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- 06 May 2008
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First Look: May 6, 2008
DVDs in one order and return them in the reverse order when should DVDs (e.g., documentaries) are rented before want DVDs (e.g., action films). This effect is sizeable in magnitude, with a 2% increase in the probability of a reversal in preferences (from a baseline... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
social and emotional needs of students. And we have guidance from the CDC, of course. The ultimate framework we’re working to create will empower districts to make the right decisions for what’s going on in their community, given transmission View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Web
Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
occupational ladder at a rate twice that of white men.” 34 No photographs of African Americans appeared in Paths of Opportunity in U.S. Steel , and few images of African American employees are seen in U.S. Steel corporate literature in... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
providers also faced reductions in jobs and pay. Another piece of the puzzle was the Scranton taxpayer, with a proposed 3.8 percent millage rate increase in property taxes. Even so, the district would need to borrow $4.1 million to make... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
means there was a complaint—about the food, about the service, some negative thing that had escalated to the point that a manager had been called on to straighten things out. Or at least, that’s what it used to mean. In fall 2016,... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
and Noble in books, Best Buy in electronics—offer similar rewards. Boots, the UK-based pharmacy and beauty supply retailer, offers a substantial reward of 4 percent, but that rate is more exception than rule. This type of reward is... View Details
- 11 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Non-competes Push Talent Away
disturbed that nobody had mentioned the non-compete before he accepted the job, Marx signed willingly, assuming such documents were commonplace. “It's clear that that inventors are leaving states that enforce non-competes for states that don't." Fast-forward a few... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
School. Intel Capital, the chipmaker's venture division, has scaled back somewhat from the hyper investment levels of 2000, "but I've always thought it was really important in the venture market to stay in the market, be in the market consistently," said Jim... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
soon working side by side with its dynamic pastor, the Reverend Dr. Floyd H. Flake, to take Allen’s ministry outside the church walls. In 1986, after eight years as a senior executive at General Motors, Reed left GM to manage Flake’s... View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews
professor of organizational behavior and human resource management at the University of Toronto Mississauga; András Tilcsik, assistant professor of strategic management at the University of Toronto; and Sora... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
Harvard Business Review Planned Opportunism: Using Weak Signals to Spur Innovations By: Govindarajan, Vijay Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51052 forthcoming Strategic View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
that we were enabling people to scale up, to be the platform for this exchange and to help partnerships where corporates could find not-for-profits, not-for-profits could find donors, so that the whole sector could grow. Public Service... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
democratic history and an immediate, practical exercise for anyone looking for a way to strengthen our common civic commitments. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52134 2017 Academy of Management Annals... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
enterprises as well. In this e-mail interview, Edmondson and Detert discuss their research and how managers can create environments that encourage and support "upward voice." Their paper is called "Latent Voice Episodes:... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
Shippo, prepares her pitch for a Series A funding round following a successful seed round. Customer adoption of Shippo’s e-commerce dashboard application, which allows small and medium retailers to compare delivery rates between shipping... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
shorter read times did not appear to come at the expense of clinical quality; the rates of "discrepancies" reported by customers was low. The researchers point to prior research to explain why. Repeated experience helps the service... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
foundation which starts way earlier than college scholarships can solve alone. It starts with improved public school systems that close the literacy gap between communities of color and their white counterparts,” she explains. “So, unless the literacy View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
world of the future Teaching tomorrow's leaders Who's Number One? In selecting the "most influential business leader" of the last 75 years, HBS alumni, graduates of America's best-known school of management, chose a college dropout with no formal business or View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
members, after all, are part-timers. And while they're expected to be independent, they have to rely heavily on managers and auditors for information. One problem in all this was that the boards weren't getting appropriate information and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
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Deborah A. Farrington
back in the 1960s. “Growing up, I had an exposure to Wall Street, which I found really fascinating,” Farrington recalled. “I went onto the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange when I was about ten. It was about... View Details