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- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
consists of (1) two firms competing in a vertically differentiated market in which product quality is a mix of public and private components and (2) a market for developers that firms hire after observing signals of their contributions to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
"We see infrastructure as a $60 trillion opportunity." —Jeffrey Immelt (MBA 1982), CEO, General Electric "Transportation offers the single best opportunity to make cities livable and affordable." —Scott Griffith, former CEO, Zipcar America has come to a crossroads—but... View Details
- 28 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews
identically distributed signals of true quality," he says. "Essentially, they treat a restaurant that gets three five-star reviews followed by three one-star reviews the same way that they treat a restaurant that gets three one-star... View Details
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
a place where someone like me can enter and feel a strong affection and affinity? How do we signal that this is an institution that on its surface could be exclusionary but has resisted that impulse by taking intentional efforts to make... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
them. And so I sort of approached the investment process with some degree of skepticism in terms of how interested they would be, and it was a very fast turnaround. They basically decided in a day to invest in our seed round, and it was-- that was probably the first... View Details
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
through bankruptcy could have sent a signal to Apollo's limited partners—and to its competitors—that the firm wasn't "willing to support its less successful investments, undermining future fund-raising efforts or its ability to... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
patterns of their male colleagues," says coauthor Kolb. And without women in high places, younger women lack the role models and mentors to help them succeed. It seems the organization is signaling that being female is a liability,... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
caring for children, leaders must be sensitive to issues of exhaustion and the difficulty of working during pre-pandemic office hours. "Leadership signaling that working unorthodox hours is okay could make a real difference to their... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
signal to people that there will be demand in the future and things are going to get better. The way to send that signal, in his view, was through deficit spending. If the government borrowed heavily and spent the money, that would send a... View Details
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
thresholds for perceiving minds behind out-group faces (Experiment 3). These experiments suggest that mind perception is a dynamic process in which relevant contextual information such as social identity and out-group threat change the interpretation of physical... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
SEI25 Series: Misan Rewane, MBA 2013, CEO, WAVE
degree credentials and work experience as proxies for competencies in entry-level recruitment, employers signal the wrong focus to educators and young people. As a result, educators and students prioritize schooling over skilling,... View Details
- 20 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Taking Care to Prepare Leaders: Lessons in Leadership Development from DaVita Kidney Care
that many companies don’t do much after the program,” she says. “Bring participants together, perhaps quarterly or at least twice a year, to swap stories and trade ideas. These sessions not only reinforce bonding, but signal to everyone... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
development rendering some knowledge obsolete and a global knowledge explosion democratizing access to the rest. Titles are losing their signaling value. Autocrats of the breakfast table (a book title 150 years ago) get pushback from... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
development. Research with adults suggests that the concern with fairness has at least two distinct components: a desire to be fair but also a desire to signal to others that they are fair. We explore whether children's developing concern... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—We present an extrapolative model of bubbles. In the model, many investors form their demand for a risky asset by weighing two signals: an average of the asset’s past price changes and the asset’s degree of overvaluation. The two View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
complex industries such as clean technology stays the same while the number of software companies increases, then the approach is still a net benefit. If, however, the number of complex companies that get funded decreases in favor of quicker and easier companies, then... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
devise a new way to do contact tracing, Weiss says, “I became very interested because I’ve been so focused on the question, ‘Can governments try new things?’” Bluetooth vs. GPS Technology When TraceTogether is downloaded and left running, the mobile application... View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
software works by interpreting patterns in the pixels of digital video images that signal attempts to override or skip checkout scanners. ScanItAll can also detect fraud at self-checkout counters, a growing problem in retail worldwide.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
(Environmental Insights) COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge Many elite companies already use their building’s efficiency or grandeur to send a signal to customers and... View Details