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December 5, 2024
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A Consensus Definition of Creativity in Surgery: A Delphi Study Protocol

By: Alex Thabane, Tyler McKechnie, Phillip Staibano, Vikram Arora, Goran Calic, Jason W. Busse, Sameer Parpia and Mohit Bhandari

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Clear definitions are essential in science, particularly in the study of abstract phenomena like creativity. Due to its inherent complexity and domain-specific nature, the study of creativity has been complicated, as evidenced by the various... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Measurement and Metrics

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27 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

What’s the best way to run a company? The question has bedeviled economists as long as companies have existed. How, after all, do you measure something as soft as management style across the range of different types and sizes of companies... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

05 May 2022
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College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need

people with college degrees, also known as degree inflation or credentialing, has been particularly detrimental for workers of color who, due to historic inequities, proportionately don’t obtain college degrees at the same rate as whites,... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

13 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?

In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often as high as 98... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Financial Services

16 Jun 2020
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Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.

needs. The velocity or rate of adaption that firms need to adjust to a new directional reality will depend on customer demand. Industries with decreasing customer demand—offline entertainment, hospitality,... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim; Retail; Service

21 Dec 2010
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unable to tell whether each child was honest or not, we speculate about the proportion of reported white outcomes. Children report the prize-winning outcome at rates statistically above 50% but below 100%. Moreover, the probability of... View Details

31 Jan 2012
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infeasible, creating a need to understand factors that foster teaming in the absence of team stability. Teaming refers to coordination and mutual adjustment that occur during episodes of interdependent work. The present research... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

which could falsely create the appearance that readmission rates are changing more in the treatment than in the control group. Accounting for the revised standards reduced the decline in risk-adjusted readmission View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

Sheet Introduction to Accounting Period Show Hide Details Concepts The Balance Sheet The Income Statement Featured Exercise Construct the balance sheet and income statement 8.5 hrs Module 4 Adjusting Journal Entries Understand complex... View Details

20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

induces U.S. manufacturing firms to contract their operations along multiple margins of activity goes a long way toward explaining the response of U.S. innovation to the China trade shock. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51998... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online

rate you on dimensions of emotional and social intelligence. 7-9 hrs Module 1 Taking Charge Appreciate how a leader’s self-perception and mindset must change to bring out the best in others and the importance of emotional intelligence in... View Details

30 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

The Future of IT Consulting

"computer-to-computer" communication. By the end of the decade, more than 60 percent of the computer communications will be computer-to-computer. Computer-to-computer vastly speeds up the pace of business. For example, end-to-end supply chains can be... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Consulting

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Falk Bräuning & Victoria Ivashina JULY 2020 When central banks adjust interest rates and equity capital is limited, global banks must benchmark domestic and foreign lending opportunities. The authors show... View Details

25 May 2021
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White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?

White people who host rental properties on Airbnb earn significantly more per year than Black hosts, but a “race blind” pricing algorithm could help close that income gap, new research shows. Black hosts who rely on Airbnb’s algorithm to set enticing prices instead of... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Accommodations

15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

to handle changing workforce needs that make sparing use of staff reductions and ensure that if they do happen, the process feels fair and the affected parties have a soft landing. Most successful approaches begin with a philosophy that... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

Adjusting Journal Entries The Statement of Cash Flows Analyzing Financial Statements Accounting for the Future Featured Exercises Discover how balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements are developed Predict future... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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repeatedly due to high costs and low participation. While the diversion rate climbed to 60 and even 80 percent in cities like Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, New York’s refused to budge. By the time Tisch took charge, DSNY... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

24 Apr 2019
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The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention

Behaviors, was prepared for the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium in 2018. Source: Alberto Cavallo “Price stickiness is very important for the impact of monetary policy,” Cavallo says. “When the Federal Reserve lowers interest rates to... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

21 May 2021
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Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

this sector. Part of my responsibility at the fund was to review the ESG ratings of companies in Asia that were potential investment targets of this new strategy. Once I was told who the target company was, I collected their current ESG... View Details

21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

pharmaceutical sales teams in Belgium and sports teams in Canada. These results suggest that a minor adjustment to employee bonuses-shifting the focus from the self to others-can produce measurable benefits for employees and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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