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- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Simplification and Saving By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian Abstract—The daunting complexity of important financial decisions can lead to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
Churchill and Judah Folkman-and telling the stories of how they came to power and how they made the most important decisions of their lives, Indispensable reveals how, when, and where a single individual in the right place at the right time can save or destroy the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
We exploit households’ portfolio weights in previous years as an instrument for actual capital gains and dividends payments. We find that unrealized capital gains lead to a marginal propensity to consume (MPC) of 13% for the bottom 50% of the wealth distribution but a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
good alternative or a supplement.” Whillans says an online program may also encourage higher participation rates than certain special events that companies organize to encourage people to relax. For example, a bag lunch get-together or an...
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- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
organizations with widespread crime are treated more leniently compared to senior female perpetrators or compared to senior perpetrators in organizations with isolated cases of crime. These results suggest...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Annual Report 2016 - Annual Report 2016
granite and located along Kresge Way, features a quote from US president John Adams (Harvard University AB 1755, AM 1758) and Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Map, the only flat map of the entire surface of Earth. Doctoral Student Research...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
in quick back-and-forth repartee, “He took you out of the flat dull textbook world and into the three dimensional world of living economics and economists.” On Entrepreneurship and Continual Innovation Schumpeter, of course, is the chief...
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- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
and error took a toll.” On the detailed level, CEOs “worked on scenario planning and cost-cutting.” Most made retaining staff a priority: “We worked hard to retain all the roles we could. We ended up furloughing some people and switched to paying View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
and our profit centers to be as flexible as the small companies they’re competing against. So that led to a system where we operate more like a partnership than a very structured, bureaucratic company. It’s a very flat View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
have held tuition flat for the past three years despite increasing costs to deliver the program and our continued commitment to expanding need-based scholarships. We’ve also discovered that just the cost of applying to HBS can be a...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
point to the shift to more open systems perspectives on organizations, the conceptions of organizations being embedded in larger social contexts, and recent developments in the study of individual cognition. Why the World Isn't View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
The Unintended Consequences of the Zero Lower Bound Policy By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Marcin Kacperczyk Abstract—We study the impact of the zero lower bound interest rate policy on the industrial organization of the U.S. money fund...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
flat and statistically insignificant. These empirical facts contradict the conventional wisdom and constitute a challenge for the existing theories on upstream capital flows and global imbalances. Download working paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
From the Chief Financial Officer - Annual Report 2020
Doctoral Programs to resume virtually after spring break ended. Additionally, HBS faculty members mobilized to generate timely new research exploring how organizations were managing through a dramatic confluence of events—a global health...
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From the CFO - Financial Report 2015
item is the most notable outcome of our move to full Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) reporting during the year, along with the first-ever inclusion of depreciation expense, which was approximately flat year-over-year at...
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- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
data, yet sales have been flat for a decade during which marketing's appetite for data has exploded. Will the acquisition of a digital data onboarder LiveRamp give marketers what they want from a data broker? Purchase this...
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Dina Gerdeman
- Web
CFO Letter - Annual Report 2014
of strategic changes taking place at HBS, looking at both the past year’s results and our plan for fiscal 2015. Fiscal 2014 in Review The HBS economic model starts with a faculty whose research brings them into contact with leaders and managers of View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
Setagaya ward. Just as importantly, the clinic succeeded as an experimental lab, a place to pilot new ideas incubated within Mediva. From that one neighborhood clinic a much bigger business took shape, all focused on the organizing...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
out of everything from manufacturing to capital markets and even services. Paradoxically, the greater the global system’s efficiency, the greater its fragility. Herein lies the Achilles’ heel of globalization, said Ferguson. “Almost everyone who talks about a View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
can complete as many courses as you’re able in that six-month term, and we have a flat $145 learning resource fee, which basically covers all the virtual resources that you’re utilizing: your textbooks, all of the content, all of the, you...
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