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- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
consumers in their homes and workplaces. Using a novel web-based face tracking system, we continuously measure consumers' smile responses as well as their viewing interest and purchase intent. A simultaneous Bayesian hierarchical model is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
Barry Abstract—Many markets, including the markets for IPOs and debt issuances, are syndicated, in that a bidder who wins a contract will often invite competitors to join a syndicate that will fulfill the contract. We model syndicated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
2016 New York: Palgrave Macmillan Experiences in Liberal Arts and Science Education from America, Europe, and Asia: A Dialogue Across Continents By: Kirby, William C., and Marijk C. van der Wende, eds. Abstract—This book highlights the experiences of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
social categories (gender, tenure within the firm). In dyad-level models of the probability that pairs of individuals communicate, we find very large effects of formal organization structure and spatial collocation on the rate of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
and emotion is, thus, critical to designing organizations, control systems, and governance structures that promote desired behaviors. Teaching Purpose: Some model of human nature, implicitly if not explicitly, guides any manager's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
I. Norton Abstract—While many experiments have explored risk preferences for money, few have systematically assessed risk preferences for everyday experiences. We propose a conceptual model and provide convergent evidence from seven... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
sustainability is more achievable "if the concept is integrated into the business model at inception." And as Laura Howard put it, "This works best in small companies who can design their entire business and brand around a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
leadership and entrepreneurship, this guide covers basic concepts and pertinent issues for leaders at all levels. Two easy-to-follow models are applicable to all types of organizations. The Opportunity Model... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
access by expanding fellowships for those with financial need. It opened new international research centers and offices, launched the Harvard-wide i-Lab ecosystem, completed a $1.4 billion capital campaign, and enhanced the campus through... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
Heaney talks about his unique path from entrepreneurship and investment banking at Goldman Sachs to taking up the fight for free speech. READ MORE April White: Hunter, take me back to the sort of first spark that became the Voice Project. You were volunteering at an... View Details
- 16 Jul 2021
- Op-Ed
For Entrepreneurs, the Benefits of Slowing Down
acquisitions, partnerships, new product launches, or international expansion in ways you might not have had the time and space to think through. 3. Pay down your organizational debt Every fast-growing startup incurs debt along the way.... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
learning. The HBS Economic Model What distinguishes the HBS economic model is a commitment to research that is largely internally funded. At the heart of this research is the... View Details
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
source of internal capital. Lawmakers and lobbyists justified its passage by arguing that it would alleviate financial constraints. This paper's results indicate that repatriations did not lead to an increase in domestic investment,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
an organization creates significant social value, we don’t care how it sustains itself — with internally generated surplus or with donor funds. Americans give roughly $300 billion a year to nonprofits, yet we really don’t know much about... View Details
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
the situation where waste becomes a source of profit, our research shows that it is almost never optimal to maintain the same operating regime as under the old paradigm where waste was a cost burden and merely convert the existing waste into by-product. Our View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
granted in the United States that there are people you can turn to for advice about entrepreneurship,” says Cindy Ko, vice president of international expansion at Endeavor, a nonprofit economic-development organization based in New York.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
with the Japanese," says M. James Kondo (MBA 1997), Twitter's managing director, East Asia, explaining the social-media company's popularity in Japan. "Japanese was the first non-English language that Twitter supported—we now support over 30 languages—and Tokyo was... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
Competition Policy International Whither Uber? Competitive Dynamics in Transportation Networks By: Edelman, Benjamin G. Abstract—Transportation Network Companies offer notable service advances—but do they comply with the law? And if not,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We develop three novel measures of how much of the price impact of their trading different mutual funds internalize. We show that mutual funds that internalize more of their price impact hold larger cash buffers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
in space is the fundamental transformation of how it’s being organized. For a long time, when most people thought about what we do in space as humans, they thought of it as primarily a government-led activity. They thought of the James Webb telescope, the View Details