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  • January 1995
  • Background Note

A Note on Distribution of Venture Investments

By: Josh Lerner
Venture capitalists typically exit investments by distributing shares to investors. These transfers pose challenges for these investors. Predictions and evidence about the behavior of stock prices of firms around the time of these distributions are presented. View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Venture Capital; Stocks; Investment; Price
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By: Julian J. Zlatev
First, Professor Zlatev studies how people make decisions that reinforce a sense that they are good or moral. He studies the psychology behind dual motive behaviors—actions that incorporate self-interested and prosocial motives—and the structure of moral identity. For... View Details
  • 02 Feb 2017
  • News

Growing and Competing at the Local Level

feet, and move on to the next one. “With the Wisconsin Center for Manufacturing and Productivity, we are one of the 51 manufacturing extension partnership centers across the country to help small View Details

    New Perspectives on Regulation

    New regulation shouldn't rely on old ideas. Since the 1960s, influential research on government failure helped to drive the movement for deregulation and privatization. Yet even as this branch of research was flourishing, very different ideas were sprouting in the... View Details
    • January 2008 (Revised January 2008)
    • Case

    Two Brattle Center: A Mental-Health Clinic in Search of a Viable Operating Model

    By: Robert G. Eccles
    Two Brattle Center (TBC) is a struggling for-profit private mental health clinic based in Harvard Square. Its founder, Dr. Joan Wheelis, is a nationally recognized practicing psychiatrist who has developed outpatient treatment programs based on Dialectical Behavior... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Medical Specialties; Nonprofit Organizations; Emotions; Health Industry; United States
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    • 01 Jun 2022
    • News

    June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

    achieve success, have meaningful relationships, make a difference to society and secure a fulfilling and happy life. This book will help you discover how your paradigm is... View Details
    Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
    • 17 Jul 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

    social risk and fiscal risk. Social risk management makes attractive programs that ameliorate market failures in bad economic times. Fiscal risk management makes unattractive... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    Taste Heterogeneity, IIA, and the Similarity Critique

    By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Andrew Ainslie

    The purpose of this paper is to show that allowing for taste heterogeneity does not address the similarity critique of discrete-choice models. Although IIA may technically be broken in aggregate, the mixed logit model allows neither a given individual nor the... View Details

    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Mathematical Methods; Behavior; Prejudice and Bias
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    • September 2021
    • Article

    Perceptions on Undertaking Regular Asymptomatic Self-testing for COVID-19 Using Lateral Flow Tests: A Qualitative Study of University Students and Staff

    By: Marta Wanat, Mary Logan, Jennifer A. Hirst, Charles Vicary, Joseph J. Lee, Rafael Perera, Irene Tracey, Gordon Duff, Peter Tufano, Thomas Fanshawe, Lazaro Mwandigha, Brian D. Nicholson, Sarah Tonkin-Crine and Richard Hobbs
    Objectives: Successful implementation of asymptomatic testing programmes using lateral flow tests (LFTs) depends on several factors, including feasibility, acceptability and how people act on test results. We aimed to examine experiences of university students... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Self-testing; Health Pandemics; Health Testing and Trials; Behavior
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    • 15 Jan 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

    December 19, 2018 NEJM Catalyst It's Time to Reform the Orphan Drug Act By: Bagley, Nicholas, Amitabh Chandra, Craig Garthwaite, and Ariel Dora Stern Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 05 Jun 2020
    • News

    How to recognize the signs of burnout from stress

    • Research Summary

    Overview

    By: Aiyesha Dey
    Professor Dey’s research explores governance and agency conflicts, board structure, governance regulation and corporate behavior, ownership structure, and the relation between executives’ characteristics and corporate behavior. In analyzing corporate governance... View Details
    • Web

    Published CSV Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    settings. CVS had to navigate a rapidly shifting competitive environment. Discovery Limited by Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer, and Aldo Sesia Discovery Ltd. is a South-African based insurance company. Started in the early 1990s,... View Details
    • 12 Sep 2023
    • Book

    Successful, But Still Feel Empty? A Happiness Scholar and Oprah Have Advice for You

    goals, is the backbone of Brooks’ new book with Oprah Winfrey, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier. They weave together the best happiness how-tos from social psychology, View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 19 Mar 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

    innovations might impact—and be impacted by—workers, consumers, organizations, and society. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55845 March 2019 Organizational Behavior View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 07 Feb 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

    consulted before making decisions; what decisions can they make; what should be escalated. 6. Encourage an outside-in and collaborative ecosystem perspective Digital... View Details
    Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
    • 2010
    • Chapter

    A Contingency Theory of Leadership

    By: Jay W. Lorsch
    The idea of a contingency theory of leadership is not novel. In the 1960s several scholars conducted research and proposed such an approach arguing that the style of leadership that would be most effective depended upon the situation (Fiedler, Tannenbaum and Schmidt,... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership Style; Situation or Environment; Behavior; Theory
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    • 07 Mar 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Effective Leaders Share the Spotlight with Their Teams

    between managers and team members that might be difficult to gauge any other way. Combing through data that included 10,673 managers and 2,316 firms from 2010 to 2019, the researchers examined the... View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
    • 28 Sep 2023
    • News

    Meet the New HBS Team Helping Alumni Clubs and Associations to Thrive

    Clubs News Clubs News Guided by Harvard Business School’s mission to educate leaders who make a difference in the world, the HBS Global Alumni Clubs & Associations Network provides thousands of opportunities to create View Details
    Keywords: Margie Kelley; community service
    • 08 Sep 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

    Should tall people pay higher taxes than the rest of us? It is an idea that is bound to raise eyebrows, if not a smile. Yet the underlying notion is not entirely silly, grounded as it is in serious questions about why we tax the way we do View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace