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- 14 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Does December's Drug-Approval Dash Mean for COVID-19 Vaccines?
[Image: aleksejplatonov] Related Reading The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk... View Details
- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
assistant professor at Harvard Business School; Patrick Rooney, an HBS research associate; and Jonathan Smith, a policy research scientist at The College Board. “The effects we see for widely covered scandals are large, which speaks to... View Details
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
were preordered, generating $2.6 million in sales. On one snowy morning in January, CEO Steve Chambers met with co-founder and Chief Scientist Dr. Cynthia Breazeal and newly hired VP of Consumer & Development Relations Lynda Smith to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
their work. Joining the discussion was Professor Debora Spar, a political scientist who recently traced the historical development of several pioneering technologies. Leading Research: Let's begin by talking about what led to the writing... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
challenge, and it was never intended to be used in indiscriminate antipersonnel warfare. The pathway of its development by a Harvard research scientist to its use in flamethrowers by U.S. ground troops in World War II, and as an... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
average, consistent with the Bayesian intuition that the market inferred their work was mediocre all along. We then investigate whether the eminence of the retracted author and the cause of the retraction (fraud vs. mistake) shape the magnitude of the penalty. We find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
findings of behavioral scientists and experimental economists. Further, this approach does not generally assume that all the elements of the "game" are common knowledge. It tends to de-emphasize the application of game-theoretic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
high impact. Filtering A Leader There are three factors that social scientists agree minimize the impact of leaders: An external environment in which responses of competitors limits the leader's discretion to act. Internal organizational... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
examines how Schultz recruited, motivated, and inspired the students and scientists that worked with him. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/910408-PDF-ENG Root Capital Harvard Business School Case 510-035 Founded... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
Founded in 1997 to revolutionize the mundane printing business with new display technology, the company had its eye on multibillion-dollar markets like electronic newspapers. But to realize that vision, its scientists had to get into... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
says Luca, the Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration. “They can’t rely on data scientists alone.” Experiments have come to have an outsize influence within tech companies from Uber to Zillow, which test... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
Tenbrunsel, and Max Bazerman Abstract—The business scandals in the past several decades led to the rising importance of ethics as a topic central to management scholarship. Behavioral scientists in particular were attracted to the topic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
to fill little gaps in the literature, and I continue to think that was excellent advice.” Just as researchers in the life sciences often target their work to tackle the most dangerous diseases, so argues Moss, social scientists can make... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
components and subsystems. Yet the well codified interfaces at many module boundaries also opened the system up to outside providers of components, mainly software. This served research scientists who were doing cutting-edge research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
Chinese and Indian scientists and engineers to U.S. technology formation increased dramatically in the 1990s. At the same time, these ethnic inventors became more spatially concentrated across U.S. cities. The combination of these two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
firm—until they fail to report wrongdoing. ©iStock | Mediaphotos Given their differing viewpoints, the three scholars saw an opportunity—to see who was right. “What is wonderful about being a behavioral scientist is that when you have... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism
What does nationalism mean for the world economy? And what does it have to say in a world of ever-increasing globalization? We recently put those questions to political scientist and HBS professor Rawi Abdelal. His new book, National... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
decade. The small venture that he had started with a few of his scientist colleagues in the late 1990s to discover novel medicine in a research-driven organisation had grown into one of Europe's largest biotech firms by revenues. Their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
tasks and finding the appropriate platforms for execution. In that sense, the tasks were defined for data scientists and algorithm developers who do not necessarily have that domain knowledge, but possess the skills necessary for... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details