Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (187) Arrow Down

Show Results For

← Page 8 of 187 Results →
  • 22 Nov 2022
  • Blog Post

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change

capital-intensive and time-consuming (yet still very needed) route of putting more generation capacity online does not address existing pain points such as double-digit inflation in the US and a looming winter energy crisis in Europe... View Details
  • 03 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

prospects of females. However, Edlund (1999) proposes an (as yet untested) theory that, in environments where hypergamy is practiced and parents derive utility from married children, a male-skewed sex ratio can generate a permanent female... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA Course Number 2077 Professor Leslie Perlow Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits Paper Enrollment in this course, as of June 6, is now by standard lottery utilizing EC Toolkit. Please... View Details
  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

evidence that “short-termism" and “quarterly capitalism" are impairing firms' ability to invest, innovate, and provide good wages. We explain why S&P 500 shareholder-payout figures provide a misleadingly incomplete picture of corporate capital flows and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

a pawn of someone else), a feeling that one's skills are being both fully utilized and further developed, and positive feelings about the work, which may be akin to positive affect or positive emotion (e.g., deCharms, 1968; Deci and Ryan,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 10, 2015

workers' capacity for growth, and conduct data-based project reviews. To counter the bias toward action—and the unthinking perpetual motion and exhaustion that ensue—leaders can schedule more work breaks and make time for reflection. They... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 10

connections (measured as campaign donations to politicians who won an election). Yet, we do not find evidence that BNDES is systematically bailing out firms. In general, BNDES appears to be generally selecting firms with capacity to repay... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

logic than firms utilize to organize market resources.) Second, there has been very little (if any) significant research linking firm strategy to both nonmarket outcomes and firm performance. Most research has developed theories and/or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

results are consistent with the theoretical prediction in Diamond and Mirrlees (1978) and Golosov and Tsyvinski (2006) that certain individuals with high unwillingness to work maximize utility by planning in advance for their future... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 20

number that maximizes joint utility); (ii) an equilibrium selection problem (consumption complementarities often lead to multiple equilibria, which result in different utility levels for the users); and (iii) a coordination problem... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

Sizing Up Social Impact

average time required to collect water from 44 minutes to 32 minutes. Electrification of rural areas and the computerization of rural banks improved the flow of goods and services and decreased check-clearing times at banks. A government-training program designed to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities
  • 24 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

computational power for model estimation. We overcome computational burden by utilizing an improved simulator for likelihood evaluation and the general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU) technology that takes advantage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

(Bazerman, Loewenstein & White, 1992). The present analysis, however, shows that the perceived value of such tradeoffs—the transaction utility (Thaler, 1985; 1999)-depends on whether the allocation occurs within a particular social... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

Making Their Way

capacity and reducing transit times. Notes Ward, “The Gateway will enhance America’s competitiveness in global markets. We’re proud of our role in the Gateway for that reason, in addition to the fact that so much of our own business at... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation
  • 22 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 22, 2016

countries at different stages of development and institutional capacity is needed to surface the role of local conditions and absorptive capacities; micro-level work, that is firm-level data in developed as well as developing nations, to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

engage in self-creation and the utility that they derive from such activities. We propose that creating products fulfills consumers' psychological need to signal competence to themselves and to others, and that feelings of competence... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Leading In a New Era

office products, building products, and paper, had expanded production capacity to meet the strong demand for paper in the late 1980s but bore the brunt when demand began to taper off in 1990. The company — which started up in 1957,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 12 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

clinical documentation. The costing approach enables clinicians to understand utilization and cost of medical resource at a more granular level. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55832 forthcoming... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

existing available resources as educational opportunities. The resources were underutilized because of a lack of awareness. He believed that education should not be limited to the classroom and instead should be expanded to the entire city. Catraca Livre enabled Sao... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

Capitalism's capacity to evolve and its incredible versatility have proven to be the single most important source of its robustness and success. In fact, capitalism has avoided devastating crises not because it is fixed, but because it... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace