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- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
if we take on the responsibility, we'll work to control our own costs. Health care is 17 percent of our gross domestic product. If we can drive down costs while improving outcomes, that will be much more favorable to our economy and to...
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- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers...
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- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
foreclosure discounts appear to be related to the threat of vandalism in low-priced neighborhoods. After aggregating to the zip-code level and controlling for regional price trends, the prices of forced sales are mean-reverting, while the...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
handles that. And can he use those negotiating skills and those communication skills and create shared value skills in a situation where there’s no walk-away option and he doesn’t have the leverage. Command and control management model...
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by Christina Pazzanese
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
with the conditioned odor, participants were found to be (i) more creative and (ii) better able to select their most creative idea than participants who had been exposed to a control odor or no odor while sleeping. These findings suggest...
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
critics have often complained that industrial revolution management transfers control of a job away from workers, encourages human exploitation in pursuit of cost minimization, and alienates workers from their labor. But the arrangements...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
The Black family (including their dog, Rocky) take a watermelon break. (photo by Christina Gandolfo) One day I came home from work, and the twins were stumbling around on the ground, and [Cynthia] said, “You don’t really look happy.” And I said, “You know, happiness is...
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- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
executives. Healy: To put it in context, we live in a society in which the stars—entertainers, professional athletes, the top performers in any industry—make all the money. That includes the executive market as well. The irony about pay-for-performance is that pay...
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by Garry Emmons
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
factors such as "firm culture" and "employee engagement" in driving firm performance? Increasing evidence from a wide range of fields suggests that productivity differs widely across firms, even after the inclusion of careful View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
spending on groceries. Controlling for customer-fixed effects and other relevant variables, we find that grocery spending increases by $1.59 with the use of a $10-off coupon. In addition, even though the receipt of a $10-off coupon does...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
trajectory of overdose deaths from prescription drugs and heroin. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US death rate from opioid overdose has increased over 400 percent since 1999; the picture is even grimmer...
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- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
there in sufficient numbers that they’re not all alone and cringing in the face of a dominant figure who can control their fate,” says Kanter, author of Men and Women of the Corporation, a book about corporate power, particularly as it...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008
right mix between organic growth and external collaboration and in-licensing, and how to measure success when it takes so many years to develop and launch a successful drug. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
can be radical in nature. Effective development often disturbs the status quo, which, in most instances, local governments—especially corrupt or ineffective ones—are inclined to preserve and protect. Doing It Right The dislocating effects...
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by George C. Lodge
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
which for years has remained wedded to a well-developed competency in centralized controls and efficient execution but has steadily lost ground, posting a record $38.7 billion loss in 2007. Such an execution-as-efficiency model results in...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
to survive in new economy. The Metail Economy provides innovative methods for connecting with the Me-centric consumer and shows how to thrive in this consumer revolution. Joel Bines provides examples of companies that have failed to address the metail paradigm, along...
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- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
to get it, where it is, what you could reach out for, how to get that help, the better off you’re going to be. And that reset is really important right now. We’ve been so used to making do, we’ve been so used to isolation, that we almost...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
users control of other computers remotely is priced as low as $20. And business is booming. A PricewaterhouseCoopers survey found that global security incidents rose 38 percent in 2015—the biggest jump in the survey’s 12-year history....
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
while turnout was roughly equal in the control group. A postelectoral survey reveals that immigrants initially had less political information, which could explain the heterogeneous impact. Although the effect decays over subsequent...
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Carmen Nobel
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
employee morale. Internally initiated bribery from senior management is more likely to be associated with a significant impact on firm competitiveness. Bribery detected by the control systems of the firm is less likely to be associated...
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Sean Silverthorne