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- 21 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
The most captivating item in Michael Norton's office is a Star Wars The Force Trainer, a toy that allows would-be Jedi warriors to levitate a Ping-Pong ball within a tube using only the power of focused thinking. Norton, a marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
HBS alumni often describe the MBA Program as a transformational experience. That observation especially rings true for students such as Meredith Weenick, Neera Nundy, Abdu Mukhtar, and Jonathan Hodgson who participate in the Nonprofit and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
signal to resolve the information asymmetry that exists. We provide evidence, however, that participants are much more likely to pursue a pooling outcome when such an outcome is available. This result is important for research and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
what used to be a rather blunt tool. That we live in a world of politically independent yet economically interdependent states was already a platitude by the time of Adam Smith. As long as we live in that world, we will be forced to face... View Details
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
developmental and foreign policy goals. Specifically, we argue that tax credits for companies, and tax breaks for individuals, can be used to incentivize productive investments while being a positive force for meaningful reform in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
director of the Brady Commission, a task force created to examine ways to avoid another stock market crash like Black Monday on October 24. “It was hard not to say yes,” he recalls. After the commission completed its report, Glauber... View Details
- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
initiatives and projects created by the School to foster interdisciplinary research on the great problems and opportunities facing society—including such topics as business and the environment, health care, US competitiveness, social enterprise, and leadership. Driving... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
image by Edmon de Haro image by Edmon de Haro Boris Eykher (MBA 2009) and Ilya Chernilovskiy (MBA 2013) watched the 2015 global price slump in commodities with horror. Prices for commodities fell to their lowest levels since the financial crisis, sending mining... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- Profile
Bruce Gago
successfully in a vacuum. Having participated in hundreds of case discussions, two independent study research projects, and an IXP in Malaysia, I now have a much broader perspective on business--and on life--which I believe has made me a... View Details
- Profile
Rawiah Abdallah
forget which class you're in because the cases always include multiple issues — finance, entrepreneurship, government policy — like the real world. It's not about functions in isolation; it's how they interact, the overall strategic view. You see how different View Details
- Profile
Brett Gibson
Although his grandfather was a "full-bird" Marine Corps Colonel who had served in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, Brett Gibson had not considered the military as a career option and did not participate in ROTC while in... View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
victory for organized labor in a context where New Deal era legislation—most notably the National Labor Relations Act of 1935—created a labor friendly environment in the short... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Julio Cedeno
"And I realized that advancing at Chevron would mean even more long-distance." Julio continued exploring his options by participating in Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a nonprofit that helps underrepresented minority... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Books
provide research results about publicly traded companies to help investors make more profitable decisions. But during the past decade, the integrity of this research has been questioned due to concerns over conflicts of interest. The authors explain the View Details
- 18 Apr 2011
- News
Capitalism Meets Conservation
compensate. If all Spring Reunion classes participate fully, it would result in a 15-acre forest of 7,600 trees, absorbing over 5.8 million pounds of carbon dioxide. Attendance at an HBS Business and Environment Initiative conference in... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
sectors." Wilkins adds that this is perhaps an upside to the tragedies New Orleans has endured: "The beauty of Katrina—if there is a silver lining to Katrina—is it washed a lot of problems away. It forced the city to start over and do... View Details
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
long hours, most folks are being forced to do that with minimal compensation." Patrick Coomans placed some blame on "the weak job protection employees have in the US." Sid Mehta, who reminded us that Greece has the longest... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
economic troubles correlating with ethical and spiritual lapses, including Zimbabwe, where prolonged violations of human rights and citizen participation have rendered the masses economically impotent. Several national economies in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
have been researching the root causes and consequences of the crisis in the intervening decade, helping to shape our understanding of the economic and financial forces that brought us to the brink. MORE Former Treasury Secretaries Hank... View Details
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
government intervention, two of the principal forces that influence variation in firm profitability. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54835 forthcoming Journal of Economics & Management Strategy... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne