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- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
priorities. Many years ago labor conditions in Asian contract factories prompted Nike board member Jill Ker Conway to lobby for a board-level corporate responsibility committee, which the company created in 2001. In the years since, the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
multibillion-dollar Capital Cities/ABC media empire of the 1990s. Not long after, laboring in similar obscurity in rural Ohio, Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. (MBA '61), and H. Irving Grousbeck (MBA '60), cofounders of Continental Cablevision,...
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- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
a district-industry predicts a greater share of subsequent entrepreneurs will be female. Moreover, higher female ownership of local businesses in related industries (e.g., those sharing similar labor needs, industries related via...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
the World Bank gave committed officials the political opportunity to experiment with new programs in underperforming regions, which they progressively extended across the country. These incremental reforms supplied the institutional...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
service (price) sensitive customers in markets where it has supplied relatively high (low) levels of service quality in the past. Furthermore, we show that it is the high quality incumbent's most valuable customers, those with the longest...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
their supply chains in the developing world. I wanted to get involved in that.” During his year as a Leadership Fellow at the WWF, Murphy served as director of enterprise planning and got to know the organization well enough to make a...
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- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
non-star analysts. Extending traditional theories of entrepreneurship and labor mobility, our results also suggest that drivers of turnover vary by destination: (a) turnover to entrepreneurship and (b) other turnover. In contrast to...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
small changes in financial imperfections can give rise to large changes in price. We develop tests of this alternative against the null that the supply of intermediary capital is perfectly elastic. We take the U.S. catastrophe reinsurance...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
to plumb the demand side of business rather than just the supply side. All six were able to understand how rapid, widespread socioeconomic change affected consumers' preferences and then not only satisfy, but also anticipate buyers'...
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by Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
of her mother was shared in one form or another by a large segment of the US workforce. She talks about the scope of the challenge, how employers are starting to address it, and what the payback looks like. Joseph Fuller: Employers started offering healthcare benefits...
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- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
market development, the tax system, labor market regulations, and public spending on research and development correlate with venture capital activities across countries. Our case study suggests these institutional differences led to the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
remain less explored. The United States offers a unique setting in which to examine this question since entrepreneurial ventures supplying cadavers for medical science have recently emerged alongside traditional academic-housed programs,...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
hours democratizes college access and economic opportunity. Bill Kerr: It’s spring semester 2024, and it seems like almost every aspect of college is under the microscope. Access, affordability, and labor market relevance are high on that...
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- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
unavailable at this time. Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence Authors:Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina Abstract We study the effect of bank loan supply through the business cycle using firm-level data from 1990 to 2009. Our...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
trading." Fighting is another (perhaps too) familiar negotiation improvisation. In these negotiations, the goal is to beat up on the other party, even if it means that you get hurt, too. Parties in labor contract negotiations...
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by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
rankings are more likely to disclose their Princeton Review certification, suggesting that schools treat different certifications as substitutes. Third, conditional on displaying a ranking, the majority of schools coarsen information to make it seem more favorable....
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Anna Secino
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
physical assets (such as health records); combining data within and across industries (to, say, coordinate supply chains); trading data (as mobile providers do with information on users' whereabouts); and codifying best-in-class...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
research organizations that partnered with business groups and regulatory bodies. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53310 The Decline of Big-Bank Lending to Small Business: Dynamic Impacts on Local Credit and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
very large, important, and well-run organizations making significant commitments to sustainability. I would cite Wal-Mart, Cisco, IBM, Unilever, Duke Energy, and Marks & Spencer as organizations on the leading edge. For example, Wal-Mart is working to completely...
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by Staff
- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
was a proprietary managerial accounting system based on Will, a currency that enabled internal market transactions. At DISCO, every hour of labor and every good was associated with a price in Will. Employees were expected to act like...
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Dina Gerdeman