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- 11 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation
Spontaneous responses can often be quite telling. As a member of a panel discussion at the Women, Money, and Power conference, entrepreneur Joline Godfrey posed two simple questions to the mostly-female audience. "How many of you had...
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by Martha Lagace
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
Lynda Clarizio Every woman who works and has a life confronts unique challenges, from finding reliable and caring childcare to making time to nurture the relationship with their spouse or partner to fighting their own guilt and stereotypes of "working women."...
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by Wendy Guild
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
Harvard Business Review Can a Strong Culture Be Too Strong? By: Garvin, David A. Abstract—The article presents a case study of a business enterprise with high employee turnover that is considering adopting a personnel management...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
graduates—descended on the Allston campus for the start of the W50 Summit, two days of reflection, celebration, and brainstorming on women's experiences at HBS and beyond. They heard from panels of professors and alumni on everything from...
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by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985 to 2000, and data on the well-being of over 600,000 people in a panel of...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
particular mechanism to address those voids: minority state ownership. Due to their minority nature, such stakes are less affected by the agency distortions commonly found in full-fledged state-owned firms. Using panel data from publicly...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
differs by firm ownership. We study CEOs in the Indian manufacturing sector, where family ownership is widespread and the productivity dispersion across firms is substantial. Time use analysis of 356 CEOs of listed firms yields three sets...
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Carmen Nobel
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
convictions in marketing is that market orientation contributes to firms' performance substantially more than alternative strategic orientations such as innovation and entrepreneurial orientations. Still, some studies show that...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-104.pdf Stretching the Inelastic Rubber: Taxation, Welfare and Lobbies in Amazonia, 1870-1910 Author:Felipe Tâmega Fernandes Abstract This paper examines the effect of government intervention via taxation on domestic welfare. A case...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
teams are exacerbated when teams are leaderless, undermining performance. A longitudinal study of multicultural MBA study teams found that in the early stage of team formation, teams with a low average level...
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
Electronic Monitoring Authors:Di Tella, Rafael, and Ernesto Schargrodsky Publication:Journal of Political Economy Abstract We study criminal recidivism in Argentina by focusing on the re-arrest rates of two groups: individuals released...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 18
regulation. We study individuals' decisions to avoid monitoring or regulation and thus enhance their ability to engage in unethical conduct. We conduct a laboratory experiment in which participants engage in a competitive task and can...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Built for Global Competition from the Start
interest for the researcher. Kerr didn't have to look far for material, with several recent HBS grads—and a then second-year MBA student—starting global companies, the perfect subjects for about half of the dozen case studies used in the...
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- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
All this makes for a case study of the moral courage of ordinary Japanese citizens in times of crisis. There are lessons to be learned here by the rest of us. W. Carl Kester, George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration...
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- 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31
PublicationsFinancial Development, Fixed Costs and International Trade Authors:Bo Becker, David Greenberg, and Jinzhu Chen Publication:Review of Corporate Finance Studies (forthcoming) Abstract Exporting firms face significant up-front...
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Carmen Nobel
- 18 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?
analysis program for health care providers. Innovations will be judged on the basis of their impact on cost, quality, or access to health care; evidence of initial success; and the extent to which applicants have created clear dissemination plans. The judging View Details
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
behavioral ethics as the study of systematic and predictable ways in which individuals make ethical decisions and judge the ethical decisions of others that are at odds with intuition and the benefits of the broader society. By focusing...
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2
Publications 2006 pub Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives By: Bandiera, Oriana, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We exploit a unique combination of administrative sources and survey data to study the match...
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Anna Secino
- 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14
Lady Gaga, and LeBron James? Which strategies give leaders in film, television, music, publishing, and sports an edge over their rivals? In this book, drawing on my case studies and other research on the worlds of media and sports, I...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2015
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First Look: May 5
scanner panel data from a single California location of a major grocery chain, and completely controlling for consumer heterogeneity, we demonstrate that bringing your own bags simultaneously increases purchases of environmentally...
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Carmen Nobel