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participated in another Research Village program. Does this mean anyone? Yes, as long as the applicant is in good standing at a US undergraduate institution, one may apply. Is the Program limited to specific concentrations or majors?... View Details
- 2024
- Article
Beyond the 510(k): The Regulation of Novel Moderate-Risk Medical Devices, Intellectual Property Considerations, and Innovation Incentives in the FDA’s De Novo Pathway
By: Mateo Aboy, Cristina Crespo and Ariel Stern
Moderate-risk medical devices constitute 99% of those that have been regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since it gained authority to regulate medical technology nearly five decades ago. This article presents an analysis of the interaction between... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- HBS Seminar
Brian Tomlin, Professor of Business Administration, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Strong Brands, Strong Relationships
From the editor team of the ground-breaking Consumer-Brand Relationships: Theory and Practice comes this new volume. Strong Brands, Strong Relationships is a collection of innovative research and management insights that... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- HBS Case
College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need
than 70 percent of Black, Latinx, and rural workers from landing jobs, even though they may have the actual skills to do the required work. Many companies rely on machine learning algorithms that automatically weed out job applicants who... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
how the composition of patenting teams relates to both the scope of their patent applications and the speed of their patent approvals by examining the main effects of team members’ intra-organizational diversity (based on affiliations... View Details
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22 28 33 40 46 Unrestricted Reserves 247 227 211 174 129 Endowment 5,132 5,086 5,265 4,092 3,985 Total Assets $6,639 $6,603 $6,755 $5,558 $5,420 MBA 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 Incoming Class Applications 8,149 8,264 9,773 9,304 9,228... View Details
- July–August 2024
- Article
Doing More with Less: Overcoming Ineffective Long-Term Targeting Using Short-Term Signals
By: Ta-Wei Huang and Eva Ascarza
Firms are increasingly interested in developing targeted interventions for customers with the best response,
which requires identifying differences in customer sensitivity, typically through the conditional average treatment
effect (CATE) estimation. In theory, to... View Details
- November–December 2023
- Article
Look the Part? The Role of Profile Pictures in Online Labor Markets
By: Isamar Troncoso and Lan Luo
Profile pictures are a key component of many freelancing platforms, a design choice that can impact hiring and matching outcomes. In this paper, we examine how appearance-based perceptions of a freelancer’s fit for the job (i.e., whether a freelancer "looks the part"... View Details
- 2016
- Chapter
Nudging as a Tool for Leaders
By: Max Bazerman
BOOK ABSTRACT: Jewish organizational life is inundated with publications on organizational change and effective leadership, but from mutually exclusive sources: business and organizational studies, on the one hand, and Jewish studies, on the other. One addresses... View Details
- 2015
- Chapter
Negotiations: Statistical Aspects
'Negotiation analysis' seeks to develop prescriptive theory and useful advice for negotiators and third parties. It generally emphasizes the parties' underlying interests, alternatives to negotiated agreement, approaches to productively manage the inherent tension... View Details
- 25 Feb 2025
- HBS Seminar
Michel Pham, Columbia University
Contextual Intelligence
I have come to a conclusion that may surprise you: trying to apply management practices... View Details
The Limits of Algorithmic Measures of Race in Studies of Outcome Disparities
We show that the use of algorithms to predict race has significant limitations in measuring and understanding the sources of racial disparities in finance, economics, and other contexts. First, we derive theoretically the direction and magnitude of measurement... View Details
- 01 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Myth Busting: Financial Aid for 2+2 Students
aid application after they have been admitted to the MBA program. MYTH #2: HBS Only Considers Your Current Income When Awarding Financial Aid When determining eligibility for our need-based scholarships, the financial aid office looks at... View Details
- 02 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'
knowledge is directly applicable to your life, this combination becomes highly combustible. So, for instance, we can learn about the spike proteins on viruses, and then we can use that knowledge to create a vaccine to counter these... View Details
Keywords: by Dan Morrell
- 16 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
2 Tips to Beat Imposter Syndrome
“I have written 11 books, but each time I think ‘Uh-oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody, and they’re going to find me out’.” –Maya Angelou In my second marketing class ever, only two weeks into my first semester of RC year, it happened. I... View Details
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- 09 Sep 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Quantity vs. Quality: Exclusion by Platforms with Network Effects
- February 2024
- Article
Diversification as an Adaptive Learning Process: An Empirical Study of General-Purpose and Market-Specific Technological Know-How in New Market Entry
By: Dominika Kinga Randle and Gary P. Pisano
An enduring trait of modern corporations is their propensity to diversify into multiple lines of business. Penrosian theories conceptualize diversification as a strategy to exploit a firm’s fungible, yet “untradeable”, resources and point to redeployment of... View Details