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- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
differentials. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-089.pdf The Bloody Millennium: Internal Conflict in South Asia Author:Lakshmi Iyer Abstract This paper documents the short-term and long-term trends in internal conflict in South Asian countries,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 16
incentive scheme over a linear one, even though this reduces pay for many subjects and despite the presence of clear feedback. Additionally, the linear scheme attracts demotivated, underconfident workers who perform below their ability.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
In 2000, Fisher founded ViaCell, a cellular medicines company that became the parent of ViaCord and the subject of an HBS case study. She took ViaCell public in 2005 and sold it to Perkin Elmer in 2007 for $300 million. Water and Beer Her... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
patented method of doing this, called the Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique (ZMET), centers on having interview subjects select images that best reflect their state of mind concerning the item in question. The images consumers select... View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
policy tool that has attracted increased interest. Yet questions about the efficacy and the efficiency with which funds are used are subject to frequent debate. This paper examines empirical data from the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
measures of firm-level pay disparity and examine their relation to firm accounting performance. Using comprehensive compensation data for a large sample of firms, I find no statistically significant relation between the ratio of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
mobility effects of workgroup demography by integrating the social identification processes of cohesion, competition, and comparison. Using five years of personnel data from a large law firm, we examine the influence of demographic match... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data and some resulting empirical regularities. Innovative activity tends to be more concentrated than industrial activity, and we discuss... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
Sharing News That Might Be Bad
successful; it has engendered feelings of trust, empowerment, and commitment to both you and the company. The right choice lies closer to blunt truth than to denial. It hasn't always been easy: just as bad numbers can send people into states of unfounded pessimism,... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
Firm Competitiveness and Detection of Bribery By: Serafeim, George Abstract—Using survey data from firms around the world I analyze how detection of bribery has impacted a firm's competitiveness over the past year. Managers report that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
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Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
increasingly pervasive nature of mobile connectivity and access to big data tools provides the opportunity to increase financial inclusivity through fintech startups. Mobile payments, saving, and lending are sectors in which we see... View Details
- Web
Arab American Heritage Month | Baker Library
Encyclopedia of Associations to locate Arab American-affiliated organizations, such as professional societies and trade associations. Research 30 years worth of publications from The Arab American News . Review these data visuals from... View Details
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
faculty across a wide spectrum of disciplines including business history, entrepreneurship, finance, and organizational behavior have made creativity and innovation primary subjects of focus. What is surprising is just how teachable they... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
5.1 Information Technology | MBA
adherence to applicable law, this policy, and other HBS and Harvard University policies. Various forms of computer misconduct are prohibited by federal and state law and are therefore subject to criminal and civil penalties. Such... View Details
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
greater in coach when passengers were subject to “situational inequality” by boarding from the front—where they walk through first class and are reminded of their “relatively disadvantaged status”—versus boarding from the middle, where... View Details
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MBA 2025 Alumni Technology Transition - Alumni
Help MBA 2025 Alumni Technology Transition 6ms Class of 2025 Technology Deadlines After graduation, your access to HBS resources will expire or transition. Please review the timeline below, and download any items you would like to retain before losing access. Dates are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
When Arthur Brooks was interviewing for his job, longtime HBS professor Len Schlesinger asked him, “What can you teach that really only you can teach—and that we need and don’t have?” Brooks responded that he’d been hearing about data on... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
How does an industry get born? To answer that question, it helps to turn the microscope on one fairly new industry: biotechnology. A still further way to get inside this question, according to HBS professor Monica C. Higgins, is to take a closer look at the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
with data about the relative importance of courses and (2) to provide faculty with information about how to improve the curriculum and best advise students. The most salient result is that students were strongly advised to study... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel