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- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
10 items they would most likely purchase on their hypothetical outing. Regarding indulgent items, the results depended on whether the participants had children in their households. For those with dependents, there was no significant... View Details
- 24 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?
has evolved dramatically over the last 30 years with a greater reliance on markets rather than banks, and our regulatory regime has not kept up with those changes. That is one of the reasons we had a subprime crisis. The second is that housing finance became... View Details
- 07 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Exit Interview: HBS Dean Kim Clark
we depend on our alumni for financial support; for access to issues, companies, and people; and for recurring relationships that feed ideas. Values and leadership may be the most important work we've done here. Our alumni see how the... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Alumni Bulletin Staff
- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
messages, stayed the same. That one-hour loss of overlap represented a 19 percent reduction in opportunities to communicate synchronously during the typical workday—but the impact of that gap also depended on the type of job. The... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
increase the employment-based allotment. Implementing such a shift could be quite politically controversial depending upon technique, especially if policies shifted visas from family-based channels and diversity programs rather than... View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- Web
1.9 Course Registration | MBA
financial obligation. Financial aid is available in the form of a student loan, a need-based HBS scholarship, or a combination of both depending on individual circumstances. The Add/Drop process at the start of the term is the mechanism... View Details
- 23 Aug 2018
- News
Healthcare Alumni Keep Learning Through Virtual Programming
to do this work,” says Heckel. “We depend on our HBS alumni volunteers, so we’re thanking them by inviting them to join us at the award dinner.” The award will be given at the Thumbelina Fund’s annual fundraising dinner on October 4. View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
I understand the dilemma. The answer depends on where revenue comes from, how your buyers and sellers are structured (regional, national, or stand-alone), and how strong the network effects are. In this case, staffing doesn’t have as much... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
Wallace Stevens called playing “A tune beyond us, yet ourselves,” is a fugitive thing. It depends on an artist’s skill and a viewer’s perception, neither of which can be quantified or standardized. For many, this moves art beyond the... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 19 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving
receiving money—that their donation could have been better—increased the number of people choosing the national option by 7 percent. I’ll take the money Their next finding, however, was even more dramatic—or depending on how you look at... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Apr 2006
- What Do You Think?
Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?
In this case, it concerns the treatment of illegal immigrants already in the U.S. The fact that they are here and that millions of others have arrived in Europe suggests an increasing tendency for labor to seek global solutions. Whether this is good or bad View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 31 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
5 Things on My Mind in the Second Year of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
time together with cohort #2. We are constantly in ideation-mode (design thinking!) for what to establish as traditions for our program, which is a fantastic perk of being the first and second cohorts of the program. 5. Recruiting: already? I just came back from my... View Details
- Blog
Inside the Learning: How Faculty Prepare for Class
specific roadblocks will differ depending on who is in the room. These differences are important to uncover and work through together. Even when no clear solution or consensus exists, it is empowering for participants to think through... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
—Steven Roth (MBA 1976) It depends on how the decision makers choose their service providers. From long experience working in the early cable industry, new programming companies would price their services for pennies on the guarantee of... View Details
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
Working PapersContracting in the Self-reporting Economy (revised) Authors:Romana L. Autrey and Richard Sansing Abstract This paper examines the effect of accounting on the use of intellectual property. We analyze the licensing of intellectual property in exchange for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
addition, unconscious thought might be more dependable than conscious thought when we are low on energy. Preliminary research also indicates that using odor or sound cues during sleep might activate our unconscious mind and improve... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms
innovations before bringing them to market. The general lesson for any company that depends on distribution partners: Be wary. As Zhu told the audience at Future Assembly: “Before you build your business model around platforms, you need... View Details
- 10 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!
also worries that a company is at risk if sales depend too much on one or two megabrands that could run into lawsuits from generic competitors or regulatory challenges. On the other hand, the president of Warner Bros. (think Batman) aims... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
"green," as though there were a categorical answer. "Of course, the answer is, 'It depends.' The appropriate environmental policies for a firm depend on the firm's circumstances: the basic economics of its industry, its position within... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward
safety net and “makers and takers,” which is this very attractively rhyming concept. There’s this idea that those are two separate populations—that they’re completely non-overlapping groups. In fact, that’s not the case. Depending on the... View Details