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- 11 Aug 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Decision Making Under Information Asymmetry: Experimental Evidence on Belief Refinements
Keywords: by William Schmidt & Ryan W. Buell
- 11 Oct 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?
recognize that there is an optimal dependency ratio range beyond which increasingly urgent action is needed to stabilize social costs and attract investment." Several interesting actions were suggested. Many involved the way in which... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
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I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
- 03 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit
It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
investors and entrepreneurs need, optimize both technological sophistication and financial sophistication-approaches designed to attract capital by offering different levels of risk and return, different cash-flow priorities, and... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 31 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do
just as painful as stress from overwork, Brodsky says. “There is an optimal level of psychological arousal—we don’t want to be overstimulated, but we don’t want to be under-stimulated.” Adds Amabile, “Some idle time can be welcome to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 Oct 2013
- HBS Seminar
Sen Chai, Post-Doc Labor & Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, and NBER
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
exports provide positive externalities and thus should be encouraged by government, the policy question is how to do so most effectively. One large body of thinking is devoted to identifying general barriers to exports that reduce trade below its socially View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 25 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?
fluctuations. Zhang and her coauthors were curious whether the algorithm might help reduce racial inequalities by optimizing nightly rates for both white and Black hosts, so everyone could benefit financially. Narrowing Airbnb’s racial... View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
possible. “Most organizations today use data analytics to optimize or improve their existing businesses. But to take full advantage of data analytics, it will be important for them to consider the following two strategic questions: 1) Can... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs ( Princeton University Press, October 2002)
By: Rakesh Khurana
In this book, I argue that the external CEO labor market was born in a burst of rhetoric about wresting control of corporations away from a group of self-interested insiders, as senior managers in the era of managerial capitalism had come to be portrayed. The rationale... View Details
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I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
How to Thrive as a Remote Manager and Employee
proactive about asking questions to best understand company norms and the optimal ways of getting work done. You won’t be looking over the shoulder of your manager or sitting next to your peers so if the company is not explicit about... View Details
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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement
pharma – but the tides are changing. The underserved nature of the rare disease population combined with increases in federal funding, biotech and medical advancements are spurring optimism for the future. Growth in the markets for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics
what optimal human behavior looked like. But what they outlined was too demanding for many of us, and none of us could live up to the standards they defined. And then there was the jolt of Enron, and a bunch of other ethical scandals,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
The Product Design Sprint - 5 Things I Learned in Launch Lab 1
interacted with the product and learn about how they received it. After these interviews, it was clear that the optimal product was a blend of the two solutions. 3. Find a problem first, then start solving it. When conducting initial... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
medicine in recent years.) This shortcoming, we believe, has a direct bearing on society's ability to demand and obtain responsible conduct from executives, as well as on management's ability to maintain the public trust required for the View Details
- 24 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti
for an individual patient. Ideally, this will help ministries of health in impoverished countries decide how to allocate their limited resources to optimize the quantity, quality, and access to care. “In low-income resource countries,... View Details
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Casadesus-Masanell Tomomichi Amano January 2026 J 3.0 Innovation and Renovation: Optimizing Product Line Architecture Tomomichi Amano Spring 2026 Q4 1.5 Managing Customers for Growth Eva Ascarza Fall 2025 Q2 1.5 Negotiation, Organizations... View Details