Panel Studies - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

Conference Proceedings More Amazon Effects: Online Competition and Pricing Behaviors By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—I study how online competition, with its shrinking margins, algorithmic pricing technologies, and the transparency of the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

10 Aug 2015
News

A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges

enterprise. The lessons were dynamic and the perspectives were wide-ranging, including those from Professor Gail McGovern, who is now CEO of the American Red Cross. After a summer internship in the credit-card division at Citigroup, Kapila plunged into microfinance,... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

19 May 2021
News

Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online

Governance, Adapting to a Changing Landscape, Equity and Inclusion in Action, and Partnering for Systemic Change—over four days of virtual panel discussions and case studies, and featured insights from an array of HBS faculty, alumni,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

03 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry

Conference, led by the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association, presented two days of provocative lectures, panel discussions, and case studies surrounding questions like: What's next for healthcare? And how... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30

judgment tasks and underweighting of rare events in decisions from experience. The current paper presents three laboratory experiments and a field study that explore this pattern. The results suggest that the overestimation and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2022
News

A New Platform for Alumni Engagement

to disrupt the financial sector to materially improve financial services, including expanding access to financial products to underserved communities through the use of new technologies. Salas, who studied with Lakhani while he was a... View Details

Keywords: April White

11 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation

Spontaneous responses can often be quite telling. As a member of a panel discussion at the Women, Money, and Power conference, entrepreneur Joline Godfrey posed two simple questions to the mostly-female audience. "How many of you had... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Jul 2022
Blog Post

Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience

entrepreneurial interests as two separate threads that came together in 2020.When I was at UCLA, I studied molecular biology. After deciding to not pursue medicine and feeling paralyzed by my career outlook, my dad recommended I take a... View Details

20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

teams are exacerbated when teams are leaderless, undermining performance. A longitudinal study of multicultural MBA study teams found that in the early stage of team formation, teams with a low average level... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

27 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 27, 2007

convictions in marketing is that market orientation contributes to firms' performance substantially more than alternative strategic orientations such as innovation and entrepreneurial orientations. Still, some studies show that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

under-provision of innovation. Firms have clear incentives to engage in strategic behavior because policymakers use market outcomes as a benchmark in designing regulation. This study examines a unique energy efficiency standard for... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

graduates—descended on the Allston campus for the start of the W50 Summit, two days of reflection, celebration, and brainstorming on women's experiences at HBS and beyond. They heard from panels of professors and alumni on everything from... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette

24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24

differs by firm ownership. We study CEOs in the Indian manufacturing sector, where family ownership is widespread and the productivity dispersion across firms is substantial. Time use analysis of 356 CEOs of listed firms yields three sets... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Women at Work

Lynda Clarizio Every woman who works and has a life confronts unique challenges, from finding reliable and caring childcare to making time to nurture the relationship with their spouse or partner to fighting their own guilt and stereotypes of "working women."... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild

19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19

Electronic Monitoring Authors:Di Tella, Rafael, and Ernesto Schargrodsky Publication:Journal of Political Economy Abstract We study criminal recidivism in Argentina by focusing on the re-arrest rates of two groups: individuals released... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2009
News

Up on the Green Roof

chief of Operations. “We have photovoltaic panels on a portion of the roof, and we run a cogeneration plant in the basement that uses natural gas to fire a generator to help power the building, with the waste heat going to create domestic... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Construction of Buildings; Construction

15 Feb 2017
Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

and investing leaders in countries including Ethiopia and Tanzania as well as field research in Ghana, Kenya, and Rwanda. (Several students have shared insights from their field studies here: IFC Africa: Building Cities.) I believe the... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction

17 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

All this makes for a case study of the moral courage of ordinary Japanese citizens in times of crisis. There are lessons to be learned here by the rest of us. W. Carl Kester, George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985 to 2000, and data on the well-being of over 600,000 people in a panel of... View Details