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- 23 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming Nervous Nelly
likely to be able to tell the difference between good and bad advice. In another experiment, in which she asked participants to estimate the amount of money in a jar of coins, she found that anxious participants were apt to give equal... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
imposes on society by securing subsidies, driving employees toward public welfare systems, creating urban sprawl, and destroying jobs in competing operations. Thus, juxtaposing these customer savings against the estimate cited by Fishman... View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
various ways. Some are being accepted by a limited number of buyers and sellers as tender for transacting business. They are now even being created as funding devices (ICOs or initial coin offerings) by companies avoiding more public IPOs... View Details
- 05 May 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Ethical Can We Be?
pursues." Joe Schmid commented that "the 'highest behavior' any leader can expect from those they lead is the 'lowest behavior' they demonstrate." To the extent that fairness and ethical behaviors are in the eye of the beholder, View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
oversubscribed by 30 times, generating $100 million. Significantly, a cultural shift occurred after the 2011 revolution when, suddenly, anything seemed possible. Amal Enan (MBA 2014) witnessed these transformations firsthand, from roles in the private, nonprofit, and... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
supply officer who was an HBS alumnus and who lent him copies of the Harvard Business Review. With a wife and children to support, Dunn decided that HBS would be a good choice when his tour of duty ended in 1959. Admitted to the Class of... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
purchasing power parities (PPPs) with a closely matched set of goods and identical methodologies in a variety of developed and developing countries. Our results are close to those reported by the International Comparisons Program (ICP) in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb
provides accommodations in more than 220 countries and 100,000 cities. But when it first started out in 2008, it was competing with large and trusted hotel chains, and displaying pictures of hosts may have seemed like a good way to... View Details
- 12 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association
sometimes misguided, America has been and remains an important force for good in the world as humanity strives to improve into the future. My time serving reinforced my conviction that people should find meaning serving a cause beyond... View Details
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
to deliver high-quality goods or services in a cost-effective manner. This concept has become increasingly relevant to cardiac catheterization laboratories, as insurers move away from fee-for-service reimbursement and toward payment... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Feb 2022
- Op-Ed
Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC
can readily include standardized trustworthy data about the surge capacity plans of individual hospitals—updated in real time. Understandability. An expert should analyze plans and frame them in a way that the public would understand. A... View Details
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the Art of American Advertising - Advertising Products
single-sided sheets), simple business cards, or small newspaper notices. The growing volume of mass-produced and mass-distributed goods after the Civil War, however, led to the creation of diverse forms of advertising media. Advertising... View Details
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
minds on this important subject. TOP 10 MOST POPULAR WORKING PAPERS OF 2010 The Devil Wears Prada? Effects of Exposure to Luxury Goods on Cognition and Decision Making What psychological consequences do luxury View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 08 Feb 2010
- HBS Case
Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China
Google, the "do no evil" company, gained entry into the Chinese search engine market last decade by agreeing to ban search results on topics deemed sensitive by the Chinese government. To Google's way of thinking, it could do more View Details
- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
packs expire have largely failed. Kadakia must decide, preserve the product or pivot to a new business model? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817002-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-065 Delivering the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
emphasize developing good leadership drive an extra 10 percent premium in EPS , I think most CFOs and CEOs would salute those results." Several shifted the topic (or did they?) to followership, suggesting an interesting set of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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By: Karim R. Lakhani
Can America Invent Its Way Back?
BusinessWeek, by Michael Mandel, 12 Sept. 2008
Today, researchers are focusing on ways to make those... View Details
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
economic force is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using U.S. Census microdata on firm-level output, R&D, and patenting. The model provides a View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
confidently maintain and expand its leadership in education and research for future generations. HMC's investment portfolio is evolving. Repositioning of the portfolio's liquid assets— public equities and hedge funds—is well underway.... View Details
- 04 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
memories took place in national parks. I spent 80% of the pandemic going up and down parks along the Pacific Coast Highway. Using business skills to give back to an organization that had provided so much joy sounded too good to be true. I... View Details