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- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a...
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Julia Hanna;
entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
"financed payouts" are widespread, persistent, prevalent both among dividend-paying and repurchasing firms, and large in magnitude. Standard interpretations of agency or signaling theories are unable to explain this behavior. We...
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
problem-solving that conserves scarce cognitive resources. We then review 142 empirical studies, divided by organizational form into (1) industry studies, (2) firm studies, and (3) studies of open collaborative projects. The industry and firm studies indicate that...
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50192 Business Groups Exist in Developed Markets Also: Britain Since 1850 By: Jones, Geoffrey Abstract—Diversified business groups are well-known phenomena in emerging markets, both today and historically. This is often...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
interaction. They spend more time internally, specifically in pre-planned meetings that have more participants from different functions. The complementarity between span of control and the team model of interaction is more prevalent in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
discriminant validity from voice-related individual and organizational factors and their incremental predictive validity on workplace silence. Collectively, the results from the four studies indicate the prevalence of implicit voice...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
king of the commute, even though public transit often has lower direct dollar cost. The prevalence of private automobiles causes problems that go far beyond the combustion engine and its massive carbon footprint. In city centers,...
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- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
highlight the prevalence of discrimination in online marketplaces, suggesting an important unintended consequence of a seemingly routine mechanism for building trust. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2377353 When to Sell...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
foreign business—without experience in that type of environment—to enter and to prosper in. The crime rate is certainly one of the highest in the world, to the extent that it affects the everyday lives of people and managers. The HIV View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
then collapsed suddenly in 1983. It was reborn at the end of the 1980s under Nintento's leadership, which was then challenged for a few years by Sega, only to be conquered by Sony's original PlayStation. And along the way, some companies such as 3DO had tried...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
ability to think about more than one thing at a time," says Hodgson, who held positions at Deloitte Consulting and Nextera Interactive before coming to HBS. "There's a balancing act involved between the bottom line and the social mission which isn't as View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
chains had changed significantly. While a higher proportion of Americans exercised on any given day, the majority still did not, and the average number of hours exercised had remained essentially flat. Meanwhile, the prevalence of people...
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Carmen Nobel
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
challenge: There was no guarantee that the disease would still be prevalent by the time a vaccine became available. This had been the case with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), a dangerous coronavirus identified in the Guangdong...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
remember. His curiosity about the world and his intense pursuit of answers is so deeply ingrained Vescovo jokes that the impulse is in his genes. (Indeed, science has recently discovered several gene variants that seem more prevalent...
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- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
behavioral health economics, focusing on insurance markets and product markets in health care. We argue that the prevalence of choice difficulties and biases leading to mistakes in these markets establish a special place for them in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
in the United States. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709037 Consumer Payment Systems—United States Harvard Business School Case 909-006 In 2008, the U.S. consumer payments landscape was characterized by the ongoing...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
'Could' Lead to Good? On the Road to Moral Insight By: Zhang, Ting, Francesca Gino, and Joshua D. Margolis Abstract—Dilemmas featuring competing moral imperatives are prevalent in organizations and are difficult to resolve. Whereas prior...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
prevalent Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47648 The Impact of Pensions and Insurance on Global Yield Curves By: Greenwood, Robin, and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen Abstract—We document a strong effect...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
quality. We develop a structural model of product entry that illustrates how the regulator's standard setting rule affects a firm's product quality decision. Counterfactual simulations illustrate that ratcheting down was prevalent in this...
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Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
prevalent at senior levels. We all know that organizations do a tremendous amount of “Kremlin watching.” They look at what are the behavior patterns and the mores and the espoused values and also the visible values of senior leaders....
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