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By: Vincent Pons
Professor Pons studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved.

He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details
  • 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

interactions and non-linear effects, relative to traditional methods. In summary, ML methods could act as a complementary tool to both existing inductive theory-creating methods such as multiple View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23

communities, and make our cities smarter. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-141.pdf The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution Authors:N. Gregory Mankiw and Matthew Weinzierl... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

School Case 209-105 Most large companies operate in more than one business. Valuing a diversified company requires separate valuations for each of its businesses and for the corporate headquarters. This View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 30

  Publications September 2014 Social Entrepreneurship and Research Methods Building an Infrastructure for Empirical Research on Social Enterprise: Challenges and Opportunities By: Lee, Matthew, Julie Battilana, and Ting Wang... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

that “Gathering direct and original facts is a tedious and dif cult task, and it is not surprising that such work is avoided.” For the 50th JAR Conference, we introduce a framework to help researchers understand the complementary value of seven empirical View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 19, 2006

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-036.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsThe Bollingers: Negotiating with Wal-Mart Harvard Business School Case 907-009 More information and purchase:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

examples drawn from take-back regulations promulgated in Europe, Japan, and the United States governing waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-026.pdf   Cases & Course... View Details
  • 22 Aug 2005
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The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

outside facilitators, can help keep the process productive. Next, skills for managing a group process of analyzing a failure with a spirit of inquiry and sufficient understanding of the scientific method are essential inputs to learning... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
  • 13 Nov 2019
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Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet

collect the data, and then expect machine learning methods to spit out insight for you.” “We tend to think that when we have all this rich data and this machine learning technology, that the machines are going to just come up with the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

percent are in the developing world. The first part of this paper explores the economics of HIV and treatment from a social marketing perspective. The second part of the paper uses three specific case histories of successful social... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Dec 2007
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The Rise of Medical Tourism

What used to be rare is now commonplace: traveling abroad to receive medical treatment, and to a developing country at that. So-called medical tourism is on the rise for everything from cardiac care to plastic surgery to hip and knee replacements. As a recent Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015

demand, and supporting infrastructures, including business ecosystems) and, when feasible, the wider institutional, regulatory, and even cultural context that conventional International business literature takes as a datum. This is examined conceptually and by using... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 May 2007
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Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism

by a better product or a better method or a better organization or a better strategy. Schumpeter believed the exact opposite, and of course he was right. This is an extremely hard lesson to accept, particularly by successful people. But... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education
  • 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008

unobserved heterogeneity bias. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-051.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsTata Motors: The Tata Ace Harvard Business School Case 108-011 Considers the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

distinctive methods of prediction to investors and businesses and thrived in the boom years that followed World War I. Yet, almost to a man, they failed to predict the devastating crash of 1929. Despite their failures, this first... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208025 Silic (A): Choosing Cost or Fair Value on Adoption of IFRS Harvard Business School Case 108-030 A French real estate firm must choose to report its primary asset... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13

demanding that middle- and lower-level managers redo their forecasts, plans, and budgets. In some cases, top executives simply acquiesce to increasingly unrealistic analyst forecasts and adopt them as the basis for setting organizational goals and developing internal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jan 2012
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We drew on theories of knowledge-intensive firms, communities of practice, and professional service firms to analyze multiple cases of new practice area creation in management consulting firms. Our qualitative analysis identified four... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 1

disagree with this assumption, preferring tax policies based at least in part on a classic alternative objective: the principle of Equal Sacrifice. I generalize the standard model to accommodate this preference for a mixed objective, proposing a View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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