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- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
Schultz (MBA 1983) was working as an executive chairman for a tech company, and on his way home from a fundraising presentation at a venture firm when he had an epiphany. A longtime executive with a personal interest in history, he had...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
to better design curriculum that was relevant to the work and to the roles that are needed in the jobs. It also allowed us to personalize the journey for so many of these working learners in a way that traditional credit-hour-based models...
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- 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016
credit constraints, and I find no imbalance in observable characteristics between treatment and control groups. These findings strongly suggest social safety nets have spillover benefits on the supply of firms. Download working paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4
can speculate on the scope and rate of diffusion for any given product, it's helpful to compare and contrast diffusion across products. Doing so allows one to focus on the drivers or product characteristics that influence product...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
to exit? If Costolo didn't think so, would he be able to convince his co-founders who all had different personal risk profiles? This was going to be the biggest decision in the life of FeedBurner and its co-founders. Purchase this case:
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006
gift' behavior. Additionally, we introduce a measure of personality characteristics and compare its specific components with pro-social gift behavior in our experiments. We do not find correlations between...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
science," but usually they've meant by this that they don't understand the activity and can't do it reliably themselves. In this view, artistic methods and art-like activities are personal and intuitive, even magical, not yet...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
and financial outcomes. The study complements financial education with (1) financial incentives on a financial literacy test to affect participant motivation, (2) financial goal setting to provide a psychological nudge, and (3) View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006
dynamics tool that he was responsible for creating—on a Sunday when he had a major personal engagement. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407037 Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC (B)...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14483 The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization Authors: Maria Guadalupe and Julie M. Wulf Abstract This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from trade liberalization on various...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
structures that we occupy. The authors make the case that the characteristics of where we live and work—things like air quality, acoustics, and lighting—have a massive impact on our physical and mental health, and lay the foundations for...
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- 03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3
sales, profitability, and assets. Here we analyze firm characteristics shown by industry before and after liberalization and investigate how industrial concentration, the number, and size of firms of the ownership type evolved between...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008
public companies to become targets for private equity-backed, take-private transactions. We consider the characteristics of 483 private equity-backed deals in the 2000-2007 period relative to public companies and find that, in addition to...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28
Authors:Mark Mortensen and Tsedal Neeley Publication:pub Abstract Scholars argue that direct knowledge about distant colleagues is crucial for fostering trust in global collaboration. However, their arguments focus mainly on how trust accrues from knowledge about...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Beyond Beta-Delta: The Emerging Economics of Personal Plans By: Beshears, John, Katherine L. Milkman, and Joshua Schwartzstein Abstract—People make personal...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1999
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Covering the Issues
computer club, and the use of an interactive computer system to help place students in jobs. A 1979 article announced two new elective courses: Introduction to Computing for Managers and Management in a Computerized Environment. Personal...
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- 01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
forward-thinking companies that have adopted radical new approaches to talent, this book shows leaders how to bring the rigor they apply to financial capital to their human capital, elevating HR to the same level as finance in their organizations. The View Details
- 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007
impact by comparing warnings received after having safe personal experience with those received before people start making choices. A series of five experiments studies this question with a paradigm that combines both descriptive...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 14
pervasive in the China business context characterized by heavy reliance on personal relationships or guanxi, it went against the founding principles of CDG-professionalism and service quality. Yang had to decide where to draw the line...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15
Authors:Michael I. Norton, Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin, and Elizabeth W. Dunn Publication:Social Psychological and Personality Science (forthcoming) Abstract Three studies examine the extent to which laypeople endorse Thomas Hobbes' (1651)...
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Sean Silverthorne