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  • Spring 2014
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The Market for Blood

By: Robert Slonim, Carmen Wang and Ellen Garbarino
Donating blood, "the gift of life," is among the noblest activities and it is performed worldwide nearly 100 million times annually. The economic perspective presented here shows how the gift of life, albeit noble and often motivated by altruism, is heavily influenced... View Details
Keywords: Altruism; Philanthropy; Analysis Of Health Care Markets; Market Design; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Health
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  • 16 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 16, 2008

with pro-organizational suggestions, is pervasive and is driven by a set of common implicit theories about speaking up in organizations. Our second study used scenarios about speaking up to validate and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 10

blotting paper in 2009 using a grassroots marketing campaign. Identifying a 200-year-old book employed by Japanese geisha, Tsai started to diversify her product line into skin and other cosmetic products. The case ends in December 2010... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17

individuals or firms and open collaborative innovation projects. We analyze the design costs and architectures and communication costs associated with each model. We conclude that innovation by individual... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015

its installation and customization, no surgical subspecialties besides the congenital heart and transplant surgery groups conducted prospective, patient outcomes measurement, but by 2015, the outcomes of over 1,300 unique patients View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

The Imposter Among Us

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Peter Arkle It was their rst day at Harvard and like the rest of his cohort, Edgar Wallner (PMD 22, 1971) will never forget meeting Robert Gaines-Cooper. Frankly, it would have been difficult to miss the Englishman, who... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

national banks from state laws against predatory lending by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) as a quasi-experiment to study the effect of deregulation and its interaction with competition... View Details
  • June 2013
  • Article

Opting-in: Participation Bias in Economic Experiments

By: Robert Slonim, Carmen Wang, Ellen Garbarino and Danielle Merrett
Assuming individuals rationally decide whether to participate or not to participate in lab experiments, we hypothesize several non-representative biases in the characteristics of lab participants. We test the hypotheses by first collecting survey and experimental data... View Details
Keywords: Participation Bias; Laboratory Experiments; Prejudice and Bias; Research
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HBS - The year in Review

Hall irrigation water was supplied by a rain water tank in calendar year 2021. 9 green roofs on campus assisted with stormwater management, which helped reduce pollution in the Charles River. 4 beehives... View Details
  • 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

by establishing cultural bonds and demonstrating shared values. It also serves to stimulate interaction among clients with a shared interest in arts, and creates opportunities for communication in informal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Measuring Sentiment & Expectations More Info The Pitfalls of External Dependence: Greece, 1829-2015 By: Carmen Reinhart & Christoph Trebesch SEP 2015 Carmen Reinhart and Chrstoph Trebesch argue that the... View Details
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Finance - Faculty & Research

they have not been used systematically across countries or time, and there has been considerable heterogeneity across countries in terms of the intensity with which they have been used. On the normative side, we extend a model of capital... View Details
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-101.pdf Does Public Ownership of Equity Improve Earnings Quality? Authors:Dan Givoly, Carla Hayn, and Sharon P. Katz Abstract We compare the quality of accounting numbers produced by two types of public... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Skydeck - Alumni

Programs & Events Skydeck Skydeck is the HBS alumni podcast series that features interviews with HBS alumni from across the world of business, sharing lessons learned and their own life experiences. Subscribe on iTunes , Spotify , or... View Details
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Doctoral 100 Years - Doctoral

Graduate wins Nobel Prize Dr. Robert B. Wilson (MBA 1961, DBA 1963) becomes the first HBS Doctoral graduate to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. Dr. Wilson, together View Details
  • 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2

regressions suggest that increases in disclosure driven by the regulation are associated with increases in firm value. Our results highlight the role of local context and institutional differences in how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?

be disastrously distracted by seemingly innocuous factors — and how distractions can be avoided. This excerpt from the book's introduction describes how three different sets of forces sidetracked Gino's husband during a recent trip to... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

needed. On the Brink of Utopia, by authors Thomas Ramge and Rafael Laguna de la Vera, and with a foreword written by Nobel Laureate Stefan Hell,... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani

On the 41st floor of the Morgan Stanley Dean Witter offices in Times Square, Leah Modigliani (MBA '95) stops at the receptionist's desk. Every window showcases a panoramic view of Manhattan skyscrapers and the Hudson River beyond. It's a scene often associated View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Recipient of a Pershing Square Fund for Research Foundations of Human Behavior Grant in 2020. Julian De Freitas : Honored with a Special Commendation for Extraordinary Teaching by Harvard University in... View Details