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- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
Wasserman Abstract—This paper examines the division of founder shares in entrepreneurial ventures, focusing on the decision of whether or not to divide the shares equally among all founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
collective experience. Just spend some time with a group of people who are currently teaching leadership and you will come away with a few inescapable conclusions. First, individually we have learned a great deal. Over the past... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
several important lessons from his school-board service: “Without innovative leadership, nothing gets done. We wanted a nontraditional change agent, so we went after the general and hired him. If you have the right people as... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
behaviors with a motivation to change the status quo. Letting Misconduct Slide: The Acceptability of Gradual Erosion in Others' Unethical Behavior Authors:Francesca Gino and Max Bazerman Publication:Journal of Experimental Social... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
identities, specifically previously enacted ones, constitute potent incentives for inducing efforts or actions. People Are Experience Goods: Improving Online Dating with Virtual Dates Authors:Jeana H. Frost, Zoë Chance, Michael I. Norton,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
systems are based on the charges, and in health care there's been so much cost-shifting. People end up paying $30 for a single aspirin to cover the costs of things that aren't reimbursed." Cost-measuring progress is slow but steady.... View Details
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
those remarkable circumstances in which people see no evil in others' unethical behavior. Specifically, we explore 1) the motivated tendency to overlook the unethical behavior of others when we recognize the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
paths. He met with HBS Working Knowledge to discuss professionalization and how business schools shape—and have been shaped by—societal forces and values. Martha Lagace: What led you into this analysis? Rakesh Khurana: Since I was a graduate student I have been... View Details
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
it looks like, we don’t know how it’s going to manifest itself. That’s called being resilient: I’m ready for whatever comes at me. That’s what motivated me to write the book, because it’s a new way of thinking about our cyber universe.... View Details
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
channel institutions. As a result, channel managers can evolve and change their fulfillment of customer needs without having to change channel structure all at once. Of course, the institutions have to be trained, coached, compensated, and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
economic trends a central economic activity and shed light on the mechanics of financial markets by providing a range of statistics and information about individual firms. They also raised questions that are still relevant today. What is science and what is merely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
participation—or closed. This paper reviews factors that motivate decisions to open or close mature platforms. At the platform provider and sponsor levels, these decisions entail 1) interoperating with established rival platforms, 2)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
person you couldn’t take your eyes off for a minute. He got me motivated to start a business.” His lectures were so memorable and controversial — he once lectured his students on how to pick a wife — that many former students who have... View Details
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
PublicationsLying to Level the Playing Field: Why People May Dishonestly Help or Hurt Others to Create Equity Authors:F. Gino and L. Pierce Publication:Journal of Business Ethics (forthcoming) Abstract Unethical and dishonest behavior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
positioned to take action. When Should a Platform Give People Fewer Choices and Charge More for Them? Authors:Mikołaj Piskorski and Hanna Halaburda Publication:The CPI Antitrust Journal 6, no. 2 (autumn 2010) An abstract is not available... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online
you challenged and engaged. Lisa Arpey Executive Board Member at Ford's Theatre Leverage financial statements and frameworks to assess strategy execution and compare organizations’ performance. In an ever fast-changing world, it is important to keep abreast with how... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
price gouging and laws regulating the terms of mortgages may have support because consumers recognize that many people do not optimize their consumption effectively and because they are angry at firms that take advantage of this. These... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
impact by comparing warnings received after having safe personal experience with those received before people start making choices. A series of five experiments studies this question with a paradigm that combines both descriptive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
technological changes that blessed our nation with an unparalleled period of prosperity. From this base, millions of people were rescued from the desolation of World War II into the prosperous world initiated from America. Author John... View Details