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  • 31 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

engineering, technology and mathematics (STEM), and they have equivalent contributions in outcomes like granted patents and entrepreneurial firm starts. These contributions are increasing, up from 10%-15% just a couple of decades ago. And... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 24 Sep 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit

could lead to substantial growth.” But new research suggests that small businesses are far more fiscally conservative than banks realize. In fact, firms with up to 10 employees hold back spending on their revolving credit lines to create a buffer, even when banks raise... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking
  • 05 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 5, 2007

  Working PapersNone this week.   Cases & Course MaterialsArtisan Entertainment Inc. Harvard Business School Case 207-067 Geoff Rehnert and Marc Wolpow have left Bain Capital to launch Audax Group. As part of their separation, they have been View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 26

being included into the standard, become standard-essential patents (SEPs). In an attempt to curb the monopoly power that they create, most standard-setting organizations require the owners of patents covered by the standard to make a loose commitment to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 26, 2008

patents granted by the USPTO in 2001-2003. We show that examiner citations account for 63% of all citations on the average patent and that 40% of patents have all citations added by examiners. We use multivariate regression and analysis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jun 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

entrepreneurial stages of the program; but student feedback strongly suggested they should be allowed to choose their own teams for the venture. Starting in the second year, MacCormack says, students were granted their wish. "This... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education
  • 24 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?

national security, and later allowed to be granted and published. Daniel P. Gross, assistant professor of business administration, learned of the wartime policy while conducting research at the National Archives. “I started reading about... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • October 2021
  • Article

Communicating Resource Scarcity and Interpersonal Connection

By: Grant E. Donnelly, Anne V. Wilson, Ashley V. Whillans and Michael I. Norton
Consumers often cite insufficient time or money as an excuse for rejecting social invitations. We explore the effectiveness of these excuses in preserving interpersonal relationships. Six studies—including perceptions of couples planning their wedding—demonstrate that... View Details
Keywords: Time; Interpersonal Relationships; Communication; Money; Relationships; Interpersonal Communication
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  • 2016
  • Article

Buying to Blunt Negative Feelings: Materialistic Escape from the Self

By: Grant Edward Donnelly, Masha Ksendzova, Ryan Howell, Kathleen Vohs and Roy F. Baumeister
We propose that escape theory, which describes how individuals seek to free themselves from aversive states of self-awareness, helps explain key patterns of materialistic people’s behavior. As predicted by escape theory, materialistic individuals may feel dissatisfied... View Details
Keywords: Materialism; Escape; Self; Negative Emotions; Self-awareness; Emotions; Consumer Behavior; Identity; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 06 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 6

financial products and services. I show that these grants are being litigated at a rate 27 to 39 times greater than that of patents as a whole. The patents being litigated are disproportionately those issued to individuals and to smaller,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

view. This stand-alone book tells the inspiring story of a new generation of mice who begin to reexamine what others have taken for granted and to ask the important questions. Rather than simply accepting their fate and dutifully chasing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing

In order to garner the capital necessary to foot the bill for social change, nonprofits need to think less about traditional grants and more in terms of innovation--and so do the organizations that fund them. This was a key message from... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 16 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

Abstract This paper examines the litigation of patents relating to financial products and services. I show that these grants are being litigated at a rate 27 to 39 times greater than that of patents as a whole. The patents being litigated... View Details
  • 05 Dec 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

Social Psychology Bulletin The Amount and Source of Millionaires' Wealth (Moderately) Predicts Their Happiness By: Donnelly, Grant Edward, Tianyi Zheng, Emily Haisley, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Two samples of more than 4,000... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 5

universities and private companies to develop technologies important to Danish industry. We assess the effect of a unique mediated funding scheme that combines project grants with active facilitation and conflict management on firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2006
  • What Do You Think?

Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?

is advocating disclosure of CEO pay packages, including the value of large stock option grants which many might conclude produce similar pressures for short-term performance? What do you think? View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services
  • 26 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

a practice described here as “structured empowerment” to balance control and flexibility as they grow. I define structured empowerment as a practice that grants employees both (a) the power to make choices from narrow sets of options on a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016

kidney transplant (11th), women's health (16th), heart (25th), and cancer (29th) as among the best in the nation. Its $292 million in National Institutes of Health research grants ranked ninth in the nation. Over the previous decade, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 18

Corporation (MCC), provides aid to developing countries, focusing on poverty reduction through economic growth. It measures results through an economic rate of return based on increases in farmer incomes anticipated over twenty years. As MCC and Ghana finalize a $547... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

learned of another alleged relationship between Easterbrook and an employee. This time, its investigation turned up three additional workplace relationships and sexually explicit photos and videos. Plus, the board discovered that Easterbrook had View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage

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