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  • 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

  Publications August 2013 Social Science & Medicine Who Donates Their Bodies to Science? The Combined Role of Gender and Migration Status Among California Whole-body Donors By: Asad, Asad L., Michel Anteby, and Filiz Garip Abstract—The number of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509022 Frank Addante, Serial Entrepreneur Harvard Business School Case 809-046 Frank Addante is a 28-year-old serial entrepreneur who is in the process of building his fifth venture. Of his View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 16

recent empirical studies on the economic impacts of immigration. The survey first examines the magnitude of immigration as an economic phenomenon in various host countries. The second part deals with the assimilation of immigrant workers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

help improve saving and financial decision-making, but much more can be done to improve the effectiveness of these programs. Download the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13824 Contract Rights and Risk Aversion:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2023
  • Book

Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well

By: Amy Edmondson
A revolutionary guide that will transform your relationship with failure, from the pioneering researcher of psychological safety and award-winning Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson.

We used to think of failure as the opposite of success. Now,... View Details
Keywords: Failure; Success
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  • October 2015 (Revised September 2016)
  • Technical Note

Flight: Now without Humans Aboard

By: Mitchell Weiss, Karim Lakhani, HT Kung and Kerry Herman
This note provides an overview of the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, or drones) industry in September 2015. UAVs offered many potential applications in industries as diverse as aerial imaging and photography, agriculture, construction, infrastructure inspection and... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Drones; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Product Design; Research and Development; Technological Innovation; Rights; Ethics; Strategy; Transportation Networks; Market Entry and Exit; Innovation and Management; European Union; Asia; United States
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  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

  PublicationsBlind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It Authors:Max H. Bazerman and Ann E. Tenbrunsel Publication:Princeton University Press, in press Abstract When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 May 2010
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First Look: May 11

the next phase of his life. For the first two years after selling CircleLending—a pioneer in the person-to-person lending field—to Richard Branson, he stayed on as president and CEO of Virgin Money USA. Now resigned, he has decided to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

Human beings are critical to the functioning of the vast majority of operating systems, influencing both the way these systems work and how they perform. Yet most formal analytical models of operations assume that the people who... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

research had taken root. Over the past 35 years, examination of social and environmental influences on creativity has become increasingly vigorous, with broad implications for the psychology of human performance, and with applications to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 13

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-039.pdf Charitable Giving When Altruism and Similarity Are Linked Authors:Julio J. Rotemberg Abstract This paper presents a model in which anonymous charitable donations are rationalized by two human... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 3

Marissa Mayer became the CEO of Yahoo!, a tech giant with a tumultuous past. When Mayer tries to reinvigorate the company, she hires Jacqueline Reses, who has a private equity background, to head both human resources and mergers and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

opacity and agility. Clients find it very difficult to judge a firm's performance in advance, because they are usually hiring it for specialized knowledge and capability that they themselves lack. Price becomes a proxy for quality. And the top consulting (or law) firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2020
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Drift: The First Sales Hire

By: Mark Roberge
David Cancel and Elias Torres, the co-founders of Drift, scaled their business to thousands of users and hundreds of thousands in revenue. However, they were falling short of the annual revenue target they communicated to the board of directors. Having scaled the... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; Salesforce Management; Selection and Staffing
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  • 18 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 18

as consumers and employees (what we buy, how we manage others) to the choices that we make more broadly as human beings (who we date, how we deal with friendships). From my research, we see when a mismatch is most likely to occur between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

and Models, edited by G. Caprio, 47-58. U.K.: Academic Press, 2012 Abstract Despite its developmental justification, aid is deeply political. This paper examines the political economy of aid allocation first from the perspective of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

forthcoming Abstract Since the mid-1970s neoclassical economic theory has dominated business school thinking and teaching in dealing with the nature of human motivation. However valuable in understanding competitive product and financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 24

identification. Download the paper: http://www.imanet.org/pdf/11_09_epstein.pdf Nameless + Harmless = Blameless: When Seemingly Irrelevant Factors Influence Judgment of (Un)ethical Behavior Authors:Francesca Gino, Lisa Lixin Shu, and Max Bazerman... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1

  Publications August 2013 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law Delaware's Choice By: Subramanian, Guhan Abstract—This article first documents the shift to annual elections of all directors at most U.S. corporations and argues that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3

Carliss Y. Abstract—How do firms create and capture value in large technical systems? In this paper, I argue that the points of both value creation and value capture are the system's bottlenecks. Bottlenecks arise first as important... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne