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- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
expenditures. Advertisers can get the most bang for the buck if they post their videos on YouTube and then motivate consumers to disseminate the ads for them, via email or social media. Getting an ad to go viral is among the cost-saving... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
and environmental impact and provide a standardized comparison across different kinds of social and environmental activities and their impact. The case allows students to discuss the challenges in measuring... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
attentional focus improves perceivers’ ability to judge group effectiveness. Finally, we find that perceivers with higher levels of social sensitivity are more accurate at judging group effectiveness. We discuss the implications of these... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
comparison to its peer institutions, the World Bank has been relatively responsive to calls for greater accountability. This report examines accountability mechanisms at three basic levels in the institution: (1) project, (2) policy, and... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 05 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 5
issuance and for trading in the secondary market and are robust to a series of bond and issuer controls, including issuer fixed effects as well as liquidity and duration. Comparison of the ex-post performance of bonds acquired by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28
show that increased competition is associated with greater inspection leniency, a form of illicit quality that customers value but is illegal and socially costly. Firms with greater numbers of local competitors pass customers at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
http://www.people.hbs.edu/shanson/shortint_text_20130814_FINAL.pdf September 2013 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Cheating More for Less: Upward Social Comparisons Motivate the Poorly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
behavioral finance: How rational are individual investors? It touches on the quality of advice that investors get, and the relationships between investors and their financial advisers. As we potentially shift our Social Security system... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29
Transfers usefully move resources from lowest- to highest-valuation networks, but transfers tend to cause socially costly growth in the Internet's routing table. We propose a market rule that avoids excessive trading and comes close to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
Social Psychology Bulletin The Amount and Source of Millionaires' Wealth (Moderately) Predicts Their Happiness By: Donnelly, Grant Edward, Tianyi Zheng, Emily Haisley, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Two samples of more than 4,000... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
hire in cohorts are more likely to have strong organizational career imprints. These two factors socially reinforce the kinds of capabilities, connections, confidence, and cognition that people pick up; they enhance the commonality among... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 26 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore
Conference Looks at Future of Hong Kong as a Global Leader The HBS Association of Hong Kong (HBSAHK) celebrated the club’s 45thanniversary in February, with its 2025 Signature Conference at Cloud 39, a rooftop ballroom at The Henderson skyscraper in central Hong Kong.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
provide us only with high valuation." Entrepreneurial Finance is currently taught by Professors Howard Stevenson and Jay Light, and Senior Lecturers Joe Lassiter and Ed Zschau. Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector Funding cutbacks,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
firms in the US, why have only 140 companies been able to exceed the $100 million mark? What do these firms do differently from the rest? Do they have a better strategy or talent? Are they simply beneficiaries of good fortune? While each of those factors may play a... View Details
- 08 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
collaborative filtering with cosine similarity of products, and comparison of different prediction models. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/119024-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-107 Data Visualization &... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 21
practitioners. Researchers have built upon the work in behavioral decision theory, examining the ways in which negotiators may deviate from rationality. The 1990s brought a renewed interest in social factors, as work on View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9
consider several psychological factors that increase costs from performance-based pay. We examine how psychological costs from social comparison and overconfidence reduce the efficacy of individual... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
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industries, such as organic agriculture, grew up to serve these and other demands. And individual business leaders, experimenting with forms of social entrepreneurship, developed product offerings and built firms that were intended to... View Details
- 01 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 1
that have informed LGBT organizational research from the late nineteenth century to date. The frames include a "medical abnormality," "deviant social role," "collective identity," and "social... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 10
http://hbr.org/2013/12/the-hidden-benefits-of-keeping-teams-intact/ar/1 August 2013 Stanford Social Innovation Review Inside the Buy-One Give-One Model By: Marquis, Christopher, and Andrew Park Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne