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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

from her $260,000 Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation grant examining the decision-making and network behaviors of VCs. The Lab focuses on understanding and solving funding inequities in the VC industry through data-driven research,... View Details
  • 31 Jul 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens

options that you're not choosing. You need to mourn them and you need to move away from them. And if you can do that and say, "I'm glad I was able to sort of do this, but I'm now going to move on with my life," that process of actually... View Details
  • 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

healthcare—i.e., patient-centered outcomes achieved per healthcare dollar spent—can define quality and unify performance improvement goals with health outcomes of importance to patients across the entire cycle of care. We describe the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16

different economic systems. In particular, two equilibria might arise: one with low taxes and a belief that the income-generating process is "fair" because effort is important (an "American" equilibrium) and another... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Mar 2021
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Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

experiments for second-year MBA students and in his 2020 book, The Power of Experiments: Decision-Making in a Data-Driven World, co-written with Max H. Bazerman, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at HBS. Five... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

industrial ecology literature that highlights the environmental benefits of by-product synergy. By-product synergy is defined as the conversion of a firm's waste stream from a manufacturing process into valuable feedstock for another... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21

performance data, in their decisions. These decision-making patterns are associated with large and systematic differences in learning rates across business units. Learning is concentrated in business units with "loose... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Oct 2015
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Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

Academic business research typically travels one-way. From government agencies, scholars gather and process data—say on workplace safety or environmental pollution—perform analysis, and publish the results. Rarely, however, do they take... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

ZIP codes. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53271 Harvard Business School Case 718-419 Hilti (A): Fleet Management? This case explores the strategic decision-making View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 1999
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Covering the Issues

unheard of to a time when women shape decision-making at the highest corporate levels. With the arrival of women students in the 1950s, when the School partnered with the Radcliffe Management Training Program, Associate Professor... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons
  • 15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15

capital markets, standard setters, and financial analysts and how managers make accounting choices. But as accounting scholars have focused on understanding how markets and users process accounting data, they have distanced themselves... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2017
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Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

investors become too passive, we might see inefficiencies at the corporate decision-making level kicking in.” The question for today, he says, is whether the pendulum has shifted too far toward passive investing in a way that hurts the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 11 Sep 2006
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Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change

maneuver strategy in the military. Much of the best contemporary thinking in this realm was advanced by the late Colonel John Boyd, a Pentagon maverick. His decision-making model has become influential in the United States and abroad, in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler; Sports
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1.11 Leaves of Absence | MBA

process of clearance to return to enrollment and/or residence after a hospitalization or emergency room visit, see Section 1.12 Clearance for Return . The decision to place a student on an involuntary leave of absence for health related... View Details
  • 01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

topics including financing new ventures, deal structuring, valuation, initial public offerings, leveraged buyouts, and financial distress. "Entrepreneurial Finance looks at the acquisition and deployment of resources at each stage of the entrepreneurial View Details
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

decision-making is limited. Exploiting exogenous variation in state compulsory schooling laws in both standard and two-sample instrumental variable strategies, we show education increases financial market participation, measured by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7

obsolescence built into the technology transfer agreement. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/712049-PDF-ENG Columbia's Final Mission (Abridged) (A) Amy C. Edmondson and Kerry HermanHarvard Business School Case 612-095 This case documents View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door

technologies on the health-care industry. A highly rated teacher, she is also an acclaimed public speaker, board member, and policy adviser whose expertise on health-care management has influenced private- and public-sector View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management
  • 12 Apr 2010
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One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

going outside the company's boundaries to gather the necessary data. Different measurement methodologies will need to be used, including aggregating data from transactions (e.g., number of calls from whistleblowers), measurement of physical View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

suggests that treating planned organizational change as a generic phenomenon might mask important idiosyncrasies associated both with the different activities involved in the change implementation process and with the unique functions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace