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- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. In addition to offering promotions more frequently, we find that firms offer deeper price discounts to manage earnings during these periods. Furthermore, our results confirm managers' stated willingness...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 17, 2006
converting an $11 million investment in Peruvian bonds worth $21 million into a $58 million cash payout from the country, representing the full face value of the bonds plus past-due interest. Highlights the problems associated with debt...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
platform owners may target the most successful complementors so as to appropriate value from their innovations, or they may target poor performing complementors to improve the platforms' overall quality....
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Dina Gerdeman
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Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni
your initial decision letter, and your current student loan debt. Note: you may not start a retroactive application now for first-year financial aid in order to participate in this program. See “Eligible Loans” section above for detailed information. Have accepted a...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
That being said, the one thing that is important that you hang on to, no matter what, is the underlying set of values that define a firm—because I do think those are super important—and the mission. It’s why you get up and come to work...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
would say, institutional matters need to be rethought in order to appropriately facilitate organizations operating in that upper-right quadrant in a more significant way.Kerr: Allison, one of the things we’re obsessed about at the...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
programming computers. One year I worked for a subsidiary of General Electric, specializing in the creation of a fourth-generation programming language. It helped pay for school, and I enjoyed the discipline. It also taught me early on that you can often add more View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake
improve productivity and efficiency in their daily operations, so did HBS faculty find themselves in the position of trying to determine if and how information technology could add value in a curriculum deeply rooted in a tradition of...
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by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
value for patients, where value is the health outcomes achieved relative to the money spent. While his initial work focused on reorganizing care and measuring outcomes, he began to understand that View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
propose a general mechanism of partner choice, "screening," that is similar to the economic theory of mechanism design. Imposing the appropriate costs and rewards may induce the informed individuals to screen themselves...
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- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
bring process to bear on creativity without straitjacketing it. They pointed out that process management isn't appropriate in all stages of creative work; leaders should apply it thoughtfully and manage the handoff from idea generators to...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
flexible schedule, the lack of appropriate role models in traditionally "male" industries, the impact of maternity leaves on promotion opportunities, and a realignment of ambitions after experiencing parenthood. Barbara A. Piette (MBA...
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- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
for Phase II, a massive mixed-use scheme of more than 7.2 million square feet of market rate residential and commercial development. Kruti Jain, the 28-year-old daughter of Lalitkumar and CEO of KUL, and her team must weigh many decisions including figuring out the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work
time. What helps? A clear sense of purpose, yoga, centering prayer, and a strong network of support. That support can be from friends who understand and share your values (for me, my church community) or from professionals (a dementia...
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- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
operations? 2) What might be the intellectual added value of such a perspective? 3) What are the basic elements of behavioral operations research? Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-096.pdf Film Rentals and...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
also the Gates Foundation that was a partner in this, how you came about that as the appropriate lens to look at. And then, what were the challenges that you confronted in actually carrying out that level of research and identifying...
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