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- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
Working PapersThe CHAT Dataset Authors:Diego A. Comin and Bart Hobijn NBER Working Paper Series, No. 15319, September 2009 Abstract This note accompanies the Cross-country Historical Adoption of Technology (CHAT) dataset. CHAT is an...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
characterize the direct effects that changes in that price index would have on retirees who differ in their initial wealth at retirement and in their mortality rates after retirement. I propose a simple but flexible theoretical framework that View Details
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Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
the Dimitri V. d’Arbeloff–MBA Class of 1955 chair. “In reality, there’s often an inverse correlation between those two things. Having said that, if you look at the quality of ideas that have converted into real businesses over the past...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
more—possibly just a little bit at first—and firms might decide to expand production as well, and back and forth, driving a recovery in output and employment. In this way, the downward spiral of contracting consumption and business activity could be View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
off?" Comparing notes across sectors we identified two factors that were not a surprise to any of us—accelerating market demand and well managed federal support for fundamental research. But the third factor—the thing that appears to have...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
than 40 years of teaching and managing, and illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. In examining how to lead and teach, renowned HBS professor Thomas J. DeLong takes the reader inside his own head and heart. He View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
419-039 Note on Managing Workforce Reductions Each individual who enters an organization will, at some point, leave. And yet most future leaders spend significantly more effort learning about recruiting than departures, despite the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
University - which will inherit two small stadiums built for Olympic field-hockey competition. After the Games, the two schools will share the facilities, with one stadium being converted for track and field and the other for college...
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Garry Emmons
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
(61%). Note that this 61% penetration rate is essentially at parity with home ownership (64%) and higher than that of 401(k) retirement account ownership (53%). Life settlements, or life insurance settlements, allow individuals to sell...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
initial investments in the form of equity, WTI focused primarily on lending money to start-ups, charging them interest and receiving warrants that could later be converted to stock in the case of a liquidity event. Most initial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
Expertise Authors:Heidi K.Gardner and Lisa Kwan Abstract Why do some teams fail to convert members' knowledge into valued outcomes? We propose that members' differing perceptions of each other's levels of expertise is a critical factor....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
professional network for physicians.) Each year, Rock Health selects about 20 companies from thousands of applications to receive backing in the form of funding (grants up to $20,000 or convertible notes of...
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- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
each splintered into contending factions, a successful stepping stone strategy requires converting enough "persuadable skeptics" on each side to forge a "winning coalition" on behalf of the next nuclear deal. This...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810086-PDF-ENG Torts 101: Civil Wrongs & Ways to Right Them Lena G. Goldberg and Mary Beth FindlayHarvard Business School Note 312-033 This note...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
aid in the Delhi region. As noted in a recent article in India Today, Pasricha’s involvement was spurred by a mid-April phone call from a friend’s wife “who was desperate to find oxygen for her hospitalized husband.” Pasricha has been...
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- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
improves how users visualize information, receive and follow instructions, and interact with products. AccuVein, for instance, uses AR technology that converts the heat signature of a patient’s veins into an image superimposed on the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
at the Switch? Frank V. Cespedes and Diane BadameHarvard Business School Case 913-505 PV Technologies, Inc. is an industry-leading manufacturer of photovoltaic inverters used to convert the direct current output of solar panels into...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
Oregon, when she was six years old, and her parents’ anxious search for a home in the best possible school district, which led to a full-tuition scholarship at the University of Oregon. Noting that the option to choose one’s neighborhood...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
cases and notes on entrepreneurial ventures since his arrival at the School in 1980. But all along, that had been a solo effort, and as a result, he had nowhere near enough material for a full-credit course. So he decided to offer a...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
able to serve, as you noted in the intro, more than 170,000 students right now, concurrently. And we’ve been able to do that without building buildings and campuses and everything else. It’s a great way to democratize access to higher...
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