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30 Nov 2012
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Five Doctoral Candidates Receive Research Awards

14 Dec 2010
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Five Doctoral Students Win Research Awards

01 Mar 2023
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Research Brief: Great Expectations

The narrative surrounding employees who are passionate about their jobs holds so much sway in today’s workplace that it has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. “Ultimately, if you believe in a passionate person, they will perform better,” observes Assistant Professor... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

04 Feb 2011
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New Summer Programs Focus on Research

01 Sep 2014
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The Changing Nature of Research

deepens, the cost of conducting powerful, relevant, practical, and broad-based research increases. Because research today encompasses a wider range of approaches and methodologies than ever before—and often... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Research Brief: Staying in the Game

to make bankruptcy more accessible and less costly for small businesses. Only 11 percent of small business owners were aware of it. In their survey, the researchers also found that 70 percent of respondents believed those who file for... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Sep 2024
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Research Brief: Hear Me Out

seem to be listening to what everyone else is saying? Assistant Professor Julian Zlatev teamed up with two researchers to better understand that question. Across six studies and 2,500 subjects, their findings were consistent: The higher a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2018
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Research Brief: Bargaining for Better

eighth-grade girls in 41 schools throughout Lusaka, Zambia, who were trained in negotiation skills by local women. “Before this, there was almost no research telling us that negotiation training is effective anywhere—not even for MBAs,”... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Sep 2023
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Research Brief: Making Way for Moonshots

Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Many innovations in modern medicine have come about due to cutting-edge drugs—advances that required both a scientific leap and a willingness to take risks. And while most pharmaceutical companies would... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

17 Dec 2015
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Conducting Research That Influences Practice

Tami Kim, a doctoral student at HBS, is conducting research into how the restaurant business could benefit from transparency—literally—by making it possible for chefs and diners to see one another. Her findings on employee and customer... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies

than 2 percent of all research published in the leading finance journals. Accordingly, in early July, HBS finance professor Peter Tufano organized a conference for eighty researchers from the United States... View Details

01 Apr 2002
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Emerging Research on Emerging Markets

Is significant foreign direct investment in China a good thing? Conventional wisdom says yes, but HBS associate professor Yasheng Huang disagrees. "Large-scale absorption of foreign direct investment by China is not a sign of the strengths of its economy but of its... View Details

Keywords: Yasheng Huang; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jan 2010
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Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowships in Entrepreneurship Research

01 Jun 2023
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Research Brief: The Best Medicine

the clinical approval process. In a survey experiment, the researchers found that 72 percent of doctors had been asked by their patients whether a new drug would “work in people like me.” Black patients and the doctors who treat them put... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2017
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The Changing Nature of Research

Professor Raffaella Sadun Professor Raffaella Sadun The commitment to advancing thought leadership has been integral to HBS’s identity since the School’s founding more than a century ago. Over the past decade, HBS faculty members have been employing an ever-widening... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters

they arrive at their decisions, and where biases may enter the process,” says Professor Karim Lakhani. The working paper “Do Experts Listen to Other Experts? Field Experimental Evidence from Scientific Peer Review,” by Lakhani and a group of View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers