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- 19 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles
managers over-invested in technology stocks. Why are the less-experienced managers drawn to technology? A: Our hypothesis is that younger managers, and inexperienced investors more generally, are more likely to extrapolate past price View Details
- 04 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks
faculty, Toby Stuart studies networks and how they enable or impede certain organizational and entrepreneurial behaviors. In a working paper, "The Evolution of Venture Capital Investment Networks," he and coauthor Olav Sorenson of University of Toronto's... View Details
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517122-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-080 OpenNotes In 2017, executives at OpenNotes, a national movement to improve the relationship between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Dean’s House | About
main floor, with a circular staircase leading to a sitting room, bedrooms, and baths on the second and third floors. The surrounding garden was part of Frederick Law Olmsted’s original landscape design. At the time of its completion, the... View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
connectedness of digital communication, the dynamic movement of capital, and the changing nature of political boundaries are propelling capitalism into a new form that can be characterized as "virtual capitalism." And global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers
Toxic workers aren’t just a pain in the rear; they’re also a pain in the bottom line, according to a new Harvard Business School working paper. Dylan Minor, visiting assistant professor of business administration in the HBS Strategy unit,... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
prices enhance demand by misleading consumers about true original prices. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50777 Harvard Business School Case 818-065 The Dalian Wanda Group: Using IT to Become an... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
This case, set in the 1920s and 1930s, discusses the contributions of Harvard Business School (HBS) Professors Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger to management research and to the Human Relations Movement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
to prevent them. "The main conclusion from this whole stream of research is that investing in poverty reduction strategies not only has direct economic benefits but also political benefits," says Lakshmi Iyer, a Harvard Business View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
long-term rates By: Samuel G. Hanson , David O. Lucca & Jonathan Wright APR 2021 The sensitivity of long-term interest rates to movements in short-term rates is a central feature of the term structure. It plays a crucial role in the... View Details
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Demonstration Policy | About
the work of the School is carried out; or other places where demonstrations would interfere with the normal activities of the School. When a demonstration occurs, demonstrators may not: Inhibit the freedom of View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
recurring and predictable (however imprecisely) constant of capitalism - a sometime skunk at the market economy's otherwise celebratory garden party. But several modern-day developments, including the primacy of rapidly evolving, widely... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
Kerry blasted "Benedict Arnold CEOs" for using tax advantages to do exactly that. We asked Harvard Business School professor Mihir Desai, an expert on international and corporate finance, to guide us through the complicated U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Radical Design, Radical Results
the innovators' products tended to be more homogeneous as a group. "It seems that the innovators understand and build off each other's ideas better than the imitators do," Verganti remarks. "They innovate in a circle; it's a similar dynamic to what... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
presidential election. These results highlight the trade-offs associated with mobilizing voters in recently established democracies. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50950 Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?
is poised for a drastic, historic change, says Harvard Business School Professor Prithwiraj Choudhury. What’s more, the normalization of virtual work that began with the COVID-19 pandemic is creating meaningful perks for local economies,... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
A legendary professor at Harvard Business School for 40 years, Georges Doriot was a pivotal player in the founding of the modern venture capital industry. As Spencer E. Ante's new book notes, venture capital per se is as old as commercial... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
drastic changes in their interactions with consumers. In education, teachers from elementary schools to universities transformed content and delivered it online or through phones. Retailers started to license Amazon's Just Walk Out... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
Orchestrate? By: Battilana, Julie, and Marissa Kimsey Abstract—The article provides a framework for understanding the roles that individuals and organizations can play in a movement for social change. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
for the common school movement in urban settings. Cannon sees an opportunity. “What skills do you need to work in a factory?” she asks. “None!” the students chorus. Slowly, though, they concede that basic... View Details
Keywords: April White