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  • 06 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 6, 2008

DVDs in one order and return them in the reverse order when should DVDs (e.g., documentaries) are rented before want DVDs (e.g., action films). This effect is sizeable in magnitude, with a 2% increase in the probability of a reversal in preferences (from a baseline... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

certification. Second, adoption levels are low, and rates of decertification almost as high as certification. Third, awareness raising among consumers and partnerships with public actors are equally weak. Yet programs do align well with... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 3, 2007

implications for the efficient targeting of social programs more generally. A key issue in this debate is whether higher purchase prices lead to more intensive product use and, therefore, greater health benefits. We present results from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16

Social Psychology Prosocial Spending and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal By: Aknin, Lara B., Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh, Elizabeth W. Dunn, John F. Helliwell, Justine Burns, Robert Biswas-Diener,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

students' self-assessment and to the instructor's assessment of class participation performance, based on five years of data (n=7,025) across ten sections. The article demonstrates that crowdsourced peer-to-peer assessment (unlike self-assessment) offers View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 27, 2007

Note 607-074 No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607074 Tickle Harvard Business School Case 807-100 Describes a set of decisions confronting the management team of a rapidly growing online... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 10

http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/gfkmir.2014.6.issue-2/gfkmir-2014-0095/gfkmir-2014-0095.xml February 2015 Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: Interdisciplinary Directions Diversity in Groups By: Fernandes, Catarina, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 May 2025
  • News

If I Knew Then

Jeremy Grantham: Well, I feel a bit of a hypocrite because I didn’t really take my own advice. I went out to do something that sounded like fun, which is pretty shallow, and it didn’t have an enormous amount of social redeeming feature,... View Details
Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience
  • 14 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 14, 2007

Relies on Franch and Raven's framework that identifies five bases of social power (reward, coercive, legitimate, referent, and expert), describing how these bases change depending on the circumstances of a relationship. Also describes how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

at times in the form of subsidies. For example, Amazon provides discounts on its e-reader prices for customers who agree to receive targeted ads from Amazon and third-party sellers on their devices. Higher intensity of competition between... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
  • 21 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

policymakers from developed countries have tended to dominate these debates. That may be changing in several interesting ways. Many policymakers in the developing world, as well as officials in the IMF and analysts at the rating agencies,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 15 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

phone-based follow-up. The low rates of hypertension awareness, treatment, and control underscore the ongoing challenge of both hypertension screening and management in India. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

occupational ladder at a rate twice that of white men.” 34 No photographs of African Americans appeared in Paths of Opportunity in U.S. Steel , and few images of African American employees are seen in U.S. Steel corporate literature in... View Details
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

Wilcox has 20 years of start-up operating experience, having founded three companies and raised $150 million in private capital. Russ served as the CEO of E Ink, an electronic paper company, for a decade. The company reached a $200 million run View Details
  • 15 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS

2020 Adelante Conference (10/24-10/25): This year's theme is "Emerge," focusing on Latinx resilience and progress. We want to help our community emerge from the current challenges we face -- a global pandemic, inequity, social injustices,... View Details
  • 27 Apr 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Building Businesses in Turbulent Times

more, inflation-adjusted wages stalled for many, even as consumer spending increased. Where did the money for all this spending come from? Companies borrowed, governments borrowed, and families borrowed. Savings rates approached zero.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 23 Sep 2019
  • Blog Post

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

good alternative or a supplement.” Whillans says an online program may also encourage higher participation rates than certain special events that companies organize to encourage people to relax. For example, a bag lunch get-together or an... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 09 Feb 2017
  • News

Turning Disorder into Opportunity

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Australia (HPE), launched the Dandelion program in 2015, introducing people with autism spectrum disorders into the IT workforce. Dandelion—an innovative collaboration between HPE and the Department of Human Services and Specialisterne, a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
  • 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53204 December 2017 Current Opinion in Psychology Gender, Social Class, and Women's Employment By: McGinn, Kathleen L., and Eunsil Oh Abstract—People in low-power positions, whether due to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Mar 2016
  • News

The New Space Race

This entrepreneurial energy is following a decidedly terrestrial opportunity. The nonprofit advocacy group Space Foundation estimated that the global size of the industry reached $330 billion in 2014, with an annual growth rate of 9... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley