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Julio Cedeno
Julio met his wife, Sarah, at the university. After graduation, they moved to Houston where Julio began a six-year tenure with Chevron. Balancing act of work, marriage, and education Julio had interned with Chevron between his junior and senior years, View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 31 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
facilitated research investment in an area of significant social value, patents promoted disclosure. Our findings highlight the importance of complementarities between prize and patent-based incentives in the design of innovation... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
article concerning General Doriot and venture capital. While the article quite understandably concentrated on the contribution he made in nurturing venture capital in the United States, the picture is not complete without reference to his... View Details
- 04 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Why the Bull Market in Leadership Books?
they conclude, "Exercising leadership is a way of giving meaning to your life by contributing to the lives of others." Jay Lorsch and Thomas Tierney focus on the special challenge of leading professionals in their book, Aligning... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13281 Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software Industry Authors:Ramana Nanda and Tarun Khanna Abstract This study explores the importance of cross-border social networks for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
an empirical analysis of the geographic, economic, and social factors that contributed to the spread of civil war in Nepal over the period 1996-2006. This within-country analysis complements existing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16
sanctification, contributing to the growing literature on social construction of value. 2013 pub Six Ways to Sink a Growth Initiative By: Laurie, Donald L., and J. Bruce Harreld Abstract—The conventional... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
has taken the lead in coordinating and sharing case leads, and we saw remarkable progress this past year in the Required Curriculum of the MBA Program. COVID-19 has changed the way we operate in both business and social settings. What (if... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
was operating as a kind of project manager for her mom—and that she was one of 66 million Americans taking care of an ill, aging, or disabled loved one—she began to build a more modern solution to care management. Wellthy provides loved ones with access to its care... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
only do so much as a startup. —Glenn Lovelace (MBA 1987) At this stage, the goal should be doing the one thing that is distinctive and value-added very well, and scaling it up to where it is hard for others to duplicate. (Please just be ethical and View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
other nonprofits — are not those that are market-driven but those that are mission-driven and market-sensitive." One of the many talents for which Brown was praised during his 23 years as director of the National Gallery was his capacity for such balance. "Working to... View Details
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
are often natural and subconscious individual behaviors, making it easier for a person to make the right choice. The 2008 book Nudge, written by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, piqued their interest. (The book also inspired the term "evaluation... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
time. They believe that in pursuing its own self-interest in opening and expanding the BOP market, business can make a profit while serving the poorest of consumers and contributing to development. As Rangan explains, "For business,... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27
Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 May 2016
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May 17, 2016
of social science and intellectual history more generally. In this book, some of the world’s leading economists and experts on Serra explore the enduring appeal of his Short Treatise. The authors analyse the work in its historical,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 8, 2010
PublicationsWillpower in Children and Adults: A Survey of Recent Results and Economic Implications Authors:Marco Piovesan, Alessandro Bucciol, and Dan Houser Publication:International Review of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper reviews key View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Kim Chen
organizational level, to keep up with the rapid pace of change and innovation. The area of flux I am most excited about is the changing definition of business success, one that is increasingly expanding beyond the bottom line to include View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- News
Saluting Our HBS Veterans
service academies has influenced how leadership is taught at the School. HBS faculty, students, and alumni with military backgrounds have played important roles in contributing to the transformative nature of the HBS experience. With... View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
algorithms developed for the same setting. More broadly, our paper contributes to the literature on the multi-armed bandit problem with resource constraints, since our algorithm applies directly to this setting when the inventory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne