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- 20 Apr 2020
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Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
Will you ever again step onto a crowded elevator without hesitation? Reach for a doorknob without concern (or gloves)? Easing social distancing restrictions might reopen businesses, but as long as memories of COVID-19 lockdowns are still... View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
The International Experience at HBS: Zoe Sun (MBA 2024)
provide loans to international students at same rate as domestic students. Social life at HBS is, as expected, quite intense, and sometimes it was nice to just take a step back and reconnect with familiar... View Details
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51759 forthcoming American Economic Journal: Economic Policy When Discounts Raise Costs: The Effect of Copay Coupons on Generic Utilization By: Dafny, Leemore S., Christopher Ody, and Matt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Transfers usefully move resources from lowest- to highest-valuation networks, but transfers tend to cause socially costly growth in the Internet's routing table. We propose a market rule that avoids excessive trading and comes close to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
percent. But when given the specific call to action, the opposite was true. Strongly loyal brothers cheated at a rate of 66 percent, compared to only 42 percent for those who were less loyal. For the first time, in other words, loyalty... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008
central bank to abandon its zero interest rate policy, which had been in place for years, and raise rates to 0.5%. The Bank of Japan was eager to increase them to more "normal" levels to exert... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 24, 2008
log variance of income per worker. This figure should be compared to the 42% success rate of the usual model. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14060 Bounded Decision Making: From Description to Improvement... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 25, 2006
premia, real interest rates and inflation. The variation in investment opportunities is captured by a flexible vector autoregressive parameterization, which readily accommodates a large number of assets and state variables. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
and correction of such errors, Associate Professor Amy C. Edmondson studied eight teams of caregivers from two different teaching hospitals to explore how group and organizational behaviors affect error rates in administering drugs to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
rich culture and heritage, technology, and health care—what does that look like? It looks like Pine Mountain Settlement School,” he says. Marietta wastes no opportunity to interweave the seemingly disparate aspects of the social... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
models in distinctive ways, the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund (NCF) and the Anti Racism Fund (ARF) are empowering changemakers within communities of color and forging community-business partnerships that support... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
Typical of comments regarding the issue of choice were those by Mehmet Genc, who said, "As choice increases, search costs increase . . . [and] it takes longer to make a decision. At the same time, due to social changes, we have even... View Details
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FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Health Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network VBHCD Initiative VBHCD... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
DoubleClick last April, WPP quickly countered with the purchase of 24/7 Real Media. Also high on Sorrell's agenda is the subject of corporate social responsibility (CSR)—or global corporate citizenship—which he says was catapulted into... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
families. I don’t want to discount all the benefits they get out of that arrangement. That said, my main skepticism of that preference comes from other research I’ve done on the metaverse, a vision for a 3D internet, and other digital... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- Web
Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity
belong. Maybe you’re mission-driven with a mind to tackle a deeply entrenched social issue. The interactions we have serve as a significant source of information that can propel personal and professional change. When we put design in... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
Santiago Ocejo (MPH 2010/MBA 2014) wants to improve health care in Mexico. He always thought he would do that, one patient at a time, as a surgeon. But, today, the medical school graduate is a social entrepreneur, working with the Mexican... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
standards and social responsibility, technology, globalization, the School's Soldiers Field campus, and the essential contributions that women are making in the business world. While a lot has changed at HBS in 75 years, it is remarkable... View Details
- 14 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Reducing Plastic Pollution on a Global Scale
author Veronique Greenwood, both nonprofits and government organizations such as the Department of Energy estimate that “only 5 percent of plastic items disposed in the United States are recycled at all; the rest are burned up or go into landfills.” Such low View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
operates four sales kiosks in the Boston area, with mobile retail teams that visit local fairs and markets. The kiosks offer a valuable in-person experience with a high conversion rate for the $8–$13 cards. The split between in-person and... View Details