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- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
at least 3 decades. This paper outlines the range of accountability mechanisms currently in place at the World Bank along 4 basic levels: (1) staff, (2) project, (3) policy, and (4) board governance. We argue that civil society... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
dearly for the intangible aspects of the product, which the firm works very hard to keep integrated with the physical product. Deals with a range of issues confronting creative economy companies, such as how to produce products with very... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
the China business as part of a global portfolio, under a range of geopolitical scenarios. The Imperfectionists: Strategic Mindsets for Uncertain Times By Robert McLean and Charles Conn (MBA 1990) Wiley The world is changing faster and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
American life. New technologies, such as the cell phone and BlackBerry, came to be viewed as necessities. Firms selling small luxuries, such as Starbucks, which created an enormous market for specialty coffee, grew to rival the size of more standard fast-food chains.... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
range of online cyber attacks, from spam to large DDoS attacks, and will make it easy to add third-party services. That first sentence of the business plan is what we do today. I think that it’s gotten broader, but we didn’t really pivot... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
arm that would later be published in the local paper. (A journalism major at the University of Georgia, Langford won two years’ free tuition for an editorial he penned on the value of free markets.) While... View Details
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
Encouraging Employees To Receive Flu Shots The CDC estimates that from the 1976-1977 season to the 2006-2007 flu season, annual flu-associated deaths in the United States ranged from a low of about 3,000 to a high of about 49,000. In... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
consumer. "Managers can't expect customer information to represent a free good forever," explains Rayport. "Eventually, customers will want a piece of the value companies derive from information collected about themselves." But the... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
Administration, is coeditor of Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software and has published cases on organizations that practice crowdsourcing, including Data.gov, TopCoder, OpenIDEO, Google, Threadless, and Wikipedia. He serves as... View Details
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
at the firm for the long term (58 percent versus 40 percent) and were more likely to perceive that they were providing significant value to their clients (95 percent versus 84 percent). BCG clients reported a range of experiences with PTO... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
enormous pressures of his job and deploy the full range of management skills, savvy, and perseverance that he was hired to bring to what is truly a remarkable civic effort. On its first try (a virtually unheard-of accomplishment),... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
trespassing onto the mine’s waste dumps in search of gold. Subsequent investigations identified significant evidence to support the allegations, and the revelations led to broad ranging change at both Porgera and at Barrick more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
like-minded citizens to call it, ensuring that they were correctly directed to the right congressional office. But unless they rang during Capitol Hill’s business hours, they would never reach a live staffer. “We’ve learned the power of... View Details
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration and faculty cochair of the HBS Healthcare Initiative, set out with Adler-Milstein to discover what happens to productivity when doctors delegated their data entry. Did it free up their... View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
Working PapersOperational Failures and Problem Solving: An Empirical Study of Incident Reporting Authors:Julia Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Operational failures occur in all industries with consequences that View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
Business with Minimal Risk by Bob Reiss with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (foreword by Howard H. Stevenson) (The Free Press) Entrepreneurs are not risk seekers; they are risk managers, risk sharers, and risk minimizers. This is a central lesson... View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
Less: Experimental Evidence from Access to Formal Savings Accounts in Chile By: Kast, Felipe, and Dina Pomeranz Abstract—Poverty is often characterized not only by low and unstable income, but also by heavy debt burdens. We find that reducing barriers to saving through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
Publications 2013 pub Rx: Human Nature: How Behavioral Economics Is Promoting Better Health Around the World By: Ashraf, Nava Abstract—Why doesn't a woman who continues to have unwanted pregnancies avail herself of the free contraception... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
policy implications of these findings. The new data (from a range of countries in varying stages of development) documents the mixing of open source and proprietary software: firms sell proprietary software while contributing to open... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
Elberse had the unique opportunity to observe Ferguson's management style in a series of visits and in-depth interviews. In this collaborative explication, she details eight parts of Ferguson's "formula" as she observed them and gives the manager his say. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne