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- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
and Brooke Barton, 309-320. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007 Abstract After thirty years of development, commercial microfinance in the developing world—the provision of financial services to low income...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016
group behavior or evolutionary processes and can uniquely reveal non-linear dynamics and emergence—the process whereby local interactions aggregate into often surprising collective phenomena, such as spatial...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
data in a variety of business analysis and valuation contexts. The fourth edition of Business Analysis and Valuation: Using Financial Statements allows you to undertake...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 4
deontological option) were more likely to suppress their emotional expressions. In Studies 2a, 2b, and 3, we instruct participants to either regulate their emotions, using one of two different strategies (reappraisal vs. suppression), or...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
exist when couples are present. This article's main result is that a stable matching exists when there are relatively few couples and preference lists are sufficiently short relative to market size. We also discuss incentives in markets...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
Companies in the tech sector now (unlike during the “bubble”) produce (or conserve) goods and services that people want. They have real business models that realize revenue and...
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by James Heskett
- 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11
permission to lead. Troy, a customer service manager, endangered his job and his company's reputation by focusing on protecting his position, not helping his team; when a trusted friend advised him to change...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
provided excellent comparative data of the kind that we have seen all too little in the public debate on the matter. And nearly everyone admirably avoided the political rhetoric that has clouded rational...
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- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
consumer behavior, Ngwe and Chen analyzed sales data from Southeast Asian fashion retailer Zalora in the Philippines. Because the data included the company's startup period,...
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- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
primary goals are to (a) develop and validate an interdisciplinary multidimensional model, which focuses on the complex interrelationships among requirements workflow related risk factors, individual, team...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
although some high-productivity economies may have seen their growth rates slow.” And Brent Dalager expressed his opinion that the picture is changing rapidly for the better with the introduction of “software robotics” in such industries...
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- 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28
and the environment while still creating value for their shareholders. How to Become a Sustainable Company Authors: Robert G. Eccles, Kathleen Miller Perkins, and George Serafeim Publication: MIT Sloan...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet
markess. Using stock market data for the largest seven developed countries between 1986 and 2013, they disentangled changes in the prices of securities versus their value. “This is how you can piece out...
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- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
regulation would actually increase innovation since it would tend to increase transparency in this field, and provide potential researchers with the data they need. Regulation could also increase access to...
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- 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008
MaterialsChina in Africa: The Case of Sudan Harvard Business School Case 308-060 This case examines the relation between China's demand for resources and political risk. Purchase the case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
management ranks. Koning and Ferguson took a broader approach. They reviewed data collected by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission between 1971 and 2014, determining...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
it this way, privacy has been losing ground rapidly with the ascendancy of big data and the Internet of things. The retreat of privacy has been aided by personal use of networking apps like Facebook,...
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by James Heskett
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
their experiences engaging with the health care system. But we are still learning what “good” looks like and we still have a long way to go in understanding which tools work, how well, and for whom. I...
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by HBS News
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
economic data that it collected and published. He made it a priority of government to study the nature of business cycles and to bring business executives to Washington, D.C.,...
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by Walter A. Friedman
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
should be able to command more compensation, but never tried to see if that was true. So I decided to collect data on the executives in new ventures and on the ventures themselves, to see what the real story...
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