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- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
answers on the national college entry exam in Chile. We find that the policy change significantly reduced a large gender gap in questions skipped. It also impacted gender gaps in performance, leading to increased representation of women... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
information in lending decisions leads to worse credit outcomes when loan officers are busy or before weekends and national holidays; when loan officers had earlier non-banking and, in particular, sales-related experience; when both... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
of the average American. The second part of that definition is immensely important. Sometimes you hear people saying the US would be more competitive if only wages were lower or we had a cheaper dollar. But if we took a national pay cut... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
National Geographic Society (B) This case was written as an update to the case "The National Geographic Society," HBS No. 311-002, published in 2011. The (B) case describes the 2015 creation of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
ignores all costs associated with paying for the spending such as higher taxes or increased borrowing. From the perspective of the target state, the funds are essentially free, but clearly at the national level someone has to pay for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Need a Say on Pay
Ferri, on leave as a visiting assistant professor of accounting at NYU's Stern School of Business, sees a number of avenues for future research on executive compensation, including its influence on risk-taking and the effects of regulation and disclosure regimes on... View Details
- 25 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Machiavelli, Morals, and You
They don't go on national stones. There's nothing really remarkable about them.' "The reason I put them at the end of the course is that I hope what students will do when they think about each of those words is understand what I've... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? Authors:Diego A. Comin, William Easterly, and Erick Gong Abstract We assemble a dataset on technology adoption in 1000 B.C., 0 A.D., and 1500 A.D. for the predecessors to today's View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
people want to associate with and to listen to those with whom they are familiar. However, it is essential for decision makers (politicians) to go beyond this spectrum and to be as objective as possible. They must listen to experts before making any decision,... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
industry who could also learn from knowledge spillovers. There were downsides to the new industry, however. The creation of the national image of a natural paradise enabled many businesses that were not environmentally sustainable to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-041_1af09bde-47f9-4364-bad6-aaac464be909.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 715-008 The United Kingdom and the Means to Prosperity After struggling through the country's longest recession... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
extent the consequence of the legal system nations created or inherited decades or hundreds of years ago. Despite the seemingly historical nature of this explanation, most of the body of work supporting the law and finance hypothesis has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
display. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-053.pdf PublicationsInternational Differences in Entrepreneurship Authors:Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar, eds. Publication:Chicago: University of Chicago Press for View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
shared with the other titans in this book a belief in the future. Watson had two decades of business experience by the time he became chief executive of Computing-Tabulating-Recording (C-T-R) in 1914. The situation he faced was not encouraging. He had just been fired,... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 10 Nov 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones
Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and Britta Glennon. Drugs approved in December are associated with more adverse effects New research reveals that drug approvals surge in the US in December, at month-ends, and before respective major View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?
action. Q: You recently wrote about the writings of Mandarin Yung Wing, a senior bureaucrat during the time of the Manchu regime and the first Chinese national to graduate from Yale. What did he accomplish, and does his story hold... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2008
- Op-Ed
The Gap in the U.S. Treasury Recommendations
the Currency, which regulates national banks. Finally, there would be a regulator that would monitor the business conduct of all firms in the financial service industry. This regulator would set standards for each type of financial... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
influence when the vast majority can't? The authors tracked 68 change initiatives in the UK's National Health Service, an organization whose size, complexity, and tradition can make reform difficult. They discovered several predictors of... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
The goal is to eliminate deficits and any further growth in the national debt, though this is rarely achieved. Erskine Bowles, co-chair with former Representative Alan Simpson of a 2012 committee charged with coming up with proposals for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
and clearly should be implemented. But it won’t while the merits of human capital investment are substantial, the political realities of our grotesquely divided nation today would appear to me to be a hurdle too high to surmount.” The... View Details