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- 18 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers
data to decipher traits belonging to toxic workers. The result was anonymized personal data of almost 60,000 workers from 11 firms, about 70 percent of which were based in the United States. The positions were similar front-line, customer... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 17 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price
track the blood flow throughout the brain as test subjects respond to sensory cues. In this case, participants were responding to pictures of products and their prices. A new neuroscience study looks at how our brains make purchasing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
stores are multi-sided platforms (MSPs). We propose a definition that provides a more precise notion of MSPs by requiring that they enable direct interactions between the multiple customer types that are affiliated with them. Several... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
States. Design: We examined the correlation between the coincident index (a proxy for overall economic conditions) and IVF use at the national level from 2000 to 2011. We then analyzed the relationship at the state level through longitudinal regression models. The base... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
An Engine of Innovation
how to lay the groundwork to build an enterprise. Propel is for students who are further along with their ventures and have revenue, investors, and customers figured out. Some Explore students will progress to View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 11 Apr 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy
major change of some sort," Eisenmann explains. "In lean startup logic, it's something you do, ideally, after you've run some decisive test to disprove a hypothesis. It can be changing the target View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
productivities at collecting deposits and making loans. They find that deposit productivity is responsible for two thirds of the value of the median bank and most variation in value across banks. Variation in productivity is driven by differences across banks in... View Details
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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online
Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Speak the language of alternative investments so that you can better communicate and collaborate with your colleagues and customers Evaluate alternative investments—including... View Details
- 01 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault
not intuitive for managers. So Simons created a solution: a free online job design optimization tool that allows companies to plug in information about a particular job to test whether the person in that role is getting the right mix of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions
of fun and speaks to the strength of joint degree relationships! Is the joint degree schedule really challenging? Can JD/MBAs still do extra things like the law clinics, law review? Although JD/MBAs straddle the two schools, there is plenty of flexibility that allows... View Details
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
market transactions. Theoretical predictions of a model of household division and land transactions are successfully tested using household panel data from West Bengal spanning 1967-2004. The tenancy reform lowered inequality through its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
mid-2012 Lit Motors had created both engineering and design prototypes and conducted initial customer tests on less than $750,000 of investment. Lit Motors' founder, Daniel Kim, had started the company to... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 16 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense
valued. Executing well on this component of the playbook can provide significant leverage in a few short years. 4. Invest in your product Speaking of the product development process, if sales are less frenetic and customer requirements... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
highly talented employees, who produce great value for the organization but may go about it in ways that test normal work-day structures or departmental rules and cause internal conflict. With insight offered from professional jazz... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
a greater level of discretion to choose their interaction partners. Therefore, we expect to observe more homophilous interactions within these structures than across their boundaries. We test this argument using a dataset consisting of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
customer order, or processing the same type of paycheck or benefit claim across multiple companies. But benchmarking is not informative when it is used to compare fundamentally different processes or products. For example, knowing that a... View Details
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
information environment quality, forecast horizon, sample composition, and tests of earnings management. Read the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1264101 Wider dem sauren Mund. Beiersdorfs U.S.-Geschaeft mit der... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
to Answer. When John and colleagues tested these various conditions, they found that participants were much more likely to choose a dating partner who answered all the questions, rather than someone who chose not to answer. Surprisingly,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
implementation of firm strategy). Thus, agency theory predicts managers will, on average, use the discretion in SFAS 142 consistent with private incentives. We test these hypotheses in a sample of firms with market indications of goodwill... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel