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- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
Back in 2001, I wanted to test some theoretical predictions about negotiations versus auctions. At the time I was co-course head for the first-year required course on Negotiation at HBS, so I designed an elaborate experiment that used all... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
economic growth and the intensive and extensive margins of technology adoption. The "extensive" margin refers to the timing of a country's adoption of a new technology; the "intensive" margin View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
modernity in the 1920s and 1930s, Chanel's designs wrapped high and low cultural references into beautiful yet practical clothing and jewelry for women of Europe and the Americas. In their articulation of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
correlations between their risk-based return premia, and periodic flights to quality. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mbaker/cv/papers/Comovement_RAPS.pdf The Effect of Reference Point Prices on Mergers and Acquisitions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
consumption fluctuations faced by individuals, households, and firms. Yet much of this promise remains unrealized. In this paper, we study the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product designed to compensate low-income Indian... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
mobile phone penetration, universal availability of unique ID systems, and evolving privacy and data protection laws. It builds on global best practices and promotes the adoption of human-centered design principles, data minimization, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
from public funding) to work with over 10 years. That’s enough to design a six-month $10,000 retraining program (focusing on skills defined by unfilled jobs) plus a $10 per hour wage funded by the government followed by six months of... View Details
- 14 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS
handle booking space, a hospitality suite for your interviewers, and scheduling students into timeslots. P – Presentation. Other MBA programs may call company presentations briefings or info sessions. At HBS we refer to any company... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
information and assumptions went into the process, and to know how susceptible the conclusion is to small changes." Referring to an example of Royal Dutch Shell's early scenario planning efforts, Hugh Quick volunteered that "I... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
your fixed costs," Bhide says. "But if, for example, you want to create a business that solves other companies' design or engineering problems, then you have an interesting opportunity. Just by working harder and faster than your... View Details
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
Business School Exercise 409-129 This exercise is designed to help students and professionals map their professional networks and identify areas of strength and weakness in their networks. "Network" View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
Billy Beane at the Oakland Athletics, looked for the natural leaders on the field. Beane said that this was necessary because "I don't think the general manager or manager can designate leaders. The clubhouse is Lord of the... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
Professor of Business Administration, and colleagues Dr. Eva Guinan and Jin Paik more about the study and results. They are referred to as the LISH team below. Martha Lagace: How did you learn about the problem and connect with... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
Task Force and the resulting Racial Equity Plan have been crucial first steps in a community-wide, multi-year effort. Since the plan was announced in September 2020, we have designed the School's first chief diversity and inclusion... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
paradise enjoyed by Turtle Island Resort's fourteen guest couples. Fourteen couples, fourteen private beaches, each with its own cottage, or bure, designed and constructed according to the standards of traditional Fijian craftsmanship... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
the table in their insurance-plan choices, sometimes thousands of dollars. This is true both when consumers make active choices (e.g., they do not have a default plan) and when they make passive choices (e.g., they have a default plan). We discuss the implications of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
middle of a $1 billion capital expansion in its effort to become a vertically integrated supplier of rare earth minerals, oxides, and metals. After reporting lower than expected revenues and earnings for the second quarter of 2012, management needed to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Program Policies - HBS Online
Credential of Digitial Innovation and Strategy, participants must complete the following requirements: Successfully complete Leading in the Digital World. Earn a Certificate of Completion in Design Thinking and Innovation, Winning with... View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
long-term innovation output rather than for private benefits. Code Contingencies: Designing Monitoring Regimes to Promote Improvement in Supply Chain Working Conditions By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
arbitrariness of the set. Drawing on Gestalt psychology, we develop a conceptual account that predicts what will—and will not—act as a pseudo-set and defines the psychological process through which these pseudo-sets affect behavior, concluding that over and above... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel