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Phillip Jones
of skills I was lacking. To be grounded in both worlds, private and public, I wanted to go to the best business and policy schools available.” For Phillip, that meant pursuing the joint MBA/MPP degree at HBS and HKS. Becoming part of a... View Details
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-016_c6e7c9cc-70a3-4119-bd7b-8e4b25a26312.pdf Technology Choice and Capacity Portfolios Under Emissions Regulation By: Drake, David, Paul R. Kleindorfer, and Luk N.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
a simple model of populism as the rejection of “disloyal” leaders. We show that adding the assumption that people are worse off when they experience low income as a result of leader betrayal (than when it is the result of bad luck) to a simple voter View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
in studying these complex social systems. I have made a deliberate choice to focus primarily on research that reflects firsthand experience with boards rather than on research that utilizes data derived from questionnaires and other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-015.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAtlantis Paradise Island Resort & Casino: Improving Performance with a New Vision and Mission Lynda M. Applegate, Chekitan S. Dev, and Gabriele PiccoliHarvard Business View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
Business School and a principal of Lax Sebenius LLC, a negotiation strategy firm. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. David A. Lax, a former faculty member at Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2018
- Book
Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?
JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
- 10 May 2011
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First Look: May 10
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-109.pdf When Smaller Menus Are Better: Variability in Menu-Setting Ability Authors:David Goldreich and Hanna Hałaburda Abstract The economics literature on choice focuses on individuals' decisions when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
Teenagers for Business Careers after World War II By: Friedman, Walter A. Abstract—This article traces the growing popularity of Junior Achievement’s “Company Program” in the two decades after World War II. The program provided high View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 16 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?
from one of Smith's earlier works, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, that caught the attention of Harvard Business School professor Nava Ashraf and coauthors Colin Camerer and George Loewenstein. In "Adam Smith, Behavioral... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015
Benjamin G., Michael Luca, and Daniel Svirsky Abstract—Online marketplaces increasingly choose to reduce the anonymity of buyers and sellers in order to facilitate trust. We demonstrate that this common market design choice results in an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
Finance can be intimidating, and many business executives don’t even try to get their arms around it. But Harvard Business School Professor Mihir Desai says business leaders need to engage with the world of finance in order to succeed.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics
Max Bazerman and Mike Luca (Image by John Ritter) What makes people behave the way they do—and to what degree are design choices influencing that? Associate Professor Mike Luca studies the design of online platforms, while Professor Max Bazerman’s work focuses on... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
competitiveness strategy needs to cover both export-oriented and local industries. And it needs to take into account that in the export-oriented sector policy choices have to be made with a much stronger view on policies in places in... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 13 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely
significantly improve the performance and satisfaction of workers and boost the chances of hiring them permanently, according to the results of the study by Harvard Business School professors Iavor I. Bojinov and Prithwiraj Choudhury and... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 08 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 8
potential customer population when pricing at a level that, under the condition, can be shown to be an upper bound for a rational price choice for the firm irrespective of the prices chosen by its competitors. We show that under a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
Your Mind? A Countrywide Experiment on Voter Choice in France By: Pons, Vincent Abstract—Existing evidence on the impact of door-to-door canvassing comes from small-scale experiments that assign treatment at the individual level (at which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online
every three to five minutes and applying your knowledge through group exercises and an individual final paper. Description of silent animated video above: Learner completes an interactive question by dragging and dropping choices into two... View Details
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Global Business Course | HBS Online
mitigate risk, and create and capture value for their organization Stay active by engaging in a new activity every three to five minutes and applying your knowledge through quizzes. Description of silent animated video above: Learner completes an interactive question... View Details
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
chapters and a more prescriptive style to reflect today's world of expanding globalization, accelerated change, and increased complexity. This excerpt discusses the importance for young managers to continue to develop as professionals via wise career View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill