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- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607010 Note on Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts, and Health Reimbursement Account Vendors Harvard Business School Note... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
wondered whether a two-year MBA program continues to justify the investment. While HBS remains a leader in the field, Nohria observed that "you need to worry when the health of the whole field doesn't look promising, even when you... View Details
- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
soon as possible, not all teams will know how to provide the necessary support. Ng suggests a couple strategies: Observe others and take notes: If you don’t have regular workgroup meetings, consider asking your manager to suggest meetings... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
As today's fiscal deficit and dragging economy continue to cast long shadows, it's easy to forget much darker times in American history. Shortly after winning its independence from Great Britain, the United States was bankrupt. Individual states weren't required to... View Details
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
writes in "What Have We Learned from Market Design?" "Among the general tasks markets have to perform, difficulties in providing thickness, dealing with congestion, and making participation safe and simple are often at the... View Details
- 13 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 13, 2008
procedures of Pratt (2007), including the Nash bargaining procedure, satisfy this. Other prominent efficient procedures do not. In two-agent problems, reducing the feasible set between the solution and one agent's maximum point increases the utility cost to that agent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
behavioral health economics, focusing on insurance markets and product markets in health care. We argue that the prevalence of choice difficulties and biases leading to mistakes in these markets establish a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
service provider effort induce feelings of reciprocity that together mediate the link between operational transparency and increased valuation, and explore boundary conditions and alternative explanations. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
those who care about the renewed, continued competitiveness of the United States," he told attendees who gathered recently at the national summit held at HBS, America on the Move: Transportation and Infrastructure for the 21st... View Details
- 27 May 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global
Professor John Quelch provides some answers. Key concepts include: For decades, Ford has created specialized products for different countries while Toyota, Nissan, and Honda sold standard products under a single brand umbrella. Ford's... View Details
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
makers." One indicator that experimental research is hot: business is booming at Harvard Business School's Computer Lab for Experimental Research (CLER), which manages a pool of paid human participants and provides researchers with dozens... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
Letters Abstract Strategic orientation studies often provide 'best practice prescriptions' for firms in a given context-matching orientations to environmental conditions. While this perspective has value, empirical results are equivocal,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
exhibit a decline in information asymmetry, with the decline increasing as EV reporting evolves to address methodological deficiencies and to permit more comparability across firms. The decrease in information asymmetry is contingent on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
Once a company grows large enough to scale, says Cespedes, it’s important that managers think strategically about segmenting its market, not just “partitioning” it into broad categories such as health care... View Details
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
time cared far more about finding a way out of the depression. Keynes provided a good road map, and that was a contribution of incalculable value. Conversely, Schumpeter's own refusal to prescribe remedies... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
the largest financial services providers in the U.S., indicate that customer sensitivity to service time varies widely and predictably with observable market characteristics. In turn, we find evidence that local operating managers account... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
government needs to reach an agreement with creditors as soon as possible. Every day that goes by, it is getting closer to going back to the drachma or striking a worse deal with its creditors. As the economic health of Greece... View Details
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
In my research, I heard stories of Baxter colleagues providing useful advice regarding which job to take and when, so that they could navigate through that uncertainty. Second, it is evident that having "gone through wars... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 17 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Decoding the Artful Sidestep
instead provide distraction by answering something they would rather have been asked. And what is more, oftentimes their listeners either do not notice the verbal sleight of hand or do not mind it. New research by Todd Rogers (HBS Ph.D... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
support I received, after the announcement, from former students and faculty. People really care deeply about HBS and are committed to its ongoing excellence. The good news is, the School is in great shape. Q: Looking ahead, what are some... View Details