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  • September 2012
  • Article

The Relationship Between Economic Preferences and Psychological Personality Measures

By: Anke Becker, Thomas Deckers, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk and Fabian Kosse
Although both economists and psychologists seek to identify determinants of heterogeneity in behavior, they use different concepts to capture them. In this review, we first analyze the extent to which economic preferences and psychological concepts of personality, such... View Details
Keywords: Risk Preference; Time Preference; Social Preferences; Locus Of Control; Big Five; Economics; Behavior; Personal Characteristics
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  • October 2002 (Revised November 2002)
  • Case

Welfare State and its Impact on Business Competitiveness, The: Sweden Inc. for Sale?

By: Huw Pill, Petter Johnsson, Ola Nordquist and Ingrid Vogel
The Swedish Model--sometimes presented as a third way between savage capitalism and unrealistic socialism--was much lauded in the 1960s. It was viewed as a strategy that addressed social concerns while supporting economic growth. However, the financial and currency... View Details
Keywords: Economic Systems; Welfare; Government and Politics; Taxation; Competition; Public Administration Industry; Sweden
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  • 19 Apr 2019
  • HBS Seminar

Nicholas Short, Harvard University

  • June 2021
  • Case

uBiome

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Olivia Graham
uBiome provided clinical tests that sequenced the DNA of human microbiome samples, providing data on health conditions directly to consumers or to prescribing physicians. Founded in 2012, the San Francisco-based startup raised $105 million from top-tier venture capital... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Crime and Corruption; Insolvency and Bankruptcy
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    Allison H. Mnookin

    Allison Mnookin is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit at the Harvard Business School.  She currently teaches the TOM and FIELD Global Immersion courses in the required MBA curriculum.  In addition, she... View Details

    • 27 Jan 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

    competitive today? A: There has been a tendency to look too narrowly at location decisions, focusing just on labor cost, electricity costs, tax breaks, etc. But input costs are not what matters. What matters is total cost, which depends... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • April 2008
    • Case

    Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. (A)

    By: Paul W. Marshall, Michael Shih-ta Chen and Keith Chi-ho Wong
    In late November 2000, Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd., the once-monopolized telecom operator owned by the Taiwanese government, was on its way to privatization. Mr. C.K. Mao, Chairman of the company, who headed the job only three months earlier, after its prior chairman... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Employee Relationship Management; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Privatization; Competition; Telecommunications Industry; Taiwan
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      The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create

      A Harvard Business School professor and a16z crypto research partner and a career marketer and Web3 entrepreneur demystify the coming digital revolution, showing how NFTs will transform our online and offline... View Details
      • January 2010 (Revised February 2010)
      • Case

      IBM Retail Business Assessment at Dillard's, Inc.: Managing Staffing Levels to Improve Conversion

      This case illustrates the challenges associated with matching staffing levels with variable workload in retail stores and highlights how decisions related to staffing and scheduling affect operational performance and the quality of labor at the stores. The case... View Details
      Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Employees; Market Transactions; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Performance Improvement; Retail Industry
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      • March 2023
      • Teaching Note

      VideaHealth: Building the AI Factory

      By: Karim R. Lakhani
      Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 621-021. The case “VideaHealth: Building the AI Factory” examines the creation of dental startup VideaHealth (Videa) and the development of its artificial intelligence (AI)-led business strategy through the eyes of founder and CEO Florian... View Details
      Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Applications and Software; Business Model; Marketing Strategy; Product Development; Health Industry; Technology Industry
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      • March 2024
      • Case

      Biomanufacturing Decentralization by Stämm

      By: Paul A. Gompers, Jenyfeer Martínez Buitrago and Mariana Cal
      In Buenos Aires, Argentina, cousins Llamazares and D’Alvia founded Stämm, a startup based on the idea of decentralizing biomanufacturing processes and downsizing biotech facilities. After raising its seed and series A rounds, and while finalizing its series B round in... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Selection and Staffing; Technological Innovation; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Launch; Research and Development; Biotechnology Industry; Latin America; South America; Argentina; Buenos Aires
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      • 11 Dec 2018
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

      and displacement effects of immigrants on female employment—and provide evidence that none of them can account for a quantitatively relevant fraction of our results. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54796 Platform Competition:... View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
      • 08 Aug 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

      forthcoming Financial Analysts Journal Optimal Tilts: Combining Persistent Characteristic Portfolios By: Baker, Malcolm, Ryan Taliaferro, and Terry Burnham Abstract—We examine the optimal weighting of four tilts in U.S. equity markets... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 16 Nov 2021
      • Blog Post

      How HBS Supported My Career Transitions During and After Graduation

      Mike Anders (MBA 2020) grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC. After attending Northwestern University, he began a career in tech working for a legal services startup in Chicago called Envoy Global. He moved to San Francisco after HBS... View Details
      • Forthcoming
      • Article

      What's My Employee Worth? The Effects of Salary Benchmarking

      By: Zoë B. Cullen, Shengwu Li and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
      While U.S. legislation prohibits employers from sharing information about their employees’ compensation with each other, companies are still allowed to acquire and use more aggregated data provided by third parties. Most medium and large firms report using this type... View Details
      Keywords: Information Sharing; Wages; Policy; Compensation and Benefits
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      • Article

      Consequences of Financial Reporting Failure for Outside Directors: Evidence from Accounting Restatements and Audit Committee Members

      By: Suraj Srinivasan
      I use a sample of 409 companies that restated their earnings from 1997 to 2001 to examine penalties for outside directors, particularly audit committee members, when their companies experience accounting restatements. Penalties from lawsuits and Securities and Exchange... View Details
      Keywords: Outcome or Result; Business Earnings; Financial Statements; Lawsuits and Litigation; Labor; Markets; Financial Reporting; Accounting Audits; Cost; Reputation
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      • 30 Nov 2018
      • News

      The Challenges GM Is Facing, and the Reasoning Behind Its Plant Closures

      • February 2012
      • Article

      Management Practices across Firms and Countries

      By: Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
      For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across 20 countries. On average, we find that in manufacturing American, Japanese, and German firms are the best... View Details
      Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Competency and Skills; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Organizations; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Sectors; Performance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Private Equity; Multinational Firms and Management; United States; Germany; Japan; China; India
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      • 2011
      • Working Paper

      Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

      By: Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
      For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across 20 countries. On average, we find that in manufacturing, American, Japanese, and German firms are the best... View Details
      Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Business Ventures; Public Sector; Private Sector; Country; Performance; Motivation and Incentives
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      • 20 Jan 2012
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials

      Keywords: by William R. Kerr