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  • 21 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 21

novel dataset on algorithmic programming contests that contains data on individual effort, risk taking, and cognitive errors that may underlie tournament performance outcomes. We find that competitors on average react negatively to an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Sep 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO

Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Credit:  Steven Zimmerman/Wikipedia Commons Google software engineer James Damore’s ten-page manifesto excoriating his employer for its diversity initiatives incited a major controversy in August about... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 24 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

they also risk having to switch provider networks, disrupting patient-physician relationships. "According to Kaiser, health insurance premiums for the average plan are expected to rise by 9 percent in 2017" These consumers will... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Health
  • 13 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

religious employer allow his employees access to contraceptives or break with healthcare legislation? People and organizations of faith often face moral decisions that have significant consequences. Research in psychology found that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 May 2012
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First Look: May 29

2012) Abstract Controversy surrounds occupational health and safety regulators, with some observers claiming that workplace regulations damage firms' competitiveness and destroy jobs, and others arguing that they make workplaces safer at little cost to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

startup funds—and what allowed them to take the risk of launching a company." Curiosity eventually led to his doctoral dissertation: a series of studies showing a definitive link between the social safety net and entrepreneurship. In... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 19 Jan 2022
  • In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
  • 05 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: January 5

to counterfactuals, multinationals with greater factor-market externalities, knowledge spillovers, and vertical linkages exhibit significant co-agglomeration. The importance of these factors differs across headquarters, subsidiary, and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 19

  PublicationsLabor Regulations and European Venture Capital Authors:Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr Publication:Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

different forms of organization. Specifically, step processes reward technical integration, unified governance, risk aversion, and the use of direct authority, while platform systems reward modularity, distributed governance, View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 8

just after the SEC's announcement. Our results are consistent with the view that financial markets placed a positive value on shareholder access, as implemented in the SEC's August 2010 rule. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-052.pdf Private Equity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance

A health insurance crisis may be looming for employees of small businesses, with many firms struggling to cover their share of these costs, new research from Harvard Business School finds. Nearly one-third of employers surveyed weren’t... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health
  • 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23

leading players in these clusters are multi-location firms that organize and integrate knowledge across sites worldwide. Strong internal links across locations allow these firms to leverage knowledge for competitive advantage without View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?

colleague Clay Christensen's research of what he calls "the innovator's dilemma." At the risk of doing great damage to a carefully executed piece of research, I'll paraphrase it this way: Christensen maintains that large,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

resolution settings. It is believed that by making people more aware of their failure to notice and punish indirect unethical behavior, others can create a world where the use of intermediation will no longer provide harm doers an easy escape from public awareness.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7

at this time. Publisher's Link: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199730858.do Risky Trust: How Multi-entity Teams Develop Trust in High Risk Endeavors Authors:Faazia Rashid and Amy Edmondson Publication:In Restoring Trust in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2020
  • Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

determining how the player will perform going forward and in new circumstances (e.g., a new team) is a greater challenge. Given that QBs depend on their teammates—receivers, running backs and offensive linemen among others—to do their job, there are significant View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 30 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

pre-specified limit. Mr. Sattaiah, managing director of the BASIX's bank, considers a revised insurance policy for the coming season, weighing the costs and potential risks of expanding the product against the potential benefits. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

made me sign. This experience got me thinking that my employment opportunities had been geographically circumscribed by differences in the enforcement of noncompetes between states—that with my highly specialized skills, the only way I... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 03 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?

is yes. The safety of the financial system depends on financial institutions' risk exposure, their ability to absorb losses, their reliance on short-term wholesale funding, transparency, and understanding the interconnectedness between... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Banking; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

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