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  • 14 Jul 2021
  • Blog Post

From Colombia to the District of Columbia: Making an Impact with Paulina Llano (MBA 2022)

her ultimate goal – working in her home country to make it a better place. Positioning Herself for Success After high school, Llano lived in France for a year and then studied Business Administration and Political Science at Universidad... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014

who might prefer guaranteed tax-free retirement income not subject to Wall Street market fluctuations. The Tanner Extraction by Frank X. Biasi (PMD 41, 1981) F.X. Biasi Falling in Love Backwards: An Unlikely Tale of Happily Ever After by... View Details
Keywords: faculty research; Alumni Research
  • 23 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Market Research Meets the “People Factor”

The organizational environment, according to Zaltman and Deshpandé, is a "critical factor" in the transfer of knowledge. A company's organizational structure, for instance, along with the political acceptability of market... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 09 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 9

Competition for Social Preferences in Simple Extensive Form Games: An Introduction Authors:Eyal Ert, Ido Erev, and Alvin E. Roth Publication:Special Issue on Predicting Behavior in Games. Games 2 (2011) Abstract Two independent, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

school by the early 20th century. We present new, comparable data on school inputs and outputs for BRIC drawn from contemporary surveys and government documents. Recent studies emphasize the importance of political decentralization and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

Minimizing Joint Gains: An Ethical Dilemma? Authors:Stephen M. Garcia, Max H. Bazerman, and Dale T. Miller Abstract People prefer maximizing joint gains (e.g., self gets $600 / counterpart gets $800) instead of receiving lower amounts... View Details
  • 03 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

China‘s income inequality has risen rapidly over that same time frame, Vietnam‘s has only grown moderately. Structural and socio-cultural determinants fail to account for these divergent pathways. Existing political variables are also... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 3

searches.) Studies show that customers prefer waiting when the work being done is transparent—even when the waits are longer or the results are no better than those obtained with shorter waits. Read the article:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 29, 2008

weaknesses relative to other top schools, the political challenges of organizational change, and the most appropriate strategy for the Dean to follow. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni

projected tenure of 12 months or longer. The Review Committee's preference is to fund graduates who are joining operating companies over those joining investment funds/vehicles. Your job is based full-time in a country or territory in... View Details
  • 14 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 14

firms face market uncertainty about consumers' preferences for innovation on two product attributes and technology uncertainty about the success of their R&D investments. Firms can conduct costly market research before setting R&D... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2016
  • Op-Ed

The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills

could aspire to a more prosperous future. Second, when jobs disappear, the skills of a workforce atrophy over time. That is especially true of the middle-skills jobs that require some post-secondary training but don’t require a college degree. With companies View Details
Keywords: by Joe Fuller and Matt Sigelman; Manufacturing; Electronics
  • 15 Feb 2017
  • Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

bankers’ preferred conditions exist there. Revenues are sketchy, exchange rate risk is real, political uncertainties abound, and expertise is thin. Yet projects get funded and built. Capital lessons What can... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction
  • 12 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

supposed to be kept separate and preferably distant. And many agree with Milton Friedman who famously said that the purpose of business is to maximize returns to shareholders and compete to satisfy consumer desires in the marketplace.... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 13 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 13

Tommy Koh to negotiate the U.S.-Singapore Free Trade agreement serve as an extended case study of a complex, multiparty negotiation that illustrates and further elaborates the concept of a negotiation campaign. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2539774... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 16

maximizing, yet asymmetric payoffs. Studies 1 and 2 showed that people prefer to maximize profits when interacting within their social category, but chose suboptimal individual and joint profits when interacting across social categories.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

of financial and social objectives warrants significant rethinking of organizational democracy’s merits compared both to hierarchy and to nondemocratic alternatives to hierarchy. In making this argument, we draw on some parallels with View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Jun 2006
  • News

The Baby Business

Spar In her new book, The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception, HBS professor Debora Spar takes an unflinching look at a taboo topic: the myriad kinds of interpersonal arrangements and financial... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Government; Health, Social Assistance
  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

Roberts, 27-38. Studies in Choice and Welfare Series. Springer Verlag, 2009 Abstract All of us make decisions that are not entirely self-centered; we voluntarily anticipate what we think to be the preferences of others and incorporate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 22

Justifying and Rationalizing Questionable Preferences Authors:Zoë Chance and Michael I. Norton An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-018.pdf The Financing of R&D and Innovation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace