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  • 15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015

experiences over things. That appeal is broad-based.” Don’t break out the bubbly when a change in business policy results in an increase in your prestige. Associate Professor Tsedal Neeley and her colleague discovered that “unearned... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White
  • 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

(BRFSS) data on 2.3 million U.S. respondents, and Eurobarometer data that cover multiple business cycles over four decades. This research provides a new perspective on the welfare cost of business cycles, with implications for growth View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

monetary value.Photo: iStockPhoto However, not all forms of personal information exploitation are beneficial to consumers. Firms sometimes exploit personal information to better estimate customers' willingness to pay and to engage in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
  • 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

categories were set by a strict rotation scheme, thereby mitigating the potentially confounding effect that they targeted only "hot" technology sectors. Prizes encouraged competition and medals were more important than monetary... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

Brazilian companies studied it seems like the concentration of control was significantly lower before 1910 than what it is today. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-053.pdf Unconventional Insights for Managing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8

complex. Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/x/55314 August 2013 Journal of Monetary Economics Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

is essential to having a good social order. Should judges deserve an infinite amount, too? The notion that somehow the logic of a purely monetary conception of value could be transferred to business struck me as odd, especially in a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 14 Nov 2024
  • News

How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

natural catastrophes. Some of it over the past few years, for obvious reasons, has been monetary inflation. Some of it has, in fact, been more severe weather. But some of it has been this migration. If you look just at the US, migration... View Details
  • 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6

Science (forthcoming) Abstract While monitoring and regulation can be used to combat socially costly unethical conduct, their intended targets are often able to avoid regulation or hide their behavior. This surrenders at least part of the effectiveness of regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

to sell condoms are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group are hired as volunteers, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive, respectively, a small monetary margin on each pack sold, a large margin, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

option. The "unsorted" group had population-average preferences for working in the regime or the outside option. We find this sorting on this basis of institutional preferences doubled effort and the performance of solutions-controlling for skills, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

Harvard Gazette How invasion may hit U.S., global economies [Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard] Kenneth Rogoff sees possible fallout in stock, energy markets, worsening of inflation, increase... View Details
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Institutions , Conference Series #21. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, October 1979. Merton, Robert C. "Capital Theory and the Pricing of Financial Securities." In Handbook of Monetary Economics , vol. 1, edited by Benjamin F. Friedman and... View Details
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310052-PDF-ENG China 'Unbalanced' Diego Comin and Richard H.K. VietorHarvard Business School Case 711-010 : In 2010, Wen Jiabao looked back at the financial crisis with some satisfaction. Using aggressive fiscal and View Details
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develops the framework through two main topics: Reporting strategy analysis: assessing a firm's value proposition and identifying its key value drivers and risks; evaluating the degree to which accounting policies and standards capture... View Details