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- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
Performance By: Li, Shelley Xin, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—Many service organizations empower frontline employees to experiment with different ways to meet diverse customer needs across different locations. We conducted a field View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
companies expand significantly, particularly those that had avoided upfront venture capital funding. The risk, however, paid off thanks to Stamps’s ability to both attract investors and guide entrepreneurs in growing their companies. In a... View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
the argument that counterfeit competence is driven by self-protection, we find individuals do not predict they would experience such a boost (Study 5) and that cheating after threat offers benefits similar to those provided by other... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
like a venture philanthropy investor group, where members invest time and money to support organizations and candidates that align with its principles. Those include protecting and renewing democracy, promoting fact- and evidence-based... View Details
- Profile
Patrick Chun
opportunity to interact with so many unique people. You find your own sense of leadership style by working with high-level peers every day. I would never trade this experience for anything else." Once his MBA is complete, Patrick... View Details
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
studying the impact of Craigslist, a website providing classified-advertising services, on local U.S. newspapers. We exploit temporal and geographical variation in Craigslist's entry to show that newspapers with greater reliance on classified-ad revenue View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
Brand (in)fidelity: When Flirting with the Competition Strengthens Brand Relationships By: Consiglio, I., D. Kupor, F. Gino, and M.I. Norton Abstract—We document the existence and consequences of brand flirting: a short-lived experience... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
Field Experiment in Zambia Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract The controversy over whether and how much to charge for health products in the developing world... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Why Entrepreneurs Should Consider Business School
no way to know for sure that you'll be successful. But what you learn here at HBS can sure increase your odds. Here are some of the experiences I've had that will make me a better founder after school. The RC Year The Required... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
and HBS senior lecturer Jim Matheson READ MORE We'll return to Brix in a little bit, but he isn't alone in his efforts to turn captured carbon dioxide into a useful product. HBS senior lecturer and longtime cleantech investor Jim... View Details
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Bruce Gago
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I came to HBS with a background exclusively in real estate finance, and I knew I needed to gain a broad set of managerial and entrepreneurial skills in order to become more successful later in my career. How has your... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
service relationships is neither well understood, nor consistently factored into service design. In this paper, two laboratory experiments and one field experiment, conducted in financial service contexts, document the negative effects of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
driven by mistaken earnings estimates. We show that investors appear to overweight recent lower earnings following positive seasonality quarters, leading to pessimistic forecasts in the subsequent positive seasonality quarter. The returns... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
Thought Theory (UTT); namely, that unconscious thought is a bottom-up process, whereas conscious thought is a top-down process. In two experiments on impression formation, participants read behavioral information about a fictitious person... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
finance course with David Mullins in his first year, one that would eventually set his career course toward Macquarie Bank, Australia’s largest investment group. When he became an impact investor after 14 years in the banking world,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
counter this ambiguity, this paper proposes that the strength of the greedy signal relates to an individual's volunteer reputation. Results from an online experiment support this possibility: the crowd out in response to public incentives... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2013
- News
Diving into the 'Shark Tank'
"Shark Tank Air Date 11/15," read the subject line. "I thought, 'This can't be real,'" says Donna. She replied to confirm the message, assuming someone on the other end had made a mistake. After all, not everyone who makes it in front of America's most public View Details
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
narrowly,” says David Clough, assistant professor at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business, and coauthor of the paper. “There is a tendency to go only to close friends and family members.” Beyond that, entrepreneurs tend to network with a... View Details
- 22 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Jesse Lou (MBA 2022) – Working to Change the Food System
harder to reconcile how my personal & professional experiences were contributing to this existential crisis. After much reflection, I decided that I wanted to apply cutting-edge technology to solve challenges in food (and seafood),... View Details