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    Riding the Passion Wave or Fighting to Stay Afloat? A Theory of Differentiated Passion Contagion

    Prior research suggests employees benefit from highly passionate teammates because passion spreads easily from one employee to the next. We develop theory to propose that life in high-passion teams may not be as uniformly advantageous as previously assumed. More... View Details

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    Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

    sheer virtuosity.” [23] For over a century and a half, Lehman Brothers’ ability to seek out new investment opportunities contributed to the country’s economic growth, job creation, and standard of living. By... View Details
    • 2014
    • Teaching Note

    Microfinance Services in Rural Areas--Farmers' Self-reliance Branch of CFPA Microfinance in Shangyi County (TN)

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Yang Siqun and Shen Meihua
    Microfinance is introduced into China in the 1990s. It had gone through 3 phases since the beginning, namely the pilot phase when all Microfinance practices are sponsored by charity funds based on projects, the promotion phase when the government subsidized some... View Details
    Keywords: Microfinance; Rural Entrepreneurship; Value Added; China; China
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    • June 2025
    • Article

    Riding the Passion Wave or Fighting to Stay Afloat? A Theory of Differentiated Passion Contagion

    By: Emma Frank, Kai Krautter, Wen Wu and Jon M. Jachimowicz
    Prior research suggests that employees benefit from highly passionate teammates because passion spreads easily from one employee to the next. We develop theory to propose that life in high-passion teams may not be as uniformly advantageous as previously assumed. We... View Details
    Keywords: Passion; Emotional Contagion; Emotions; Groups and Teams; Employees; Power and Influence; Performance Improvement
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    • 15 May 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing

    years, when he "drove exuberantly." Car-sharing companies like Zipcar provide customers with a similar opportunity for exuberance by turning driving back into a treat. Whereas traditional car rental companies choose standard... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Michael I. Norton
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    Time-driven Activity-based Costing of Multivessel Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting across National Boundaries to Identify Improvement Opportunities: Study Protocol

    By: F. Erhun, B. Mistry, T. Platcheck, A. Milstein, V.G. Narayanan and R. S. Kaplan
    Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery is a common treatment for coronary artery disease—a disease that affects over 10% of US adults and is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. In 2005, the mean cost for a CABG procedure among Medicare beneficiaries in the... View Details
    Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; United States; India
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    • 03 Feb 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates

    When the FBI charged Shawn Hogan and two others with defrauding eBay of about $21 million in affiliate marketing sales, Benjamin G. Edelman was watching closely behind the scenes. Edelman's name rarely came up at the time View Details
    Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Publishing
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    No Mask, No Service: Customer Reaction to Walmart’s 2020 National Mask Mandate

    By: Innessa Colaiacovo
    Multi-location firms face a complex series of economic tradeoffs when deciding whether to implement standard processes or allow processes to vary across establishments. One element of this tradeoff is customer response. This paper explores customer reaction to a... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Geographic Location; Policy; Health Pandemics; Retail Industry; United States
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    • 2017
    • Report

    The American Angel: The First In-Depth Report on the Demographics and Investing Activity of Individual American Angel Investors

    By: Laura Huang, Andy Wu, Min Ju Lee, Jiayi Bao, Marianne Hudson and Elaine Bolle
    Early-stage financing from angel investors is critical to the success of high-growth startups. Recent estimates suggest that annual US angel investment activity may total as much as $24 billion each year, contributing to the growth and success of more than 64,000... View Details
    Keywords: Angel Investors; Geography; Risk; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Demographics; Geographic Location; Decision Making; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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    • 06 Jul 2021
    • Blog Post

    The MS/MBA Technology Showcase: A Celebration of Our Startups

    various backgrounds into their first tech roles and changing the standards of hiring talent from having credentials to proving capabilities. Given U.S. job growth for software engineering is 5x more than... View Details
    • 01 Mar 2014
    • News

    Insight: Yenball

    Business of Sports course and has conducted research for both professional teams and leagues. In a new HBS working paper, he and Isao Okada—a journalist and former Fulbright visiting scholar at Harvard's... View Details
    Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; Masahiro Tanaka; Hideki Matsui; Isao Okada; business of sports; Arts, Entertainment
    • March 2012
    • Article

    Performance Pressure as a Double-edged Sword: Enhancing Team Motivation but Undermining the Use of Team Knowledge

    By: Heidi K. Gardner
    In this paper, I develop and empirically test the proposition that performance pressure acts as a double-edged sword for teams, providing positive effects by enhancing the team's motivation to achieve good results while simultaneously triggering process losses. I... View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Behavior; Groups and Teams; Performance
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    • 12 Feb 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Customers at the Back of the Line Are Anxious—Can You Keep Them from Leaving?

    seems to be driving this,” says Buell, “is our inability to make a downward social comparison. If I can’t look behind me and see someone else is willing to wait longer than me, I start to question whether waiting in line is worthwhile.” Lining up for an experiment He... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service
    • 13 Jun 2014
    • Op-Ed

    World Cup Soccer: 770 Billion Minutes of Attention

    overload. Using a standard cost of $25 per thousand viewers, which is generally charged by broadcast companies for a 30 second ad on primetime television in the United States (a value cheaper than Japan and... View Details
    Keywords: by Thales Teixeira; Sports
    • December 2015
    • Article

    On Wealth and the Diversity of Friendships: High Social Class People around the World Have Fewer International Friends

    By: Maurice H. Yearwood, Amy Cuddy, Nishtha Lambaa, Wu Youyoua, Ilmo van der Lowe, Paul K. Piff, Charles Gronin, Pete Fleming, Emiliana Simon-Thomas, Dacher Keltner and Aleksandr Spectre
    Having international social ties carries many potential advantages, including access to novel ideas and greater commercial opportunities. Yet little is known about who forms more international friendships. Here, we propose social class plays a key role in determining... View Details
    Keywords: Friendships; Social Class; Internationalism; Wealth; Relationships; Globalization
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    • 23 Oct 2018
    • News

    Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart

    everything. I mean, we had all the degrees and all the resources and everything else, but we had these empty pursuits, more than anything, I think. MBAs Across America, the three years that we spent on the road, radicalized me in a way, both in a personal sense View Details
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    National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working papers

    Where can I find & search working papers from NBER? The NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers,... View Details
    • 01 Apr 1998
    • News

    The Cole Room: A Wealth of Resources for Job-Seekers

    The Cole Room in Baker Library offers an extensive range of useful information for alumni conducting a job search. Resources include a database of more than twenty thousand... View Details
    • 29 May 2009
    • Research Event

    Business Summit: Introduction to the Future of Market Capitalism

    trend of rising wealth will continue, a view that is shared by many global business leaders. But recent research conducted by HBS indicates that business leaders harbor many concerns about market capitalism... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Joseph L. Bower
    • 07 Sep 2007
    • What Do You Think?

    Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?

    management that would qualify as a "profession," combining "mastery of specific knowledge with adherence to certain formal or informal codes of conduct and, even... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett