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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Preference Intensities and Risk Aversion in School Choice: A Laboratory Experiment

By: Flip Klijn, Joana Pais and Marc Vorsatz
We experimentally investigate in the laboratory two prominent mechanisms that are employed in school choice programs to assign students to public schools. We study how individual behavior is influenced by preference intensities and risk aversion. Our main results show... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Education; Marketplace Matching; Risk and Uncertainty; Behavior; Personal Characteristics
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  • 09 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

contribution? As Ante writes, "ARD was the first professional venture firm that sought to raise money from nonfamily sources—primarily institutional investors such as insurance companies, educational organizations, and investment... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

The Pay of Finance Professors

By: Claire Célérier, Boris Vallée and Alexey Vasilenko
This paper documents the existence of a significant wage finance premium in academia, and investigates its underlying mechanism. By exploiting an extensive dataset covering wages, publications and socio-demographics for 60,000 public-university faculty from all fields,... View Details
Keywords: Finance Wage Premium; Finance Academia; Wages; Higher Education
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  • 09 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 9, 2010

educators to deliver a high-impact transformative leadership course creating leaders ready to meet the global demands of the 21st century. Workshop participants included 41 scholars and administrators from North America and Europe from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

Shankar MD, Suptendra N. Sarbadhikari PhD, Barbara Bierer, Kenneth D. Mandl MD, Sanjay Mehendale MD, MPH, and Tarun Khanna Abstract—In February 2018, the Government of India announced a massive public health insurance scheme extending... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • August 30, 2022
  • Article

School Choice Increases Racial Segregation Even When Parents Do Not Care About Race

By: Kalinda Ukanwa, Aziza C. Jones and Broderick L. Turner Jr.
This research examines how school choice impacts school segregation. Specifically, this work demonstrates that even if parents do not take the racial demographics of schools into account, preference differences between Black and White parents for other school... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Race; Policy; Early Childhood Education; Middle School Education; Secondary Education
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  • 16 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Seven Tips for Managing Price Increases

sticker shock? 1. Understand Your Customers. There are at least four ways in which customers can respond to higher gas prices: downgrade from premium to regular; take fewer trips by car, consolidate errands, switch to public... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 02 Mar 2007
  • What Do You Think?

What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?

effort to educate the public about the long-term economic benefits of such a move. How his proposal would fare in the face of previous failures is a real question. Given their magnitude, failure to solve... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health
  • 29 Nov 2010
  • HBS Case

United Breaks Guitars

Tweets are in the air we breathe. Most of us know that "friend" can also be a verb. Social media are part of the public discourse now, whether or not we're active users of them. A new case coauthored by HBS marketing professor... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 14 Feb 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Fostering Translational Research: Using Public-Private Partnerships to Improve Firm Survival, Employment Growth, and Innovative Performance

Keywords: by Sen Chai & Willy C. Shih; Education
  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made

medical care, defense, education and so on guarantees that fewer taxpayer dollars and government resources will be available for other initiatives. It may also mean that the national debt will increase, imposing a heavy burden on future... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron & Katherine Shonk
  • 16 Oct 2023
  • HBS Case

Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta

for senior talent.” He made Delta’s employee demographics public, and he committed to hiring twice as many Black officers by 2025. ‘He made it his personal commitment’ In response to George Floyd’s murder and the ensuing nationwide protests, Bastian issued a View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Air Transportation
  • 07 Jul 2019
  • HBS Case

Walmart's Workforce of the Future

investment that immediately improved its ecommerce infrastructure. Walmart has also piloted and invested in robots to perform a variety of functions, from unloading trucks to scrubbing floors to scanning shelves and bringing items out of storage for curbside delivery... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 03 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

Patents are granted on a country-by-country basis (with a single application available for the European Union). In the United States, if an invention is sold or made public, there's a year's grace period to file a patent application. Everywhere else, if the invention... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 28 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note

is pursuing a Master of Public Administration degree at Harvard Kennedy School; and Rachel Snyder, a candidate for a Master of Public Policy degree at Harvard Kennedy School. Employers have sometimes balked... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

Executive Education programs. With the COVID-19 pandemic transforming our lives at every level, a growing number of students and former students have sought my advice about how to lead in a time of great uncertainty and unprecedented... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
  • 05 Dec 2022
  • Research & Ideas

5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast

assesses America’s 250 largest public companies as ranked by Fortune magazine. “All employers are not created equal in terms of the type of springboard they provide for advancement and that's something that workers and employment... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 05 Dec 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How To Deceive Others With Truthful Statements (It's Called 'Paltering,' And It's Risky)

outright to their faces.” The paper, forthcoming in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, was co-written with Harvard Business School’s Michael I. Norton, the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration; Harvard Kennedy School’s Todd Rogers,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 May 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?

more about the material being taught than the instructor. That’s why instructors are encouraged to prepare their own case materials. It’s a way of educating themselves as well. And a body of cases often leads to research based on... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 05 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

thereby bring down prices, ultimately benefiting the poor. To minimize negative public perception, however, companies that find that they are "profiting from the poor" must be willing to publicly address the profit debate, work... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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