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- 28 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Property Ownership Changes Your World View
What happens when a person owns property? Aside from the well-established financial benefits of equity and potential access to credit, there is the equally strong pull of the American Dream and everything it suggests—the idea that through... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
both about the details of market institutions and about the general tasks markets have to perform.” Having sufficient "thickness" means there are enough participants in the market to make it thrive. "Congestion" is... View Details
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
may develop? "There is this general sense that if you are going to come up with a great creative idea that moves the market in some sector, you better do it for me rather than my competitor," says Silk.... View Details
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Casey Gerald
backstory, Gerald has stubbornly clung to the idea that fixing things that are broken is a path worth taking. “What drives me is not the sense of, can I be the next Mark Zuckerberg? Or the idea of... View Details
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
creative ideas from their generation through future use by others. We test the hypothesis that brokered ideas are less likely to be used in future creative efforts. The results... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
PublicationsClusters and Competitiveness: Porter's Contribution Authors:Christian H.M. Ketels Publication:Chap. 10 in Competition and Competitive Advantage: The Ideas of Michael Porter, edited by Robert Huggins and Hiro Izushi, 173-192.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Valuing an MBA: Beyond Dollars and “Sense"
university’s generous financial aid, designed to ensure that financial need doesn’t interfere with deserving students’ ability to take part in and contribute to the HBS community, amplifies an already strong economic value proposition. ... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
A Wider Net
putting his ideas into action. At a high level, he has led a restructuring of the organization’s all-volunteer board, creating technical and commercial committees to focus on strategy and better involve the board members in the goal of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
vicissitudes in history, as with mercantilism—the idea that a state would be better off by making its neighbor poorer—which dominated in Europe for centuries and led to many wars. And then globalization increased in the early 1900s until... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Batten Gift to Support Residential Campus
his generosity. “Frank Batten’s remarkable career as an entrepreneur, chief executive officer, and philanthropist is an inspiration to us all,” Summers commented. “Through his extremely generous gift, he has set an example for others in... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
David Grabowski, and David Cutler Abstract— Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) has been credited with lowering risk-adjusted readmission rates for targeted conditions at general acute care hospitals. However, these... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007
regaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1990. Describes Latvia's economic development over this period, discussing the economic policy efforts that have taken place and includes general information on the country, its history and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?
It's a startling idea: Instead of relying on regulators to protect our privacy against telemarketers, data miners, and consumer companies, we should capitalize on the value of our personal information and get something of value in return. That is the View Details
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Marie Kyle
Clinton Health Access Initiative, "sparked a passion for the development sector," says Marie. But she wasn't satisfied with the standard aid packages she saw in emerging markets. "I wanted to look at ideas outside the... View Details
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The Case Method | MBA
information, incomplete by design, and decide what you would do. Discuss the case. Each morning, you’ll bring your ideas to a small team of classmates from diverse professional backgrounds, your discussion group, to share your findings... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
their jobs to offer to resign, and Dayton Hudson Corp. insists that outside directors resign if they change jobs. The General Motors Board of Directors Corporate Governance Guidelines assert that "individual Directors who change the... View Details
Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Estonia, Incorporated
he needs to travel to Estonia or attend a session of the UN General Assembly across town. The payoff? A chance to chart the digital future of an entire country. In April, Estonia became the first country in the world to offer e-Residency,... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008
(2) Review prior research on behavioral decision making to identify ideas that may be relevant to the domain of psychological influence; (3) Provide a series of examples of how behavioral decision research can be leveraged to create... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
that our experimental design minimizes informational social influence, homophily, and group-identity signaling to the general public. We find that there exists significant social influence within a user’s friend circles. While learning... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
The Internship Search: “Is this just a personal interest, or is there a real professional opportunity here?”
pursuing any interesting marketing or strategy-related projects, and if they were looking for an MBA intern for the summer. “I wasn’t really expecting anything,” Aaron says, “but I found that they were mulling over the idea of hiring an... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail