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Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School
will be critical to how we think about processes, workflow, and our presence across HBS and Harvard. Our next steps will be to identify future needs as well as liaisons who will champion the work across units, administrative departments,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
because of the size and makeup of the audience it attracts." Of Fox's television contract with the NFL, Steve Greyser notes, "While many people thought Fox overpaid for its NFL rights, in reality it was a coup - with one stroke, the deal established Fox's credibility... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
Kirlin received a patent for recessed lighting, to this day a landmark innovation for Kirlin and its customers. Throughout Detroit’s ups and downs, Kirlin has remained a stalwart manufacturing presence and loyal member of the community.... View Details
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
tension among friends and families who are quarantining together: Hug each other regularly for 20 seconds. This is the amount of time it takes to boost levels of oxytocin—the so-called love hormone—in the brain to peak levels. “If you’re lucky enough to have the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
J. Terry Abstract—We experimentally test how effort responds to wages—randomly assigned to accrue to individuals or to a charity—in the presence of expectations-based reference points or targets. When individuals earn money for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
the choice between specific and generic disclosures of IP—and the optimal response by SSOs, including the royalty rate setting. We show that firms with a stronger downstream presence are more likely to opt for a generic disclosure, as are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
is a strong cluster environment. Our analysis also suggests that the presence of strong clusters in a region enhances growth opportunities in other industries and clusters. Overall, these findings highlight the important role of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
continue growing in the company's core business: equipment for the steel production. The second option offered growth in a related, but nearly new business for Tenova: the equipment for mining, mineral processing, and extractive metallurgy. They only had a small View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
attended primarily by Harvard doctoral candidates and young instructors; and Teaching by the Case Method, which attracted more senior professors from across the University. A Legendary Presence When asked to explain the transformational... View Details
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
to the purposes of the old consumption, according to the principles of the old capitalism. The new medium will not fulfill its historic destiny without a new enterprise logic capable of liberating its revolutionary potential. The presence... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
presence of war. Does the fall of Rome, the Battle of Shiloh, the Normandy Landings––and today’s wars—give proof of life or only of the struggle? The Panic of 1907: Heralding a New Era of Finance, Capitalism, and Democracy By Robert F.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
Discussion Leadership Skills, attended primarily by Harvard doctoral candidates and young instructors; and Teaching by the Case Method, which attracted more senior professors from across the University. A Legendary Presence When asked to... View Details
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
equilibrium. We relate these theoretical results to the job market for psychologists, in which stable matchings exist for all years of the data, despite the presence of couples. Download the paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w16028.pdf ... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
suffering incurred by the affected population. We use a political economy model of disaster prevention, supported by case studies and preliminary empirics to explain why some governments prepare well for disasters and others do not. We show how the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
develop a methodology to collect and analyze data on CEOs' time use. The idea—sketched out in a simple theoretical set-up—is that CEO time is a scarce resource and its allocation can help us identify the firm's priorities as well as the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
learning processes by their nature involve facing failures—problems, mistakes—head on. The presence of problems or mistakes doesn't signal high performance to most people who might be watching. Some scholars go so far as to define... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
would you advise foreign investors to protect themselves? A: CME viewed a local partner as a substitute for a local presence—I think this is a critical mistake. Remarkably, CME had no local presence and no independent sources of... View Details
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
has more questions than answers. "I don't know what my overall conclusion will be yet, but I would like to draw some lessons from this eventually—either determine that these interventions are a good idea, and here is what can be done to make it work. Or, this can... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
the flipside of the coin was the danger. I lost three of my bodyguards to a suicide bomber. Later, we were ambushed twice. The second time around was very serious. My armored car took 24 hits. When did you realize that the American View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
(forthcoming) An abstract is unavailable at this time. The Variance of Non-Parametric Treatment Effect Estimators in the Presence of Clustering Authors:Samuel G. Hanson and Adi Sunderam Publication:The Review of Economics and Statistics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne