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Africa - Global
admissions and outreach activities on the continent. Locations Africa Research Center: Johannesburg Johannesburg, South Africa Africa Research Center: Lagos Lagos, Nigeria Africa Research Center: Nairobi Nairobi, Kenya News & Highlights MAY 2025 View Details
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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research
factor, their research showed, because people experience more joy during their limited free time than while working or doing household chores. Interestingly, however, what people did with their extra time was more important than how many... View Details
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?
where these entrepreneurs live, forming them into groups, and asking people which of their neighbors have the most potential to grow their business. Roth: About 10 years ago, Natalia and I did a randomized View Details
- 10 Nov 2015
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Using an MBA for a Career Change
file cabinets?? So I applied to business schools and was lucky enough to be admitted to HBS. I tried out things I never would have done had I stayed in auditing. HBS FIELD 2 at Dafiti.com in Sao PauloAcademic immersion View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
other extant signaling game models in the operations management literature. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50107 Incentives versus Reciprocity: Insights from a Field View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 27
literacy stifle demand. A second view argues that demand is rationally low, because formal financial services are expensive and of relatively low value to the poor. This paper uses original surveys and a field View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why People Crave Feedback—and Why We’re Afraid to Give It
provider that they had an unsightly smudge on their face. The field study points to an uncomfortable truth: Even in cases where people have little to lose, they withhold needed feedback from others who could use it. Part of the reason why... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success
end-to-end customer experiences in an unforgiving dynamic economy. As one executive put it, in a hyperconnected world, competitors can "pop up from anywhere and everywhere." With rising expectations of customers and other stakeholders, no... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7
experiment to measure the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional ownership in particular, lost value on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches
Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment. McFowland coauthored the paper with Jui Ramaprasad of the University of Maryland, Ravi Bapna of the University of Minnesota, Probal Mojumdar of Indian Institute... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 05 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 5
count, patent count, and publication count, as well as their citations and the collaborative nature between funded and unfunded firms. Because randomization of the sample was not feasible, we address endogeneity around selection bias... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2023
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So You Want to Join a Startup
regional franchise of a fast-growing restaurant promotion company, was ultimately successful, named to the Inc 500 list of fastest growing private US companies, and launching Bessalel's 30-year career as an entrepreneur and investor. Bessalel leans on those decades of... View Details
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HBS - The year in Review
Entrepreneurial Management Associate Professor Associate Professor Mark L. Egan Finance FIELD Immersion Experience Returns After a two-year hiatus because of COVID-19, the first-year required View Details
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Asia Pacific - Global
leveling the playing field between retail investors and institutional investors. In addition, he also explored the implications of misinformation for managers and discussed ways in which managers could play a more proactive role in... View Details
- 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007
introducing a generation to the practice of personal computing and laying the foundation for the Information Age. Gates and Jobs turned their curiosity about electronics into a multi-billion dollar industry. From early experiments like... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details
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Japan - Global
opportunity to hear directly from Ms. Fernandez and engage with a panel of local alumni. The session offered valuable insights into the HBS MBA experience and provided a meaningful platform for attendees to connect with alumni and fellow... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
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Wide Horizon
hypothesis using blood from children with ASD, and SFARI obliged. He had gone from challenging the existing powers in the field to working with them to solve common problems. Rodakis is recounting this View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
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Unintended Consequences of Fundraising Tactics
Charity fundraisers use a variety of methods to increase donations, with three of the most common being matching funds, seed money, and thank you gifts. Field experiments have shown that matching funds (Eckel and Grossman, 2008) and seed money (List and Lucking-Reiley,... View Details
- 16 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 16
environment in which it occurs—affect the dissemination of knowledge from subfields to the broader field of study. Micro-process research in organizational studies rests on implicit phenomenological assumptions that vary in the extent to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace