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- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
carefully analyzed their incentives but that we know little about the broader strategic dimensions of this market. The paper explores three related strategic dimensions of the certification market: the publicity given to applications, the coarseness of rating patterns,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
professor Nancy F. Koehn in the opening keynote address at the Dynamic Women in Business Conference, held at HBS in late January. Organized by the HBS Women's Student Association, the eleventh annual event attracted a sold-out crowd of... View Details
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
developed economies (N) tend to have large and persistent effects on developing countries (S). We study the transmission of business cycle fluctuations for developed to developing economies with a two-country asymmetric DSGE model with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
“lean-in." We use a laboratory experiment to examine the effect of leaning-in. Despite men and women achieving similar and positive returns when they are forced to negotiate, we find that women avoid negotiations more often than men.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
perfect substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may therefore have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor investment by firms that can finance internally. Using an international panel with many changes in payout... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
spend some or all of their bonuses on others—thereby creating what the authors call a "prosocial" workplace—are happier as a result. Managers can enhance that effect by providing opportunities to share the wealth. Aurora Capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni Are Integral to HBS
be interesting if there was an HBS course that could give students an understanding about the political, economic, and business dynamics in Africa,” recalls Belo-Osagie. However, a semester-long course would be challenging for both... View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
profitable, loyal customers into high maintenance customers whose value stemming from their frequent purchasing is eroded by their increasing cost-to-serve. The case advocates a deeper appreciation of the two-way, reciprocating nature of customer relations and the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
we show that individuals who spend money on time-saving services report greater life satisfaction. A field experiment provides causal evidence that working adults report greater happiness after spending money on a time-saving purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
positions. Worse still, many businesses were based on concessions from local dictators. This had the effect of reinforcing local institutional constraints on domestic entrepreneurship rather than removing them. There was the more general... View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
exploring the conditions under which investable tax credits may be the most effective mechanism to deliver a production subsidy and discusses the desirability of employing investable tax credits in other policy domains. Estimates of tax... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
revealing to discover that expressing intense emotions during negotiations—even anger—can be effective in certain situations. "The students find out that maybe it's OK to be angry sometimes," Mohan says. "It can work."... View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
was a seminal event in the growth of Silicon Valley. CB: The effects of the ensuing competition on modules were better designs and lower prices. Customers were eager to buy the new plug-compatible, non-IBM components. This demand, in... View Details
- 19 May 2021
- News
Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online
Nonprofit Board Summit: Building High-Impact Nonprofit Boards During Dynamic Times from May 4 to May 13. The clubs worked in partnership with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) to create this multi-day, virtual conference aimed at... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
conversation, we have attached to each element a word that begins with the letter I. “ organizational conversation replaces the traditional one-way structure of corporate communication with a dynamic process in which leaders talk with... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
be non-American. Andy Grove, a survivor of the Holocaust, would not have wanted to come to a country that didn’t welcome immigrants. Moreover, it is no wonder that Silicon Valley is up in arms over this policy. Our most dynamic industry... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Tech Investment the Wise Way
and will vary with the dynamics of change in the marketplace. Identification of a market is also required to define the "architecture of the revenues"—how a customer will pay, how much to charge, and how the value created will... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
data storage components. They also examined the gemstone and jewelry trade in Thailand, which produces 80 percent of the world’s jewelry, from high-end to mass-market, and met with villagers in Sumatra to discuss efforts to effect change... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
depended on a more dynamic development of the entire regional economy. On his own initiative, in 1997, Groot launched a private sector-driven effort to enhance the economic development in central Germany, the region located around... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
When former President Donald Trump slapped sweeping tariffs on Chinese imports in 2019, the economic dynamics between the world’s two biggest economies forever shifted. American businesses hoping President Joe Biden would return to... View Details