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- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
borrowers in the London market, we challenge the traditional view that gold-standard adherence worked as a credible commitment mechanism that was rewarded by financial markets with lower borrowing costs. We demonstrate that in the poor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
Consumer Neuroscience: Advances in Understanding Consumer Psychology By: Karmarkar, Uma R., and Carolyn Yoon Abstract—While the study of consumer behavior has been enriched by improved abilities to generate new insights, many of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
as the degree to which an organization is hierarchical or egalitarian, or has explicit mechanisms for inviting upward input (e.g., suggestion boxes, regularly-scheduled meetings, surveys). Our research adds the finding that specific... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
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Andrew Kinard
countries are represented. The section experience is a forcing mechanism that expands your understanding of the world." "It's no accident we're accepting of conflicting opinions," Andrew explains. "We literally had... View Details
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do not control these opt-out mechanisms and are not responsible for their operation. European Interactive Digital Adverting Alliance (EDAA): www.youronlinechoices.eu and www.edaa.eu Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA):... View Details
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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 1997
- News
Short Takes
organizational settings. (One such useful psychoanalytic concept is "splitting," a defense mechanism against anxiety in which the individual ascribes positive attributes to one entity—usually one's own group—while imbuing another group... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
develop a support mechanism whereby alumni could receive training through volunteer IT specialists. Highlights of its recommendations included a broader marketing effort to all alumni, publicizing the benefits of the online services... View Details
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
intermediary to divert consumers to its favored destinations. Applied to Internet search engines, we investigate a diversion mechanism based on Google's exclusive award of preferential placement to its own services. Using web traffic data... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
countries through both formal business relationships and informal contacts. Formal mechanisms run the spectrum from direct financial investment in overseas businesses that pursue technology opportunities to facilitating contracts and... View Details
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
heavy backpack on these behaviors. Our studies also examined the mechanism behind these effects and demonstrated that participants processed guilty stimuli more fluently when experiencing physical weight. Imprinting: Toward A Multilevel... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams
include: Team learning has value for organizations; learning in teams is seen as a key mechanism through which learning organizations become strategically and operationally adaptive and responsive. How the learning of individual work... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Renewing Baker: Tom Michalak, Executive Director of Baker Library
instance, since we first introduced our Web site [www.library.hbs.edu] in early 1996, we've continued to add innovative services such as online mechanisms that allow patrons to ask reference questions, provide comments or suggestions,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
HBS. Opportunities for engaging in professional "redipping" currently include reunions, global conferences, and club-sponsored lectures and programs. To expand upon these offerings, the committee will look carefully at emerging technologies and other possible delivery... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
takeaway for students is the power of transparency as a mechanism for change,” says Tucker. “Another is the motivational value of benchmarking themselves to an internal standard of zero accidents instead of rationalizing poor perfor-mance... 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
- 31 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories of 2012
Heskett's readers. What do YOU think? 8. The Business of Life Published: June 4, 2012 Scholarly economic theory applies to more than just business. The same causal mechanisms that drive big corporations to success can be just as effective... View Details
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