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- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
a lot of stuff over the two decades that passed, as we were trying to understand this better. But one of the things we realized, is that God doesn't create data in heaven, and then give it as a gift to mankind. Every piece of View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
compensation incentives for CSR. We test our predictions using novel executive compensation contract data and find that firms with more shareholder friendly corporate governance are more likely to provide compensation to executives linked... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
and racism are built into markets, business systems, and technology. The T.R.A.P. Lab has developed an algorithm audit platform that collects data about the outcome of an algorithm within a particular context and then assesses its impact... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
cleaning or cooking or doing your taxes? We ran survey studies with people living in the United States, Canada, Denmark, and the Netherlands, including millionaires as well as people who are less wealthy. And we found consistent evidence... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information
release HBS Working Knowledge. The new portal represents just the beginning of what the steering group has in mind for this learning and research tool. Michalak notes that the speed of change in our work lives is altering the way learning... View Details
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
instead a scenario where the traveler can summon a pooled vehicle that takes her and several other riders from where they live to where they work, saving them hours and saving the city money. No cash changes hands, reducing both petty... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
the lawyers or the accountants. Schleyer: The big offenders get people talking, but I don't believe the American public has in general lost confidence in corporate America. Wagoner: Realistically, yes, the data suggest that business... View Details
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
now. In a matter of weeks, as the coronavirus rapidly began taking an increasing number of lives and livelihoods, people suddenly felt as if their future became murkier. When uncertainty and disappointment morph into fear, people often... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
consume, with trustworthy, high-quality, fact-based content widely available. We’ve morphed into the very strange world we live in now; but that’s created opportunities for companies like ours to go back to basics, to what news and... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
Deborah L. Soule and Lynda M. Applegate Abstract This paper examines virtual team learning in new product development situations. New product development activities manifest novelty, uncertainty and complexity, presenting an extreme need for learning in the course of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
and in turn devote more effort to learning and improving. We test our hypotheses using data collected in field and laboratory settings. This multi-method approach supports our theoretical model and permits us to gain further insight into... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
(treadmills attached to desks that enable employees to walk while working), provided employees with feedback on their own and their co-workers' usage, and assessed usage over six months. We report how we determined our sample size, as well as all View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
4.6 HBS Campus Demonstration Policy | MBA
live or take their meals; offices where the work of the School is carried out; or other places where demonstrations would interfere with the normal activities of the School. When a demonstration occurs, demonstrators may not: Inhibit the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
collective expertise of generations of Wisconsin cheese makers and dairy farmers in the burgeoning US market for ethnic cheeses. “Ethnic cheese wasn’t huge in Wisconsin when we launched the Specialty Cheese Company,” he notes, “but you really didn’t have to look much... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
Only 10 percent of Indians have health insurance, 40 percent live on a dollar a day or less, and hundreds of millions do not have ready access to doctors or the government's beleaguered primary-care facilities. THE DOCTORS ARE IN:... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
basic needs, we're all going to be instead just building armor plates for our Teslas. We're going to be living in a society we don't want to live in. At the same time, being a mother, it activated all of my... View Details
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
From Tunisia to Egypt, Bahrain to Yemen, as a number of nations in North Africa and the Middle East go through cataclysmic changes, the world watches and wonders what the future may hold as myriad protestors risk their lives for... View Details
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
Prioritizing such goals would work against having taxes based on personal characteristics. Now, if the gain in terms of reduced total sacrifice were large enough from taxing height, we might do it despite the cost in terms of other goals. For instance, if we View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
empirical puzzles, where you work long hours evaluating data one step at a time, trying every permutation, and after years of this, you hope to find something. That can be really fascinating and rewarding. The research that I like best,... View Details
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
Jones Industrial Average soared amid a “bonkers” real estate market. Professionals have been looking around, and recruiters have data and stories to grab even the most contented employee’s attention. "You could have a two-hour meeting in... View Details