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- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
discounting is robust to various controls for unobserved proposal quality and alternative explanations. Additional tests suggest information effects rather than strategic effects account for the novelty penalty. Only a minority of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
Abstract Stigmatized minorities may have an advantage in persuading majority group members during some face-to-face interactions due to the greater self-presentational demands such interactions elicit. In contrast to models which predict... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
people he knows, but can he persuade Congress to act? If he’s a good communicator and good negotiator and good creator of shared value, he’ll figure out something that works for House Speaker Paul Ryan and for Senate Minority Leader Chuck... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
deal with Cuba.” In reality, the policy changes entailed reinstating some minor restrictions on US travel, but in effect, it sent the message to potential American visitors that Cuba was once again closed. Two months later, reports began... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
shoplifters an alternative to the criminal justice system and reduce the cost associated with prosecuting a relatively minor crime. Here’s how it works: When a shoplifter is apprehended, no one calls the police. Instead, the offender is... View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information | Annual Report 2024
back to in-person learning after the COVID pandemic. Total enrollment remained flat in fiscal 2024 at nearly 42,000, as the percentage of women increased from the prior year while enrollment of international and minority participants... View Details
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
decile of time, Ptrend < .0001) compared with qualitatively stable levels in the other hospitals; this reduction was driven largely by decreases in the minor severity (Ptrend < .0001), compensated (Ptrend < .0001), and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
incorrectly. Sorry for being picky on a seemingly minor point, and I promise not to take on American pronunciation of a host of words! James Sinclair (MBA ’82) São Paulo, Brazil Dean McArthur Praised I did not have the privilege of being... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren. "The world of business has been governed by an implicit leadership model," Beer explains. "With the exception of a minority of CEOs, however—those we interviewed and others like them—the purpose of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
awards, including the early career award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities and the Southern Sociological Society’s Junior Scholar Award. Victor is also an active public scholar,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
East, and then burning it up in the atmosphere. Every part of that equation has to stop in the next decade, or we are going to have a carbon crisis that is going to make this financial crisis look like a minor blip.” Progress in deploying... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
adds. "Long-term success in modern operations and information systems management is increasingly dependent on an understanding of the importance of details - as well as the details themselves," Upton elaborates. "The ability to react to and exploit apparently View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
management believes the relationships between these key financial and nonfinancial metrics to be. Most companies have a great deal of work to do in this area. A 2008 KPMG CSR survey found that "Only a minority 16 percent of G250 companies... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
small town like Calhoun, Langford says. That’s more or less how he and his family came to foster a young child whose parents couldn’t care for her. The girl’s father, jailed on minor drug charges, was known to Langford—his grandmother had... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
strategic blunder is when managers set their hurdles too high or limit the scope of their innovation efforts. Quaker Oats, for instance, was so busy in the 1990s making minor tweaks to its product formulas that it missed larger... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
producing some 1,700 pounds a day, Crop One boasted 24 plant varieties to the Japanese company’s 4. The Emirates farm is scheduled to have its first harvests this year, and plans for national expansion are now under way. Crop One will only be a View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
NFL, sported an acclaimed broadcast unit, and had affiliates in virtually all important U.S. markets. Yet acquisition of these NFL rights directly enabled the expansion of Fox, then a minor broadcaster, into the media behemoth of today.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
(R-KY) cheered: “2017 was the best year for conservatives in the 30 years that I’ve been here. The best year on all fronts.” But Democrats attacked the bill from several angles. House Minority Leader (and former Speaker) Nancy Pelosi... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
"What can you do for this company?" as opposed to "What's your deal-making experience?" The company found that minorities and women rose to the top in the candidate pool from these very small changes. So there are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace