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- 25 Jan 2021
- Book
In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded
How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
(roommate) problems in which agents can either be matched as pairs or remain single. We introduce a so-called bi-choice graph for each pair of stable matchings and characterize its structure. Exploiting this structure we obtain as a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Research Summary
Models of optimal experience (flow)
Flow is a state of profound task-absorption, involvement, and intrinsic enjoyment that makes the person feel one with the activity. Csikszentmihalyi's Flow Theory states that flow is more likely to occur in situations in which the person feels that the activity is very... View Details
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
technologies in the U.S. While there are several startups in clean energy that are well-suited to the traditional venture capital investment model, our analysis highlights a number of structural challenges related to venture capital (VC)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest
that day hold lessons, some of them for business managers. Roberto's new working paper describes how. Here follows an excerpt from "Lessons From Everest: The Interaction of Cognitive Bias, Psychological Safety, and System... View Details
Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto
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About - Business & Environment
has led several successful finance projects that brought together the private and public sectors, large financial institutions, and multilateral organizations. In previous roles at HBS she wrote case studies on impact investing and contributed to the Problem Solving... View Details
- 14 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide
in the moment.” She suggests Amazon may have been better off pursuing a management concept known as structured empowerment, where a company standardizes operations but allows flexibility for employees to make their own choices in key... View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
framework for the analysis of SEPs, identifies several types of inefficiencies attached to the lack of price commitment, shows how structured price commitments restore competition, and analyzes whether price commitments are likely to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
specifically express interest in a suitable product are more likely to receive an appropriate recommendation, though most still receive bad advice. Agents cater to the beliefs of uninformed consumers, even when those beliefs are wrong. We then test how regulation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
U.S. Competitiveness
latest survey findings and eight years of prior research on the competitiveness of the United States—highlights a disturbing pattern: structural failures in the U.S. political system continue to prevent meaningful progress on actions... View Details
- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
invest in a medical technology company that licenses intellectual property from a privately held IP holding company based on a platform technology. Entrepreneurs Amar Sawhney and Fred Khosravi founded Incept LLC to commercialize their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2024
- Book
More Than Memes: NFTs Could Be the Next Gen Deed for a Digital World
that creates surprisingly flexible value. NFTs can turn images into event tickets, and event tickets into brand anchors. They will usher in the next generation of customer loyalty programs, creating structures that benefit both businesses... View Details
- 27 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11
on the United States, killing nearly 3,000 people with four hijacked airliners—and throwing the FBI’s structure and identity into question. Since its founding in 1908, the organization had focused primarily on solving domestic crimes and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
Journal of Econometrics Scenario Generation for Long Run Interest Rate Risk Assessment By: Engle, Robert F., Guillaume Roussellet, and Emil N. Siriwardane Abstract—We propose a statistical model of the term structure of U.S. treasury... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'
an idiot. It’s a lie because your brain is structured to lie to you. There is a process called homeostasis, or the tendency toward equilibrium. You can’t stay out of equilibrium for long, but you’re going to try to get back out of it... View Details
Keywords: by Dan Morrell
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
that hold back progress in resource mobilization research. We then propose a path ahead for future research guided by two overarching goals. First, we advocate for a process perspective, focusing attention on how an individual actor’s... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
become more fundamental as advertisers target their advertisements with greater precision. In the paper that follows, the author attempts to identify the circumstances that make advertisers most vulnerable, notes adjusted contract View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
shareholders the right to place board nominees on the company's proxy ballot. Said SEC chairman Mary Schapiro: "This would turn what would otherwise be a somewhat illusory [shareholder] right to nominate [directors] into something that is real—and has a real... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
embedded. Although these tools involve disparate bodies of knowledge, they must be used in tandem to achieve maximum effect. Architectural capabilities provide managers with the ability to see a complex technical system in an abstract way and change the system's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne