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01 Oct 2000
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The Entrepreneurial Venture

entrepreneurial activity, which drew people away from large companies and encouraged them to take risks. Bill Sahlman: Also, when we graduated from HBS, the economy was in recession, inflation and interest rates were high, productivity... View Details

16 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

What Happens When Zambian Schoolgirls Receive Negotiation Training

Many Zambian girls face major challenges early in life. They drop out of eighth and ninth grade at three times the rate of their male counterparts and contract HIV twice as often. Many will die due to complications associated with... View Details

Keywords: Re: Kathleen L. McGinn

23 May 2016
Research & Ideas

A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up

settling in the first 30 days by 12 percent, and increased the amount of settlement revenue by 80 percent. Adding messages that also include a deadline increased the settlement rate by up to 19 percent, and the revenue by 130 percent.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing

13 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview

interested in discovering if this was an effective strategy, since a lot of people seemed to be doing it. Our assumption was that they think there's an advantage to doing it, given that it's such a common practice. And we found that it's... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007

Working PapersNone this week. Cases & Course MaterialsFemale Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries Harvard Business School Note 807-018 Examines the extent of and challenges facing female entrepreneurs in developing countries. There are higher View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2

former. This effect cannot be explained by several potential alternative hypotheses, including differential changes to the preferences of American investors, differential changes in investment opportunities, differential time trends in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 May 2007
Research & Ideas

How Property Ownership Changes Your World View

beliefs that people hold. Important research has been done to demonstrate the material effects of property ownership, like increased access to credit. "However, I've been more interested in looking at the immaterial View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

14 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots

on the Ideal Gas Law and its effects on a football’s pounds per square inch (PSI) of air pressure. TRADITION OF SUCCESS The class discussion evolved from whether the Patriots were guilty of doctoring footballs to the larger issue of how... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports

26 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind

behavioral change, does it change other elements of what you're doing as well?" A Series Of Experiments As their working paper explains, the researchers combined empirical and experimental methods to test the purchasing effect of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

24 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 24, 2006

forecasting, despite a number of characteristics that make it a challenge to fit to a dynamic supply chain environment, to be effective in that context. We further show that the forecasting process, together with the supporting mechanisms... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups

space and development tools in the cloud and scale up as needed rather than purchasing their own expensive hardware and software. By comparing rates of investment before and after AWS was introduced in 2006, Nanda and his colleagues could... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services; Information Technology

01 Oct 2002
News

Faculty Research Symposium

that offer them. Hall's research is focused on the optimal design and incentive effects of compensation plans built around equity-based pay and especially stock options, the instruments most responsible for the huge numbers associated... View Details

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

effectively allocated resources in the economy. I still think that our approach is a good one, but maybe not as good as we thought. Hopefully, we'll better understand the conflicts of interest, improve the system, and have more awareness... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

30 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along

believed their partner would be trustworthy while Democrats predicted 62 percent would. Both wildly underestimated. The actual reciprocation rate of Player B was 93 percent for Republicans and 85 percent for Democrats. Minor and Hernandez... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Banking; Financial Services

23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23

and prices as a function of the consumer population's valuation for the service and show that competition has three main effects on the marketplace. First, competition drives the provision of services with a low level of disclosure.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jan 2006
News

Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976

LESSON FROM HBS "The secret of success often comes down to two main ingredients: think through a problem carefully and then act upon your analysis without a hint of procrastination. HBS is a very effective proving ground for this, and for... View Details

26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

Shi, Thales S. Teixeira, and Michel Wedel Abstract—Consumers have an increasingly wide variety of options available to entertain themselves. This poses a challenge for content aggregators who want to effectively promote their video... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2011
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Professors Recognized with New Chair Appointments

challenges with practical effectiveness and moral integrity. The professorship was established in 2010 by James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller (both MBA ’85) in honor of their 25th HBS reunion. Joshua Coval is the Jay O. Light Professor of... View Details

15 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Closing the ‘Intention-Action’ Gap

intention-action gap with tools such as effective marketing which communicates their sustainable practices in a recognizable and transparent way. The CEM project offers a unique insight into the issue from the perspective of leading... View Details

04 Oct 2016
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October 4, 2016

private information is directionally strong, managers, at announcement, provide guidance and use language that points statistically in the opposite direction. This effect is more pronounced when, post-announcement, management insiders... View Details

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