speak up, too. Similar to how the idea of a designated driver took hold to combat drinking and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
brand as well as when the brand with which consumers flirt is similar to their preferred brand. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53001 April 2017 Business Ethics Quarterly The Responsibilities and Role of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
strategies embrace and enable interactions with external entities. Firms pursuing these approaches conduct business and interact with environments differently than those pursuing traditional closed strategies. This paper considers these strategies together highlighting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
growth. Regional industry growth also increases with the strength of related clusters in the region and with the strength of similar clusters in adjacent regions. We also find evidence of the complementarity between employment and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
of simple quantitative forecasting techniques—share similar consequences: both can result in an increase in internal costs and in the uncertainty and volatility of the system's replenishment orders. Further results of this paper provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
observes Willis Emmons (HBS MBA '85, PhDBE '89), director of the C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning at HBS. "We welcomed 38 new faculty to the School this year and hope to have a similar number to come on board... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
market value rather than let his heirs unknowingly commit the collection’s disposal to their next garage sale or as a donation to Goodwill. If you’re in a similar situation, you’ll want to know this story. This book includes many color... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
this year asked if they could do it again next year, and many faculty who didn't teach in it have expressed interest in doing so in the future," says Hart, who is already at work on a similar program for next fall. She is also helping... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
we could wrestle with and articulate, what this case method was all about,” observes Willis Emmons (MBA ’85, PhDBE ’89), director of the C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning at HBS. “We welcomed 38 new faculty to the School this year and hope to have... View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
expenses, are not taxed. In addition to this federal program, individual states have 529 savings plans, with similar goals and broadly similar features. Susan Dynarski at Harvard's Kennedy School of... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
fashion e-commerce company, Peach. It’s also a challenge to an industry where a company’s potential is often predicted based on its similarity to other successful ventures, most often led by CEOs who look a whole lot like Mark Zuckerberg.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 09 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit
given similarities in culture and language. “There need to be new reasons for companies to do business in the UK despite a far smaller home market,” says Porter. Academia a strength to build upon The United Kingdom’s strengths in academic... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
women in business leadership in the communities specifically; the researchers tested for effects of female leadership in politics and civil society, but found no similar effect. Next, they analyzed a comprehensive sample of new nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
transportation and clinical visits, but their patients end up having 45 percent lower hospitalization rates,” Kaplan says. Kaiser Permanente Colorado implemented a similar program with a high-risk elderly population suffering from... View Details
- 07 Sep 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
over the network--may be destroyed. There is an answer to this problem: distributed networks with maximum connectivity (all nodes connected to each other by alternate paths similar to a fish net) with the capability of self-repairing... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It
medium, a similar dynamic could apply, with an increase in the supply of television (and ways to view it) causing a shift to new content and perhaps a small drop in how it’s viewed, but no real change in the allocation of time or watching... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
healthcare services is taking place from Asia to Africa. In India, the Avarind Eye Hospital provides routine eye surgeries to the highest quality standards at perhaps a tenth of the developed country price. A mass production approach to other routine surgeries, such as... View Details
- 14 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?
WomenCorporateDirectors (WCD), the survey compiled anonymous input from 1,067 directors in some 58 countries. The researchers were surprised at the extent of similarity in the majority of responses related to economics and politics, not... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-039.pdf Charitable Giving When Altruism and Similarity Are Linked Authors:Julio J. Rotemberg Abstract This paper presents a model in which anonymous charitable donations are rationalized by two human... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
of Summit's funds that were ten years old or older were in the top quartile, and he said he believed the 1999 fund he's involved with would likely occupy a similar spot when exits were made and the returns counted. "But that means... View Details