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- 27 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)
Serum, that compared their own admission rates to their estimates of how likely they thought other researchers were to engage in and admit to the same practices. Higher scores were given to the admissions that were surprisingly common,... View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
increased for the ninth consecutive year in fiscal 2023, approaching 42,000 participants. In recent years, however, the growth rate has decreased and the revenue mix has shifted. Consequently, revenues decreased 3 percent from the prior... View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the CFO
13,101 individuals who participated in programs in fiscal 2021, 32 percent were women—a significant increase from past years. Reflecting the focus of sustaining an engaged learning environment, participants rated the quality of the... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
may increase the rate of individual learning from customer-specific experience for a focal task. Finally, we find that the level of experience with a customer for the entire outsourcing firm also yields learning and that the degree of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
and $12 billion, which equates to between 1.3% and 8.7% of the stock of prepackaged software in private fixed investment in the United States and a very high rate of return to the original federal investment in the Internet. We argue that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks
associated with shark footage. In a series of experiments, researchers found that music indeed has the power to influence public perceptions of sharks. Participants who viewed footage of swimming sharks set to ominous background music ended up View Details
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why dot.coms Will Rise Again
almost all current Internet, intranet, and extranet applications will disappear "in the dustbin of history" in four or five years, according to McFarlan. And given the undeniable rate of Internet growth in China, for example—10... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 2010
- Working Paper
Crashes and Collateralized Lending
By: Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford
This paper develops a parsimonious static model for characterizing financing terms in collateralized lending markets. We characterize the systematic risk exposures for a variety of securities and develop a simple indifference-pricing framework to value the systematic... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Cost of Capital; Credit; Financing and Loans; Interest Rates; Investment; Framework; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry
Jurek, Jakub W., and Erik Stafford. "Crashes and Collateralized Lending." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-025, September 2010.
- 30 May 2021
- News
How Venture Capitalist David Motley is Trying to Bring Back Pittsburgh’s Black Residents
much faster annual rate than other cities such as Chicago.” To help stem the tide, Motley has cofounded a $50 million fund focused on startups with Black and diverse founding teams, launched a nonprofit dedicated to getting more Black... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Rent Out Your Ride
fleet. A users’ rating system encourages owners to keep cars clean and running well. To date, the service is available only in Boston and Cambridge. Said one owner, who makes about $200 a month from renting his vehicle after RelayRides... View Details
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
life (QoL) for the patients' disease. In addition, the authors also asked them to rank and rate the aversiveness of a diverse set of adverse circumstances, allowing examination of both the numerical ratings... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2019
- News
It’s a Small World
I've been at EF for the past 20 years, it's been super exciting. To you give you a sense of the scale of our business, last year we opened up a new EF office or school at a rate of one every other week. If you gauged the number of... View Details
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
then Liberia would be unlikely, in our opinion, not to grow at double-digit rates from the moment that the ore is exported in quantity, so long as market conditions for natural resources remain strong," the report concludes. But... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
law firm—more than 7,000 a year—and boasts a success rate of 99.7 percent. The volume of applicants also has other benefits. Synthesizing what it has learned from its clients’ experiences, Boundless has become a clearinghouse for reliable... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
says El-Hage. As cofounder of ABRY, a media-focused private equity firm started in 1989, Royce Yudkoff (MBA ’80) has enjoyed a 48 percent net internal rate of return (IRR) for investors over the course of the firm’s first four funds.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
The Businesslike Gourmet: Karen Page on America's Foodservice Industry
Incredibly, no such guide to flavor compatibility has ever been published before. Do restaurant chef/owners have management lessons for the rest of business? Absolutely. One acclaimed owner assigns a mood rating on a scale of one to ten... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
Funding Circle, among others. It was a wide circle. These startups are part of a new ecosystem filling the void left by traditional banks that don’t want to lend to small businesses because they are too risky or because interest rates are... View Details
Keywords: Nancy Miller
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Core Values Keep Airline Flying High
procedures, boost innovation, and keep costs down while retaining a high degree of teamwork, communication, and coordination across functions. While its top-ranked customer service ratings have established its reputation as the "nice"... View Details
- 10 Oct 2017
- News
Finish What You Start-up
Angie Hicks (MBA 2000) is cofounder and CMO of the popular online ratings website Angie’s List. In this interview she reflects on the challenges––and advantages––of starting her company away from Silicon Valley: “Don't take yourself too... View Details
- April 1993
- Teaching Note
Grupo Industrial Alfa, S.A.,1982 (TN)
By: Timothy A. Luehrman
Teaching Note for (9-292-008). View Details