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  • 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

preparation offices were given the option to purchase U.S. Savings Bonds in addition to existing Block savings products. The fraction of filers who did any savings at the tax-site was 8.5 times higher at these treatment sites offering... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants

only treatments are maintenance dialysis and kidney transplantation. The former requires visits to a treatment center for at least 12 hours a week, while a transplant—from either a living family member or a matching deceased donor—can... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Health
  • 08 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System

to do that. And luckily Gallatin was this European of infinite patience and extraordinary strength of character. One of the biggest things I wondered about is why Gallatin came to the United States in the first place. He was the scion of a wealthy View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Banking
  • 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

generations of the same family may even cease to regress towards the mean. Moreover, we demonstrate that government interventions intended to ameliorate inequality may in fact lower intergenerational mobility—even when they do not... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

Case 308-073 After opening 60 schools in eight years through opportunistic growth, the national office of the KIPP schools network has designed a strategy dubbed "smart growth." Each KIPP school is a separately incorporated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jun 2002
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A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

marketed its products as family food, targeting its messages to children as well as adults. Expanding slowly also gave Pujals the chance to work out and test his business model. He was able to determine exactly what sort of investments he... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
  • 18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18

behalf of families and (b) bank forbearance policies regarding overdrawn customers. We focus on five factors to explain the incidence of involuntary closures: personal traits, community traits, economic trends, bank policies, and credit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007

engineers is undergoing a significant transformation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual patent records granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to document these trends with greater detail than... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

2017, Jason Blum, the founder and chief executive officer of film and television production company Blumhouse Productions, has another blockbuster on his hands with the movie Get Out, produced for just $4.5 million. Remarkable returns for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

lower-income families. Meanwhile, the resulting profits add to the wealth of the Walton family and their fellow stockholders—a net gain for higher-income families. If one considers only dA, this profit gain could well be more than the... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
  • 04 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 4

http://hbr.org/product/Teaming-at-Disney-Animati/an/615023-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 515-003 MRC's House of Cards In March 2011, Asif Satchu and Modi Wiczyk, co-chairmen and co-chief executive officers at independent production... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

trust, employee commitment, and "ownership" behaviors of both employees and clients-could explain and be used to predict up to half of the difference in operating income between agency offices of a global service provider. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

achieved something, however small. If the person drags out of the office disengaged and joyless, a setback is likely to blame. This progress principle suggests that managers have more influence than they may realize over employees'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

Equifax Examining the cause of and response to the 2017 data breach at Equifax that exposed the information of over 145 million consumers. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/118031-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-036 North Forty:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

December 2007 at the American Family Mutual Insurance Company (AMFAM) headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin, Dave Anderson and Jack Salzwedel remained in the conference room after the senior management meeting had concluded. Anderson, CEO of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

study that married their shared interests in healthcare, technology, and entrepreneurship. Rock Health supported health-tech entrepreneurs with a startup grant of $20,000, office space, and a wide variety of professional support services.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

Publication:Social Choice and Welfare (forthcoming) Abstract We take a decision theoretic approach to the classic social choice problem, using data on the frequency of choice problems to compute social choice functions. We define a family... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

associated with adult outcomes at home. Sons raised by an employed mother spend more time caring for family members than men whose mothers stayed home full time, and daughters raised by an employed mother spend less time on housework than... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/518038-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 419-048 Associação Saúde Criança: Trying to Break the Cycle of Poverty and Illness at Scale Dr. Vera Cordeiro founded the NGO Associação Saúde Criança in 1991 to try to help poor View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

the BCBS affiliate and its rivals increased premiums following conversions in markets where the converting affiliate had substantial market share. Medicaid enrollment rates also increased in these markets, a pattern consistent with "crowd in" of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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