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- 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008
Working PapersIf You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? The Effects of Education, Financial Literacy and Cognitive Ability on Financial Market Participation Authors:Shawn A. Cole and Gauri Kartini Shastry Abstract Household financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 16
adapt to the behavioral biases of employees to "sort in" ("sort away") attractive (unattractive) employees; such schemes may also reduce a firm's wage bill. Consequence-Cause Matching: Looking to the Consequences of Events to Infer Their Causes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Publications - Faculty & Research
Study: Do We Reskill or Replace Our Workforce? By: William Kerr To remain competitive in the internet-of-things era, should the CEO of SolidTech Innovations, a fictional elevator company, invest a lot of money in reskilling its entire... View Details
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Strategy - Doctoral
2020 INSEAD Advisors: Dennis A. Yao (Chair), Rebecca M. Henderson , Michael Luca , and Amanda Pallais Innessa Colaiacovo, 2024 University of Oregon, Charles H. Lundquist College of Business, Management Department Advisors: Rembrand M.... View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16
after the team scaffolds were implemented and showed a 40% improvement in patient throughput time. Working Papers Transition to Clean Technology By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We develop a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- August 1990
- Case
NASA After Challenger: Restoring an Image
By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein
In the days following the loss of the space shuttle Challenger and its crew in January of 1986, NASA officials were unwilling to communicate with the media or the public. A siege mentality took hold, and the press and public responded with intense criticism and... View Details
Keywords: Communication Strategy; Policy; Business and Community Relations; Situation or Environment; Conflict Management
Greyser, Stephen A., and Norman Klein. "NASA After Challenger: Restoring an Image." Harvard Business School Case 591-009, August 1990.
- November 2009 (Revised August 2010)
- Case
NovoCure Ltd.
By: William A. Sahlman and Sarah Flaherty
Venture capitalist William Doyle must raise $35 million for a portfolio company with a promising, novel cancer therapy, just as global capital markets are imploding in the fall of 2008. NovoCure, Ltd., has developed an electrical-field-based therapy, called Tumor... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Technological Innovation; Financial Services Industry
Sahlman, William A., and Sarah Flaherty. "NovoCure Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 810-045, November 2009. (Revised August 2010.)
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Faculty & Research
Citation Related Acosta-Henao, Miguel, Laura Alfaro, and Andrés Fernández. "Sticky Capital Controls." Art. 104104. Journal of International Economics 157 (September 2025). How the Busiest People Find Joy By: Leslie A. Perlow , Sari... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Management Faculty - Faculty & Research
Purnima Puri and Richard Barrera Associate Professor of Business Administration William A. Sahlman Baker Foundation Professor Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955... View Details
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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
Archie A. Alexander Alexander & Repass, 1914–1954 Henry C. Alexander Morgan Guaranty Trust, 1959–1967 William M. Allen Boeing Company, 1945–1969 Howard L. Aller American Power and Light Company, 1935–1951... View Details
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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni
individuals and as a species? Video Recording Critical Thinking 11:45 a.m.–1:00 p.m. ET Speaker: William A. Sahlman , Baker Foundation Professor; Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff - MBA... View Details
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Business Economics - Doctoral
Esty C. Fritz Foley Paul A. Gompers Jerry R. Green Shane M. Greenstein Robin Greenwood Brian J. Hall Samuel G. Hanson Victoria Ivashina Ebehi Iyoha William R. Kerr Tarun Khanna Olivia S. Kim Ray Kluender... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
conditions under which they operate. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-068.pdf The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying Authors:William R. Kerr, William Lincoln, and Prachi Mishra Abstract We study the determinants of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
decentralizing operations from headquarters to their stores, and, to a weaker extent, by providing higher variable pay to their store managers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-091.pdf An Exploration of Technology Diffusion Authors:Diego View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
phenomenon is enabling business leaders to regain the trust and credibility they have lost over the last ten years. That's why social networking is the most important business development of the year. William View Details
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- 26 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 26, 2008
Law & Economics: The Case of the Federal Radio Commission in 1927 Authors:David A. Moss, Jonathan B. Lackow Abstract In the study of law and economics, there is a danger that historical inferences from theory may infect historical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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The “Hawthorne Effect” – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Electric), Donald W. Thomas (Western Electric), Fritz J. Roethlisberger, William J. Dickson (Western Electric), and Harvard Business School Dean George P. Baker at the completion of Counseling in an Organization , December 6, 1966 HBS... View Details
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Faculty & Research - Entrepreneurship
Associate Professor of Business Administration Ebehi Iyoha Assistant Professor of Business Administration Jeffrey F. Rayport Senior Lecturer of Business Administration William A. View Details
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Finance Faculty - Faculty & Research
Professor of Management Practice of Entrepreneurial Management Unit Affiliates Carliss Y. Baldwin William L. White Professor of Business Administration, Emerita Dwight B. Crane Professor, Emeritus Kenneth A.... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research
Harvard Business Publishing March 10, 2025 Article How Gen AI Could Change the Value of Expertise By: Joseph Fuller , Matt Sigelman and Michael Fenlon May 2025 Case Grand Rounds By: William A. View Details