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- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
and increased employment has attracted increased interest. Yet questions about efficacy and the efficiency with which funds are used is a subject of frequent debate. This paper examines empirical data from the Danish National Advanced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward
With Harvard navigating an array of pressures, Jana Kierstead, Executive Director of the MBA and Doctoral Programs and External Relations, spoke with Dean Srikant Datar about how HBS is responding to new challenges while maintaining its focus on strategic priorities.... View Details
- 26 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore
Conference Looks at Future of Hong Kong as a Global Leader The HBS Association of Hong Kong (HBSAHK) celebrated the club’s 45thanniversary in February, with its 2025 Signature Conference at Cloud 39, a rooftop ballroom at The Henderson skyscraper in central Hong Kong.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
simulations that allowed for longer chain segments and used actual patient data from the Alliance for Paired Donation. When chain segments of 4-6 are allowed in the simulations, NEAD chains produce more transplants than DPD. Our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
explanation of price rigidity has the advantage of being consistent with the observation that the typical size of price increases is nearly invariant to inflation. Lastly, the paper turns to some government policies regarding prices that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
product variety and inventory levels on store sales. Using four years of data from stores of a large retailer, we show that increases in product variety and inventory levels are both associated with higher sales. We also show that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
doctors treating the woman. Watson had already ingested millions of oncology papers and volumes of leukemia data from research institutes around the world. Now, the doctors in Tokyo fed Watson the woman’s genetic information, hoping it... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant research effort has gone into understanding the economic impact of immigration into the United States, comprehensive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details
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Arthur Rock
to HBS in 2003 lead to the creation of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurism. He and his wife Toni Rembe also founded the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University. His deft touch has left an imprint on hundreds of... View Details
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
survey data from India and Indonesia, we first show that financial literacy is a powerful predictor of demand for financial services. To test the relative importance of literacy and price, we implement a field experiment, offering... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
urban landscapes to anchor growth, generate land-lease revenues, and display a capacious administration, Chinese urban governments exhibit varying levels of control over land. This article uses a paired comparison of Dalian and Harbin in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim Abstract We examine the effect of mandatory sustainability reporting on several measures of socially responsible management practices. Using data for 58 countries, we show that after the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
development outcomes for recent decades. Political instability's significance is time consistent in cross-sectional regressions back to the 1960s, the period when the key data becomes available; robust in both country fixed-effects and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
state court ruled that the Board of Health did not have the authority to implement such a policy, it remains a legally viable option for governments and a voluntary option for restaurants. However, there is very limited empirical View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
later and if so, how? The friendship formation of students at a large Canadian university was assessed during their first term. These data were used to predict self-reported health and health behaviors (physical exercise, diet, tobacco,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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2025 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
data has been used to expose government misreporting of inflation and, more recently, to challenge political claims about the effects of tariffs on prices. Drawing from his research, he will illustrate how... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
merchants petitioned shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune to officially authorize trade in rice futures at the Dojima Exchange, the world's first organized (but unsanctioned) futures market. For many years, the Japanese government had prohibited the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
can, under certain conditions, yield immediate post-break performance increases. We test our hypotheses using productivity data from 212 fruit harvesters collected over one harvesting season yielding nearly 250,000 truckloads of fruit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne