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- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
the table in their insurance-plan choices, sometimes thousands of dollars. This is true both when consumers make active choices (e.g., they do not have a default plan) and when they make passive choices (e.g., they have a default plan). We discuss the implications of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
being brought on by the board at Liz Claiborne as vice chairman and COO in 1994. Founded in 1976 by fashion designer Liz Claiborne, her husband, Arthur Ortenberg, and two other partners, the tiny shop had rocketed to success in its first...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
the examples demonstrate ways in which market design can break barriers—physical, political, and/or metaphorical. Each example also illustrates one of four broader classes of ways that market design can...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
Could you describe some of these entrepreneurial efforts? A: There is a lot of talk—both in this book and elsewhere—about the massive potential consumer market at the base of the economic pyramid. However, for a poor consumer, participating in the View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
functional administrators. Beginning in 1912, Harvard offered a required second-year course in "business policy," which was designed to integrate the knowledge gained in functional areas like accounting, operations, and finance,...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
Creative abrasion was what Hill had witnessed at Pixar—amplifying differences to create a marketplace of ideas through discourse and debate. After all, creative organizations are all about celebrating the opinions of people whose thinking...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
strategic consultant. HR as the adviser. HR as the designer of employee experience. HR as the owner of the culture. It’s been escalating year after year after year. And I think the reason it has escalated and has become such a critical...
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- 07 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 7
feedback reports, personalized worksheets and teaching support material. Its founders, however, view their B2B strategy as a seeding strategy to eventually form a B2C education marketplace where they can collaborate with other education...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
uses of tax revenues. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50428 Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment By: Edelman, Benjamin G., Michael Luca, and Daniel Svirsky Abstract—Online View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
do exactly what they're told and disregard every other consideration. While a human would have understood that the sites' designers wanted to maximize quality as measured by clicks, the algorithms maximized clicks at the expense of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
older age. The design of purchased products varies strongly with household characteristics, suggesting the importance of heterogeneity in preferences and financial circumstances. A simple portfolio choice model shows that household loss...
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- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
faster in sequential auctions conducted with a standard second price auction mechanism than with a clamped second price auction mechanism. We conclude that while it is important for mechanism designers to think more about creating...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21
practices related to those tools. Our study contributes to the accounting and management literature on influence-gathering, underlining that toolmaking plays a vital role in explaining how functional experts may compete in the intraorganizational View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
arena.” Related Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-Ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters In the process of teaming up with fellow students to write business plans, working with their faculty advisors (and getting academic credit for their efforts),...
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- 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28
potential design parameters that can explain observable variation in the "ERM mix" adopted by organizations. We also add a new contingent variable: the type of risk that a specific ERM practice addresses. We outline a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
of their people with marketplace opportunity. These CEOs spent a great deal of time crystallizing their values and purpose and how strategy could be defined in a way that integrated strategy with values. In this way the animating beliefs...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
making and the culmination of HBS’s yearlong centennial observance, the three-day event was designed to galvanize thinking and action around the 21st century’s transcendent business challenges. What no one expected, but what dominated the...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
preference for a diverse candidate.” The marketplace for diverse talent for middle-manager positions and technical position is white hot and very, very competitive. What about growing your own? Your lower-wage workers are...
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- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
new book, Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads. Employing a wealth of interviews and quantitative data, their book takes the first comprehensive approach in decades to examine the evolving MBA marketplace and its threats...
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- 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009
lives and the very structure and power dynamics of industries can't be managed as "silos," tucked away in corporate, university, or government research labs, in incubators, or within venture capital-funded entrepreneurial start-ups. Access to the View Details
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Martha Lagace