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- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
problem-solving, so you’re probably going to be able to see two or three solutions around something in a way that other people don’t.” The other benefit, the neurologist noted, was creativity. While Lo never saw herself as a creative... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
the payoffs are, and then the probability of each of the payoffs. But in this case, you talked about the information asymmetry, and it's very clear in the social media context, the fear of missing out totally miscalculates what the... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
the reduction in emissions as we might expect. And even residential building energy use, food and drink, a shift away from dining and restaurants, which are generally less efficient in their energy use than homes. And some reduction in consumption, although View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
controlling for financial performance. The likelihood of demotion in this organization is also sensitive to nonfinancial performance on the dimension of service quality, while the probability of exit is primarily sensitive to financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
(MBA 2002), private investor, senior executive “First, my wife and I felt our top priority was to decide where we wanted to live and then look for a job, as opposed to letting my work drag us around the country. Second, I have elected to travel less than I could or... View Details
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
standards. A second fire kills a suburban dad who filled his lawn mower with gas too close to a recently tossed cigarette; the fire raced up the flow of gas and into the can, which exploded. Who is to blame for these deaths? Let's shift our focus. If you live in the... View Details
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
relevant for social networking sites and large advertisers. Key concepts include: There is a significant and positive impact of friends' purchases on the purchase probability of a user. However, there are significant differences across... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
acknowledgement of that. And that took probably a year to two. We still worked through that, but really almost a couple of years to lay that new foundation of trust. And then the other part was just proving it, was having Reddit be safe... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
of firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), sales and cash-flow, higher probabilities to engage in R&D, and export. We find no significant effects for firms from industrialized economies and negative effects for firms in other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
had been referred to its site through the corresponding affiliate, when in fact the affiliate did nothing. In fact, the affiliate did less than nothing: The affiliate wasted some of your bandwidth making you load a site you hadn't requested. The affiliate View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
that are then correlated with—and probably causal to—success in careers and success broadly defined, economically; feeling like you’re being intentional about what you’re pursuing and that you’re pursuing meaningful work, over time. And... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
sharply tailored suit with close-cropped silver hair. “It probably wasn’t very bright, but I was arrogant.” But as Maj began his studies in Warsaw, Poland again fell into tumult. In early 1976, a controversial amendment to its... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
between a company’s business strategy and its go-to-market operations.” Probability Distributions Michael Parzen and Paul J. Hamilton “This technical note introduces students to the concept of random variables, and from there the normal... View Details
- 18 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?
non-founder’s stake of only 13.6 percent. The researchers also took note of partners’ departures, which in general are uncommon. For the average fund, the probability that a given senior partner will depart was 9 percent, and for junior... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
wound ointment for thousands of years. The United States Patent and Trademark Office revoked the patent in 1997. The case illustrates the issue of "bio-piracy," wherein patentees charge rents for the use of herbal remedies that View Details
- 27 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Horrible Boss Workarounds
probably exceed their job descriptions. Not only is this attitude demoralizing for employees, but it discourages collaboration and idea sharing as well. For example, "there was one CEO of a company in the IT industry who kept... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
Gilmartin Symptoms of an ailing health care system are everywhere, he says. For one thing, there are huge national, geographic variations in the way we care for people. "The probability that you'll be well cared for is a function of... View Details
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Phillip Michael Strazzulla
lucky because you have ten or twenty classmates with experience in that field who you can email and say, `Let’s have coffee at Spangler and I’m going to ask you some questions.’ You would probably ask three types of questions: `What is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
have significant “skin in the game” when they securitize these mortgages, probably more than the 5 percent required by the Dodd-Frank Act. Lenders should have to hold significantly more capital to protect against losses from these riskier... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
Assistant Professor Randy Cohen, I enjoy a graphic demonstration of how today’s technology can be brought to bear on learning. The section works together through a spreadsheet that models an exercise in forest management, building formulas that capture View Details