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- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
debt. I think Khan Academy can fill the gap between an esoteric, hard-to-read book and the “news,” which is sound bites and superficial. People are hungry for context and to understand the whys and the connections. I think we can play a... View Details
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
Based on dialogue with all stakeholders, create an information gap analysis, develop and implement necessary methodologies for creating missing content, and consult with the board to determine an "optimal level of transparency." The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
Brick-and-mortar retail is at the center of many parts of our society—it bridges the gap between consumers and brands, brings Americans into the workforce and helps them advance their careers, attracts traffic and a sense of community to... View Details
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
Publication:Review of Financial Studies 22, no. 10 (2009): 4129-4156 Abstract Many investors purchase their mutual funds through intermediated channels, engaging and paying brokers or financial advisors for fund selection and advice. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
collection will be of great interest to scholars of entrepreneurship, international business and business history. Psychology and Experimental Economics: A Gap in Abstraction Authors:Dan Ariely and Michael I. Norton Periodical:Current... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Developing Black Talent for Leadership
to pay forward the investment that these organizations have made in me and my family for the next generation of leaders, which was crystalized after spending two years working at MLT before business school. During the deeply painful and... View Details
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
Publications October 2014 Harvard Business Review Press Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors That Drive Effective Selling By: Cespedes, Frank V. Abstract—There are many books that provide strategy advice and selling methodologies. But... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
Unfortunately, 99 percent of the viewers don’t know what an austerity program is, and 99 percent don’t understand what sovereign debt is or what it means to default on sovereign debt. I think Khan Academy can fill the gap between an... View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
more lucrative, but we find that the effect of performance-based pay rates on dishonesty depends on how readily people can compare their pay rate to that of others. In Experiment 1, participants were paid 5... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
More at www.WineriesOfTheSierraFoothills.com. Gender Balance: When Men Step Up edited by Marie-Christine Maheas (GMP 8, 2010) (Editions Eyrolles) The business leaders interviewed for this book are categorical: View Details
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
investigated how an organization’s heightened focus on political ideology impacts employees. We address this gap by exploring how an individual’s political ideological misfit with an organization’s prevailing ideology impacts mobility. By... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
of US start-ups in the twenty-first century have survived beyond three years. As everyone knows, it's not easy to start a venture that gains traction with paying customers. But it's even harder to grow beyond certain levels of sales: Of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
developing countries. As a result, they must rely on the customer-pull approach: finding ways to solve customers' dilemmas without relying on novel science. Many multinationals entering developing countries pay lip service to serving... View Details
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
cross-occupational survey (Study 1), we found that idle time occurs frequently across all occupational categories; we estimate that employers in the United States pay roughly $100 billion in wages for time that employees spend idle.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS
the "X" in "Latinx" expresses gender inclusivity. That is partly true, but it's much more. "X" represents an intersection between our stories and all our identities. So that even a child growing up around the world - far from his roots -... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
would pay attention.” “It was always so much fun to talk to Ted, because his brain never stopped,” remarks HBS professor emeritus Ben Shapiro. “His mind was truly creative, truly visionary. There was a freshness and exuberance about him,... View Details
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
be able to coordinate their actions when messages' arrivals at their destinations are sufficiently correlated events. Correlation serves to fill in information gaps that arise when players are uncertain of the source of message failure,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
pay to the plan. We document an oppositional reaction: the presence of peer information decreased the savings of nonparticipants who were ineligible for 401(k) automatic enrollment, and higher observed peer savings rates also decreased... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
a surcharge for tall ones? The standard Utilitarian framework for tax analysis answers this question in the affirmative. Moreover, a plausible parameterization using data on height and wages implies a substantial height tax: a tall person earning $50,000 should View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace