Affect - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Apr 2019
News

Finding a Fix for Food Allergies

photo by Stu Rosner Food allergies affect 30 million Americans and one in 12 children, sometimes triggering life-threatening reactions. Yet there are no approved FDA treatments or cures. These sobering facts became alarmingly real to... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

Demographic Changes By: Bardhan, Pranab, Michael Luca, Dilip Mookherjee, and Francisco Pino Abstract—This paper studies how land reform and population growth affect land inequality and landlessness, focusing particularly on indirect... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

itself, can obscure meaningful variation in individual use patterns, we investigate how the concentration of use within a team (the extent to which use is limited to a few members versus more evenly distributed within the team) affects... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

solve, the contributing factors that have caused this problem to remain unsolved until now, Madhav's theory of change, questions about whether these activities (inputs) will affect the outputs and have an impact, what will it take and how... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2025
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

RX for Change

discussions that took place back in May at Emory University Hospital Midtown will affect more than the bottom line. It will impact the quality of care delivered to thousands of people. Midtown is a 511-bed facility serving over 150,000... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

29 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?

being petty, you’re signaling you’re OK with leaving room for error, and that in turn can signal elements of trust and that you want there to be future exchanges,” Kim says. For a better understanding of how pettiness affects workplace... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

07 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs

definitely shape how they are structured. I think there is a lot of value for MBAs to understand how taxes or tax changes affect the design of optimal transactions.” View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

08 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries

proposal and negotiating strategy seemed to signal a possibly corrupt deal among elites. This inadvertently triggered the involvement of the Honduran Congress, labor unions, political parties, potential business competitors, indigenous people in the View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

26 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Two sides, same coin: How I left the Bay Area as an operator and returned as an investor

those spaces. Being immersed in Silicon Valley, I started to observe that entrepreneurship and financing were very much two sides of the same coin – who your capital providers were and the advice they gave could adversely affect a young... View Details

06 Jul 2020
Blog Post

A Letter from the Women in Investing Club

had a number of challenging conversations addressing how this affects us both in our own experiences and within the system more broadly. Given our positions in an industry that deploys billions of dollars to businesses each year, it is... View Details

13 Sep 2019
Blog Post

An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit

growth over the past decade was explosive, and the HR team, constantly understaffed, was struggling to get ahead of the growth. Long term, high impact projects affecting the entire network were often left on the back burner for short term... View Details

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Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month | Baker Library

political and economic factors affecting business, mainly between 1914 and 1932. Herman L. Dillingham Papers Herman L. Dillingham's Photograph Album No. 2, page 90, 1913 View Collection Herman Louis Dillingham was appointed secretary of a... View Details

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Privacy - HBS Working Knowledge

developed with the recognition that Internet technologies continue to develop and evolve rapidly, and that such changes may require us to alter our Privacy Policy. Any such alterations will not affect our general commitment to the... View Details

21 Mar 2024
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OC Alumni Get Clarity on AI; Inequality and Climate Change Explored in DC

common questions about the potential positive and negative impacts of AI, from how it will improve business to how it might affect humanity in general. “Everybody is up in arms about how AI—particularly generative AI—is going to do... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Apr 1999
News

Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong

technologies are often disruptive to established organizations because they have a different set of attributes that aren't valued in existing markets. Market potential can seldom be measured and profit margins are meager at best. Examples of products and services that... View Details

01 Mar 2006
News

In Memoriam

the Finance Unit (from 1969 to 1973) and taught in both the MBA and the Executive Education programs. He also played an influential role as the Business School’s representative to a number of University committees that affected faculty... View Details

Keywords: J. Keith Butters; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

11 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

revolt. Given the importance of stability to the project of globalization, we may need to consider again the political consequences of distribution. Roscini: There is no doubt that there is an overall gain. But the question is, who gains? Who loses? The concentrated... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation

02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007

annual meeting. We find evidence suggesting that ESO expensing shareholder proposals affected accounting and compensation choices. With respect to accounting choices, we find that: (i) targeted firms were more likely to adopt ESO... View Details