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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
Initiative encourage innovation to address the large-scale issues that beset society. Entrepreneurship Social Enterprise Our long tradition of research in Entrepreneurship goes back to the 1930's and 1940's with the “the father of venture capitalism,” General Georges... View Details
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
Browse All topics Accounting Audits (3) Accounting (119) Acquisition (20) Activity Based Costing and Management (2) Adaptation (7) Adoption (3) Advertising Campaigns (6) Advertising (77) Agency Theory (3) Age (3) Agreements and... View Details
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Cold Calling - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
calling has three key objectives: Establish and reinforce high expectations for student preparation Provide a developmental opportunity for the opening student with respect to content mastery, critical thinking, and communication skills... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
experiment, the researchers expected that elevated testosterone would encourage cheating. Previous studies have shown that elevated testosterone increases sensitivity to reward while decreasing sensitivity to punishment, which encourages... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
and minimizes the expected time to detection under a pre-specified alternative hypothesis. We apply our method to a model in which the interdependency among the multiple adverse events is captured by a Cox proportional hazards model with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
corporate archives to explore the fine details of how firms actually operated. It also includes work by those who have been influenced by evolutionary, transaction cost, and resource-based theories of the firm. The book will be an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
related hypotheses across six experiments: (1) Given people's lay theories about the capacities for cognition and emotion for robots and humans, workers will express more discomfort with botsourcing when they consider losing jobs that... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015
or liking both scholarly documentary films and action-packed thrillers. However, when predicting other consumers’ tastes for the same items, people believe that a preference for one precludes enjoyment of the dissimilar other. Five studies show that people sensibly... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Nov 2015
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November 17, 2015
made at the precision of $1 or $5 per share is associated with a $4 to $5 million higher expected transaction price than one made at a precision greater than one quarter. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
D. KC, and F. Gino Abstract—Many models in operations management involve dynamic decision making that assumes optimal updating in response to information revelation. However, behavioral theory suggests that rather than updating their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
either system can lead to the subversion of expected relationships in the other. This book rejects the simple equation of capitalism with markets or with trade, in favor of a three-level system that embraces factor markets as well those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11
missions. Three, it could have simply rejected the new national security mandate. In reality, it didn’t play out in any of those ways. “Nothing in prior theory led us to expect what we observed—in essence,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
characteristics at both the senior management and director levels affect corporate philanthropic contributions. We also find that organizational structure constrains the philanthropic influence of board members but not of senior managers, a result that is contrary to... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Themes: Measuring Sentiment & Expectations More Info Neglected Risks: The Psychology and Financial Crises By: Nicola Gennaioli , Andrei Shleifer & Robert W. Vishny MAY 2015 Gennaioli, Shleifer and Vishny present a View Details
- 06 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 6
http://hbr.org/2011/12/the-ordinary-heroes-of-the-taj/ar/1 Taking Gender into Account: Theory and Design for Women's Leadership Development Programs Authors:Robin J. Ely, Herminia Ibarra, and Deborah Kolb Publication:Academy of Management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
dimension of prior experience is whether the outcome was successful or unsuccessful. While empirical studies have investigated the effects of success and failure in organizational learning, to date the phenomenon has received little attention at the individual level.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS
long history of admiring Professor Frei and doing the best I can to emulate her as a professor now, and to embody her, I don't know, zest for life, zest for teaching, and her interest in developing the whole person. And setting high standards and View Details
- 09 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
4 Things To Know About the MS/MBA Biotech
diseases with no effective treatments. From these conversations, it became abundantly clear that driving pharmaceutical impact cannot occur exclusively through classroom theory or lab experimentation. Real change in health care demands... View Details
- 31 May 2011
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First Look: May 31
Abstract Theories of the firm have been dominated by a legacy of ideas from early industrialization that pose zero-sum opposition between capital and labor (or capital and nearly everything else), differentiating the economy from society... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations
unaccommodating behavior by the slighted party. In their 1991 book, A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations (ILR Press), Richard E. Walton and Robert B. McKersie recount such a scenario. After a string of long, protracted contract... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra