by Laura Alfaro - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2000
News

Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices

The same neurochemicals that made our prehistoric ancestors flee the saber-toothed tiger now percolate in our brains when we bristle at a spouse's criticism or negative comments in a board meeting, according to research by HBS professor... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)

12 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

COVID Tested Global Supply Chains. Here’s How They’ve Adapted

global supply chain stood up under intense pressure as federal monetary policy and pandemic relief programs stoked a huge surge in consumer demand. “The global supply chains actually helped us during COVID-19,” Alfaro says. “[Demand]... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

30 Sep 2019
Book

6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees

Black Experience, co-edited by Mayo, University of Virginia Professor Laura Morgan Roberts, who is a visiting scholar at HBS, and David A. Thomas, president of Morehouse College and a former professor at... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

14 Dec 2017
Working Paper Summaries

The Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and Productivity

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger, and Yanping Liu; Manufacturing

14 Apr 2020
Video

Perspectives on the COVID-19 Pandemic: Reinhart-Alfaro (Session 4)

01 Feb 2001
News

Volunteers Crack Case, Consider School's Future

Volunteer Conference, there it was, staring me in the face: a case. Led by Professor Howard Stevenson, the Saturday morning session was to be a discussion on "HBS: At the Crossroads?" This wasn't some lightweight two-page case, either. It... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton; alumni; volunteers; conferences; cases; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Feb 2021
Working Paper Summaries

Learning with People Like Me: The Role of Age-Similar Peers on Online Business Course Engagement

Keywords: by Laura R. Huber, Jacqueline N. Lane, and Karim R. Lakhani; Education

24 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win

senior research fellow Laura L. Nash are conducting for a forthcoming book on the meaning and choices behind the success of high contributors. Success that endures, they are discovering, stems from four particular sources that are often... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Creating a Positive Professional Image

interview. Mallory Stark: What is a professional image? Laura Morgan Roberts: Your professional image is the set of qualities and characteristics that represent perceptions of your competence and character as judged View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

14 Apr 2020
Video

Perspectives on the COVID-19 Pandemic: Reinhart-Alfaro (Session 4)

06 Aug 2018
News

Women More Likely to Survive Heart Attacks If Treated by Female Doctors

09 Jun 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Aggregate and Firm-Level Stock Returns During Pandemics, in Real Time

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Anusha Chari, Andrew Greenland, and Peter K. Schott

27 Jan 2011
News

Dancing elephants

27 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge

Laura Huang discusses her book during a virtual event hosted by the Books@Baker author series at Harvard Business School. “Being the prom queen means you shouldn’t care if you haven’t taken the typical path... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

13 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Women Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors

Tempura Women having a heart attack are less likely to die if their doctor is also female, a new study shows. How much less likely? When treated for a heart attack by men, the risk for women goes up 1.5 percent. That means roughly one in... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

December 2005
Comment

Review of "The Monetary Geography of Africa," by Paul R. Masson and Catherine Patillo

By: Laura Alfaro

Citation

03 May 2004
What Do You Think?

How Much Is Enough?

lives we must continue to push for more." But Mal Watlington poses perhaps the most challenging question: "The history of philosophy is filled with great thinkers who advise us to seek balance in life, yet the history of the world appears to be driven View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett