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- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
productive even when they are engaging in leisure activities, as they "check off" items on an "experiential check list" and build their "experiential CV." A series of laboratory and field studies shows that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
Health's MegaBLAST. The best achieved both greater accuracy and speed (1,000 times greater). Here we show the potential of using online prize-based contests to access individuals without domain-specific backgrounds to address big-data... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
spend less, order a higher percentage of "should" items (e.g., vegetables), and order a lower percentage of "want" items (e.g., ice cream) controlling for customer fixed effects. However, orders placed by a customer for delivery tomorrow versus two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
gestures in negotiations because people feel comfortable initiating negotiations with them and believe they signal cooperation (Study 1). We show that handshakes increase cooperative behaviors, affecting outcomes for integrative and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Simple Ways to Take Gender Bias Out of Your Jobs
in their job listings, research shows that the language of job descriptions often subtly adheres to gender stereotypes. And that deters members of the opposite gender from applying to those jobs. For example, a few years ago, social... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
head of the chemical engineering department at MIT, and Jerome C. Hunsaker, head of the aeronautical engineering department at MIT, served as technical consultants. With Doriot's support, Dorothy Rowe, who started as Doriot's administrative assistant at ARD, eventually... View Details
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
fascinating exchange where Kapur tells you what it was like to work at an ad firm in India, which in the 1960s and even beyond was still feeling the vestiges of the British Raj. He says, “ if you spoke English with a slight ‘ho-ho’ accent then you were better off in... View Details
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
art was redefined as a new product category—modern Indian art—by a variety of participants including artists, academics, commercial auction houses, and critics. And as Western museums and collectors began to take notice, prices for pieces in the category View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
Economic difficulties need not mean that we lower our standards for leadership. If anything, we should raise our sights. New work by HBS professor Michael Beer and colleagues shows that there is still a place for what they term... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2018
prior year to $144 million. Salaries & Benefits Compensation for the faculty and administrative staff is the largest expense at HBS. The School’s salaries and benefits expense for fiscal 2018 rose 4 percent to $340 million, from $327... View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information II - Annual Report 2019
professional services expenses for fiscal 2019 rose by a comparatively modest $4 million, or 6 percent, from the prior year to $72 million. As in fiscal 2018, professional services expenses amounted to 9 percent of total operating costs.... View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
characteristics of the waste-to-energy operation, the market characteristics for waste disposal and energy, and the mechanisms regulators use to encourage production of renewable energy, we determine the profit-maximizing operating strategy of the firm. We also View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
first became interested in marketing and retailing while in college, working part-time at Bloomingdale’s and then in a New York buying office for a large group of department stores. After earning an MBA (1954) and DBA (1960) at HBS, he View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
look up to. Someone who’s inspired by the surf or skate team we sponsor will likely identify with our product. If you’re an NBA fan, and you see Derrick Rose wearing Skullcandy headphones, that’s pretty powerful. Social media is another... View Details
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
funds' holdings of securitizations to examine which investors are susceptible to such boom-time thinking. We show that firsthand experience plays a key role in shaping investors' beliefs. During the 2003–2007 mortgage boom, inexperienced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
negotiation? That's a big motivation for us. When we think about what might make women walk into a negotiation with, say, lower expectations than men, one of the explanations for that comes from social psychology. It's called the entitlement effect. That research View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-114.pdf Platforms and Limits to Network Effects (revised) Authors:Hanna Halaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We model conditions under which agents in two-sided matching markets would rationally prefer a platform-limiting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2019
million, or 9 percent, to $262 million, from $240 million a year earlier, exceeding the School’s cautious forecast for zero growth. International sales rose 14 percent, comprising 36 percent of Publishing’s total annual revenues. Harvard... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
paper. One was a scene that Homer saw on a visit to Boston, his hometown. His illustration shows a crowd of abolitionists on the brink of eviction from a church; at their front is Frederick Douglass, declaring “the freedom of all... View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details