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  • 26 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

data for themselves and look forward to the new questions they can tackle with it. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53265 forthcoming Boston University Law Review Troll Check? A Proposal for Administrative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Article

The Economic Consequences of Hospital Admissions

By: Carlos Dobkin, Amy Finkelstein, Raymond Kluender and Matthew Notowidigdo
We use an event study approach to examine the economic consequences of hospital admissions for adults in two datasets: survey data from the Health and Retirement Study, and hospitalization data linked to credit reports. For non-elderly adults with health insurance,... View Details
Keywords: Personal Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Insurance; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Health Care and Treatment
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By: Jorge Tamayo
Professor Tamayo’s research focuses on theoretical modeling and structural estimation of firm decision-making and productivity.

Professor Tamayo studies dynamic competition for customer membership. Generally, firms that implement a membership model charge a... View Details
  • September 2019 (Revised May 2021)
  • Case

pymetrics: International Expansion

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In August 2018, pymetrics, a solution offering neuroscience-based recruiting tests, closed a $40 million funding round that valued the business at $160 million. Over 60 companies around the globe were using pymetrics tests in their recruiting process, including... View Details
Keywords: BrainTech; Psychodynamics; Psychology; Hiring Of Employees; Hiring; Strategic Evolution; Strategy And Execution; Startup; Start-up; Startups; Start-ups; Entrepreneur; Bias; Rapid Growth Stage; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Strategy; Business Startups; Employment; Growth and Development Strategy; Global Strategy
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  • July–August 2013
  • Article

Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility Effects of Demographic Similarity among Professionals

By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Katherine L. Milkman
We investigate the role of workgroup sex and race composition on the career mobility of professionals in "up-or-out" organizations. We develop a nuanced perspective on the potential career mobility effects of workgroup demography by integrating the social... View Details
Keywords: Professional Service Firms; Race And Ethnicity; Ethnicity; Race; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Legal Services Industry
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    Zhongming Jiang

    Zhongming Jiang is a first-year Ph.D. student in Marketing (Quantitative) at Harvard Business School. His research focuses on developing methodologies for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) that enable personalized interventions, dynamic customer... View Details

    • 02 Jan 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    10 Trends to Watch in 2024

    The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 2021
    • White Paper

    Working to Learn: Despite a Growing Set of Innovators, America Struggles to Connect Education and Career

    By: Joseph B. Fuller, Rachel Lipson, Jorge Encinas, Tessa Forshaw, Alexis Gable and J.B. Schramm
    In the wake of COVID-19 and growing inequality, America needs more pathways that bridge education and career. New research from the Project on Workforce at Harvard draws on data from New Profit's Postsecondary Initiative for Equity to identify opportunities for the... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Education; Training; Employment; Personal Development and Career; Health Pandemics
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    • 07 Nov 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    When Glasses Land the Gig: Employers Still Choose Workers Who 'Look the Part'

    platforms to hire freelancers, the old saying that looks can be deceiving still rings true. Faced with myriad candidates who boast similar reviews on various websites, harried employers are relying on profile photos to determine, literally, whether an applicant looks... View Details
    Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

      Unanticipated Gains

      Social capital theorists have shown that some people do better than others in part because they enjoy larger, more supportive, or otherwise more useful networks. But why do some people have better networks than others? 

      Unanticipated Gains argues... View Details
      • 05 Feb 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding

      between 2007 and 2021. He also gathered and analyzed 1 million newspaper job postings, 6 million manager resumes and job reviews, and 430,000 Indeed.com job reviews. The data shows: Managerial job postings that required collaborative... View Details
      Keywords: by Ben Rand
      • 02 Feb 2009
      • Research & Ideas

      The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs

      disentangling the underlying factors that impact the success of venture-capital-backed start-ups. The data that lies at the heart of our performance persistence papers was gathered from multiple sources over a three- or four-year period.... View Details
      Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
      • 31 Mar 2022
      • Blog Post

      Setting Interns Up for Success at a Startup

      At a young, growing company, there is always more work to be done. There are strategies to build, projects to complete, partnerships to forge, data to crunch, employees to develop – the list goes on. That’s why bringing on an intern to... View Details
      • 23 Jan 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      How to Keep Employees Productive: Support Caregivers

      Fuller says—and every little bit counts. Fuller found that, if caregiving support prevented five employees from quitting, it would save the company $200,000. That math assumes the employees earn an average of $80,000 and carry a replacement cost of 50 percent. Fuller... View Details
      Keywords: by Kara Baskin
      • 31 Mar 2022
      • Blog Post

      Setting Interns Up for Success at Your Startup

      At a young, growing company, there is always more work to be done. There are strategies to build, projects to complete, partnerships to forge, data to crunch, employees to develop – the list goes on. That’s why bringing on an intern to... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship
      • 25 Feb 2019
      • Research & Ideas

      How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

      somewhere, reaching out to make sure the person is encouraged, recognized, and rewarded—not just once, but repeatedly—could be a helpful thing to do.” With this new data on gender stereotyping, Coffman and... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
      • 2006
      • Working Paper

      The Effect of Dividends on Consumption

      By: Malcolm Baker, Stefan Nagel and Jeffrey Wurgler
      Classical models predict that the division of stock returns into dividends and capital appreciation does not affect investor consumption patterns, while mental accounting and other economic frictions predict that investors have a higher propensity to consume from stock... View Details
      Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Personal Finance; Investment Return; Household
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      • April 2023
      • Article

      Racial Inequality in Work Environments

      By: Letian Zhang
      This article explores racial stratification in work environments. Inequality scholars have long identified racial disparities in wage and occupational attainment, but workers’ careers and well-being are also shaped by elements of their work environment, including firm... View Details
      Keywords: Discrimination; Race; Equality and Inequality; Working Conditions; Personal Development and Career; Organizational Culture
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      • 08 Aug 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      Black Employees Not Only Earn Less, But Deal with Bad Bosses and Poor Conditions

      conditions. While such reviews are published anonymously, Zhang cross-referenced the data with a government database from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that lists the racial percentages of employees at all US companies with... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding
      • 25 Jan 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      Being a Team Player: Why College Athletes Succeed in Business

      researchers chose to concentrate on the eight Ivy League schools for their initial research, following the career trajectories of 401,785 graduates from 1970 to 2021. They combined that data with career information, such as LinkedIn... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne