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08 Mar 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Successful Negotiation

discussions—be it fairness or competition—strongly influences the equality of payoffs even in complex, full-information multiparty bargaining. Research in this working paper by HBS professor Kathleen L. McGinn and coauthors Katherine L.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Jun 2015
News

Research Brief: If State Pensions Clean Up Their Books, Who Pays?

to a new working paper coauthored by Lecturer Abigail Allen, the opposite is often true. When the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) proposed stricter public pension accounting standards in 2012, many state governments balked.... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

01 Jun 2003
News

Male Consumers as Man-of-Action Heroes

products and activities that help them escape the daily pressures of families and careers, in order to become rebels for a day. But in a working paper titled “Man–of–Action Heroes: How the American Ideology of Manhood Structures Men’s... View Details

Keywords: Douglas; Holt; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

14 Oct 2010
News

Jobs Bill Misses Mark

In an interview on the nationally syndicated morning news show The Takeaway, Lerner explained. “We all love small business, but if we really want to create new jobs, we’re turning over the wrong rock.” Citing a recent research paper by... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

26 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind

did something good for the environment, so you can have a cookie.” New experimental research shows that shoppers are more likely to buy virtuous organic items when they bring their own reusable bags to the store than when they opt for View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

01 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

Technology on Firm Organization," a paper she cowrote with Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and Luis Garicano and John Van Reenen of the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics. "Technologies that make... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

February 2014 (Revised December 2015)
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Mara Group (B)

By: Eugene Soltes and Sara Hess

Mara Group is a rapidly growing Pan-African conglomerate run by its entrepreneurial CEO Ashish Thakkar. The case explores Thakkar's decision on which African markets to expand operations into. View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications Manufacturing; Business Ventures; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Pulp and Paper Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Africa

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01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

Publications August 2013 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India By: Bhalotra, Sonia, Guilhem Cassan, Irma Clots-Figueras, and Lakshmi Iyer Abstract—This View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20

Working PapersContracting in the Self-reporting Economy (revised) Authors:Romana L. Autrey and Richard Sansing Abstract This paper examines the effect of accounting on the use of intellectual property. We analyze the licensing of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Venture Capital and Private Equity - Course Catalog

of papers are posted on Canvas. A small group of authors will present their findings to the class. N.B.: the paper will be due before Thanksgiving break. Copyright © 2024 President & Fellows of Harvard... View Details

04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4

Abstract—This paper considers some of the large changes in the Federal Reserve's approach to monetary policy. It shows that, in some important cases, critics who were successful in arguing that past Fed approaches were responsible for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

01 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?

Business School finance professor Kenneth A. Froot in the April working paper What Do Measures of Real-Time Corporate Sales Tell Us about Earnings Surprises and Post-Announcement Returns? “It’s startling to find that managers are not even... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services

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HBS & the Case Method - Message From the Director | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

resource to learn about milestones in the School’s history, documenting not only pivotal moments and key decisions, but also the dialogue and debate that led to those decisions. In addition, our extensive collection of research and teaching View Details

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Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Transforming Health Care Delivery Course Number 2195 Associate Professor Susanna Gallani Professor Robert Huckman Spring; Q3; 1.5 credits Paper At the root of the transformation occurring in the health care... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Short Takes

Who Does Good and Why While it's common knowledge that business leaders often serve on nonprofit boards, there has been little formal information about the characteristics and motivations of such individuals. In a 1997 working paper... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

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Deals - Course Catalog

Wednesdays during the entirety of class time. Paper Enrollment: Limited to 42 HBS and 42 HLS students Overview: This advanced negotiation course examines complex corporate deals. Many of the class sessions will be structured around actual... View Details

Portrait Project

Sarah Assayag

constraints that bind grown-ups' imaginations. Keep at all times the ability to be inspired as much from the spirit within as the lights around you, letting the pen pause to ask questions, and the paper fold to absorb the wonders of the... View Details

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Securitization process and credit rating agencies

Credit Crunch : a Best Practice Deal Lifecycle Guide. The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Mortgage and Credit Markets Stacks LC Books HG2040.5.U5 R57 2009 Primers and Papers Securitization: Lessons Learned and the Road Ahead... View Details

20 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

issues that are not directly related to their companies’ bottom lines” “This is distinct from traditional corporate social responsibility, where you can clearly see the connection to promoting the company’s objectives,” explains Toffel, who co-authored a recent View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing

08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008

the quality of research. Does Familiarity Breed Trust? Revisiting the Antecedents of Trust Authors:Ranjay Gulati and Maxim Sytch Periodical:Managerial and Decision Economics 29 (March - April 2008): 165-190 Abstract This paper... View Details