Investment Experience - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4

spending) are unleashed when givers are aware of their positive impact. In Study 1, an experiment using real charitable appeals, giving more money to charity led to higher levels of happiness only when participants gave to causes that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

to have higher academic achievement and experience greater acceptance by their peers in adolescence. Despite this positive influence on educational outcomes, it is still unclear why some children are more prosocial than others in school.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

research gives the field an advantage over other disciplines and will allow us to answer big questions, such as, "What explains the success and failure of entrepreneurs?" If business historians invest in reestablishing the... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

up. The United States has tried a lot of models. We tried managed care, gate keepers, co-pays and the like, and they failed. When we published our earlier article on healthcare in June 2004 in the Harvard Business Review, we were far less optimistic. But we uncovered... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

"we have a worldwide mission: to become leading corporate citizens." In several cases, this mandate was the result of traumatic experiences or scandals that required huge efforts on the part of companies to repair damaged... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

positive note, however, healthcare companies were commonly thought to be recession proof and thus might be a sound investment in the event of a down-turning economy. Burnham had to decide if this was the right time for an exit, and if so,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

generate significant returns? This case provides students with an opportunity to analyze Perry's decision to invest in NEC Electronics. In doing so, it asks for the reasons that NEC might take actions that destroy value and shift value... View Details