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- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
rewrite the rules of the international financial architecture and thereby force capital liberalization on developing countries. Indeed, in retrospect it is surprising that so many observers thought that the U.S. Treasury or Wall Street... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
years or, more often, 10 years. Researchers can’t observe the potential immediate adjustment costs faced by native workers, such as temporarily lower wages or higher unemployment. It’s thus impossible to conclude that immigration has no... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- Web
Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade
markets, potential trade avenues, observations on Asian culture, statistical information on goods, and the variety of goods available for purchase. Digital Accessibility Contact Baker Library Historical Collections Baker Library |... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
importance of facilitating faculty contact with prominent issues, individuals, and companies in the region. “One of the primary values of our center is to help faculty identify key business players and to place interesting business problems in a relevant context,” she... View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
point, which translates into an elasticity of Catholic school attendance with respect to tuition costs of -0.19. Our subgroup results suggest that a voucher program would disproportionately induce into private schools those who, along View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
behavior of observably similar public and private firms using a new data source on private U.S. firms, assuming for identification that closely held private firms are subject to fewer short-termist pressures. Our results show that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
show that empirical findings linking governance, incentives, and performance, which are typically observed in isolation, can instead be interpreted within a simple unified matching framework. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
assignments Helping team members learn and grow. Do “office hours” on videoconferencing to replace the informal conversations you once had in the office. This will encourage people to come forth with questions, and with observations and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
needed to be, but they had to wait for the doctor to certify that the parent's diagnosis was correct. And the last thing in the world they wanted to do was to see the doctor. And you see the insight that-- I don't want to do this, occurs when you View Details
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
assignments Helping team members learn and grow. Do “office hours” on videoconferencing to replace the informal conversations you once had in the office. This will encourage people to come forth with questions, and with observations and... View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
heterogeneity across countries and drug classes among all outcomes. While traditional predictors of entry, such as market size, are significant, we also observe that effective buyer institutions (in particular, committed tenders) are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
suggest that workers with higher rank should receive compensation packages more heavily weighted in equity. However, we observe the puzzle that many firms adopt an equality-in-equity strategy: they offer different cash salaries across all... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
old technology, and "retreat" strategies, which attempt to accommodate the rise of the new technology by repositioning the old technology in the demand environment. Underlying our arguments is the observation that the emergence... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
robbery, as opposed to other kinds of crime like arson, assault, homicide, and rape. Temporal patterns in crime are observed in jurisdictions in which disbursements are focused at the beginning of monthly welfare payment cycles and not in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-025.pdf Deterring Online Advertising Fraud Through Optimal Payment in Arrears Authors:Benjamin G. Edelman Abstract I develop a screening model with delayed payments and probabilistic delayed observation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
for a deep discussion of the bases for variable compensation in sales, including observability of effort and outcome, risk aversion, team vs. individual pay and the marginal impact of effort. The context is also an interesting and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
what is a missed opportunity for a young person to figure out their why. Flint: So, what are you hearing from the students who participate in your program? What is the experience like for them, and what are they coming away with? Falik: I think some of the most... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
worked for fourteen years in human resources at Chemical Bank in New York. For her part, Busch, who has been with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter since graduating from HBS, observed a salient business lesson unfolding across centuries. "What I... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
strategic choices for retailers. With respect to pricing, an important decision is whether to offer a “self-matching policy,” which allows a multichannel retailer to offer the lowest of its online and store prices to consumers. In practice, we View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
world wants the United States to be competitive. For more than a century, global observers have considered the U.S. economy to be an exemplar and America a country to envy and imitate. Unfortunately, America's reign as the global ideal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne