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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Mission in Motion
progress they've made with their ventures. These include Abigail Falik's (MBA 2008) Global Citizen Year (pictured above), which she founded after she discovered, as a recent high school graduate, that the Peace Corps was effectively... View Details
Keywords: summary
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
able to bridge science and business,” says HBS Dean Nitin Nohria. “We aim to provide graduates of this new program with tools to understand the most modern biomedical science issues, as well as knowledge of scientific methodologies and time frames, so they can be View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 03 Sep 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?
end." Christoph Vaagt had an interesting view: "If the value of a firm being sold depends on the people who work for it A retention bonus is a sure sign of a bad deal." Others questioned the effectiveness of retention... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
introduces a “physician compact” that specifies the responsibilities of the organization and its employee doctors and ties those principles into the incentive compensation plan. The physician compact is a particularly effective way to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
resources. It exposes the fact we need to think about effective pooling mechanisms that would allow for these supplies to be held regionally. In a well-functioning system, one would hope not that each hospital tries to build massive... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
Disabilities by Laure Wang (MBA 1997) Self-published This book is a guide for everyone—caregivers, therapists, and people with physical disabilities—based on Wang’s experiences, and can serve as a handbook of etiquette for the treatment... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
of rapid technological change. Free to Punish? The American Dream and the Harsh Treatment of Criminals Authors:Rafael Di Tella Publication:CATO Papers on Public Policy 1 (2011) Abstract We describe the evolution of selective aspects of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
effects of v4 scarcity, while obtaining price discovery and allocative efficiency benefits of market transactions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-091.pdf Why Do Countries Adopt International Financial Reporting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom
of quantum dots for cancer treatment that had been proposed by an outside sponsor. Along with a bunch of other highly qualified students, one of this team's members was a Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researcher. Within two weeks, the team... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
then have to think about the prospects for commercialization. They have to communicate back and forth extensively. What were some of the projects? As an example, one of last year’s teams was looking at an application of quantum dots for cancer View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
information aggregation treatments do not affect total equity investment when we make the investment environment more realistic than in prior experiments. Previously documented aggregation effects are not... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
Influences on Megachurch Pastors is an early-stage paper that looks at how leaders maintain the values of their institutions even as their industries rapidly change around them. Using the example of pastors who oversee enormous churches, the authors report that leaders... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- Web
Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
not fully understand the importance of complying with all aspects of their recommended treatments, which eventually leads to deteriorating health and higher treatment costs. In this study, the authors analyze historical data of dialysis... View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day
but I stand as 10,000." We stand on the shoulders of giants and are reaching back for those who come behind us. Lieutenant Commander Alison Wagner (MBA '19) To me, feminism is synonymous with advocacy—advocating for equal rights and View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
changes in stockouts or rebalances. We observe no evidence of learning or fatigue. Agent-level heterogeneity in the treatment effects shows that the agents who handle substantially more customer deposits... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
Chad Sparber looked at changes in applications to U.S. colleges before and after the reduction in the annual quota of H-1B visas that took effect in 2003. (The H-1B visa is the United States’ largest visa for skilled temporary work.) Even... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
Washington State) and by participants with responsibility to enforce rules in an experimental lab setting. We also show that this effect is driven by psychological reactance. We discuss both the theoretical and practical implications of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
opportunistic low-ball offers. Working Papers The Effect of Management Control Elements on Coordination By: Bormann, Sara, Jan Bouwens, and Christian Hofmann Abstract—This study examines how control elements of a firm affect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
a computer model of a potential mRNA-based vaccine. Twenty-five days after that, it produced the first dose of a treatment it hoped would protect against a disease that did not yet have a name. On February 24, after 17 days of analysis... View Details
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
idea with Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria. Nohria remembered that he and his HBS colleague, Rakesh Khurana, had noticed a similar effect in CEO data—that some chief executives had two distinct halves to their careers, a... View Details