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- 04 Jun 2013
- News
Can Good Financial Behavior Be Taught In High School?
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
which could falsely create the appearance that readmission rates are changing more in the treatment than in the control group. Accounting for the revised standards reduced the decline in risk-adjusted readmission rates for targeted conditions View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
that their options for radical change appeared highly constrained. During the years of Cole and Tempel, the key to improving performance was believed to lie in diversification. The Unilever "fleet" sailed in a variety of...
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- 30 Nov 2021
- In Practice
What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?
The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental...
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by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
http://www.people.hbs.edu/mtripsas/articles/Benner%20Tripsas%20SMJ%20forthcoming.pdf Evidence from the Firm: A New Approach to Understanding Corruption Authors:Shawn A. Cole and Anh Tran Publication:In International Handbook on the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
generous to them” Humblebragging runs rampant on Twitter, but it turns out to be a lousy self-promotion tactic, especially in business situations such as job interviews, according to recent research by Harvard Business School's Ovul...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 19 May 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective
- 05 Jan 2015
- Video
HBS Campaign - Mumbai Event
- 08 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
parts and permutations—really works. A carbon trading simulation designed by Harvard Business School professor Peter Coles gives students the opportunity to experience firsthand the pressure-packed...
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- Teaching Interest
Development Economics (PhD)
By: Shawn A. Cole
This course, intended for second-year PhD students in economics and related fields, is taught by Michael Kremer, Phillippe Aghion, and Shawn Cole.
Part I (Kremer) of the course will cover macro-economic topics including aggregate and non-aggregate growth...
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- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
Summing Up The current global recession has, judging from responses to this month's column, many origins, among them housing and credit. All, of course, are traceable to human responses to both perceived opportunities and calamities, which in turn have been engineered...
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by Jim Heskett
- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
forms of capitalism." Citing examples of Dutch and British investments abroad, Cole Woodson comments, "I find the question to be somewhat delinquent ... to the tune of several centuries." He adds that to the extent that...
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by Jim Heskett
- 18 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Why Leaders Need Great Books
year, will eventually earn them a decent funeral by the time they die. The problem, though, is that if they miss even two weeks' worth of payments, they forfeit everything they've contributed to date. Big Demand According to Joseph L....
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by Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Under the Magnifying Glass: The Benefits of Being a Case Study
memorized information. Jonathan Coles In business, he said, people navigate dilemmas and learn how to do their work by direct participation. "Most of all," Coles...
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by Martha Lagace
- 03 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates
When the FBI charged Shawn Hogan and two others with defrauding eBay of about $21 million in affiliate marketing sales, Benjamin G. Edelman was watching closely behind the scenes. Edelman's name rarely came up at the time of the 2010...
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- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
Publications August 2013 Modernizing Insurance Regulation Comparative Regulation of Market Intermediaries: Insights from the Indian Life Insurance Market By: Anagol, Santosh, Shawn A. Cole, and Shayak Sarkar Abstract—This book provides...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
market. We present statistics on the activity in these market mechanisms and present survey evidence that both mechanisms have facilitated matches. The paper concludes by discussing the emergence of platforms for transmitting job market...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 18
Second, pay disparity between managers located in different states decreases relative to that of co-located managers. Third, division productivity falls in dispersed firms, with the effect driven by managers at the low end of the wage...
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Anna Secino
- 31 May 2011
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First Look: May 31
Abstract Theories of the firm have been dominated by a legacy of ideas from early industrialization that pose zero-sum opposition between capital and labor (or capital and nearly everything else), differentiating the economy from society...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Business Economics - Doctoral
Beshears Alberto F. Cavallo Alex Chan Katherine B. Coffman Lauren H. Cohen Shawn A. Cole Joshua D. Coval Mihir A. Desai Mark L. Egan Benjamin C. Esty C. Fritz Foley Stuart C. Gilson Paul A. Gompers Jerry R....
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