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  • 28 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

deliberation. The Bank should also encourage debate on the project or policy reform in national legislatures prior to board discussion; The Implementation, Supervision, and Completion stage should use... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
  • 15 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 15, 2016

sketch some important implications. Third, we review the national gatekeepers for skilled migration and broad differences in approaches used to select migrants for admission. Looking forward, the capacity of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2024
  • Blog Post

Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management

development, operations, and project management. Conor Sullivan, Investment Director for the Social Outcomes Fund, and Claudia Cheung, Program Director for the Bridges Outcomes... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
  • 08 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 8, 2006

recency) but are more cautious (positive recency). Paper not available Learning and Equilibrium As Useful Approximations: Accuracy of Prediction on Randomly Selected Constant Sum Games Author:Ido Erev, Alvin... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs

one-standard-deviation increase in store labor brought about a 10 percent increase in profit margin. These findings ran contrary to the thinking of store managers that Ton interviewed. They consistently identified service quality as a top indicator of store... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 07 Sep 2017
  • Blog Post

How One Organization Increased Their Internship Yield

Murphy, “Companies have put tremendous time, thought and management resources into selecting and evaluating new talent, the potential leaders of... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
  • 05 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2007

own ethicality. We argue that the temporal trichotomy of prediction, action and evaluation is central to these misperceptions: People predict that they will behave more ethically than they actually do, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 21

source of information contains greater bias and slant-text written by an expert or that constructed via collective intelligence? Do the costs of acquiring, storing, displaying, and revising information shape... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

The Impact of Career Coaching | When Mission Meets Passion

develop Auditory Insight’s go-to-market strategy. For example, he helped me think through how to expand Auditory Insight’s offerings to address the needs of venture capital and private equity firms View Details
  • 28 Nov 2023
  • Blog Post

Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Duolingo

HBS with a virtual event to invite students to learn more about the company and summer internship opportunities. From there, students are invited to apply and applications are reviewed by Shehata View Details
Keywords: Technology
  • 12 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

taught in a module devoted to utilizing customer-operators to improve service operations (HBS 608-135). The exercise is taught in three parts: in-class workshop, project presentation, and post-exercise poll.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: January 5

that action is taken to address the problems, and (3) communicating about actions taken. Sixty-nine randomly selected hospitals, 20 of which were randomly selected to engage in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ali Evans (MBA 2019)

technology companies. I spend most of my time focused on sourcing, evaluating and executing new investment opportunities in the healthcare technology sector. Additionally, I serve on the board of directors... View Details
  • 16 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 16

more credible monitoring regimes to reduce information asymmetries between themselves and their suppliers. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2343802   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 514-064... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 7, 2006

engineering development and construction projects. In what ways are the challenges of managing large, complex projects different from the challenges of managing other large industrial activities? How is it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 24

across sectors and reduced private-sector rents. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2365524 Scrutiny, Norms, and Selective Disclosure: A Global Study of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Dec 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry

Integration, Not Intellectual Property The "great embarrassment" of twentieth-century medicine, despite its many strides, is that most therapeutics were directed at symptoms, not causes, said Eric S. Lander, a leader of the Human Genome View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 09 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 9

and then prepared and delivered a speech to two evaluators as part of a mock job interview. All interview speeches were videotaped and coded for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

of sugary drinks. Four well-powered, incentive-compatible experiments evaluate two possible ways in which firms might comply with such a policy: bundles (i.e., dividing the contents of oversized cups into two regulation-sized cups) View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 23

priority criteria, e.g., waiting time, medical urgency, etc., or a combination thereof. Rather than making specific assumptions about fairness principles or priority criteria, our method offers the designer the flexibility to select his... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne