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08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

your smartphone to how to earn a seat on a corporate board and make socially responsible investments. They gathered Thursday evening to watch a screening of a new documentary on the history of women at HBS, "A Woman's Place."... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette

20 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong

documentary vs. comedy), the majority of participants—64.2 percent—still preferred the higher-quality dissimilar choice over the lower-quality similar choice. However, most observers failed to predict their partners’ preference for... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

22 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Name Your Price. Really.

premiere of the documentary Freakonomics, however, by far the most typical ticket price paid was a penny. "It got me thinking, why are these situations so different," says Santana. Borrowing from social psychology literature,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

06 Jan 2012
Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

Prize winner perhaps most famous for his climate-change documentary An Inconvenient Truth, "Fox News has consistently delivered false and misleading information to its viewers about the climate crisis." Indeed, polls have shown... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing

07 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

present-day administrative structures, legal norms, cultural forms, questions about ethnicity and race, and, of course, ongoing economic relations between the former colonized and colonizer.” Related information: Kenya: White Terror, a BBC View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Dec 2017
Research & Ideas

What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

and Kolkata, India—where the interest of researchers, educators, and archivists has been extraordinary. Our presentations in management conferences that are interested in emerging markets have been very well attended. We’re also starting to see media interest. Short... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

platform for the energy and idealism of young people, a beacon for pilgrims and peace-builders, as well as a focus for seemingly endless media inquiries from reporters, documentary filmmakers, and writers keen on telling its story to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

banking deregulations can also 'democratize' entry by allowing many more startups to be founded. The vast majority of these new entrants fail along the way, but a few survive ex post to displace incumbents. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-033.pdf... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Dec 2015
First Look

December 15, 2015

or liking both scholarly documentary films and action-packed thrillers. However, when predicting other consumers’ tastes for the same items, people believe that a preference for one precludes enjoyment of the dissimilar other. Five... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 24

credit and documentary collection terms. Transactions are more likely to occur on cash in advance or letter of credit terms when the importer is located in a country with weak contractual enforcement. As an importer develops a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 25

in response to Senator Frelinghuysen's remarks. A final document presents the Cherokee perspective and the reasons for their opposition to removal as represented by a memorial letter, written to the United States Congress in 1829. A statistical portrait follows the... View Details