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- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
goes to education—about $800 million. Business people are also allocating a lot of private philanthropy money. JOSEPH FULLER Professor of Management Practice and Co-chair of HBS’s Managing the Future of Work project The funding mechanisms...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 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...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
time, portrays “Native people as noble savages,” as part of an uncorrupt but primitive past, contrasting with technology and industrialization but passively accepting the inevitable “progress” of white civilization. Top : Mechanics Bank...
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- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-083.pdf Bridge Building in Venture Capital-Backed Acquisitions Authors:Paul A. Gompers and Yuhai Xuan Abstract We compare three potential mechanisms for alleviating the asymmetric information between the...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
mechanisms that allow reputation to facilitate survival in ways that persist over time. Building on research in strategy and business history, we thus shed light on an underappreciated strategic construct (reputation) in an...
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Carmen Nobel
- 07 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change
properties on the Ohio or Missouri rivers that flood every now and then but can be cleaned up afterwards without terminal damage. Move the mechanical systems and electrical switchgear to a high floor, evacuate residents temporarily, and...
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by John Macomber
- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
migrants, which helped US firms speed the development of new technologies. “Knowledge transfers through social networks,” Choudhury says. “If a firm created mechanisms where the locals would work with migrants, then that knowledge would...
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- 02 Jan 2018
- Op-Ed
'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future? Austin Brown comments: Cryptocurrencies also have no inherent value in and of themselves, so the big question here is whether or not they are actually a good mechanism by which to exchange...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
numbers, they found that once computer testing was introduced at a company, workers ended up staying on the job for an average of 15 percent longer. The result indicates mechanical testing can be helpful in hiring decisions, but it...
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- 03 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Facebook’s Future
soar. While all this is happening, Facebook's marketing influence will accelerate dramatically, providing a growing revenue stream for the company. When Facebook first started it was no more than a mechanism to attract eyeballs for...
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by Mikolaj Piskorski
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
sharper increases in labor productivity. The ethnic transfer mechanism is especially strong in high-tech industries and among Chinese economies. The findings suggest channels for transferring codified and tacit knowledge partly shape the...
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Martha Lagace
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IFC: Japan; Exploring Japan's Innovation Ecosystem - Course Catalog
depending on your individual circumstances. The Add/Drop process at the start of the term is the mechanism for any IFC enrollment changes, and, after that point, the course fee is non-refundable. Refer to the GEO website for full details...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
the company also donates a percentage of online customer purchases. And, most recently, Working Assets created a similar donation mechanism through the long-distance telephone and Internet services it now offers on Sprint PCS Web-enabled...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
world. Do More Than Give: The Six Practices of Donors Who Change the World by Leslie R. Crutchfield (MBA ’01), John V. Kania, and Mark R. Kramer (Jossey-Bass) The authors show how donors can increase their impact in advancing social causes. Rather than focusing on the...
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- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
Participation, and Economic Incentives By: Zhou, Yanhua, Jodi L. Short, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Exploitive working conditions have spurred the development of formal organizational structures that deploy mechanisms including...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 16
experiment finds that self-help peer groups are a powerful tool to increase savings (number of deposits grows 3.5-fold and average savings balance almost doubles). Conversely, a substantially higher interest rate has no effect on most participants. A second experiment...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
week's US Supreme Court ruling. It's time to end three-and-a-half years of political wrangling and make the Affordable Health Care Act (AHCA) work. The law's shortcomings are well known. It provides health care access to 30 million people, but contains no viable...
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- 30 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 30, 2008
direct investment (FDI) flows arise endogenously when monitoring is nonverifiable and financial frictions exist. The mechanism generating MNC activity is not the risk of technological expropriation by local partners but the demands of...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007
stage—one with risks, temptations, misbehaviors—and one that needs to be outgrown. In contrast, successful leaders who move beyond the hero stage learn to focus on others, gain a sense of a larger purpose, foster multiple support networks, and develop View Details
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Martha Lagace
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Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online
command, control, and market-based mechanisms for correcting market failures in the context of climate change 10-12 hrs Module 2 - 2 weeks Adapting to Climate Change Identify physical manifestations of climate change, learn how businesses...
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