Individualism - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 May 2023
Research & Ideas

How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs

You can also follow individual minority creators over time and see ups and downs in their rates of success,” Kerr says. Certain groups feel it more The heaviest impact was felt by groups that found themselves the most frequent targets of... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

design, and set-up. In a nutshell, what do these elements mean individually and together? Should a negotiator weigh them equally, especially under time pressure? A: Whether your focus should be on one or a combination of tactics at the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Dean Nitin Nohria | About

individualized treatment of serious diseases. The resulting Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator convened more than 300 thinkers and front-line doers and disruptors to develop business strategies to take full advantage of future... View Details

10 Dec 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Multi-sided Platforms

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Julian Wright; Technology

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A major area of Professor Torfason's research is the behavior of individual social network structures. He studies the violation of norms – specifically the use of excessive force in conflict situations – within the empirical context of a large online... View Details

September 2015
Article

Design and Implementation of a Privacy Preserving Electronic Health Record Linkage Tool in Chicago

By: Abel Kho, John Cashy, Kathryn Jackson, Adam Pah, Satyender Goel, Jorn Boehnke, John Eric Humphries, Scott Duke Kominers and et al.

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To design and implement a tool that creates a secure, privacy preserving linkage of electronic health record (EHR) data across multiple sites in a large metropolitan area in the United States (Chicago, IL), for use in clinical... View Details

Keywords: Information; Customers; Safety; Rights; Ethics; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Chicago

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January 2009
Journal Article

The Fiscal Impact of High-skilled Emigration: Flows of Indians to the U.S.

By: Mihir Desai, D. Kapur, J. McHale and K Rogers

Easing immigration restrictions for the highly skilled in developed countries portends a future of increased human capital outflows from developing countries. The myriad consequences of these developments for developing countries include the direct loss of the fiscal... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Diasporas; Developing Countries and Economies; Taxation; Compensation and Benefits; Human Capital; Mathematical Methods; India; United States

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Timing - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

sequencing, and timing of individual discussion segments ("pastures"). (See Planning a Class Session.) Yet in real time, some discussion pastures develop more or less quickly than anticipated in the plan, and student contributions may... View Details

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

component parts, each "cognitively" small or simple enough for individual people to do meaningful work. However, decomposing the complex whole into simpler parts is only part of the challenge. The decomposition must occur in... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

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email response within a business day. You can also reach us at 5-6100. To reach individual members of the team , see Our Team (login required). You can also contact RCS members via Microsoft Teams and schedule meetings with us on Zoom. To... View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

governed by three factors: a specified rate increase set by the University, which in fiscal 2022 was 2.5 percent; new gifts to the endowment, which consists of more than 1,000 discrete funds established over the years by individual... View Details

18 Dec 2013
HBS Case

Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal

its emphasis on individual heroes, cycling is very much a team sport, one where the team supports the leader and works for his success. Riders help shield their leader from other cyclists in tight packs, draft in front of him to reduce... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports

06 Jul 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?

Research has shown that the benefits of globalization are substantial. For example, a study of the effects of the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership by the Peterson Institute for International Economics projects benefits in US economic growth and View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Manufacturing

Portrait Project

Neda Navab

every penny during that first year to allow her to pursue her passion for cooking. Moved by the sacrifice that mirrored her own, Rose decided to put her individual self second for the most important thing of all – their relationship. For... View Details

20 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

resources—people, innovation, traction, money, and execution—business is the most powerful force for change on the global stage right now. No other set of institutions—not religious organizations, not the nation-state, not individual... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy Koehn

15 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax

explained why he supported higher taxes on higher incomes: "As a country that values fairness, wealthier individuals have traditionally borne a greater share of this [tax] burden than the middle class or those less fortunate [This... View Details

Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl

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Working Groups Update | About

recommendations. We are particularly grateful to students and staff who are partnering with us in this important work. We understand that Arab and Muslim individuals at HBS often feel stereotyped and fear being targeted, whether in direct... View Details

19 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

epigenetic, and protein biomarkers—create a better match between individuals with specific disease subtypes and medications that are more effective for those patients. These treatments are expected to be both more effective and more... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder

both of which helped signal how much effort individuals were putting into their job. They also studied compensation at all levels, including senior executives. Workers were surveyed on how much they thought, on average, peers and managers... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

16 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Does Competition Make Us More Creative?

the low-performing bids and limiting the competition to only a few high-quality contenders—fortunately, that’s what we often see in practice.” While we may never be able to completely understand the kind of creative energy that goes into creating an artistic... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

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