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- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
brutality, and the injustices Black people continue to experience in American,” says DeShay, and the new music initiative will feature songs that “echo the need for change but offer up the approach of love and unity as means to creating a...
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- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
nonpartisan press rights organization Reporters Without Borders. They found that for every 10-point increase in the press rights score, countries averaged nearly 10 percent fewer violations in their factories. The team attributes this...
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by Michael Blanding
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
on making them thoughtfully and deliberately, without remorse. Q: Could you talk a little about the four service "truths"? A: Frei: Companies that excel at service typically do a great job in four areas: identifying the View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
attributable to poor decision making by high-affinity syndicates after the investment is made. These results suggest that "birds-of-a-feather-flock-together" effects in collaboration can be costly. December 2014 American...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
that the system is today less popular than it once was. There are other reasons, as well, that could be covered in a different, longer speech. But we should all keep in mind that the benefits of capitalism are not so obviously and directly View Details
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
evidence for this proposition using a fine-grained dataset from the National Basketball Association. In this highly competitive industry, team performance is positively associated with coaches’ subsequent exercise of racial bias: players View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
related to per capita income. We also find that economic conditions affect conflict dynamics, as poorer countries are likely to experience longer and more intense spells of fighting after the onset of conflict. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
me your early indicators and together we’ll devise experiments to tackle the challenge.’ Explicitly signaling you want to know about budding problems will enable greater periscopic vision and access to broader sets of solutions.”...
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- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
me your early indicators and together we’ll devise experiments to tackle the challenge.’ Explicitly signaling you want to know about budding problems will enable greater periscopic vision and access to broader sets of solutions.”...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
lot of the things that were attributed to Peter Drucker were Doriot’s ideas,” says Charles P. Waite (MBA ’59), a former student who went on to work at ARD for many years and was a founding partner of Greylock, the Boston-based venture...
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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
United States around 1900, and the initial "wow" factor that visitors experience when entering these buildings is often a partial reaction to the scope and beauty of their architecture. There is nothing like walking into the Field Museum...
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- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
1990s and 2000s magnified these challenges, as illustrated by the deployment of the descendent of the NCSA HTTPd server, otherwise known as Apache. This study asks whether this experience could produce measurement issues in standard...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
with tools for identifying and solving these problems, engage their employees and suppliers in their improvement efforts. Q: Your book notes that typical stores experience staff turnover of 100 percent each year. How do you see successful...
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- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
effects on the standard of living of a long-term investor. Investors seeking to finance their long-term spending needs might look at bonds and equities in a very different light. Perhaps the best way to see the relevance of reinvestment risk for investors is to look at...
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by Ann Cullen
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
Debt literacy is measured by questions testing knowledge of fundamental concepts related to debt and by self-assessed financial knowledge. Financial experiences are the participants' reported experiences...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
From the Chief Financial Officer - Annual Report 2020
School’s largest source of savings, our economic model has enabled us to be less reliant on endowment income than the University’s other schools. MBA tuition and fees declined 3 percent, or $4 million, for the fiscal year to $136 million. Much of the decrease is...
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- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
counter this ambiguity, this paper proposes that the strength of the greedy signal relates to an individual's volunteer reputation. Results from an online experiment support this possibility: the crowd out in response to public incentives...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
to the aviation reward, the X PRIZE Foundation is offering similar carrots for breakthroughs in sequencing the human genome, designing fuel-efficient cars, and even reaching the moon. And the US government is experimenting with prizes as...
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by Michael Blanding
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Ron DeShay (OPM 53, 2019), CEO and founder of World of Dreams Entertainment (WODE) Group, launched “A Better World Project.” The recent incidents “heightened tensions around racism, police brutality, and the injustices Black people continue to View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Moreover, we find that contingent free shipping shifts demand to more popular products and that the effects of category-level price changes on profits depends on the active shipping policy. Our findings demonstrate the importance of jointly determining product...
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Dina Gerdeman