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- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
how individuals think about speaking up at work, we first undertook in-depth exploratory research in a knowledge-intensive multinational corporation in which employee input was considered crucial. Qualitative data collected in 190... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Brooke Boyarsky
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I felt that I had a lot to learn. I knew that the cases and skills taught at HBS would give me the foundation to be an effective general manager, and the case study method at HBS would... View Details
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
in designing and assessing policy. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54968 Large-Scale Demand Estimation with Search Data By: Amano, Tomomichi, Andrew Rhodes, and Stephan Seiler Abstract—Many online... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
says. “What we’re asking is, can we build algorithms that will help find better matches that will allow people to integrate more easily?” The paper presents data from Switzerland and the United States that showed promise in using machine... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55344 Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives' Marriage and Fertility By: Carlana, Michela, and Marco Tabellini Abstract—In this paper, we study the effects of immigration... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Field Course: Business of the Arts - Course Catalog
This activity supports 4.6 million jobs. A report by the Conference Board noted that in addition to the enormous financial impact of the sector, “companies consider the arts to be important in building quality of life, stimulating creative thinking and problem solving,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
where Minnick serves as chief commercial officer, is one of several actors in the so-called “new space” sector that are pursuing commercial opportunities beyond our atmosphere. Long a provider of real-time geospatial intelligence to government and military clients,... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 14 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions
geographically specific reason, the researchers compared the major drought years of 1930, 1934, and 1936 with non-drought years, 1931 and 1935, in the same geographical areas. They looked at firm-level unionization data from the US... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jun 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Motivation
into the most effective way to design a compensation plan, concentrating on whether bonuses boost sales productivity and whether they should be awarded quarterly or annually. Research, focusing on the sales force of a large office supply... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
platforms connecting producers and consumers. In contrast to the existing literature, indirect network effects are determined endogenously, through consumers' taste for variety and producer competition.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!
had all the data and insight they needed to recognize the potential of major problems but failed to respond with preventative action. Psychological, organizational, and political factors conspire to keep us from dealing with potential... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
Kaplan, who has been working on a multiyear project with HBS Professor Michael E. Porter on improving value in health care, has found that often the most effective medical procedure is one that costs the least: talking. In a recent... View Details
- 11 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Non-competes Push Talent Away
patent typically contains each inventor's hometown and employer, making it possible to reconstruct work histories and co-authorship networks for numerous individuals." Draining Detroit Initially, the researchers looked for emigration... View Details
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
year gains. We evaluate the performance of all policies under consideration using the same statistical and simulation tools and data as the U.S. policymakers use. Other case studies perform a sensitivity analysis (for instance,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
responsibility. Working PapersInducement Prizes and Innovation Authors:Liam Brunt, Josh Lerner, and Tom Nicholas Abstract We examine the effect of prizes on innovation using data on awards for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs
their next venture-backed firm, compared with 23 percent for those who previously failed and 22 percent for first-timers. "The size of the effect more than anything was surprising," note HBS professors Paul A. Gompers and Josh Lerner in... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
effect of variation in experience on performance. The problem is that variation in experience improves a team's information processing capacity and knowledge base but also creates coordination challenges. We hypothesize that team... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
information when told that previous respondents have made sensitive disclosures. We provide evidence of the process underlying this effect and rule out alternative explanations by showing that information on others' propensity to disclose... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones
Here’s one thing they learned: “Office pairs that lose one or two shared business hours due to [Daylight Savings Time] reduce their total communication volumes by 9.2 percent on average from baseline levels, an effect driven by decreases... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts
for business leaders rather than to focus on a single topic. “For people who are doing important things, even one thought-provoking idea can create a ripple effect when participants return to their companies,” said Stevenson. In creating... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton