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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
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harassed or assaulted, Dixon stayed tuned in. “I remember being like, ‘Wow. They’re believing these women. They’re getting the benefit of the doubt. Good for them,’ ” she says. “Also I thought, ‘This has nothing to do with me.’ ” “The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
their demand for a risky asset by weighing two signals: an average of the asset’s past price changes and the asset’s degree of overvaluation. The two signals are in conflict, and investors “waver” over time in the relative weight they put on them. The model predicts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
and news following insider trades, I also find a negative association between returns around filings of insider sales and SOX. Overall, the evidence suggests that the prompt public disclosures about insider transactions mandated by the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
responsibilities – like being a good son or having a financially stable career for instance – deserved the sunlight. For 26 years, this meant putting a lock on my self-expression. I only applied to colleges on the East Coast far from... View Details
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
shantytowns. But in an effort to grow her organization and help more people, she eventually began courting private donors, public authorities, and the general public. By 2016, her nonprofit had helped 70,000 people. As her own position of... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
others. Our results can help explain a variety of behavioral phenomena including the structure of social insurance programs, patterns of public good provision, and why transactions that turn money into time... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?
leaders, and cooperation between the police and neighborhoods in the control of crime. Still, he found himself facing questions from the public about the improper behavior of members of the force. He concluded that one reason was that too... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
Publications February 2015 Journal of Finance The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Katherine L. Milkman Abstract—Using a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
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public school teachers (CalSTRS) was mandated by his board to “prioritize engagement with makers and retailers of firearms in California” following a series of gun-related tragedies in schools. While CalSTRS had a long history of... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
During the Internet and telecom bubble, investors placed money in mutual funds, believing it was being managed carefully, only to discover that it was placed in dot-com and telecom stocks. When the bubble burst, the money was mostly lost. Disenchanted with many mutual... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 02 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies
A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
failures thus create managerial challenges and opportunities for focal firms and their competitors. Focal firm failures often result in sales decreases and cost increases associated with remedial public relations and manufacturing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Key Stakeholders - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Value-Based Health Care Value-Based Health Care Cases & Teaching Notes Key Concepts Key Stakeholders Publications Team Work With Us Presentations Key... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
core business, ranging from environmental issues to LGBTQ rights and race relations. In the first study of this phenomenon, we implement two framed field experiments to provide evidence on how CEO activism can influence public opinions... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jul 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?
Should We Encourage the Redistribution of Benefits of Globalization? If So, How? The benefits of globalization outweigh the costs. But the costs are not being distributed equitably among investors, workers, consumers, and the public in... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
today. Meanwhile, from society's point of view, meanwhile, professional closure offers distinct benefits when the privilege of closure is granted in return for the commitments that true professionals make to serve the public View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
in common? Why do their extraordinary stories continue to amaze and inspire? In delivering the answers to those questions, I offer a remarkable template by which to judge those in our own time to whom the public has given its trust. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and The Economist much more effectively than they could before. Those publications integrate macroeconomics with what we know about business and markets, often in the very same articles. Without... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
public research organizations, such as universities and hospitals, and private firms are an established policy tool around the world for the delivery of social or public services, and their use as a tool to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
by a public health organization are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group receive a standard volunteer contract often offered for this type of task, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive small... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne