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  • 25 Jun 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Does ‘Could’ Lead to Good? Toward a Theory of Moral Insight

Keywords: by Ting Zhang, Francesca Gino & Joshua D. Margolis
  • 2008
  • Book

On Competition

By: M. E. Porter
Competition is one of society's most powerful forces for making things better in many fields of human endeavor. The study of competition and the creation of value, in their full richness, have preoccupied me for several decades. Competition is pervasive, whether it... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Practice; Competitive Strategy; Theory; Value Creation
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  • Web

Students on the Job Market - Doctoral

and trade flows of dual-use goods respond to changes in the security environment over time. To put structure on the national security externality, we introduce military procurement into a trade network model and add a military contest to... View Details
  • 03 Jun 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Inducement Prizes and Innovation

Keywords: by Liam Brunt, Josh Lerner & Tom Nicholas
  • May 2008
  • Article

When Winning Is Everything

By: Deepak Malhotra, Gillian Ku and J. Keith Murnighan
In the heat of competition, executives can easily become obsessed with beating their rivals. This adrenaline-fueled emotional state, which the authors call competitive arousal, often leads to bad decisions. Managers can minimize the potential for competitive arousal... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Behavior; Emotions; Personal Characteristics; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage
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  • 17 Nov 2023
  • Blog Post

HBS Veteran Spotlight: Rex Willis (MBA 2024)

impact in defending our country. And I was able to do just that by driving a billion-dollar warship in contested waters and communicating with our allies to protect the nation’s interests. Even though I appreciated the responsibility, I... View Details
  • Web

Business History - Faculty & Research

Contested Meanings of Freedom: Workingmen's Wages, the Company Store System and the Godcharles v. Wigeman Decision By: Laura Phillips Sawyer In 1886, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down a law that prohibited employers from paying... View Details
  • 12 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What Actually Draws Sports Fans to Games? It's Not Star Athletes.

injury announcements,” Ferguson says. When injuries make a game seem less closely contested to fans, as reflected in betting odds, stadium attendance decreases, the researchers say. Some 32,602 spectators attended the average game... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Sports
  • 2007
  • Book

An Experiment in Fair Value Accounting? The State of the Art in Research and Thought Leadership on Accounting for Life Assurance in the UK and Continental Europe

By: Joanne G Horton, Richard H. Macve and George Serafeim
"Fair value" is currently the central topic of debate in the development of accounting standards. While it has now been defined to mean an exit price in US GAAP, the IASB is still considering its own definition, and some commentators are arguing for versions of entry... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Financial Instruments; Framework; Market Entry and Exit; Insurance; Revenue Recognition; Fair Value Accounting; Standards; United Kingdom
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  • Portrait Project

Genevieve Sheehan

"I'd like to make it a true Daily Double, Alex." As a contestant on the TV quiz show Jeopardy, I was certain that I wanted to make that big wager — only to be sure, moments later, that I didn't know the correct response. Wham.... View Details
  • 16 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management

This led owners to experiment with ways of increasing the pace of labor, Rosenthal explains, such as holding contests with small cash prizes for those who picked the most cotton, and then requiring the winners to pick that much cotton... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Johnston
  • Web

Finance - Faculty & Research

security environment over time. To put structure on our problem, we introduce defense procurement into a trade network model and add a military contest externality to the national welfare function. In a simple two-country case, optimal... View Details
  • 30 Nov 2021
  • In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Nov 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Path-Breakers: How Does Women’s Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success?

Keywords: by Sonia Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras & Lakshmi Iyer
  • Web

Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

are experienced, interpreted, and contested through practices of expression, performance, and self-presentation. It examined such topics as the deconstruction of the gender binary; the concept of the authentic self; and how social... View Details
  • 12 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment

colleagues studied how experts judged contest entries and found that the greater an evaluator’s expertise, the more likely they were to nix less feasible proposals in favor of safer bets. “Who we select to do our evaluations and to pick... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Aerospace
  • 06 Oct 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Edward Fertik, Yale University

  • Web

Competitions & Challenges - Health Care

students and individual graduate students who have inventions in categories that represent significant sectors of the economy: healthcare, transportation and mobility, food/water and agriculture, and consumer devices. MIT $100K One competition - three independent View Details
  • Web

Past Issues - Alumni

that Howard Built Howard Stevenson and entrepreneurship at HBS The Best-Laid Plans Veterans of the HBS Business Plan Contest share their war stories about the roller-coaster ride of entrepreneurship. Fifteen years old and going strong,... View Details
  • 19 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control

world, brands are playthings for consumers. Humor is a big part of social media culture. And brands are often used as vehicles to carry that humor." Results can be calamitous for companies that don't anticipate mockery. Fournier and Avery write of a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising