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- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
decreases participants' short-term debt by about 20%. In addition, participants who experience an economic shock have less need to reduce consumption, and subjective well-being improves significantly. Precautionary savings and credit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
Experimentation By: Thomke, Stefan, and Jim Manzi Abstract—The data you already have can't tell you how customers will react to innovations. To discover if a truly novel concept will succeed, you must subject it to a rigorous experiment.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
report data from an experiment where subjects in a Willpower Treatment are asked to resist the temptation to join others in watching a humorous video for 10 minutes. In relation to a baseline treatment that does not require willpower, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
Authors:Leigh Plunkett Tost, Francesca Gino, and Richard P. Larrick Abstract We examine the impact of subjective power on leadership behavior and demonstrate that the psychological effect of power on leaders spills over to impact team... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
controlling family, when the borrower has a higher degree of informational opacity, a lower credit rating, and a lower potential for being propped up, when the loan facility is subject to more credit risk, and during financial crises. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
trade in and out of insurance products and is not subject to regulatory restrictions. Yet, Nephila only capitalizes 1% of the entire catastrophe reinsurance market. What is the best way to grow? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 19, 2006
advertising subject to constraints on customer growth. By relaxing constraints on growth by one customer, we can then impute their lifetime value to the firm. We apply our model to data from an auction house. Our results show that there... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
Protection Agency (US EPA) program that encourages companies to self-disclose violations of environmental laws and regulations in exchange for reduced sanctions. We find that facilities are more likely to self-disclose if they were recently View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
percent of cases used at business schools worldwide are written at HBS — including more than 1,200 on entrepreneurship in the last ten years. This dissemination from the School of cases on entrepreneurship has helped create a broader and deeper understanding of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
Math is where, historically, you see the biggest learning loss occur, and when those skills atrophy, it’s very hard to engage in the next level. Everything builds on the level before it. That’s true in other subjects as well—reading is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
spirituality hit What the Bleep Do We Know!? Most recently, the company scored with the edgy comedy concert film Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic. D’Arbeloff’s producing credits include Trick (the subject of an HBS case) and Lovely and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
Reader #14 — yes, we were each assigned a number,” says Plexico. “I had just finished college, and I wanted to live in Boston, so HBS was perfect. Before we began, we all attended classes in accounting, case management, and other subjects... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
109-070 Commercial Director Prado wonders how to leverage the loyalty card information to prepare the fall 2008 budget. The case discusses the value of subjective and objective information for profit-planning purposes. Spanish children's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
schools are teaching ethics and corporate social responsibility, but they do not teach these subjects in the context of building a higher-ambition or a high commitment, high performance firm. Students learn about finance and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Academic Director at Brown University for the IE Brown Executive MBA . Banu is currently Joint Editor in Chief of Gender, Work & Organization and the author of Transnational Migration and The New Subjects of Work: Transmigrants, Hybrids... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
in subjects such as business history and leadership, the contributions of IT were much more limited. The result was a curriculum with pockets of IT excellence. "We had a lot of very bright individuals working on cutting-edge projects in... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
University, where I was determined to find the least useful subject to major in (from an employment perspective at least) – Philosophy. What difference do you hope to make in the world? I want to do my part to give a voice to the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Goldberg is too modest to say so, is to learn from a giant of their industry. Goldberg, together with his late HBS colleague John H. Davis, codeveloped the field of agribusiness, teaching the first course on the subject in 1955. At the... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
boards in a sample of Chinese firms. First, we ask why independent directors dissent, i.e., how they justify such dissent to public investors. We find that when independent directors dissent, they tend to offer mild, subjective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
majority of newsvendor settings. When demands are uncensored, subjects tend to order below the normative quantity when facing high margin and above the normative quantity when facing low margin, but in neither case beyond mean demand... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel