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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
apparent, however, is her passion and drive, whether she’s describing a recent IPO, her work with the Food Bank for New York City, or her relationship with God. Whatever the topic, her words come thick and fast, demonstrating the impressive power of breath View Details
- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
the abuse of H-1B visas is as old as the program itself. “I had 3 trainees; each learned a different facet of my job. None of them had near the knowledge or experience as me. I was the lucky American who found work elsewhere and left on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
first-order importance. The second part is whether I have a clever way of studying it. Can I design an experiment to isolate exactly what I think the causal mechanism is? It’s not just that A happens and then B happens, but can I actually... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
computer, is also a challenge, as quantum error correction requires adding more qubits—and that means yet more noisy control equipment. The whole situation is so messy arrnd unstable that industry insiders call this the noisy... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
PayPal, and Square developed lending operations, and American Express and Capital One entered the field. Now there is a wide array of large and small companies investing deeply in tech, all centered around recreating the lending View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
for idiosyncratic products that features the optimal stopping structure and a seller that learns about item-specific demand through the selling process. The model is estimated using novel panel data of a leading used-car dealership. Policy View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own national plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that drive... View Details
- Profile
Patrick Chun
you invest in regimes that are out of favor, what issues do you need to think about? This is a relevant topic that will become more relevant as economies and companies continue to become more global." The second study, a venture deep-dive with former View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
Policy Experiment By: Alfaro, Laura, Anusha Chari, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—Emerging-market governments adopted capital control taxes to manage the massive surge in foreign capital inflows in the aftermath... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
Later: Decreasing Impatience over Time in Online Grocery Orders" by Todd Rogers, Katherine L. Milkman, and Max H. Bazerman. TIP #2 - Put your money where your mouth is. Leslie John, now an assistant professor at HBS, led an experiment at... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
John Dearden Remembered
and opportunities it would pose,” said McFarlan, a student in the first class Dearden taught at the School. Dearden chaired the Control faculty from 1968 to 1970 and served three times as head of the required first-year MBA course in that... View Details
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
markets allow the backward linkages between foreign and domestic firms to turn into FDI spillovers. Our calibration exercises indicate that a) holding the extent of foreign presence constant, financially well-developed economies View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 5/5
our Classmates in an effort to elevate this message: “On behalf of your Black classmates: we’re not okay, and you shouldn’t be either”. The letters are meant to remove the onus too often placed on Black students to discuss and teach fellow classmates about the lived... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
crazy,” “the best family business has one member,” “weekends are for working, not playing golf or coaching,” “never pay your vendors on time,” “wear your control freak badge with pride,” and “quit denial: if your business is failing... View Details
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
larger number of organizations. The researchers have also started to work on management experiments, modeled on the randomized control trials adopted in the medical field. This experimental approach is much... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
company returned to signage as well, but this time used licensed partners NeoLux (Korea), Midori Mark (Japan), and Motion Display (Sweden) to sell its trademark Ink-In-Motion displays for point of sale promotion. Wilcox recalls another near-death View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
controlled by code. And this has all happened at the hands of a relatively small group of people, with largely homogenous backgrounds. As more people, and especially ones from more diverse backgrounds, gain the ability to manipulate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
Clarke Rowan Clarke Can a Chatbot Be an Entrepreneurship Mentor? In the first-known randomized test of the impact of GenAI on firms in a developing economy, Rembrand Koning, the Mary V. and Mark A. Stevens Associate Professor of Business... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
without controversy, to be a tool for empowering women. Here, using a randomized controlled trial, we examine whether access to and marketing of an individually held commitment savings product lead to an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
solution. “It’s critical to think through the culture that you’re building, your approach to meetings and asynchronous work, and how leaders are going to set the behavioral tone from the top. This is an opportunity to shift the conversation from command and View Details