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- 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015
2015 Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing The Impact of Globalization on Argentina and Chile: Business Enterprises and Entrepreneurship By: Jones, G. Abstract—This book compares the effects of globalization on two Latin American... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?
wealthiest households. It's not that low-income families have a terrible savings rate, explained Tufano. In fact, within Individual Development Accounts (described below), poor families have a 2.2% savings rate, compared to the national... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 29 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Pursuing Independent Projects
outside of the case-based class. In terms of challenges, there’s very little structure compared to a traditional class, so you have be very intentional and disciplined to get the most out of the experience. I set aside time on my calendar... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
pharmaceuticals, the gap between the medical and the mental health systems, and the time required to find community resources and quality home care. My previous experience as a pharmaceutical executive and management consultant seemed child’s play View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
compare your name to existing and pending trademarks, based on a variety of characteristics, including phonetic similarity, similarity of goods, and status of existing trademark applications and registrations: “We’re capturing the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 22 Nov 2013
- News
A Passion for Film
was good at and where there were other people who were better," he said. "For me, distribution was bridging a lot of different parts of the industry." Seeing so many small, but worthy films struggle to find their way into a theater was his impetus for starting... View Details
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
diagnose patients by comparing their symptoms to millions of similar cases stored in a database. One can imagine, for example, a health worker in a remote area of a developing country where there are no doctors making a cell phone call to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
Publications August 2013 Modernizing Insurance Regulation Comparative Regulation of Market Intermediaries: Insights from the Indian Life Insurance Market By: Anagol, Santosh, Shawn A. Cole, and Shayak Sarkar Abstract—This book provides... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
Second, we compare patenting by venture‐backed startups and incumbent firms. Using a variety of measures, we find that VC‐backed startups are engaged in more novel and more highly cited innovations compared... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
and magnitude of their capital flows in and out of the funds. We use dollar-weighted returns (a form of IRR) to assess the properties of actual investor returns on hedge funds and compare them to buy-and-hold fund returns. Our main... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
poor." His ambition is to cure the poor of the world for one dollar a day. Shetty's model is based on staffing doctors who are extremely well-trained and dedicated, yet are willing to take a 50 percent pay cut compared to what they... View Details
- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
identified—chartering, learning, mobilizing, and realigning—in the successful change effort. A: By conducting an in-depth comparison of these two generations of the CSE initiative, and by comparing this experience to initiatives that we... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
information about products rather than to make direct purchases. It is not surprising that apparel led the list: For every dollar spent on apparel online, consumers who visited online apparel sites spent $2.92 purchasing apparel from catalogs or bricks and mortar... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene
on the rise in the MENA countries. The company was cofounded by a woman—women represent about 25 percent of entrepreneurs in MENA countries as compared with the global average of 10 percent—and it capitalizes on the region’s high digital... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
registration/identity card system. DiCamillo notes with pride that last June's elections there were perhaps the "cleanest" in Mexican history, due to the minimization of fraud and vote tampering afforded by the highly secure Polaroid card. DiCamillo jokingly View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
million people die every year from vaccine-preventable diseases," says Schrader, who led Vaxess to another win at HBS's 2013 New Venture Competition this spring. Compare that number to the 1.8 million annual global deaths from HIV and the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
The Nature of Change
Before this year’s class of MBAs departed Soldiers Field, they sat down one more time and prepared for a ritual now in its fourth year. For this “Cap-stone Class,” all graduating students read an annually updated case that compares data... View Details
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
local budgets when extreme circumstances all but eliminate a major revenue stream, Green says. The research also spotlights the speed with which the pandemic inflicted damage on state and local budgets, as compared to the slow decline... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research Event
What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?
Hurtado, a social psychologist who is Professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Women are still at a disadvantage compared to white men when it comes to pay, so these... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
over a little screen. (Usage varies according to the type of smartphone: iPhone users spend an average of one hour and 15 minutes with their phones each day, with only 22 percent of that time devoted to talking.) The Lab Experiment Bos and Cuddy hypothesized that,... View Details