Limits To Arbitrage - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Do TV Debates Sway Voters?

effective way to mobilize nonvoters and persuade those who are undecided.” Getting the ground game right Candidates who accept the limited benefits of TV and shift resources to... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

15 Jun 2021
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Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

implementing a broad-based ownership program isn’t easy. It requires a commitment to change from the leadership team. But this new approach is winning fans among other private equity firms—“I had two calls this morning already,” Stavros... View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

2018
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New Prospects for Organizational Democracy?: How the Joint Pursuit of Social and Financial Goals Challenges Traditional Organizational Designs

By: Julie Battilana, Michael Fuerstein and Michael Lee

For an extended period during the first half of the 20th century, industrial democracy was a vibrant movement, with ideological and organizational ties to a thriving unionism. In 2015, however, things look different. While there are instances of democracy in the... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Values and Beliefs; Integration; Theory

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16 May 2000
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Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

Deighton notes that, at this point, "the Internet is not a particularly engaging medium. It's very accountable, but it really has limited powers to romance the consumer in the way that television... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

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Drug & Alcohol Policy | About

events (e.g., receptions) that take place in and adjacent to the flat floor classrooms in Batten Hall (the Hives) and the Chao Center. If alcohol is being served, food must also be served. Events with alcohol are View Details

July 2021
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Medical Debt in the U.S., 2009–2020

By: Raymond Kluender, Neale Mahoney, Francis Wong and Wesley Yin

Importance: Medical debt is an increasing concern in the US, yet there is limited understanding of the amount and distribution of medical debt, and its association with health care policies.

Objective: To measure the amount of medical debt nationally and by... View Details

Keywords: Debt; Borrowing and Debt; Health Care and Treatment; United States

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Events - Private Capital Project

Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences), and was moderated by Professor Josh Lerner (Co-Head of the HBS Private Capital Project) The Evolution of the Gulf Investor October 8, 2024, “The Evolution of the Gulf Investor” drew out perspectives from general and... View Details

07 May 2014
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How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

self-evident: campaign donation limitations The 'playing field' would still be unequal but less severely so." Albert Stepanchic had a suggestion that hit close to home: "If I were evaluating the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Teaching in recognition of outstanding work in the transition to online and hybrid teaching and learning. Ayelet Israeli : Received the 2020–2021 Robert F. Greenhill Award. Isamar Troncoso : Selected as an AMA-Sheth Foundation Doctoral... View Details

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Investing in Future Leaders to Expand Market Share div class="shim15"/> "I would put our leadership development efforts up against those of any company in the world. Without HBS, I would not be able to say... View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

2022, compared with $46 million in the prior year Net Capital Expenses Given continued uncertainty about the pandemic heading into fiscal 2022, capital spending was limited to select projects. These included... View Details

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VCPE Database Comparison

firms and fund-specific info. Great contact info for firms. Skews to the PE end of the VCPE spectrum. Geographic filtering can be a little non-standard for US GEOs as Preqin is non-US owned (e.g. greater metro area... View Details

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Experience and description-based decision making.

Prof. Barron and his co-authors study the effect of the economic environment on decision making. One example involves the effect of rare (low probability) events. People behave as if they overweight these events in some settings (e.g., when buying insurance and... View Details

13 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis

limits of their technical mastery. He gave them some slack to work with, and asked them to do unusual things with it. It's interesting to think... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

08 Sep 2008
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The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

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Running Jobs - Research Computing Services

submission (wrapper) scripts are the most straightforward way to submit a job on the HBSGrid. However, with this ease of use, there is the tradeoff in flexibility: there are limited choices in what programs... View Details

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

good at responding to client demand, they have limited ability to promote their own agenda. However, even “incremental” change can be important from such an influential... View Details

16 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Does Competition Make Us More Creative?

the low-performing bids and limiting the competition to only a few high-quality contenders—fortunately, that’s what we often see in practice.” While we may never be able to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

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Title IX & Gender Equity | About

Education Amendments of 1972, Harvard University does not discriminate against students, faculty, or staff based on sex in any of its programs or activities, including but not limited to educational... View Details

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Software Tools - Research Computing Services

and installed Unix and 3rd party software. This includes (but is not limited to) commands like mv , cp , and the system python . Anything outside of these locations must be referenced by a full pathname to... View Details

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