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- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
botsourcing for jobs that do require emotion if robots appear to convey more emotion; and (4) people prefer to outsource cognition-oriented versus emotion-oriented jobs to other humans who are perceived as more versus less robotic. These...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
through the 1960s. Combining Equal Sacrifice with Utilitarianism better represents the preferences that people hold in the population at large, according to Weinzierl, and makes the theory's recommendations align much better with the...
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- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
Privado y las Responsabilidades Públicas: El Rol de las Soluciones Comerciales en la Temática Social Authors:Michael Chu Publication:Chap. 1 in Negocios Inclusivos y Creación de Empleo. Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
say, ‘I’m not allowed to bribe.’ Others prefer ambiguous instructions so they can do what they have to do to get the business and keep up with the competition.” But managing in such a culture where signals are mixed can be a tricky...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
making the process too complicated and focusing on the BSC process rather than the outcome. Dead Eye Trilogy by Burt Avedon (MBA 1950) An action-adventure retelling of Avedon’s life, chronicling almost 100 years of war and dynamic social...
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- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
fascinating character to animate sometimes dry legalese.” Gleason’s quest for fair trade, or price protection, would not be easy. First off, the term “fair trade” in the 1930s had a different meaning than it does today when we use it to describe a View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009
actually increase overall social welfare. We also consider the environmental impact of BPS and derive competitive conditions under which BPS reduces and increases emissions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-098.pdf ...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
populations. While we have considerable evidence that donors are more generous if they know their assistance benefits a preferred group, we know little about the demand for such information. To start closing this gap, we study transfers...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
emeritus Walter Salmon. “I miss him.” When she came to HBS, Jeanette Sarkisian Wagner (AMP 90, 1983) had read all of Ted Levitt’s books. “There were 132 people in my class; 2 were women. Naturally, the guys in my living group decided that I would be the View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
recommendations for stocks with larger market capitalizations and lower return volatility than their sell-side peers, consistent with their facing fewer conflicts of interest and having a preference for liquid stocks. Tests with no...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
charged to developers and to hold passive expectations. We show that platforms with more market power (monopoly) prefer facing more informed users. In contrast, platforms with less market power (i.e., facing more intense competition) have...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
were apprentice lawyers. It’s really only since the 1950s and ’60s that college became the sort of sole socially respectable pathway to economic opportunity in this country. And the pendulum is definitely swinging back. College for all is...
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- 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29
older investors prefer dividend-paying stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically varying demand for dividends. Firms headquartered in areas in which seniors constitute a large fraction of the population are more likely to...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
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Weinzierl Spring2025 Q4 1.5 ^ back to top S Area Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits Scaling Technology Ventures Entrepreneurial Management Jeffrey Rayport Spring2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change General Management...
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- 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015
Danielle Abstract—Evaluators with expertise in a particular field may have an informational advantage in separating good projects from bad. At the same time, they may also have personal preferences that impact their objectivity. This...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23
leads to the possibility of strategic delay by decision participants who differ in their preferences and are limited by the resources they can allocate to influence decisions. We focus on sources of delay caused by the strategic...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26
under Risk Authors:Eyal Ert and Ido Erev Abstract Five studies are presented that explore the assertion that losses loom larger than gains. The first two studies reveal equal sensitivity to gains and losses. For example, half of the participants View Details
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
clinic to accomplish this. So often we find that big institutions find it extremely difficult to find educators, social services, to get local or state governments to provide services that provide this wraparound that you’re describing....
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- 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2
superior performance and competitive advantage at the individual, organizational, and social levels and 2) empowers the three virtue phenomena of morality, ethics, and legality. We also demonstrate that applying cost-benefit analysis to...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
they said, “Look, we’re really not interested in becoming a manager and moving up through the ranks. We much prefer getting greater and more-interesting experiences, because that helps us actually think about where we’re going to go...
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