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- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
dominance, with income. Given familiar functional form assumptions on utility and the distributions of ability and preferences, a simple statistic for the effect of preference heterogeneity on marginal tax rates is derived. Numerical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
for three key reasons: One, they tend to have unusually familiar relationships with their clients, whom they see repeatedly throughout the year. Two, a client sitting still for a haircut is a captive audience. Three, while there is a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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5.1 Community Standards/Disciplinary Process | MBA
MBA Program leadership, in consultation with the Chair of MBA Community Standards, may modify the disciplinary process as circumstances require. Students should familiarize themselves with the General Statement of Conduct in addition to... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
now use familiar and ubiquitous platforms, such as Zoom, to assess and monitor their patients’ health status and their compliance with treatment protocols. Patients will be able to conveniently access clinical services that use... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
Today's frenzied world of dot-com mania might have been hard to predict 25 years ago, but the Class of 1975 has always had an eye for opportunity. For its time, the class had a sizable number of military officers familiar with strategic... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
flourish.”2. The second major obstacle is one that’s familiar to readers of Climate Stories: locating and/or creating a green workforce to build and maintain the EV charger infrastructure. “We need concerted job training programs,” Erika... View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
on-site from what was happening around me, and only focus on my note writing. In addition, I handled my field intimacy by discussing my data analyses with two senior colleagues throughout the writing of this project. One colleague was very View Details
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
more familiar and seem to present less of a risk." Maurer's research on the economic impact of the Panama Canal demonstrates another facet of foreign investment dynamics—in this case, the construction of a $375 million public works... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
of that can, in fact, be counterproductive. Q: Could you give an example of that? A: Frei: Well, we're all pretty familiar with the litany of problems in health care, but let me give you an example of a renowned health care organization... View Details
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
teams often changes over time or between projects. In this paper, we use detailed data from an Indian software services firm to examine how such changes may affect the accumulation of experience within, and the performance of, teams. We find that the level of team... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507024 Lobbying Harvard Business School Note 707-471 Describes how companies engage the political and legal system and the rules and ethics associated with doing so. Focuses on the U.S. political and legal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
familiar logic for rule utilitarianism beyond the realm of individual ethics and as a specific version of a broader argument made for centuries by theorists from Hume to Hayek. I also provide evidence of an example in which real-world... View Details
- 05 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference Across Borders
Hack Brazil program, organized by Harvard and MIT. “I co-founded the Brazilian Association while at Harvard College and since graduating, the Association had become involved in the conference, so I was familiar with it before HBS,”... View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
It's also true for some of the most admired in business. Here's a familiar success pattern that should give pause, but instead seems to shed all possibility of providing "sticky" lessons: After a meteoric rise in his company's... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
Internal Problems By: Sebenius, James K. Abstract—Many negotiators have constituencies that must formally or informally approve an agreement. Traditionally, it is the responsibility of each negotiator to manage the internal conflicts and constituencies on his or her... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-038.pdf Fluid Teams and Fluid Tasks: The Impact of Team Familiarity and Variation in Experience (revised) Authors: Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats Abstract In many manufacturing and service... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Collection Guide The George U. Sands business records contain account books, letter books, and unbound papers reflecting Sands’ activity in the management of the Patent Slip and Dock Company, the Novelty Iron Works, and the Hong Kong, Canton and Macao Steamboat... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
straightforward, 15-step program to find a mate, using familiar marketing tactics such as packaging, branding, and, yes, even telemarketing. Greenwald wrote another best-selling book in 2009, Have Him at Hello: Confessions from 1,000 Guys... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
new faculty need to thrive in terms of both teaching and research. The Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning has been particularly helpful on this front. It enables new faculty who may not be familiar with case-method teaching to... View Details
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
little or no public discussion of the matter although people familiar with the situation reported that Ackman held conversations with P&G directors individually. Then, on April 24, 2013, P&G announced that its 3rd quarter earnings... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino