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  • 24 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

Evidence on Attitudes, Behavior, and Cognitive Biases By: Carpena, Fenella, Shawn A. Cole, Jeremy Shapiro, and Bilal Zia Abstract—This paper uses a large-scale field experiment in India to study attitudinal,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

W. Feeley Abstract—Patients and providers are frustrated with seemingly endless data entry. We used our patients’ vested interest in their own health care by actively engaging them View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

intelligent choices of where they think their markets are, and how much money to spend at an early stage in order to insure that the brand is available View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • October 2024
  • Article

Canary Categories

By: Eric Anderson, Chaoqun Chen, Ayelet Israeli and Duncan Simester
Past customer spending in a category is generally a positive signal of future customer spending. We show that there exist “canary categories” for which the reverse is true. Purchases in these categories are a signal that customers are less likely to return to that... View Details
Keywords: Churn; Churn Management; Churn/retention; Assortment Planning; Retail; Retailing; Retailing Industry; Preference Heterogeneity; Assortment Optimization; Customers; Retention; Consumer Behavior; Forecasting and Prediction; Retail Industry
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  • 29 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Reyna Pacheco Rios (MBA 2025)

compared to any racial or ethnic demographic in the United States. 4. Latinos currently represent $1 trillion of spending while their market share continues to grow. I hope to... View Details
  • Web

Student Research - Doctoral

segment of charitable giving in the United States. Using a novel database of foundation tax filings, I document facts about top donors, estimate how they... June 2025 Article... View Details
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

investment decisions. Our research, however, documents other critical criteria that investors use to make these decisions: the gender and physical attractiveness of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions

identification documentation, let alone a credit score. Loan officers often end up relying on qualitative information and intuition, all the while knowing that these loans may be vital to the nation's... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking
  • 10 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 10

tool to alleviate capital constraints in scarce credit markets and unlock productive investments, others see those banks as conduits of cheap loans to politically connected firms that could obtain capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

uncertainty, and macroeconomic shocks affect the risk properties of U.S. Treasury bonds? The exposure of U.S. Treasury bonds to the stock market... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016

forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research Causal Inference in Accounting Research By: Gow, Ian D., David F. Larcker, and Peter C. Reiss Abstract—This paper examines the approaches accounting researchers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions

Competing arguments become difficult to judge, since advocates will suggest using those measures (net income, return on capital, market presence, share of mind, and so on) that favor their preferred... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
  • 22 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 22

based on the costs of using efficient processes and contingent on achieving superior outcomes. The end result will be a more effective and more productive health care sector.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2017 (Revised September 2017)
  • Case

Bringing Digital to Wimbledon

By: John T. Gourville and David Arnold
It was mid-December 2016 as Alexandra (Alex) Willis read with satisfaction that The All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club (AELTC) had won yet another award for its use of social media to reach its fan base. As the organizer and host of “The Championships, Wimbledon,”... View Details
Keywords: Wimbledon; London; Digital; Marketing; Marketing Communications; Online Technology
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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Refugee Resettlement

By: David Delacretaz, Scott Duke Kominers and Alexander Teytelboym
Over 100,000 refugees are permanently resettled from refugee camps to hosting countries every year. Nevertheless, refugee resettlement processes in most countries are ad hoc, accounting for neither the priorities of hosting communities nor the preferences of refugees... View Details
Keywords: Refugees; Marketplace Matching; Mathematical Methods
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  • 19 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

behavioral health economics, focusing on insurance markets and product markets in health care. We argue that the prevalence of choice... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2012
  • Case

New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. (Abridged)

By: H. Kent Bowen, Robert S. Huckman, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Matthew Preble
Considers whether New Balance, one of the world's five largest manufacturers of athletic footwear, should respond to Adidas' planned acquisition of Reebok—a transaction that would join the second- and third-largest companies in the industry. Highlights the unique... View Details
Keywords: Production; Competitive Strategy; Supply Chain; Brands and Branding; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sports Industry; Retail Industry; Asia; United States
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  • 02 May 2025
  • Blog Post

How to Work with Search Firms

Interested in talking to an HBS Career Coach about working with executive search firms? Use the Coach Directory to filter coaches by executive search firm expertise, or by... View Details
  • Web

Academics - Health Care

MBA Experience Academics Why HBS for Health Care? Harvard Business School The first-year “required curriculum” (RC) incorporates health care cases and topics in many courses ranging from View Details
  • 01 Jan 2007
  • News

Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

trouble letting go, he gave us freedom to sink or swim." The brothers have pursued a strategy of maintaining Ayala's core strength—extensive, large-scale, high-end real estate development View Details