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- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
and doesn’t let skilled migrants come in, there will be the loss of the first-order effect, which is the knowledge being transferred from their geography to here,” Choudhury says. “But the bigger loss would... View Details
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-057.pdf Optimal Auction Design and Equilibrium Selection in Sponsored Search Auctions Authors:Benjamin Edelman and Michael Schwarz An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-054.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51040 forthcoming American Journal of Health Promotion The Effect of Cost Sharing on an Employee Weight Loss Program: A Randomized Trial By: John, Leslie K., Andrea Troxel,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
It is estimated that one billion people around the world need vision correction but don't have glasses because they are too expensive or simply unavailable. The resulting losses in productivity and self-sufficiency may reach as much as... View Details
Keywords: eyeglasses
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
Associate Professor of Business Administration at HBS. “You are losing hundreds of billions in raw economic activity each month—and that’s not even accounting for all the other forms of loss the pandemic has caused. So you can put a lot... View Details
- Web
HBSGrid Project Directory Space Notifications - Research Computing Services
result in a loss of data. As you work, please regularly check your space usage. To check the amount of space you are currently using in a project directory enter this command in an SSH (or ‘terminal’) session: researchgrid$ df -h... View Details
- 03 Mar 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
cybersecurity resulted in losses of $500 billion in 2014, but we’re only spending about $100 billion to address the problem. There’s a huge gap between the size of the threat and our ability to detect it. + ONLINE web-only content... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Portrait Project
May Lam
I was breathless as a sense of loss swept through me. The Tibetan monks had just washed away a sand mandala, an intricate art piece that took them weeks to build using millions of grains of colored sand. This process of creation and... View Details
- 19 Dec 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
New Year, New Habits
entrepreneurs. Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior Psychological nudges can be a cost-effective way for governments to get citizens to do the right thing. 5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists Behavioral... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Students Forecast Climate Change’s Impact
profitability, and to illustrate the impact, Vail recorded a $2 million loss in the second quarter of 2008 compared to 2007.” Fix: Become an All-Weather Destination. “Vail should... become a recreational center that also offers skiing. By... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
was to improve corporate governance and restore the faith of investors, but many in the business world spoke out against SOX, viewing it as a politically motivated overcorrection that would lead to a loss of risk-taking and... View Details
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
time-driven ABC projects pay back in less than a year. It's quite impressive to take companies with millions of transactions and customers, and be able to prepare detailed and accurate profit and loss statements, at various levels of... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 06 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best
experiment began. "We thought, and even the company's managers thought, the real-punitive condition would be the one where the salesperson would show the most effort," Chung says. "It's the theory of loss aversion, View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Mark Tatum
In the case of Mark Tatum, medicine's loss will surely be the business world's gain. Almost since the day he was born in a war-torn village in Vietnam, his Jamaican-born father and Vietnamese mother had dreamed of the day their firstborn... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; photograph by Webb Chappell
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
government budgets—even as demand for public services peaks. Many predict that losses in the next fiscal year will be even worse because persistent record-high unemployment will significantly impact income tax revenue, says Green. Cash on... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
the same way at every school—single tie breaking—in a student-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism. Any inefficiency associated with a realized tie breaking cannot be removed without harming student incentives. Finally, we empirically document the extent of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
2.3.1 Drug & Alcohol Policy | MBA
health hazard. Students, faculty, and staff should also weigh the seriousness of potential loss of function that may come from using illicit drugs or drinking too much alcohol. Because of the considerable health risks involved in drug and... View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?
immense cost to individuals, and the economy in general, of a loss of trust in our business institutions and those who lead them. We know a few things on which to base a judgment. First, any organization can best avoid View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Apr 2019
- Research Event
Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture
firm but by most companies today. Yes, women were struggling to be fully present at home and work, but so were men. An always-on culture and gender-role expectations were to blame, not motherhood. And men were mourning the loss of their... View Details
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
elastically supplied inputs, free entry may lead to an inefficiently high number of firms in equilibrium. Under input scarcity, however, the welfare loss from free entry is reduced. Further, free entry may increase use of high-quality... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace