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- 08 Jan 2014
- News
Study: Fight Performance Anxiety by Getting Excited
- 30 Jun 2020
- News
What Coronavirus Researchers Can Learn From Economists
- 02 May 2020
- News
Kominers's Conundrums: There's a Puzzle Hiding in This Column
- 2016
- Working Paper
Saving More in Groups: Field Experimental Evidence from Chile
By: Felipe Kast, Stephan Meier and Dina Pomeranz
We test the impact of a peer group savings program on precautionary savings through two randomized field experiments among 2,687 microcredit clients. The first experiment finds that the Peer Group Treatment, which combines public goal setting, monitoring in the group,... View Details
Keywords: Saving; Decision Making; Interest Rates; Planning; Performance Effectiveness; Economics; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Social Enterprise; Global Range; Chile
Kast, Felipe, Stephan Meier, and Dina Pomeranz. "Saving More in Groups: Field Experimental Evidence from Chile." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-060, January 2012. (Revised April 2016. Revision requested by Journal of Development Economics.
Featured in Time, Business Insider, Freakonomics, Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! Finance, and others.)
- 02 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Leveraging Transferable Skills
Shelby, Jasmyn and Katie (MBA 2019) describe their summer internship experiences. All three students utilized transferable skills from their previous work experience to transition into new industries; technology, retail and agribusiness.... View Details
- 04 Jan 2021
- Working Paper Summaries
Hospital Allocation and Racial Disparities in Health Care
- 28 Aug 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Who Drives Digital Innovation? Evidence from the US Medical Device Industry
- 27 Feb 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Seeking to Belong: How the Words of Internal and External Beneficiaries Influence Performance
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
Summing Up How do we close the gap between theory and results in selecting leaders? In discussing why our achievements in selecting leaders are less than stellar, contributors offered a rich set of ideas. Given their number, I've tried to categorize them into several... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 14 Jun 2019
- News
A Simple Strategy For Happiness
- 13 Feb 2017
- News
HBS Launches Executive Program In India
- 06 Nov 2019
- News
Boeing mess is 'a template for how not to be trustworthy.'
- Article
Contextual Intelligence
By: Tarun Khanna
The author has come to a conclusion that may surprise you: trying to apply management practices uniformly across geographies is a fool's errand. Best practices simply don't travel well across borders. That's because conditions not just of economic development but of... View Details
Khanna, Tarun. "Contextual Intelligence." Harvard Business Review 92, no. 9 (September 2014): 58–68.
- October 1999 (Revised February 2000)
- Case
Steinway & Sons: Buying a Legend (A)
It is 1995 and Steinway & Sons has just been purchased by two young entrepreneurs. For 140 years, Steinway has held the reputation for making the finest quality grand pianos in the world. The past 25 years have proven to be a challenge, however. First, the company has... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Decisions; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Crisis Management; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Quality; Competitive Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Japan; New York (state, US)
Gourville, John T., and Joseph B. Lassiter III. "Steinway & Sons: Buying a Legend (A)." Harvard Business School Case 500-028, October 1999. (Revised February 2000.)
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The Big Five Personality Traits, Material Values, and Financial Well-being of Self-described Money Managers
By: Grant Edward Donnelly, Ravi Iyer and Ryan Howell
Previous research has linked personality traits, material values, and money management to savings, debt, and compulsive buying. To extend previous research, four online surveys examined the Big Five personality traits and material values of those who manage their money... View Details
Keywords: Values; Personality; Well-being; Personal Characteristics; Values and Beliefs; Personal Finance; Money
Donnelly, Grant Edward, Ravi Iyer, and Ryan Howell. "The Big Five Personality Traits, Material Values, and Financial Well-being of Self-described Money Managers." Journal of Economic Psychology 33, no. 6 (December 2012): 1129–1144.
David Ager
David Ager is a Senior Lecturer in Executive Education. He engages CEOs, CHROs, and their teams to design and deliver customized executive development experiences for executive, senior and high potential leaders. The companies hail from diverse sectors including... View Details
Archie L. Jones
Archie Jones is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School, where he currently teaches Venture Capital and Private Equity, Field... View Details
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Managing Health Care Delivery
effective teamwork Learn tools and techniques for designing and managing successful organizations Expand your personal and professional network Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from across the globe who possess deep and varied... View Details