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- 18 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 3/5
not exempt from these dismissals. If they are unable to handle a conversation about race, they may intentionally redirect the class. You may go through a similar cost benefit analysis on whether to be a... View Details
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
finance patents, we observe qualitatively similar patterns of under-citation when we restrict our analysis to finance patents held by individuals and NPEs, as opposed to non-NPE corporations. These findings... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
examine a class of dynamic decision-making processes that involve endogenous commitment. Our analysis is relevant to group decision-making settings as well as to hierarchical decision-making settings in which, for example, subordinates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
project's early stages. It would organize the interface with supporting institutions such as the World Bank and the UNDP, and with local business partners. And since the WDC would have NGO representation on its board, it would assure NGO... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
Stephen A. Greyser Abstract—When a Major League Baseball club signs a Japanese star player, it obviously tries to commercialize its investment in the player. The initial focus is on home attendance (ticket sales) and television audiences, plus merchandise sales. These... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, in joint work with Joe Long, Carlo Medici, and Qian, we found similar results. After 1880, parts of the US West that were more impacted by the Chinese Exclusion Act grew at considerably lower rates... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
Researchers compared the pass/fail records of similar vehicles in both densely populated areas and sparsely populated areas, paying close attention to older vehicles with high mileage—that is, those more likely to need repairs in order to... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
lot of our business involves selling the data we gather to governments and corporations.” In fact, much of what INRIX has achieved is classic disruption, taking over the roadway data gathering and analysis that previously was done by... View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
avoidable ways. This article is based on the analysis of hundreds of work diaries from professionals describing everyday events that involved high-level managers in their companies. The analysis uncovered... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
this lending increase is associated with a 3.3% rise in annual house price growth rate and a 2.2% expansion of employment in the non-tradable sectors. These effects are followed by a decline in loan origination, house prices, and employment of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
misconduct, or recidivism. We extend our analysis to explore the differential treatment of ethnic minorities and find similar patterns of "in-group" tolerance. Our evidence is inconsistent with a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
Primarily interested in incentives for growth in developing countries, the researchers began their study in India, where a large portion of businesses are family-owned. But they ended up finding similar results with follow-up studies in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-128.pdf PublicationsExtreme Governance: An Analysis of Dual-Class Firms in the United States Authors:Paul A. Gompers, Joy Ishii, and Andrew Metrick Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
targeted ads on the lockscreen and home screen, consumers clamored for an ad-free version. Amazon backtracked and extended its Special Offers program to the tablet, allowing consumers to opt out from the ads. Q: You're expecting that more companies will come up with... View Details
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
small business productivity. For instance, the acceptance rate of students from underrepresented schools to top universities in the UK rose 34 percent after a letter from a top-tier student with a similar background was sent to pupils.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
sector, and the influence of networks and social capital on accessing human and financial capital. It also provides an in-depth analysis of the venture capital industry and raises questions about why women have so much difficulty getting... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
advertising agency's decision to unbundle its services as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing and maintaining a relationship with an advertising agency and pecuniary economies of scale available in providing media services. The results... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Tech Investment the Wise Way
be appropriate to the opportunities inherent in the new technology. If not, its use will lead to inaccurate analysis and underinvestment. That is one source of the bias exhibited by successful firms facing novel technologies, and it is... View Details
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
data sources and illustrate how they can be used to improve the study and function of cities. We first show how Google Street View images can be used to predict income in New York City, suggesting that similar image data can be used to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
He’s got a superhero’s name, and he’s shining a light on enduring wrongs here at home while confronting challenges in the Third World as well. Meet Richard America, who sees policy analysis and quality management as keys to development... View Details