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- 28 Sep 2010
- News
Interview with Jay Light
- 08 Jan 2013
- News
Richest Universities Are Too Quiet on Sustainable Investing
- January 2006 (Revised July 2006)
- Case
Drug Testing in Nigeria (A)
By: Debora L. Spar
In 1996, a meningitis epidemic swept across Nigeria. Thousands of children were struck and, lacking appropriate medicine, were liable to die from the disease. Doctors at Pfizer had an antibiotic that could probably save most of these children's lives. The drug was new,...
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Keywords:
Risk and Uncertainty;
Health Pandemics;
Health Testing and Trials;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Nigeria
Spar, Debora L., and Adam Day. "Drug Testing in Nigeria (A)." Harvard Business School Case 706-033, January 2006. (Revised July 2006.)
- 10 Jan 2013
- News
Entrepreneurship: A Working Definition
- 2018
- Working Paper
Semi-Parametric Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models
By: David Hao Zhang
I develop a new method for estimating counterfactuals in dynamic discrete choice models, a widely used set of models in economics, without requiring a distributional assumption on utility shocks. Applying my method to the canonical Rust (1987) setting, I find that the...
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Zhang, David Hao. "Semi-Parametric Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models." Working Paper, April 2018.
- March 2011
- Supplement
BioPasteur: Instructions for the group discussion
By: Giovanni Gavetti and Francesca Gino
The purpose of this exercise is to let students experience a few biases that can be deleterious to strategic decision-making. In particular, students are induced to fall into a confirmatory trap, and to experience other biases such as anchoring and sampling bias....
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Gavetti, Giovanni, and Francesca Gino. "BioPasteur: Instructions for the group discussion." Harvard Business School Supplement 711-510, March 2011.
- February 1994 (Revised May 1999)
- Case
Manville Corp. Fiber Glass Group (C)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Sarah Gant
Manville Corp.'s senior managers are surprised when Japanese government officials advise them not to go forward with their plan to add a cancer warning label to diatomaceous earth (DE) products sold in Japan. The International Agency for Research on Cancer has ruled...
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Keywords:
Management Teams;
Ethics;
Conflict of Interests;
Health;
Safety;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Policy;
Japan
Paine, Lynn S., and Sarah Gant. "Manville Corp. Fiber Glass Group (C)." Harvard Business School Case 394-116, February 1994. (Revised May 1999.)
- 10 Oct 2009
- News
Making the 'public option' a simple one
- 16 Nov 2020
- News
Tech jobs spring up as companies adapt to new world of work
- 20 Apr 2017
- News
The Weirdness of Juggling Many Different Roles at Work
- 27 Sep 2016
- News
When Networking, Being Yourself Really Does Work
- Article
After the Fall: Reintegrating the Corrupt Organization
By: Michael D. Pfarrer, K. A. DeCelles, Ken G. Smith and M. Susan Taylor
We propose a four-stage model of the organizational actions that potentially increase the speed and likelihood that an organization will restore its legitimacy with stakeholders following a transgression. Organizations that work to discover the facts of the...
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Pfarrer, Michael D., K. A. DeCelles, Ken G. Smith, and M. Susan Taylor. "After the Fall: Reintegrating the Corrupt Organization." Academy of Management Review 33, no. 3 (July 2008): 730–749.
- 24 Nov 2021
- News
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick Needs to Resign Right Now
- 05 Mar 2021
- News
Could Working Remotely Last Forever?
- 06 Mar 2017
- News
To Motivate Employees, Show Them How They’re Helping Customers
- 20 Aug 2020
- News
The U.S. Needs an SEC for its Health Care System
- 2019
- Working Paper
Second Chance: Life with Less Student Debt
By: Marco Di Maggio, Ankit Kalda and Vincent Yao
Rising student debt is considered one of the creeping threats of our time. This paper examines the effect of student debt relief on individual credit and labor market outcomes. We exploit the plausibly random debt discharge due to the inability of National Collegiate,...
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Keywords:
Student Debt;
Private Student Loans;
Legal Settlement;
Mobility;
Debt Collection;
Debt Relief;
Borrowing and Debt;
Personal Finance;
Outcome or Result;
United States
Di Maggio, Marco, Ankit Kalda, and Vincent Yao. "Second Chance: Life with Less Student Debt." Working Paper, May 2019. (Forthcoming in The Journal of Finance.)
- 23 Jan 2020
- News
Five Ways Hospitals Will Change in Next Decade
- February 2017
- Article
Rethinking Sales Compensation
Compensation is probably the most discussed aspect of sales and the single biggest portion of the more than $900 billion that U.S. companies alone spend annually on sales efforts. But research indicates that less than 10% of companies believe that their sales incentive...
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Cespedes, Frank V. "Rethinking Sales Compensation." Top Sales Magazine (February 2017).