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- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
chômage partiel, under which the government pays a portion of a company’s wages in times of economic distress to limit layoffs. During the 2008-2009 recession, furlough programs were estimated to have saved 395,000 jobs in Japan and... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
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Pricing: Theory, Estimation and Applications.” 2022 Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the 2022 First Prize in the Chicago Quantitative Alliance Academic Paper Competition for "Hidden Alpha" with Manuel Ammann, Alexander Cochardt, and Stephan... View Details
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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services
Application , I MAX MEM: 12 Gbytes; AVG MEM: 12 Mbytes Job , Job Name , User , Project , Application MAX MEM: 607 Mbytes; AVG MEM: 511 Mbytes Finding the RAM Usage in Programming Environments (e.g., Stata) Estimating RAM usage can be easy... View Details
- 05 Sep 2014
- News
Keeping Education in Check
help of a PR company hired by Berman. Their campaign worked. Other charities popped up as a result of Chess for Change. Moves for Life now coaches more than 12,000 students a week in South Africa. ChessKIDS Academy is also coaching 12,000 South African children in 65... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 07 May 2024
- Blog Post
Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria
human health consequences from fossil fuel pollution. This pollution has led to an estimated 8 million deaths in 2018, and disproportionately affects low-income communities and communities of color given where power plants are located.... View Details
- 25 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?
example, a 2017 study found that across 72 predominantly Black New York City neighborhoods, Airbnb hosts were five times more likely to be white. And the same study found that white Airbnb hosts in Black neighborhoods earned an estimated... View Details
- 06 Jun 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly
- 12 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Pay Workers More So They Steal Less
offering wages higher than the local competition experienced both increased productivity and lower turnover, but did not address the issue of employee theft. Employee theft comes with a huge price tag for US businesses, accounting for up to $200 billion in annual... View Details
- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
the form of lower prices. There is general agreement that Wal-Mart prices are significantly lower than its competitors. Assuming that the company's prices are 8 percent lower—at the low end of the estimates from various studies summarized... View Details
- 14 Oct 2015
- HBS Seminar
Scott Stern, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
has a global media broadcast to over 1 billion homes around the world.” Based in the United States, Ultimate Fighting Championship is a model for what ONE FC could become. Founded in 1993 and currently the largest MMA organization in the world, it is still privately... View Details
- 25 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout
researchers focused on one aspect of the problem they could measure: lost income due to reduced hours and turnover. To do so, they used a 2014 survey of some 7,000 doctors that asked questions about burnout and short-term career plans to View Details
- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
the sale right away and improve the chance of attaining club membership. In the paper, Larkin uses actual choices of hundreds of salespeople facing this decision to statistically estimate the average salesperson's "willingness to pay" for... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit
It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn... View Details
- 19 Sep 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- 01 Dec 2015
- HBS Seminar
Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto
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In the News - Creating Emerging Markets
documented as far back as the Egyptian dynasties. While the World Bank estimates that international bribery exceeds $1.5 trillion annually, the larger and more subtle effects of corruption on economies and populations is incalculable.... View Details
- 24 Feb 2022
- Op-Ed
Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC
require hospitals to note their plans for meeting surges in capacity in their financial disclosures, most likely as accounts called “contingent liabilities,” events that are likely to cause expenses in the future. In general, FASB would require the hospitals to View Details
- 02 Mar 2021
- HBS Case
The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?
area. When residents tried to flee burning buildings, they were shot and killed in the street. An estimated 300 people died, 1,000 families lost their homes, and $1.8 million in property was destroyed, equal to $26.1 million today. The... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding