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  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

purchase that follows an ad-click (CPA). Our analysis extends classic auction results by allowing players to make bids using two different pricing schemes, while the driving information for bidders' endogenous selection—the conversion... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/514061-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 917-402 Banking on Change: Aligning Culture and Compensation at Morgan Stanley This case study was prepared as part of a research project on Culture, Conduct, and Governance in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

on a variety of social and environmental issues, and the companies receiving investments were involved in businesses as diverse as clean energy technologies, sustainable agriculture, educational toys, and innovative hearing aids. Our team's View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23

multi-location firms increase internal ties when they face appropriability risks from direct competitors. Our empirical analysis of the global semiconductor industry shows that when leading firms co-locate with direct market competitors,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

September 2016 Harvard Business Review How to Tackle Your Toughest Decisions By: Badaracco, Joseph L. Abstract—The toughest calls managers have to make come in situations when they have worked hard to gather the facts and have done the best View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

compared to the distance to universities that offer only business or medical education (or neither). We argue that supplying joint MBA-healthcare courses may be a channel through which universities increase medical business skills and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

African-American guests are able to find a replacement guest only 35% of the time. On the whole, our analysis suggests a need for caution: while information can facilitate transactions, it also facilitates discrimination. Download working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

minimizes a convex approximation of this metric. We further develop an exponential penalty approach and show that its computational performance is far superior and its trade-off between delay and fairness compares favorably. In our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

poor financial markets, b) increases in the share of FDI or the relative productivity of the foreign firm leads to higher additional growth in financially developed economies compared to those observed in financially under-developed ones,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Dec 2024
  • News

Solving the Underemployment Crisis

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

implicitly follow these two stages. We have categorized these approaches into a 3x3 matrix, which suggests three different approaches for stage-one demand estimation (decision calculus, experiments and econometric methods), and three different methods for stage-two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

Promise & Perils

of the population, 130 million people, have reached middle-class status, spawning a growing consumer-driven economy. Auto sales, for example, grew by 38 percent, to 964,700 units, during the first five months of this year compared with... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14

entrepreneurs from other candidates. To address that problem, Butler compared the psychological testing results of over 4,000 successful entrepreneurs and of approximately 1,800 business leaders who described themselves as general... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6

(humans, mannequins) and dog form (real dogs, toy dogs). We used multivariate pattern analysis of BOLD responses to uncover the representational similarity space for each area in the core face network. Here, we show that only responses in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

of longer-term shareholders. Myth Number 4: ESG data for fundamental analysis is scarce and unreliable. Reality: Thanks to the efforts of reporting and investor organizations such as SASB and Ceres, as well as CDP data providers like... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009

amount of waste generated to improve the efficiency of the by-product process. In addition to the managerial implications, this analysis can inform policy as we show that increasing disposal cost decreases the size of the primary market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

provides another example. Mira Wilkins published a major study of the globalization of Ford in 1964, only four years after the word "multinational" was coined. Her study of the growth of American multinationals from the colonial era to 1914 was published in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

must grapple with it. Khurana lays out his institutional analysis and its repercussions in his new book, From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-078.pdf Deep Dives: The Role of Top Management in Linking Relevant Capabilities to Core Activities Authors:Howard H. Yu and Joseph L. Bower Abstract The inability of established firms to make necessary and obvious changes has been a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

called upon to play increasingly broader roles. Let me start my analysis with the barrel. I think our economic system has proven phenomenally successful at bringing growth, innovation, productivity, and a rising standard of living to... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark