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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
contact-tracing arena. According to the World Health Organization, as of December 1, Singapore had 58,228 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 29 deaths. “Singapore had a very comprehensive approach to dealing with the pandemic. To make this... View Details
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
pay the penalty to regulators without it affecting your reputation.” The paper, When the Local Newspaper Leaves Town: The Effects of Local Newspaper Closures on Corporate Misconduct, confirms that the press serves as a watchdog and keeps... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 16 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 16
their collective interest levels to implement a regression discontinuity approach. We confirm the positive effects for venture operations, with qualitative support for a higher likelihood of successful exits. On the other hand, there is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
at the available data in order to confirm or challenge prevailing views of the world. Climate change is a worldwide problem that requires a worldwide mindset, he noted. Similarly, the need for low-cost clean energy is a worldwide problem,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
the model before tackling the more competitive cities that the traveler-oriented services are blanketing. Testing a few big markets periodically will help confirm whether the return is greater by sticking to small and medium in the near... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making the Most of Government Upheaval
Business School, plan to survey 250 Latin American firms in various industries to test the validity of their findings. "Above all," they say, "we want to confirm the existence of the various stages of competitive... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- Web
Answers to Your Top Questions about Financial Aid at HBS | MBA
gotten married, or had a child) your second year need-based HBS Scholarship will be the same as what you received in your first year. Students are required to submit a renewal application for their second year in order to confirm... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
expanded into consumer research and election forecasting. In 2019, Gupta found that his team’s prediction for an election result was distinctly different from all other pollsters. As Gupta reviewed his team’s analysis (which had been View Details
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
where to focus their efforts was an easy one. "It seemed natural for us to look at how the investment behavior of public and private firms differs," Farre-Mensa says. The fact that there were no similar studies, coupled with the robustness of the data, View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
agency-based predictions. The evidence does not confirm managerial discretion is being used to convey private information. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-014.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsThe Blackstone Group's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
situation because of social media.” Instead, he sees the study as a confirmation that public relations managers at major firms have been paying close attention to the shift toward politically slanted, openly subjective journalism over the... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
Summers as the successor to Ben Bernanke. That saga left many people in business and finance concerned. If politicians in Washington, DC, are having an argument about something as do-or-die as the debt ceiling, they thought, what are the chances that the View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- Profile
Marcela Sapone
and Rosanna Warren, the successful launch of Alfred was confirmation that ideas, like words, could be transformed into meaningful outcomes. “Being a founder and being a poet are similar,” Sapone said. “With poetry, you... View Details
- Web
1.10 Cross-Registration | MBA
out of HBS. HBS recommends that all EC students pre-register for a full complement of HBS courses (minimum of 15 credits each term for a total of 30 credits for the year) in parallel with pursuing cross-registration, as most schools start later than HBS and may only be... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
legal inheritance cases as well as property recovery. In March, JRI-Poland enabled Guinness World Records to confirm Israel Kristal, a 112-year-old Holocaust survivor, as the world’s oldest man. “He couldn’t produce a birth certificate,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective
expectations of their trainees confirm the notion that partisan perceptions often shape behavior. At the negotiating table, clinging firmly to the idea that one's counterpart is stubborn or extreme, for example, is likely to trigger just... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Simple Ways to Take Gender Bias Out of Your Jobs
female-dominated fields. Follow-up research confirmed such words made those job listings less appealing to women. Yet so-called “gendered language” continues to run rampant in online employment listings. Consider the word “ninja,” which... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 22 Jul 2019
- News
A Way Forward for Women
should gain a board seat—in their own time. I’m on their backside, making sure that they have realistic objectives set out, that they have their elevator pitch.” Gorgas was just one of several women who have stepped into a leadership role, View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 19 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers
customers. Again, they tested two conditions separately, one that spoke about the company’s intent to “collect” customer data, and the other that spoke about its desire to “protect” customer information. They even had a separate group of participants read the two... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Debora L. Spar
innovation work? A: There are many. Recent decisions against Napster and other file-sharing firms, for example, confirm that property means are by no means dead online. On the contrary, both citizens and firms want to preserve property... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne