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- 22 Apr 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Is No News (Perceived as) Bad News? An Experimental Investigation of Information Disclosure
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue
Dean Nohria More than 150 local HBS alumni attended a December networking breakfast cohosted by the Harvard Business School Alumni Office and the HBS Club of London. The event included a presentation by Dean... View Details
- 09 Feb 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Developing Novel Drugs
- 25 Jan 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment
- 08 Aug 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Entrepreneurship and Business History: Renewing the Research Agenda
- 03 Mar 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
How Firm Strategies Influence the Architecture of Transaction Networks
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
WILLIAMS CHARLEY SECKLER in the midst of the first-ever trial for a DMD treatment at Johns Hopkins University. Photo courtesy the Seckler Family by Dan Morrell There's this picture of Charley Seckler from last summer that his mom has sent... View Details
- 16 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Competition Make Us More Creative?
Competition can bring out the best in salespeople, athletes, and participants in hot dog eating contests—but can it make employees more creative? A recent working paper by Daniel P. Gross finds that... View Details
- 18 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'
Consumers who are eager to mitigate climate change can take many actions, such as reducing the number of airline flights they take or installing solar panels on their homes. But the planet is in a race against time, and individual action alone won’t help most countries... View Details
- 01 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
this tendency to shut off the new and basically transfer the corporate culture over to the new employee," says Francesca Gino, an associate professor at Harvard Business School who cowrote the paper with Daniel M. Cable of London Business... View Details
- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
Some companies have begun relying more on computer-administered tests than human interviewers to find the best applicants. New research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Danielle Li and... View Details
- 06 Jun 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Complex Disclosure
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Airbnb Hosts Discriminate Against African-American Guests
Professor Michael Luca and Daniel Svirsky, a doctoral student at HBS. “However, these features may also facilitate discrimination based on sellers' race, gender, age, or other characteristics.” To test for racial discrimination among... View Details
- 03 Jan 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Financing the Response to Climate Change: The Pricing and Ownership of US Green Bonds
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
Products: The Effect of Absorptive Capacity Authors:Daniel Snow Abstract In this paper, I propose and examine a specific means by which firms' R&D experience may be helping firms to improve their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2010
- Working Paper
Cheaper by the Dozen: Using Sibling Discounts at Catholic Schools to Estimate the Price Elasticity of Private School Attendance
By: Susan Dynarski, Jonathan Gruber and Danielle Li
The effect of vouchers on sorting between private and public schools depends upon the price elasticity of demand for private schooling. Estimating this elasticity is empirically challenging because prices and quantities are jointly determined in the market for private... View Details
Dynarski, Susan, Jonathan Gruber, and Danielle Li. "Cheaper by the Dozen: Using Sibling Discounts at Catholic Schools to Estimate the Price Elasticity of Private School Attendance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-054, October 2015.
- 23 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Status: When and Why It Matters
like to believe that people pay for status for purely symbolic reasons, but the empirical evidence for that has been weak at best," says Harvard Business School's Daniel Malter, an assistant professor in the Strategy unit who studies... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
Rohit Daniel Wadhwani's research and teaching interests lie in business and financial history and public policy. He received his B.A. with honors from Yale College in 1991. From 1991 to 1995 he worked as a management consultant with APM... View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
For many investors planning for retirement, asset allocation is a crucial issue. How much should I put into stocks, bonds, and cash? But Harvard Business School professor Daniel Bergstresser says that households with substantial assets in... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
saw 2.6 percentage points higher unemployment among their government workers,” researchers Daniel Green and Erik Loualiche write in a recent working paper, State and Local Government Employment in the COVID-19 Crisis. “A... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz