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  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices

brain called the amygdala. This area processes sensory stimulation before it reaches the conscious part of the brain. If the amygdala perceives a threat, it boosts the production of adrenaline, increasing the heart rate and creating other... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
  • 17 Jul 2009
  • Research Event

Business Summit: Ethics in Globalization

various forms of potentially unethical behavior. These include greed, unreasonable amounts of leverage, subtle forms of corruption (such as ratings agencies that appear to have had a conflict of interest), complex financial instruments... View Details
Keywords: Re: Rafael M. Di Tella
  • 04 Aug 2014
  • Op-Ed

Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering

recession. Measures of tightening on loan terms, including the Federal Reserve Senior Loan Officer Survey, for small businesses increased at double-digit rates during the recession and recovery, and have eased at just single-digit View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services
  • Fast Answer

Field Course: Business of the Arts (BOTA)

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Ratings of nonprofits based on their Accountability & Transparency and Financial Health.  Advisory Board for the Arts Global network-based learning organization in the cultural sector. Statistics... View Details
  • 21 Sep 2015
  • News

A Sustainable Success Story

County property. “Big picture,” he notes, “this was 2009, and we were newcomers in a rural area where the unemployment rate was 15 percent. We wanted to protect the forest for future generations, but we also started wondering if there... View Details
  • 11 Aug 2014
  • HBS Case

The Business of Behavioral Economics

Success Rate According to StickK's internal analysis of 125,000 contracts, this powerful combination of factors dramatically increases the chances that people meet their goals. When users sign contracts without naming a referee or putting... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Health
  • 29 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Whence IT Value?

storage capacity, bandwidth and memory — especially on a per-dollar basis — are driving the observed business benefits. However, all of these have been getting better, faster and cheaper at about the same rate throughout the history of... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
  • Web

Professor Robin Ely on Challenging Conventional Wisdom - Blog: RGE Report

current rate of progress, it would take at least 50 years for all women—across intersections with other identities—to achieve parity with men. So, are women stagnating at work? RGE’s faculty co-chair, Robin J. Ely, has researched gender... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

In the Zone

field.” Metrics have always grounded HCZ’s operations; the organization gathers data across 600 areas to track annual results, from participation rates to academic performance to risky behaviors. In 2017, 97 percent of HCZ seniors went on... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; nonprofit management; urban development; leadership; public education; Educational Services
  • 05 Aug 2015
  • News

Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery

Very consumer focused,” says Motte-Munoz. “Say you need a driver’s license; the app will tell you where all the DMV offices are and tell you their rating on a corruption basis.” “People know there’s corruption,” Motte-Munoz adds. “We’re... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

What's the Word?

are some ways forward, says Fuller. Companies might need to embrace automation technologies that can help reduce labor hours per unit, an approach Fuller has seen start to take hold in the garment industry. There could be regulatory aid, too, with Congress assessing... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 13 Feb 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants

ad effectiveness might come down to the size of the brand. eBay may not have experienced as much of a boost from its ads since its brand was widely known long before the ads appeared, whereas highlighting the mere presence of a lesser-known but highly View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
  • 25 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 25

emerged in recent years as a flashpoint of debate in the United States. I characterize the direct effects that changes in that price index would have on retirees who differ in their initial wealth at retirement and mortality rates after... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 24, 2008

log variance of income per worker. This figure should be compared to the 42% success rate of the usual model. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14060 Bounded Decision Making: From Description to Improvement... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 25, 2006

premia, real interest rates and inflation. The variation in investment opportunities is captured by a flexible vector autoregressive parameterization, which readily accommodates a large number of assets and state variables. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2010 (Revised December 2011)
  • Supplement

Oriflame S.A. (C)

By: David F. Hawkins and Karol Misztal
Notes from Oriflame's 2009 annual report relevant to the assessment of the monetary impact of Oriflame's FX risk management actions. View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; International Accounting; Currency Exchange Rate; Annual Reports; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Risk Management; Standards; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
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  • 11 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

the pass-through of both gas prices and nominal exchange rate fluctuations. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54935 forthcoming Consumption, Markets & Culture Big Data By: Deighton, John A. Abstract—Big... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 6, 2016

Abstract—We document a strong and robust relation between the one-year real rate and precautionary savings motives, as measured by the stock market. Our novel proxy for precautionary savings, based on the difference in valuations between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 13

principal and investment earnings are taxed upon withdrawal. Using administrative data from 11 companies that added a Roth contribution option to their existing 401(k) plan between 2006 and 2010, we find no evidence that total 401(k) contribution View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 15

we find significant price differences between institutional investors' tranches and banks' tranches on the same loans, even though they share the same underlying fundamentals. Increasing demand pressure causes the interest rate on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace