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- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
in psychology, there's an expression that neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them, and psychiatrists collect the rent. The reason I bring this up is, as we connect FOMO and FOBO to option analysis, what I think I learned about that at HBS is, you... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
According to Herzlinger, although public and nonprofit institutions are entrusted with taxpayer and donor dollars to provide social goods such as education, health, and art, they have few systems and tools for objectively assessing their... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
from the athenahealth practice management system and EHR task logs. Methods: We developed monthly measures of EHR use and delegation to support staff from task logs. Productivity was measured using work relative value units (RVUs). Using fixed effects models, we View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
had periods of frank self-reflection," he notes. "The Centennial has provided an opportunity to assess the impact of significant innovations over the past few decades in the context of a rapidly changing world—to step back and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
Business School’s case method compresses many hundreds of real-life decision-making constructs into a two-year academic experience. HBS students learn to build decision-making teams, assess problems, gather information, debate, and... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
assess how things were going but not too soon to tap into their collective insights on launching a new venture. Private or nonprofit sector, up market or down, the observations that follow highlight the many approaches to what it means to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
conjunction with the redesign of clinical processes; and designing those processes in such a way that organizations systematically learn from their daily work. Assessing the impact of a program like MHCD requires short- and long-term... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
ways the "big data" he is collecting is being used—and whether some uses promised more meaningful (or less potentially misleading) impact than others. After briefly introducing IGS, Fukuhara, and GROW, the case outlines exactly how GROW works, starting with a mobile... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
entrepreneurs face, the role of non-financial institutions/community-based organizations in addressing those challenges, and the financial tools available to lenders and borrowers in this segment. Students learn how to analyze financing opportunities by View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Gwendolyn Reynolds Abstract—Objectives: To assess whether the addition of a peer testimonial to an informational mailing increases conversion rates from brand name... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
direct; 3) the tendency to ignore unethical behavior when ethicality erodes slowly over time; and 4) the tendency to assess unethical behaviors only after the unethical behavior has resulted in a bad outcome, but not during the decision... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
is codified and can be easily shared from a distance. Being together matters when tasks are interdependent, require sharing tacit knowledge in fluid ways, and coordination needs are not scripted or predictable. An honest assessment of the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
that she now works with the United Way of New York City. "As you can imagine, we've been working around the clock assessing the most critical emergency needs," she wrote. "We've helped establish The September 11th Fund. Individual... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
membership. Specifically, we show how identification with different social groups influences the threshold for mind perception. In three experiments, participants assessed a continuum of face morphs that ranged from human to doll faces.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
most productive sites prefer to pay CPC, while advertisers with lower quality sites prefer to pay CPA—a result that may be viewed as counterintuitive since low quality sites cannot proudly tout their conversion rates. This result holds even if an ad platform's View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
staff exactly what kinds of challenges Pine Mountain faced and how he planned to meet them; conducted a series of town hall meetings to reestablish trust with the community; and commissioned a strategic assessment to identify the school’s... View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
entry-level employees to eight widely scattered locations, we empirically assess how distance from hometown affects workers’ performance. Our results suggest that distance from hometown has a positive effect on worker performance in the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
from different cultures, promoting creative collaboration. Study 1, a multi-rater assessment of managerial performance, found that managers higher in metacognitive cultural intelligence (CQ) were rated as more effective in intercultural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2
calibrate these arguments to assess their quantitative importance. We use a dynamic equilibrium model with tax distortion, government outlays uncertainty, and contingent-debt service. Our framework also recognizes that contingent debt can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
assess whether to hold or sell their shares in Eddie Bauer. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusiness.org/search/110008/ Eddie Bauer (B) Harvard Business School Supplement 110-009 In February 2007, shareholders of Eddie Bauer, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace