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- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
made by its Board of Executive Directors. However, in any given year the majority of the Bank's member countries do not get a chance to serve on this powerful body. In this paper, we empirically investigate whether board membership leads to higher View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
as Miller Lite’s virtual tip jar for bartenders or Yum Brands $1,000 bonuses to its Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and KFC general managers during mandated restaurant closures and emergency medical relief fund for...
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by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
administration system so that pension funds could both accept significant amounts of retirement funds from workers and manage and invest those View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
Groysberg. "The stipend, the budget, the library - there are faculty at other schools who don't get the same level of assistance."That assistance means students can take on the topics that interest them most without worrying about funding...
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- 31 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
effective solution for companies. She co-wrote the journal article with HBS doctoral student Grace Cormier, as well as three employees of Happify, Allison L. Williams, Acacia C. Parks, and Julia Stafford. Happify, which funded the...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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December 1, 2015
will have an important future impact on our understanding of consumer psychology. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50106 forthcoming Management Science Experimental Evidence of Pooling Outcomes Under...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2020
- News
Educating the Whole Student
connected the two women. “We both embraced the idea of health and education coming together,” recalls Liu. After several years of research, Liu and Chan developed three guiding principles, which Liu says sets the school, funded by the...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
decisions of living which has meant the most to me.” By the 1950s, the pulps had given way to the new market in paperbacks. Accordingly, MacDonald began writing for this longer and more lucrative form. He turned his HBS management studies...
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- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
Like many business leaders, Donovan Neale-May routinely seeks out information on business innovation and management trends. He reads reports from market analysis firms, white papers from companies in his field, and articles in online...
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- 24 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class
of his employees. It’s also delivered by way of a program that creates access to earned wages before payday to alleviate the need for payday loans, a commitment to annual wage increases, and an emergency assistance fund to get people...
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- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
lacked the funds necessary to build a DVD factory and exited the consumer electronic industry almost entirely at the end of the 1990s. Again, this relatively unknown story provides an intriguing opportunity for description and analysis by...
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- 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009
Abstract A new instrument (the Mutual Inheritance Fund or MIF) is proposed whose purpose is to help people carry their savings forward from the moment they retire into their old age. Like annuities, this instrument requires an up-front...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
their quest for revenue generation. It can also be risky and difficult to finance a hybrid: Venture capitalists may be turned off by the idea of funding an organization preoccupied with its social mission, while charitable foundations may...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22
experience high costs of capital that are only partly mitigated by the presence of venture capital, the evidence for high costs of R&D capital for large firms is mixed. Nevertheless, large established firms do appear to prefer internal View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
challenging areas. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55885 Learning or Playing? The Effect of Gamified Training on Performance By: Buell, Ryan W., Wei Cai, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—Gamified training is a novel View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
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Africa - Global Activities 2020
Africa Fellowship not only allows you to keep up with all the debt that comes with an MBA education, but also be a resource to your loved ones. Having funding available to do that and try to reach our North Star is extremely helpful.”...
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- 29 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 29
involves designing, launching, and managing teams. And yet teams are fickle. Even as teams become more common at all levels of organizations, a shocking number of them fail to live up to their potential or even to deliver at all. Teams...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3
Publications August 2013 The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Do Analysts Follow Managers Who Switch Companies? An Analysis of Relationships in the Capital Markets By: Brochet, Francois, Gregory S. Miller, and Suraj Srinivasan...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
Management division. His second-year elective course, Founder's Dilemmas, was a building block for the book. Last spring, HBS offered four sections of the course to 272 students; it was so popular that another 170 students were...
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by Noam Wasserman