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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
presents up-to-date scientific research findings that explain why we have unwanted habits (for example, inappropriate angry outbursts, procrastination, breaking a diet, or abandoning an exercise program) and why they are so hard to manage. He then View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
million to have the biotech develop it as a potential cancer drug, eventually giving up when even low doses resulted in severe nausea during clinical trials. Still, the drug became a focal point for the Secklers. "Here was this drug that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Discovered True Riches at Harvard Business School by John Cortines and Gregory Baumer (both MBA 2015) (Rose Publishing) The authors tell a story of God’s transforming power and describe a lifestyle of giving that they call “radical... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
co-headlining arena tour with hip-hop superstar Kanye West has been cancelled. Carter knows that continuing the tour, but doing so solo, comes with huge risks, but scaling it back to smaller theaters or postponing the tour altogether has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
operators, managers, and even friends. Staff outside A&R, too, keep their feelers out, reporting back to the department on anyone they feel "passionate" about, says Boberg. "If you've been around music for a long time," says Paul Knutson,... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
HBP. Dean McArthur was keen to see that I would do justice to his work, and he specifically wanted to give me more context on the original case and the protagonist. The key lesson in the original case was on the sorts of accounting... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
from consumption complementarities. We show that the combination of preference for variety and consumption complementarities gives rise to (1) a commons problem (to better satisfy their individual preference for variety, users have an... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
learning among lower-level employees. We exploit a field-research setting in which business units vary in the "tightness" with which they monitor employee decisions. We find that tighter monitoring gives rise to implicit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
government's support on Newbridge's investment and had to back out of the deal with Newbridge. Weijian Shan has to make a choice between two alternatives: 1) Give up pursuing the deal given huge political... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
self-report of the licensee. The self-reporting aspect of the environment gives rise to demand for auditing by the licensor or third-party attestation by the licensee. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Dean Srikant Datar’s 2025 Commencement Remarks | About
will help you appreciate different viewpoints—often yielding unexpected insights and giving you a better perspective about the future. But beyond personal benefits, curiosity is a key leadership skill. The world is volatile, uncertain,... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
and you have them played by people of color. That was startling to audiences. You take the founding fathers, you take Jefferson and you have him rap. Rap goes back to the 70s and 80s. Jefferson was born in, what? The 1740s? Two old... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
discussion of how ownership concentration constrains restructuring alternatives, how hedge fund investors might confront controlling shareholders, and how the mispricing of agency costs can give rise to ownership structures that allow for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
wanted to be outdoors," he says. A typical day on the farm runs 12 hours minimum, often stretching around the clock during calving season. "Twenty heifers may start giving birth in the middle of a snowstorm," says Whiteside. "Once I was... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
desire to signal to others. We present a field experiment where participants could choose to give up money if they did not follow through with an action. If their commitment choice was made public rather than kept private, we find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=gray%20rand%20et%20al.pdf August 2013 PLoS ONE Give What You Get: Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella) and 4-year-old Children Pay Forward Positive and Negative Outcomes to Conspecifics By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Off Your Shoes: One Man’s Journey from the Boardroom to Bali and Back by Ben Feder (MBA 1991) Radius Book Group A hard-charging CEO of a large enterprise, Feder discovers that he is losing the very things that sustained him over his years... View Details
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
make more money.” The data back up that philosophy. A 2016 survey of publicly traded companies from the Peterson Institute for International Economics found that the presence of more women in top positions of corporate management... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
believe investing in women-led companies will make more money.” The data back up that philosophy. A 2016 survey of publicly traded companies from the Peterson Institute for International Economics found that the presence of more women in... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
business sector is economic value creation, the altruistic dimension prevails in the third sector. In our cases, social leaders approached companies for a variety of reasons that most certainly included accruing some organizational advantages, thus View Details