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  • 28 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

institutions of global governance and, compared to others—such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, various United Nations agencies, and other... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
  • 19 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 19

  PublicationsBroadening Focus: Spillovers, Complementarities and Specialization in the Hospital Industry Authors:Jonathan R. Clark and Robert S. Huckman Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 May 2006
  • What Do You Think?

Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?

money, governments could have an immediate and important impact on such things as interest rates, inflation, and general economic prosperity.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 30 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

they can adapt and adopt institutional practices already legitimized by counterpart industries in other parts of the world. The paper builds on existing community ecology and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 24

Preeminent leadership scholar Linda Hill, along with former Pixar tech wizard Greg Brandeau, MIT researcher Emily Truelove, and Being the Boss coauthor Kent Lineback, found among leaders a widely shared, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

access the debt markets. However, fundamental differences in governance and project co-insurance between the two types of acquirer interact with debt misvaluation, resulting in variation in how assets are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 3

suggest that women are simply not cut out to be leaders. Furthermore, the human tendency to gravitate to people who are like oneself leads powerful men to sponsor and advocate for other men when leadership... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 08 Nov 2013
  • HBS Seminar

Laura Diaz Anadon, Harvard Kennedy School

  • 13 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 13

services obtained in return, reduces general anti-tax sentiment, and holds satisfaction with tax payment stable despite increased compliance with tax dues. With tax noncompliance costing the U.S. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 5

e-books eroded publishers' profitable print formats. E-readers like Kindle, as well as Apple's iPad, that invigorated the digital book market are discussed. Also includes a general overview of book publishing including the K-12 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jan 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Is the World Really Flat?

this month's column. Bruce Bockmann stated the case for the "flat-worlders" in reminding us that "it is the responsibility of government to support technology in its own country. If View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 05 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 5

and profanity than other participants. Participants using deception by omission used fewer words and a lower percentage of causation words than View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

Turkish Delight

and demand working for me — so I picked Turkey, because I thought it would become a more in demand, important part of the world. The other side is supply; as it happens, Turkey is a very understudied place.”... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support
  • 07 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

A British merchant's long-forgotten seventeenth-century book may not only fuel a radical rethinking about how modern economies developed in Europe and America, but also add historical perspective on today's hot-button issue of the proper... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 26

inclusion among "tax expenditures" and occasional calls for its repeal. This paper analyzes the extent to which tax deferral and other policies inefficiently... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jul 2020
  • Blog Post

HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19

The HBS Summer Fellowship Program provides an opportunity for students to develop skills and knowledge while having significant responsibility and high impact. This summer, HBS is View Details
  • 24 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?

proposals, which would include the wind down of two government sponsored enterprises—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Between them they generated more than half of all US mortgage... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 22 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract Governments are known for procrastinating when it comes to resolving painful policy problems. Whatever the political motives for waiting to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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5.1% fewer ED visits, principally due to fewer avoidable visits. The differences in avoidable visits between physicians and other patients were largest for diagnoses commonly requiring prescriptions, which... View Details