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- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
national male circumcision rates for African countries are both a strong predictor of HIV/AIDS prevalence and uncorrelated with other determinants of economic outcomes. Two-stage least squares regressions do... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
David A. Frankel
important realization. “Three years into it, it became clear to me that I wasn’t made to be a corporate guy and work for a boss,” he said. With his sudden wealth, Frankel had begun investing in South African startups as an angel investor. “For every success, there were... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
diversion relative to competition for consumers. Both types of competition lead to at least as much search diversion as a monopoly platform. Nevertheless, in the case of competing platforms, the equilibrium level of search diversion... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
certain securities, engaged in irresponsible investment behavior, and offered privileges to insiders not afforded to ordinary investors. During the famous "Hundred Day" congressional session that began his presidency, Roosevelt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
and residences with proximity at least as convenient as current bus stops, and a quality of service far above what buses can offer. Right now, the field is wide open. Companies with existing transit experience are certainly watching PRT.... View Details
- 12 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
The New Real Estate
witnessed this firsthand as I trudged through Beijing developments last summer and saw some of the 142 new facilities being built for the 2008 Olympics. Another sign of emerging growth: India has at least 150 new real estate funds. Gurgon... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
500 index in the same year. We investigate the underlying drivers of these high returns and show that performance is related to the size of endowment, the quality of the student body, and the use of alternative investments. We caution View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
Understanding Ordinary Unethical Behavior: Why People Who Value Morality Act Immorally By: Gino, F. Abstract—Cheating, deception, organizational misconduct, and many other forms of unethical behavior are among the greatest challenges in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2014
United States, and students whose early career paths have not enabled them to reduce their undergraduate loans. Consequently, the School assists students in minimizing their debt at graduation by ensuring that fellowship support at least... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
digital divide brought to light by the rapid transformation of the classroom experience from in-person to remote learning. ASHISH DHAWAN (MBA 1997) Founder and chairperson of Central Square Foundation, a nonprofit working to transform... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
effect when umpires were a different race or ethnicity than batters, perhaps because batters are in front of an umpire for only a few pitches a game--pitchers square off face-to-face with umpires for many innings in a row. The most... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
all the involved constituencies, with victims' families first and foremost, Whitehead says. "We will try to meld all those views together into a plan for the memorial site," he explains. "Some of the 25 million square feet of office space... View Details
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
as to why people accept cheating by others. Our results indicate that the effect is due at least in part to the failure to notice that unethical behavior is occurring when the change is gradual rather than abrupt. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
Faye Crosby, and Kevin Weaver Abstract—In recent decades, research in political psychology has illuminated the psychological processes underlying important political action, both by ordinary citizens and by political leaders. As the world... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
one of them has final authority in law. The more leaders reproduce themselves, the more likely it is that they do emerge, paradoxically, with heroic accomplishments. Mandela claimed he was just an ordinary man who had to rise to... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
15 moratorium that shut down universities across the country to protest the Vietnam War. That demonstration brought Harvard University economist John Kenneth Galbraith to the HBS campus for a speech against the war, followed by a three-hundred-person march to Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
—pages that span 140 years of history. And I do not say this lightly. I read at least 600 stories to cull them down to the 100-plus that made the cut. Did you consider other approaches before settling on the three-theme approach? I’ve... View Details
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
practice. Chi square tests were used to assess the correlations in the data. Among the careers that were tracked (n = 195), there was significant heterogeneity in current primary employment. The most common sectors were clinical (27.7%),... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
mark and was good-naturedly sheepish about the comment, there would be an immediate cheer of “Loop,” with one of our tallest sectionmates making an L with one long arm pointing straight up, the other pointing at the student. It was done good-naturedly, and everyone... View Details