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2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

experiences, but most were financial industry professionals located in the U.S.. More than 80% of the participants listed investment management, real estate, private equity, or banking as their industry. Figure 1: Share of Respondents by... View Details

15 Jul 2019
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Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

regulations on buybacks as some propose, I’m in favor of boards being much more active in evaluating buybacks, limiting accelerated share buybacks, and changing the accounting treatment of buybacks so that managers are not tempted by... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

29 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

Repository Use in Scaling Service Operations By: Valentine, Melissa A., Tom Fangyun Tan, Bradley R. Staats, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—To scale service operations requires sharing knowledge across the organization. However, prior work... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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John H. McArthur | About

memorial service will be held at Memorial Church, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) at 2pm on October 30, 2019 with a reception to follow at Harvard Business School (Boston, MA). Donations may be made to Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Business School, or... View Details

05 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Exploring the Beauty Industry through an Independent Project

respondents, respectively. This was consistent with findings that, among information sources, third-party product reviews are most trusted and company advertisements are least trusted. I learned that beauty brands must be deliberate about View Details

01 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: Nov. 1

technology utilized domestically. As a consequence, under a carbon tariff, foreign market share is non-monotonic in emissions price, and global emissions conditionally decrease. Without a carbon tariff, foreign View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding

systems. If possible, it is advisable to assign an IT team member to the new employee, someone who will be responsible for ensuring they have quick, seamless access to all the resources they need as soon as they start (for example, by establishing and View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg

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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

assumed to use the bot and, while we encourage you to engage with the bot and share your candid feedback on your experience, a lack of engagement with the bot will not adversely impact your eligibility for a certificate of completion.... View Details

06 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Manage Customer Churn for Maximum Profit

they spend any more money or do any additional work. The only thing we are suggesting is that they change their algorithm.” About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in Boston. [Image: RyanJLane ] Related Reading The Profit Power of Corporate Culture How an... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service; Financial Services

30 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Finding Pride

members of PRIDE are WTGNC. PRIDE is really about creating community for people who are marginalized in society and in the business world. It’s a space where people can gather and share and be parts of themselves that they cover or don’t... View Details

11 Mar 2021
News

Leading with Heart

share with everybody that at the end of the eight-week marathon, I would typically ask a couple of students to tell their story about their company or about themselves. And in my class, I remember your View Details

13 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?

employers or share feedback about their workplaces are Indeed and Great Place to Work. These kinds of machine-learning techniques could be used by regulators in deciding where to target scarce resources on which firms to examine, as well... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

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Software Tools - Research Computing Services

scripts , especially if one might be sharing scripts with other persons or when submitting research for publication. Module Naming and Versioning You can load specific versions by supplying the full module name: $ module load... View Details

09 Jun 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

many industries, leaders have expressed frustration about the proliferation of patent thickets—the large number of overlapping awards—and the ensuing rise of costly and time-consuming litigation. In many cases, technology sharing has been... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

28 Mar 2024
Blog Post

Empowering Future Leaders: Meet the HBS Women’s Student Association

to accelerate the career paths of our members, and to grow female representation throughout the broader community. Below we share just a few of our many initiatives from this year that helped us achieve our goals: Annual Women Business... View Details

15 Dec 2023
News

Like-Minded

Yumiko Murakami (MBA 1994), Miwa Seki (MBA 1993), and Kathy Matsui share the same month and year of birth, so the friends started an annual birthday get-together to reflect on the year ahead. Work was always a hot topic of discussion. Each woman had built a strong... View Details

29 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

forthcoming Journal of International Economics Corporate Debt, Firm Size and Financial Fragility in Emerging Markets By: Alfaro, Laura, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari, and Ugo Panizza Abstract— The post-Global Financial Crisis period shows a surge in corporate leverage in... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 Aug 2010
Working Paper Summaries

The Influence of Prior Industry Affiliation on Framing in Nascent Industries: The Evolution of Digital Cameras

Keywords: by Mary J. Benner & Mary Tripsas; Electronics

2023
Working Paper

Rapport in Organizations: Evidence from Fast Food

By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Parker Howell, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo

Common identity often provides a foundation for workplace rapport. Though gender is perhaps the most frequently studied dimension of identity among workers, little is known about how gender match between managers and their workers might affect team performance. Using... View Details

Keywords: Management; Relationships; Gender; Labor and Management Relations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Employees; Food and Beverage Industry; Colombia

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2022
Article

Which Explanation Should I Choose? A Function Approximation Perspective to Characterizing Post hoc Explanations

By: Tessa Han, Suraj Srinivas and Himabindu Lakkaraju

A critical problem in the field of post hoc explainability is the lack of a common foundational goal among methods. For example, some methods are motivated by function approximation, some by game theoretic notions, and some by obtaining clean visualizations. This... View Details

Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Decision Choices and Conditions; Analytics and Data Science