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  • 15 May 2007
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First Look: May 15, 2007

Africa by 2010. The announcement raised questions whether debt relief would really help the poor. By examining past aid trends and policies of multilateral institutions, such as the International Monetary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Trick of Balancing Business and Government

Asked which institutions must be in place in order for African countries to grow, experts on a panel at the Africa Business Conference had no shortage of suggestions. One panelist, representing the International Monetary Fund, voted for a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 1

Jeremy C. Stein Abstract—We study optimal government debt maturity in a model where investors derive monetary services from holding riskless short-term securities. In a setting where the government is the only issuer of such riskless... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Jan 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism

outcome of that deep ambivalence within the Russian political elite has been a real inconsistency of foreign economic policies toward the region. One can see that, certainly, in its policies towards the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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IFC: Japan; Exploring Japan's Innovation Ecosystem - Course Catalog

circumstances. The Add/Drop process at the start of the term is the mechanism for any IFC enrollment changes, and, after that point, the course fee is non-refundable. Refer to the GEO website for full details on IFCs and be sure you understand the Course View Details
  • 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24

Monetary Economics Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm-Level Evidence By: Ivashina, Victoria, and Bo Becker Abstract—Theory predicts that there is a close link between bank credit supply and the evolution of the business cycle. Yet... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17

and Matthew C. Weinzierl Abstract This paper examines the optimal response of monetary and fiscal policy to a decline in aggregate demand. The theoretical framework is a two-period general equilibrium model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Back to the Future

ON THE PRIZE: U.S. dependency on Middle East oil will be long term, Stobaugh says; about one-fifth of U.S. imports are from the region. YASSER AL-ZAYYAT/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Energy Future argues that U.S. energy policy should focus on... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining
  • 09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9

http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4336/2/3/257/pdf Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to Donate Authors:Judd B. Kessler and Alvin E. Roth Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract Organ donations from deceased donors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

two network surveys supported these hypotheses.   Cases & Course MaterialsAFSCME vs. Mozilo...and "Say on Pay" for All! (A) (Abridged) Harvard Business School Case 309-101 Richard Ferlauto, director of pensions and benefits View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

men from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics (PSID), the model accurately fits entry patterns into self-employment by age. The option value of returning to paid work is found to constitute a substantial portion of the monetary value of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

according to the organization’s long-term values and goals. Surprisingly, we find that the intervention drove even higher effort on performance associated with pre-existing monetary incentives, but, on average, did not affect nonfinancial... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 11

This note describes the development and the current state of the inventory-based lending industry. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/612057-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 713-073 Monetary View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Apr 2013
  • Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

series of 20-minute presentations followed by discussion groups took an unconventional look at topics such as stereotypes, difference, and organizational change. (Presenters were also asked to write short research-based papers to... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 02 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

MBA 1988) is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School. For two decades, he ran equity capital markets for Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley. His casework focuses on international investment, sovereign debt, View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services
  • 03 Apr 2018
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New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

leads to a 14% increase in the likelihood of exit for a 3.5-star restaurant (which is the median rating on Yelp) but has no discernible impact for a 5-star restaurant (on a 1 to 5 star scale). Our analysis also highlights how digital data can be used to better... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 2, 2009

recipients, we find that all types of poor subjects are worse off. Our results suggest that the effects of truth-in-giving policies are highly responsive to recipient heterogeneity and biased against more generous giving. Download the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

  Publications August 2013 MIT Sloan Management Review The Surprising Benefits of Nonconformity By: Bellezza, Silvia, Francesca Gino, and Anat Keinan Abstract—This research demonstrates that, under certain circumstances, people wearing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

critical role in university admissions across the world. A key question is whether imposing penalties for wrong answers on these exams deters guessing from women more than men, disadvantaging female test takers. We consider data from a large-scale, high-stakes View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman