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- 13 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Following My Dream: Launching a Venture
and freezing bananas for our next day of testing, I’m sure that pursuing my business dream was the best decision I’ve ever made. There’s nothing more rewarding than seeing your own idea coming to fruition View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
our health and the bottom line. There are two parts to his equation: time and money. Let’s start with time: studies have found that in North America View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
What I Do: Gordon Medenica (MBA 1979)
lottery and gaming for the State of Maryland. A media executive earlier in his career, including 16 years at the New York Times Company, Medenica was drawn by the scale of an industry with estimated annual... View Details
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International Students Student Loans 101 We expect that most students will take out a loan to fund their MBA, in combination with need-based Harvard Business School (HBS) Scholarships, fellowship awards, external scholarships, and... View Details
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
papers about "The Value of a Free Customer" and "The Value of a Customer in a Social Networked World." Thomas Steenburgh: I am spending time thinking of a few different things. I have a working paper with a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
America's health care system—figures in the insurance, hospital, employment, governmental, and academic sectors. She proves how our current system, which is organized around payers and providers rather than... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the extent of control to exert over the different segments of their production processes. Building on Antràs and Chor (2013), we describe a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
Below, excerpts from an interview. Lagace: What is an example of an experiment you've conducted that looks at differences in how women and men negotiate? McGinn: One of the interesting first pieces of data we looked at was job offers to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
of the reason he was given the top coaching job. Losing streaks are associated with autocrats who cling to control even as events spin out of control—one consequence of my principle that "powerlessness corrupts." But in winning... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
as bacon ice cream. We propose that such choices are driven by consumers' continual striving to use time productively, make progress, and reach accomplishments (i.e., a productivity orientation). We argue... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
employees to mentor juniors, for example, but only reward them for time spent with clients. These practices are possible regardless of the amount of resources available, with the possible exception of the first. Managers work within this... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
employees to mentor juniors, for example, but only reward them for time spent with clients. These practices are possible regardless of the amount of resources available, with the possible exception of the first. Managers work within this... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
and we also present a detailed case study on Tomogorō Ono, a key developer of salt production technology who used attorneys in connection with his patenting work at a time when Japan was still in the process... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
If Enron had been owned and controlled by a small group of private-equity investors, could the monitoring and control practices of a... View Details
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
their products directly to buyers) or as a reseller (purchasing products from suppliers and selling them to buyers). We model this as a decision between whether control rights over a non-contractible... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
firms in our sample, making it difficult to control for these effects across economies. Practical implications—Government involvement in state-owned enterprises may be contributing to a divergence in the pattern of business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
unprofessional, it featured red font and a pixelated cartoon devil. Other participants received a deliberately professional-looking survey titled "Carnegie Mellon University Executive Council Survey on Ethical Behaviors," which sported... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
Capital fluctuations of the largest five sellers account for over 10% of the time-series variation in spread changes, a significant amount given that observable firm and macroeconomic factors account for less than 17% of variation during... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
other sources of entrepreneurial influence: we find that peer influences are strongest for those who have less exposure to entrepreneurship in other aspects of their lives. Family Control of Firms and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
observed variation in payout patterns over time than the traditional motives. The most recent evidence suggests that further insights can be gained from viewing payout decisions as an integral part of a firm's larger financial ecosystem,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne