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- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
regional trade, CEPII Working Paper N° 2005-02, Paris: CEPII Research Center. Medina-Smith, Emilio J. (2001), Is the export-led growth hypothesis valid for developing countries? A case study of Costa Rica,... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
trustworthiness vary systematically across different stakeholder types and provide strong support for the validity of the depth and locus dimensions. Working PapersSovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances Authors:Laura... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
about the causes of regional variations in health care expenditures. Using vignettes from patient and physician surveys linked to fee-for-service Medicare expenditures, this study asks whether patient demand-side factors or physician... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
funded HIV clinic in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Intervention: The study involved three arms. First, participants in the provider visit incentive (PVI) arm received $30 after attending each scheduled provider visit. Second, participants in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea empirically using personnel and lending data from a financial services organization that implemented... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jul 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Balanced Scorecard in Action
at Store24 To what extent do Balanced Scorecards provide useful information for testing and validating an organization's strategy? Analyzing Balanced Scorecard data from Store24—a privately held convenience store retailer in New... View Details
- 27 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)
Leslie K. John is keenly aware of the pressure researchers feel to get results. When her graduate studies in behavioral decision research didn't produce significant findings that led to publication in a prestigious journal, John felt... View Details
- 30 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”
challenges them to accept responsibility for their own education and gives them first-hand appreciation of the application of knowledge and skills to practice." Nevertheless, Kathryn Aiken points out that "... studying other... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
advisers that what I was seeing was reproducible and scientifically valid. It also just happened to be personally valid for me." “Having the net made these people more willing to walk on the high wire.” Olds focused his initial View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
validate their initial results over the coming months. In light of the study results, Cohen says that opening sustainable investment to traditional energy firms might deliver clean energy faster. He points... View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
which refers to a study that includes all phases of a product’s lifespan, from the extraction of raw materials to the product’s end-of-life disposition such as landfill, incineration, or recycling. Lifecycle assessments can be stand-alone... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Peeling Back the Global Brand
Hans-Willi Schroiff, vice president of market research and business intelligence for the German company Henkel, described why detergent has made a valuable case study for new and edgy marketing. (They cautioned that they are not ready to... View Details
- 06 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School
making up 40 percent of the Class of 2014. But a new case study shows that there's still a ways to go. “We want them to grapple with what it takes to build an organization, to leverage diversity and create an inclusive culture."... View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/ffoley/BFSWIPO.pdf Luck or Cheating? A Field Experiment on Honesty with Children Authors:Alessandro Bucciol and Marco Piovesan Publication:Journal of Economic Psychology (forthcoming) Abstract We run an experiment to View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
personal work satisfaction, the decision to change careers, professional advancement, and the like. All are valid areas for study because they help employers figure out how to best select, train, and retain... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
introduce residents and validate their information. If residents cannot prove their date of birth, the date they choose is considered the official date. After the team collects all the necessary information from a person, the biometric... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
Harvard Business School professors often travel into the field to conduct business research, but it's a safe bet none have had the experience of Professor Robin Ely. She and coauthor Debra Meyerson of Stanford University took helicopter trips to deep-water oil... View Details
- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
“Streetchange,” the difference in Streetscores of the same blocks, seven years apart. “A positive value of Streetchange is indicative of new construction or upgrades, and a negative value is indicative of overall decline of a street block,” Naik says. In View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
the fact that they are often breaking new ground. . . . "A lot of people think that dot-coms in Asia are just taking U.S. technology and replicating the same business models. That may have been a valid criticism in the past, but... View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- 05 Nov 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?
businesses." The predominant view was that the practice at present has many limitations. Ann Romaine-Adelstein commented, "I doubt we can predict with validity from a scan yet who will work hard, be innovative or exercise great... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett