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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Saving More to Borrow Less: Experimental Evidence from Access to Formal Savings Accounts in Chile

By: Felipe Kast and Dina Pomeranz
Poverty is often characterized not only by low and unstable income, but also by heavy debt burdens. We find that reducing barriers to saving through access to free savings accounts decreases participants' short-term debt by about 20%. In addition, participants who... View Details
Keywords: Saving; Poverty; Borrowing and Debt; Chile
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  • Web

The “Hawthorne Effect” – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

studies from methodological and ideological perspectives; others find the overarching questions and theories of the time have new relevance in light of the current focus on collaborative management. The... View Details
  • March 2000
  • Exercise

Developing Products on Internet Time: A Process Design Exercise

By: Stefan H. Thomke
This team exercise allows students to experience some of the dynamics of developing products in the fast-paced Internet environment and was inspired by the browser war between Netscape and Microsoft. Designed to be taught in a single class session, the exercise... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Internet and the Web; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Design; Decisions; Management Practices and Processes; Integration; Organizations; Competition
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  • Web

How Coaching Can Help You - Alumni

Interview preparation Offer evaluation and negotiation The coaching experience is unique to each individual. Coaches help alumni assess what is needed to move forward, work with them to address specific... View Details
  • 13 Mar 2017
  • News

Amazon Brick & Mortar

  • 28 Apr 2021
  • News

Liberty Mutual Insurance Elects George Serafeim of Harvard Business School to the Company's Board of Directors

  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

(pre-registered Experiment 3), and then were divided into minimal ingroups and outgroups in the laboratory. The findings offer mixed support for the hypothesis that novel... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2013
  • Article

What Roger Fisher Got Profoundly Right: Five Enduring Lessons for Negotiators

By: James K. Sebenius
Roger Fisher, who died in 2012, enjoyed a remarkable career that modeled one way that an academic, especially in a professional school such as law or business, could make a significant, positive, and lasting difference in the world. Distinctive aspects of his career... View Details
Keywords: Bargaining; Conflict Resolution; Dealmaking; Negotiation; Personal Development and Career; Conflict and Resolution
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  • 16 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults

mother’s education, final results still showed that a mother’s work experience is strongly linked to her daughter’s future work performance, according to the recently published full study, Learning from Mum: Cross-National Evidence... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Spring 2016
  • Article

Net Neutrality: A Fast Lane to Understanding the Tradeoffs

By: Shane Greenstein, Martin Peitz and Tommaso Valletti
The last decade has seen a strident public debate about the principle of "net neutrality." The economic literature has focused on two definitions of net neutrality. The most basic definition of net neutrality is to prohibit payments from content providers to internet... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Policy
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  • June 2014 (Revised March 2016)
  • Case

Relating to Peapod

By: Susan Fournier and Jill Avery
Explores the relationships formed between consumers and the Peapod consumer-direct grocery delivery service, as revealed through an ethnographic study of Boston-area Peapod shoppers conducted between the Summer of 1997 and the Fall of 1999. Three representative case... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Customer Relationship Management; Marketing Strategy; Service Industry; Boston
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  • 10 Sep 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Feeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-Interested Charitable Behavior

Keywords: by Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton & Elizabeth W. Dunn
  • Article

A Learning Perspective on Intraorganizational Knowledge Spill-Ins

By: James Oldroyd and Ranjay Gulati
This exploratory study examines the role of intraorganizational knowledge spill-ins in the process of inferential learning. Drawing on the notions of knowledge reliability (the creation of shared meanings) and validity (understandings of cause and effect), we explore... View Details
Keywords: Learning; Perspective; Knowledge; Business Units; Organizations
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  • 2023
  • Article

Benchmarking Large Language Models on CMExam—A Comprehensive Chinese Medical Exam Dataset

By: Junling Liu, Peilin Zhou, Yining Hua, Dading Chong, Zhongyu Tian, Andrew Liu, Helin Wang, Chenyu You, Zhenhua Guo, Lei Zhu and Michael Lingzhi Li
Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have transformed the field of question answering (QA). However, evaluating LLMs in the medical field is challenging due to the lack of standardized and comprehensive datasets. To address this gap, we introduce CMExam,... View Details
Keywords: Large Language Model; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Health Industry
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  • April 2006
  • Case

Edison Schools, Inc.: From the Candle to the Light Bulb?

Edison Schools, Inc., a pioneer in the for-profit management of public schools, demonstrates the challenges and opportunities related to private sector involvement in the delivery of a public good. Follows the organization from its start-up through its initial public... View Details
Keywords: Private Ownership; Public Sector; Education; Conflict and Resolution; Public Administration Industry; Education Industry; United States
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Seize the Power

By: Stefan Thomke
A company’s ability to create and refine its products, customer experiences, processes, and business models—in other words, to compete—is deeply affected by its ability to experiment. Digital giants such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Booking.com have found... View Details
Keywords: Experimentation; Competitiveness; Competition; Innovation and Invention; Marketing; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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Placement - Doctoral

Yao (Chair), Juan Alcacer , and Jan W. Rivkin 2020 Hyunjin Kim Strategy, 2020 Placement: INSEAD Dissertation: Field Experiments on the Barriers Firms Face in Realizing Gains from Data Advisors: Dennis A. Yao... View Details
  • 23 Jul 2021
  • Blog Post

Trends in Consumer Products

show the range of consumer product companies’ experience, I interviewed alumni from three companies to share their stories from the last year of Covid. Their experiences underscore the importance of being an agile marketer View Details
  • 10 Apr 2014
  • Blog Post

HBS FIELD 2 - A good sneak-peek into consulting

even luckier with the team. Spending so many hours with smart and fun people, getting to learn from them, and being so coordinated while still having such diverse backgrounds was fantastic. Overall, FIELD... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
  • 28 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

How Workplace Wellness Programs Can Give Employees the Energy Boost They Need

salary, attrition due to burnout is worth preventing. Why companies should focus on employee energy Studies have found that employees who are in good health are more likely to feel engaged and productive at work, View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson