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  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

displays) at the fiscal year-end. Firms also engage in similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. Furthermore, our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

scientifically grounded way to align our speech and nonverbal behavior with our beliefs, abilities, and values to produce a synchronized inner state that resonates and connects with others. In this way, we can capture the inner strength... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2000 (Revised August 2002)
  • Case

The Holland House

By: William J. Poorvu and Michael A. Everett-Lane
In November 1993, Edward Geffner, executive director of Project Renewal, Inc. (PRI), is proposing that his not-for-profit firm develop Holland House at 351 West 42nd Street in New York City into a single- room occupancy hotel for homeless people. He has put together a... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Entrepreneurship; Welfare; Construction; Poverty; Property; Real Estate Industry; Construction Industry; New York (city, NY)
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  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

Web Exclusive: Behind the Scenes with Karen Tumulty

scoop: Naomi Wolf and the alpha male The Better Half 12/28/98 Hillary Clinton shines as husband declines Let's Play Doctor 7/13/98 Politicians and health care Why Subsidies Survive 3/25/96 Congress and corporate welfare Man with a Vision... View Details
Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • July 2009 (Revised May 2010)
  • Case

The Millennium Challenge Corporation and Ghana

By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan
A U.S. government agency, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), provides aid to developing countries, focusing on poverty reduction through economic growth. It measures results through an economic rate of return based on increases in farmer incomes anticipated... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Investment Return; Measurement and Metrics; Welfare; Ghana; United States
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  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

The Meaning of Ramadi

servant leadership is the only leadership model that works over the long run. Simply put, servant leadership demands that a leader place the mission’s goals and values first, the team and its individuals second, and the leader’s own View Details
Keywords: Donovan Campbell; National Security and International Affairs; Government
  • April 1991 (Revised July 1992)
  • Case

Koito Manufacturing Ltd.

By: W. Carl Kester and Robert W. Lightfoot
Having acquired a 26% stake in Koito Manufacturing, a Japanese automotive parts supplier in the Toyota Group, T. Boone Pickens seeks a seat on Koito's board of directors. Koito's management resists, claiming Pickens is an unhelpful greenmailer, not a true long-term... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Debates; Corporate Governance; Production; Supply Chain; Performance Efficiency; Welfare; Auto Industry; Japan; United States
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  • 06 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

receive lower satisfaction scores than banks serving customer bases with less dispersed needs. Finally, a longitudinal analysis of the deposit growth of all federally insured banks in the United States from 2006 to 2017 reveals that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2012
  • Article

The Microwork Solution: A New Approach to Outsourcing Can Support Economic Development—and Add to Your Bottom Line

By: Francesca Gino and Bradely R. Staats
What's the best way to lift people out of poverty? The social entrepreneurs in the new "impact sourcing" industry believe the answer is providing work, not aid. Their organizations hire people at the bottom of the pyramid to perform digital tasks such as transcribing... View Details
Keywords: Outsourcing; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Nonprofit Organizations; Partners and Partnerships; Development Economics; Social Entrepreneurship; Welfare; Cooperation; San Francisco
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  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

University Elections

Media. Los Angeles, CA. Richard N. Zare, AB ’61, Ph.D. ’64. Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science, Stanford University. Stanford, CA. Candidates for HAA Director The purpose of the Harvard Alumni Association is to promote the View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Government
  • 26 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 26

Minority Shareholder: Firm-level Implications of Equity Purchases by the State By: Inoue, Carlos F.K.V., Sergio G. Lazzarini, and Aldo Musacchio Abstract—In many countries, firms face institutional voids that raise the costs of doing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

Steven Rogers

always been proud of maintaining my ethnic identity while also being a part of the broader community.” Rogers likes to say that he put an end to the cycle of welfare in his family, and he is quick to emphasize that he did not do it alone.... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Retail Trade
  • 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9

opened for business, thus changing the face of both world trade and military power and playing a pivotal role in the rise of the United States on the world stage. Today we view the creation of the Panama Canal as a story of U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • May 2010
  • Article

Elections and Discretionary Accruals: Evidence from 2004

By: Karthik Ramanna and Sugata Roychowdhury
We examine the accrual choices of outsourcing firms with links to U.S. congressional candidates during the 2004 elections, when corporate outsourcing was a major campaign issue. We find that politically connected firms with more extensive outsourcing activities have... View Details
Keywords: Political Economy; Accounting Information; Accruals Management; Campaign Contributions; Discretionary Accruals; Election Outcomes; Political Currency; Political Process; Social Issues; Political Elections; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Motivation and Incentives; Earnings Management; Welfare; United States
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  • 01 Nov 2012
  • News

First and Goal

Swearengin: Leadership with the game on the line. Photo courtesy Julian Swearengin Julian Swearengin (MBA 2003) has loved football ever since he began playing the game at age 5. “Growing up poor and on welfare in Detroit, the classroom... View Details
Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

  Publications August 2013 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India By: Bhalotra, Sonia, Guilhem Cassan, Irma Clots-Figueras, and Lakshmi Iyer Abstract—This paper investigates whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Dec 2018
  • News

Lesson Plan

parents are all engaged in debating both sides of the issue. What would be the fairest solution? Or in Yokohama, Japan. In March 2003, a 22-year-old teaching English at a local junior high school is watching television with other staff members when news breaks that the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen
  • 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

monopoly incumbent would set the welfare-maximizing level of trade, this result indicates that platform competition may lead to a market failure: competition results in a lower level of trade and lower welfare than a monopoly. We also... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16

taxes. We use the model to evaluate the welfare consequences of a range of alternative policies. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2533977 Lobbying Behavior of Governmental Entities: Evidence from Public Pension Accounting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18

elastically supplied inputs, free entry may lead to an inefficiently high number of firms in equilibrium. Under input scarcity, however, the welfare loss from free entry is reduced. Further, free entry may increase use of high-quality... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace