Weight - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Mar 2024
Blog Post

ClimateCAP and the Bonus of Climate Educator Collaboration

weighted factor. One could say we’re embarking on a healthy model of coopetition and it’s how we all get better. At the baseline, we’re modelling collaboration. Such collaboration doesn’t have to be limited to the educator community. It... View Details

01 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

(For teaching purposes, the assortment of occupations was weighted more heavily toward those that Blinder had found to be offshorable and those with higher levels of education. The goal, Rivkin notes, was to counter any preconception that... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2023
News

Is AI OK?

Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory outcomes, a problem known as... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

28 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness

go to an indoor cycling class with her. I didn’t understand. The bikes didn’t move – why would I do this? Nevertheless, I went to a class at Flywheel Sports and left feeling better, physically and mentally. While I grew up playing sports, I was not the person in the... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

01 Jun 2022
News

Making It Count

Weighted Accounts (IWA) Project has set about tackling accountability, a major hurdle on the path to an impact-driven economy. While the number of firms reporting their own ESG data has grown exponentially, and companies of all stripes... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Jun 2017
News

The Exchange: Venture Forth

health care—health care venture capitalists are more likely to put far more weight on the horse—it is clear that the primary determinant in investing is the jockey. It’s all about the people. There are lots of opportunities out there, but... View Details

Keywords: April White

22 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

physical experience of weight is associated with the emotional experience of guilt and thus that weight intensifies the experience of guilt. Across four studies, we found that participants who wore a heavy... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 1, 2008

no. 6 (November - December 2007): 31-37 Abstract Fundamental indexers argue that capitalization weighting is an inferior investment strategy because it necessarily invests more in overvalued stocks and less in undervalued stocks. This... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Jul 2016
Blog Post

Coming Out and Finding Acceptance at HBS

members of our section could sign up for 30-minute slots to tell us about themselves. Bravely, she kicked off the sessions by talking about her own experience with weight loss. Another section mate used the forum to talk about how her... View Details

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Negotiation - Course Catalog

individual faculty members may vary in their emphases, case material, and sequencing. Grading & Course Requirements Grading will be based on class participation and the final exam (or paper if permitted by instructor). The exact weighting... View Details

12 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs

aircraft with a 25 percent duty, the applicable weight range of 15-45,000 kg meant that only 24 older-generation Boeing 787-800s would be impacted, not any of its newest 737 Max aircraft or any widebodies, where Boeing would be really... View Details

Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications

10 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

necessarily more extreme than at many other schools. Besides, students have access to all kinds of data when they are choosing colleges, so just how much weight would college-bound kids give to a well-publicized scandal like this one?... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

03 Jul 2018
What Do You Think?

Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?

than many other of Microsoft’s customers. Others gave more weight to moral considerations, especially in view of Nadella’s stated mission, “to put empathy at the center of everything I pursue ” Only a few, however, put themselves in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

05 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity

That's right. Incumbents are constrained by their existing resources, capabilities, and mindset, and this simultaneously places a weight on the back of the large company and creates potential for the entrepreneur. For the most part you... View Details

Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts; Technology

24 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Want People to Save More? Send a Text

Pomeranz says. To study them, the researchers formed groups of microentrepreneurs in Chile that were modeled on self-help groups like Weight Watchers to explore how participants could motivate each other to save more money each week.... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

20 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

How to be a Customer

Frequent customers get better treatment than occasional customers. Most of us recognize—and accept—such discrimination. The marketer has to choose which customers get priority. But how can you punch above your weight as a customer to get... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

01 Jun 2017
News

Better Hiring Through Brain Science

like to give is, ‘Would you get a better read out of someone’s weight if you asked them how much they weigh, or if you just put them on the scale?’ ” says Polli. The online game interactions are precisely timed, so they also offer greater... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age

of advantage. The three principles of judo strategy, they say, are based on those of the martial art itself, which teaches smaller competitors to turn the weight and strength of larger and stronger opponents to their own advantage.... View Details

Keywords: by Daniel Penrice

01 Jul 2019
What Do You Think?

Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

standards, the fix would have added too much weight (in the form of stored chemicals) to the vehicle. One answer was to develop software that automatically turned off the noise reducer during emission testing. It was tempting, but... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2016
First Look

March 1, 2016

their demand for a risky asset by weighing two signals: an average of the asset’s past price changes and the asset’s degree of overvaluation. The two signals are in conflict, and investors “waver” over time in the relative weight they put... View Details