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- 20 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
priors/worldviews, or relevant features of a problem not being top of mind. Most research studying such losses does not empirically distinguish between these mechanisms. Instead, we show that most highly cited papers in this area presume one View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Harnessing for-profit strategies for social good
Fran Seegull (MBA 1998) seeks to mobilize the business world to adjust its thinking on socially mindful investing, also known as impact investing, and "use the financial capital markets and for-profit mechanisms to move the dial on the... View Details
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
at least 3 decades. This paper outlines the range of accountability mechanisms currently in place at the World Bank along 4 basic levels: (1) staff, (2) project, (3) policy, and (4) board governance. We argue that civil society... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
South Asia - Global Activities 2020
the mechanics of international commerce, including ocean container shipping and air cargo, as they relate to BRI development strategies. “ Hambantota was a reminder to think critically about the public narratives that are peddled by... View Details
- 22 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 22
matching markets. It shows that similarity of preferences is an important factor driving unravelling. In particular, it shows that under the ex-post stable mechanism (the mechanism that the literature... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
First Came Love, then Came Business School
Native Canadians Jocelyne and Corey first met and fell in love when they were studying Mechanical Engineering at McMaster University in Ontario. While Jocelyne went on to work for PepsiCo in operations and supply chain roles after... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
Ideally, the specifics of the No-Fist mechanism would be part of the initial collective bargaining agreement, since agreement on true variable costs of operations could be difficult and to some extent arbitrary. Estimates of real variable... View Details
- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
We contribute to institutional theory by identifying selective disclosure as a corporate symbolic strategy and by revealing how scrutiny and norms limit this symbolic behavior. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1836472 View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Kel Jackson, MBA 2019: "[My Job] Matters. I Didn't Want a Role that Would Box Me In."
hobby-class radio-controlled cars. Jackson went on to attend Auburn University for his undergraduate education, earning a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering. After graduation, Jackson worked as a jet engine engineer and then operations... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
track its effectiveness and set benchmarks for improvement. "Nonprofits are so important in our society," she said. "They fulfill essential purposes. But they lack the market mechanisms of corporations where, if a board falls asleep at... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
view, the fact remains that an effective conversation about sustainability requires the participation of both sides of the market. There are two main mechanisms for companies to communicate to the market as a way of starting this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Career Coach
Joe Blair
tech startup. Joe graduated with a B.S. and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Joe's Master’s Thesis was building software to control plasma inside a nuclear fusion... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Carl M. Plochman III: A Savory Success
company. "It made sense to get a different perspective," he says. "I studied agribusiness under Ray Goldberg, and he helped me see things as systems, rather than looking at them mechanically from one point of view." Getting a sense of the... View Details
- 05 Feb 2016
- News
The Wheel of the World
contains close to 20,000 items). “I realized that I was more interested in the ideas expressed in the mechanisms than in owning the physical objects,” he says. “Time is a central element of the human experience, which, understandably,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Stacey Lawson (MBA '96)
illustrations of standard parts, such as valves, pumps, and gears. Today Lawson is the vice president of marketing at InPart, a company she cofounded upon graduating from HBS. InPart, now fifty employees strong, is creating a library of information about standard View Details
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Science out into the open - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
corridors with powerhouse sturdiness continuously banked with glass windows look in upon scientifically lighted laboratories in which a multitude of mechanical devices and scientific instruments of today’s knowledge are spaciously... View Details
- 21 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish
mechanism to do well with minimum risk and maximum efficiency. In its early stages, a typical project would have to be commercially oriented and driven by private funds, though public funding from development banks or foreign aid agencies... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson
- 05 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
The Reflective Leader
Les Williams (MBA 2005) is the Partner and Chief Revenue Officer for Risk Cooperative. Les completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia in Mechanical Engineering. As an MBA student, Les was co-president of the Student... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
and French size and value portfolios, the market portfolio, bond portfolios, and the entire cross-section of stocks. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-060.pdf Testing a Purportedly More Learnable Auction Mechanism... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
History's Guiding Light
mining, as well as video-based cases in collaboration with HBS faculty Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna. The HBS Business History Initiative taught me to take history not as a static repository of information, but rather as a fluid set of perspectives that may enrich... View Details