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- 14 Jan 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Smart Money: The Effect of Education, Cognitive Ability, and Financial Literacy on Financial Market Participation
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
definition that extends the concept beyond the traditional binary retain/not retain view of retention. We discuss a variety of metrics to measure and monitor retention. We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 2014
- Article
The Burden of Guilt: Heavy Backpacks, Light Snacks, and Enhanced Morality
By: M. Kouchaki, F. Gino and A. Jami
Drawing on the embodied simulation account of emotional information processing, we argue that the physical experience of weight is associated with the emotional experience of guilt and thus that weight intensifies the experience of guilt. Across four studies, we found...
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Kouchaki, M., F. Gino, and A. Jami. "The Burden of Guilt: Heavy Backpacks, Light Snacks, and Enhanced Morality." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 143, no. 1 (February 2014): 414–424.
- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
thinking that “the best” is based on easily quantifiable metrics like publication counts. In reality, we are in a creative field and should look for an environment that will help us thrive creatively. To...
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- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
initiatives more closely to specific objectives: preventing misconduct, detecting it, or aligning policies with laws and regulations. Then, using careful model design and some creativity, firms can develop...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability
stakeholders at an HBS workshop last week. Integrated reports combine a company's financial, environmental, social, and governance performance measures into a report that can be presented View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
safety measures at its facilities, launched online resource centers for different populations affected by COVID-19 such as frontline workers, ramped up telemental health care, and created training programs...
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- October 2014 (Revised June 2015)
- Case
Quiet Logistics (A)
By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred
This two-part case focuses on how to identify and manage strategic uncertainties in an innovative, entrepreneurial start-up company. In the (A) case, students learn about Quiet Logistics, an e-commerce fulfillment company working with high-end apparel retailers such as...
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Strategy Execution;
Strategic Uncertainty;
Disruptive Change;
Managing Growth;
Robotics;
Disruptive Technology;
Managing Start-ups;
Management Control Systems;
Performance Measurement;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Disruption;
Entrepreneurship;
Disruptive Innovation;
Crisis Management;
Risk Management;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
E-commerce;
Distribution Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States
Simons, Robert, and Natalie Kindred. "Quiet Logistics (A)." Harvard Business School Case 115-001, October 2014. (Revised June 2015.)
- 2017
- Report
The American Angel: The First In-Depth Report on the Demographics and Investing Activity of Individual American Angel Investors
By: Laura Huang, Andy Wu, Min Ju Lee, Jiayi Bao, Marianne Hudson and Elaine Bolle
Early-stage financing from angel investors is critical to the success of high-growth startups. Recent estimates suggest that annual US angel investment activity may total as much as $24 billion each year, contributing to the growth and success of more than 64,000...
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Angel Investors;
Geography;
Risk;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Demographics;
Geographic Location;
Decision Making;
Financial Services Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States
Huang, Laura, Andy Wu, Min Ju Lee, Jiayi Bao, Marianne Hudson, and Elaine Bolle. "The American Angel: The First In-Depth Report on the Demographics and Investing Activity of Individual American Angel Investors." Report, Overland Park, KS, November 2017.
- June 2014 (Revised March 2017)
- Teaching Note
Agero: Enhancing Capabilities for Customers
By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred
This is the teaching note for Agero: Enhancing Capabilities for Customers (HBS No. 113-001)
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- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
What will change about how they do their work? What are the key priorities now? Who needs to do what? You might not be able to make predictions, but you can still offer informed interpretations, that is, why certain measures are sensible...
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- 2012
- Working Paper
School Accountability and Principal Mobility: How No Child Left Behind Affects the Allocation of School Leaders
By: Danielle Li
The move toward increased school accountability may substantially affect the career risks that school leaders face without providing commensurate changes in pay. Since effective school leaders likely have significant scope in choosing where to work, these uncompensated...
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Li, Danielle. "School Accountability and Principal Mobility: How No Child Left Behind Affects the Allocation of School Leaders." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-052, October 2015.
- Web
Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Course Catalog
rapidly changing world (where unknowns vastly outweigh knowns)? Whose investment capital will help us, and whose money might undermine our chances of success? To what extent do commonly used performance View Details
- 2012
- Article
Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency
By: Alvin J. Silk
What restrictions should be placed on advertising agencies with respect to serving accounts or clients that are competitors of one another in order to avoid conflicts of interest? In recent decades, the advertising and marketing services industry has undergone a number...
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Advertising Agency;
Competitors;
Marketing Services Industry;
Structural Changes;
Agency-client Relationships;
Hybrid Conflict Policies;
Safeguards;
Advertising;
Advertising Industry;
Europe;
Latin America;
North and Central America
Silk, Alvin J. "Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency." Foundations and Trends® in Marketing 6, no. 2 (2012): 63–149.
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
incentives and compensation systems, is investigating his theory that effective measurement of performance must use subjective judgment and qualitative assessments in...
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Susan Young
- 2013
- Chapter
Multinational Enterprises and Incomplete Institutions: The Demandingness of Minimum Moral Standards
By: Nien-he Hsieh
Multinational enterprises (MNEs) operate across countries that vary widely in their legal, political, and regulatory institutions. One question that arises is whether there are certain minimum standards that ought to guide managers in their decision making...
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Hsieh, Nien-he. "Multinational Enterprises and Incomplete Institutions: The Demandingness of Minimum Moral Standards." In Business Ethics. 2nd ed. Edited by Michael Boylan, 409–422. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2013.
- Web
Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Executive Education Courses Executive Education Courses Strategy for Health Care Delivery (Fall)November 16 -18, 2022 Summary Innovative health care organizations worldwide are moving toward better value measurement models to improve...
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- Web
Fama-French Portfolios and Factors | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Databases Fama-French Portfolios and Factors Fama-French Portfolios and Factors Bookmark This Fama-French Portfolios and Factors...
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- 2012
- Working Paper
Learning from Customers: Individual and Organizational Effects in Outsourced Radiological Services
By: Jonathan R. Clark, Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
The ongoing fragmentation of work has resulted in a narrowing of tasks into smaller pieces that can be sent outside the organization and, in many instances, around the world. This trend is shifting the boundaries of organizations and leading to increased outsourcing....
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Experience and Expertise;
Learning;
Health Care and Treatment;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Volume;
Performance Productivity;
Health Industry
Clark, Jonathan R., Robert S. Huckman, and Bradley R. Staats. "Learning from Customers: Individual and Organizational Effects in Outsourced Radiological Services." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-057, December 2010. (Revised September 2011, January 2013. NBER Working Paper Series, No. w18723, January 2013)
- 2003
- Other Unpublished Work
Strategy Making in Novel and Complex Worlds: The Power of Analogy
By: G. Gavetti, Daniel Levinthal and Jan W. Rivkin