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- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
Economics Prizes, Publicity, and Patents: Non-Monetary Awards as a Mechanism to Encourage Innovation By: Moser, Petra, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—This paper exploits the selection of prize-winning technologies among exhibitors at the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
technology and innovation in ways that streamline interactions with federal agencies, like online form filing. Stars align to fix a broken tax system Mihir Desai, Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance and professor of law at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
short, quick strokes with the short sword, balanced with simultaneous utilization of the long sword. Likewise, a focus on quick wins and success in small increments needs to be balanced with long-term planning and achievement. For... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
particularly within a tenth of a mile, of a house lowers the price at which it is sold. Our preferred estimate of this effect is that a foreclosure at a distance of 0.05 miles lowers the price of a house by about 1%. Download the paper from SSRN ($5):... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
Summing Up Does Social Equality Improve Productivity? Inequality in our society is an important and growing issue. It prompted a debate among respondents to this month's column about the causes, specifically the role played by innovation... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
transistor — emanated from groups of people with complementary skills," say the authors. Furthermore, they argue, creativity doesn't have to come in visionary leaps. Incremental steps count, too, and figuring out how to implement a... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
Social entrepreneurs who have innovated using network approaches are in many ways ahead of the curve, even relative to leaders in other fields. Q: Despite the growing magnitude of the social sector, many of the challenges these... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
Business unit buy in was a concern of Asit Goel. "Sponsorship from the top is critical to make innovation part of the culture but resource commitment from the BUs (business units) is critical if an idea is to ever take off."... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Nov 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Are Optimists or Pessimists Better Leaders?
"targeted negative feedback" from a trusted authority. Pointing out what has gone wrong or what's less than perfect will motivate the pessimist to innovate products, improve plans, and solve problems. For this reason, pessimists... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
As we start to think about returning to work, shopping, and recreation, there is much talk about transformed workplaces and innovative social distancing designs. But how will companies, workers, and customers have confidence that these... View Details
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
must be nurtured and the transition to high growth must be managed. Once breakthrough innovations catch hold, growth must be funded and managed to exploit the full value of the opportunity. And finally, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
a number of modifications to the current set of risk-based capital requirements, to the leverage ratio, and to the Federal Reserve’s stress-testing framework. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53243 forthcoming Governance Elite Strategies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
spending on the private sector. Our key innovation is to use changes in congressional committee chairmanship as a source of exogenous variation in state-level federal expenditures. In doing so, we show that fiscal spending shocks appear... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
intercede to protect investments in locations such as Central America and the Caribbean. Costs were small-at least at the outset-but with each incremental step, American policy became increasingly entangled with the goals of those they... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 May 2005
- What Do You Think?
Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?
becomes a source of incremental improvements whereas anything revolutionary could only come during the 'breaks' in the dialogue." And Caleb DeGrenier commented that "companies still need to surprise the market with View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
innovation in the industry is coming from entrants that say, “Let’s start with the patient perspective.” Sadun: Absolutely. And hopefully these new models will dispel the idea that there is a trade-off between providing excellent care and... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
Kristi Yuthas Periodical:Stanford Social Innovation Review 6, no. 1 (winter 2008) Abstract In the debate over whether microfinance works, few microfinance institutions articulate what, exactly, their ultimate goals are and how, exactly,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative
studies in the early 1990s. This interaction intensified through their collaboration on the Moroccan Pilot. This incremental engagement process also enabled them to undertake a due diligence assessment of each other to assess attitudes,... View Details
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
these factors to overall mortality and health spending in the United States is not known. In this paper, we build a model to estimate the excess mortality and incremental health expenditures associated with exposure to the following 10... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
effects (on the low bidder) and indirect effects (on others), and we show that most of the incremental revenue from setting reserve price optimally comes from indirect effects. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace