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- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
And the answer was not no. The answer was never a certain yes, but it wasn’t a no. And that’s inspiring: to be able to say we can look at an individual and try to develop a therapeutic for their specific form of the disease. Morrell: Talk... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
not reinvent what the promises and what the agreements and what the structures of this country and of our society and of our individual lives are in a way that really works for us. I think our generation is markedly different because we... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
of the business community, HBS assistant professor Abrami said in an interview. The Chinese built their economy on a system of dual-class citizenship, one that designated any individual living away from his or her place of permanent... View Details
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
subgroups can shape information sharing to create a hidden profile where there was none initially. Second, we describe how individual defection can weaken subgroup competition and, paradoxically, increase the chance that a team will... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22
framework to address this problem, allowing a firm to better align the design of its development processes to the specific aims of individual projects. We illustrate this framework with examples from Hewlett-Packard, a large, diversified... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2016
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May 17, 2016
an outsized influence relative to other homicides. Our estimates suggest that the per-death impact of mass shootings on bills introduced is about 66 times as large as the impact of individual gun homicides in non-mass shooting incidents.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23
model, poor people give little because they expect donations to come mainly from richer individuals. In others, donations by poor individuals constitute a large fraction of donations, and this raises the incentive for poor people to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
school officials to believe everything was fine. But it wasn't. In the Boston system, students would send a ranked list to the city. (Unlike in New York, Boston did not include administrators of individual schools in the process.) The... View Details
- 11 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 11, 2007
process, focuses on the political actors that might enter into this process. Specifically, we suggest that private firms be allowed to compete in elections to hold public office. That is, a corporate entity (e.g., Ernst and Young), rather than an View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007
respectively, have revolutionized the relationship between the individual and computer technology. Once the exclusive domain of academia and research facilities, computers can now be found in every area of business, government, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 9, 2007
initial test along the path is so fundamental that we often overlook it: becoming a boss for the first time. That's a shame, because the trials involved in this rite of passage have serious consequences for both the individual and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
organizations to strategies built on partnerships to accomplish both their individual and their newly shared goals. A similar incongruity seemed to exist between Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) and Visa International. RIF is a national... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 10 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Coming Out at Business School
received to-date on my coming out. From college roommate to childhood friend to most recent boss, they’ve all made my coming out less scary, much more enjoyable, and quite frankly, surprisingly entertaining. My coming out is very much still present tense, whether... View Details
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Commencement 2011 Address | About
to individuals of competence and character. So remember Lincoln ’ s wisdom. The real test of your character as a leader will come as you gain power over the course of your career. And if you can ’ t remember Lincoln, remember Spiderman:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
knowledge loss, identify the deep smarts essential to their business, use techniques for transferring knowledge when its loss is imminent, identify and implement long-term transfer program apprenticeships, set up individual learning plans... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
members about their perceptions of individual surgeons’ leadership effectiveness and correlated survey measures with individual surgeon profiles created by calculating percentage of behavior types, leader... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
2 (May 1976): 333-350. Merton, Robert C. "Implicit Labor Contracts Viewed as Options: A Discussion of 'Insurance Aspects of Pensions'." In Pensions, Labor, and Individual Choice , edited by David A. Wise. Chicago, Ill.: Chicago University... View Details
- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
can also play an important role in facilitating within-country migration. In the face of physical, informational and social barriers to migration, firms with nationwide hiring practices can benefit from facilitating the migration of high ability View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
positive. Finally, we find that the detrimental effect of pay dispersion is due to worst individual performance, rather than a reduction of team cooperation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-075.pdf How Firms Respond... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
Empire to another. So in other words, the individual different historical actors were the ones who transferred the knowledge of violence. It’s about logics, and ideas, and bureaucracies, but it’s ultimately about people. Legal systems... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel