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  • 21 May 2024
  • Research & Ideas

What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year

the size of government and amount of state services. Paula Rettl spoke to Working Knowledge about her research examining these trends in Italy, Brazil and around the world. A native of Brazil, Rettl is an assistant professor at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • Web

How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace - Recruiting

addressed. HOW TO CREATE A PSYCHOLOGICALLY SAFE ORGANIZATION Professor Edmondson’s research led her to develop a Leadership Toolkit to help organizations achieve psychological safety. The three critical elements of that toolkit are... View Details
  • 18 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 18, 2008

conclude with thoughts on future research directions. Deferred Acceptance Algorithms: History, Theory, Practice, and Open Questions Author:Alvin E. Roth Periodical:Prepared for Gale's Feast: A Day in Honor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 8, 2008

Dunn, Lara B. Aknin, and Michael I. Norton Publication:Science 319 (2008) Abstract Although much research has examined the effect of income on happiness, we suggest that how people spend their money may be at least as important as how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Research Summary

Creating Trust in International Joint Ventures in Asia: An Empirical Comparative Study

In the wake of the currently ongoing financial crisis in Asia, we anticipate a rapid increase of international joint ventures between Asian and Western firms. However, so far, the sources of success in international joint ventures have not been well understood. Why do... View Details
  • 09 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

exactly" strategy. Dresden becomes AMD's sole worldwide manufacturing location for microprocessors, but now the company is faced with the question of whether it can successfully transplant the highly successful culture to other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Research Summary

Hybrid organizing

By: Julie Battilana

While historically the commercial and social sectors have evolved on fairly separate tracks, over the last 30 years we have witnessed a blurring of the boundaries between these two sectors. In an effort to account for this transition, Professor Battilana’s second... View Details

  • 2022
  • Article

Data Poisoning Attacks on Off-Policy Evaluation Methods

By: Elita Lobo, Harvineet Singh, Marek Petrik, Cynthia Rudin and Himabindu Lakkaraju
Off-policy Evaluation (OPE) methods are a crucial tool for evaluating policies in high-stakes domains such as healthcare, where exploration is often infeasible, unethical, or expensive. However, the extent to which such methods can be trusted under adversarial threats... View Details
Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Cybersecurity; Mathematical Methods
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  • 27 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

What’s the best way to run a company? The question has bedeviled economists as long as companies have existed. How, after all, do you measure something as soft as management style across the range of different types and sizes of companies... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 14 Feb 2023
  • HBS Case

Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis

lately, Sweden doesn’t seem as traditionally Swedish. The far-right Sweden Democrat party finished second in September’s election, touting an anti-immigrant campaign. The party’s parliamentary votes will influence the nation’s policies in the new center-right... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 08 Mar 2021
  • In Practice

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 May 2011
  • Op-Ed

Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society

Editor's note: Please see related story, Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It's Effective. To what extent companies contribute to a sustainable society is a question increasingly important, not only to the companies themselves, but also... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
  • 10 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 10

judged the ethically questionable behavior of others more harshly, suggesting that childhood memories lead to altruistic punishment. Finally, in Experiment 4, compared to a control condition, both positively valenced and negatively... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Nov 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Ben Shiller, Brandeis University

  • 23 Jan 2023
  • Research & Ideas

After High-Profile Failures, Can Investors Still Trust Credit Ratings?

for signs of greater risk that might not appear on a balance sheet or cash-flow statement. In addition, the study also looked at how well agencies did in estimating potential recovery by borrowers in the event of a default. A final View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 01 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

What determines whether decisions happen on the bottom, middle, or top rung of the corporate ladder? New research offers a surprising conclusion: The answer often lies in the technology that a company uses. Information-based systems, such... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 3

Determination Through Brand Biography Authors:Neeru Paharia, Anat Keinan, Jill Avery, and Juliet Schor Publication:Journal of Consumer Research (forthcoming) Abstract We introduce the concept of an underdog brand biography (UBB) to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

suggest that helping others leads to higher levels of happiness, the existing evidence only weakly supports this causal claim: research in psychology, economics, and neuroscience exploring the benefits of charitable giving has been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Thinking Ahead

question of exactly which points are memorized by the model, and why, is an area of research that is still pretty much unsolved and one of great interest to me.” That answer also will be of interest to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 10 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 10, 2015

confirm that analysts' valuations reflect both state-contingent risk assessments and non-fundamental factors. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50060 forthcoming International Journal of Research in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne