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  • 02 Mar 2016
  • News

On Credit

sells out by April 1870. “Worth nothing was wealthy before the war but was ruined by the war. Can’t recommend him for credit,” reads a July 1873 report. A year later, the final words: “Little credit no means business quite small.”[1]... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Making Sense of the Modern Startup

second senior advisor delivered some further bad news. The higher the teaching ratings you get, he told Sahlman, the more likely you won’t be promoted. Come again? Entrepreneurship is amorphous. It’s storytelling. And storytelling is... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Dispatches from the Global Classroom

lessons or definitive answers. But somewhere in the two-day span we spend talking with villagers, sharing their food, and sleeping in their homes, perceptions shift. It’s one thing to read a newspaper article about the impact of immigration on the Mexican family and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 23 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 23

quantitative implications match a range of moments not targeted in the estimation quite well. We then characterize the optimal policy path implied by the model and our estimates. Optimal policy makes heavy use of research subsidies as... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

The United States has been both credited and criticized for its powerful role in promoting global financial liberalization—the flow of capital across country borders. But research by Harvard Business School Professor Rawi Abdelal has shown something View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 16 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 16

Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments By: Kuziemko, Ilyana, Michael I. Norton, Emmanuel Saez, and Stefanie Stantcheva Abstract—We analyze randomized online survey experiments providing interactive, customized information on U.S. income inequality, the link... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors

Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Texas. Users can search on variables such as emission level or health hazard level, rated from 0 to 9, with 9 being worst. By typing in 7, 8, or 9, they can see highest polluters indicated all... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing; Chemical
  • 25 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier

portal is a tool for everyday life, something they click on dozens of times a day. But unlike a telephone or a directory, it is an intelligent, radically interactive tool that can customize itself to each user's needs, building a relationship that's View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

had expected that this would have been handled by a team of consultants, first in developing a blueprint for how an FBC project should be run, and then in rolling out the methodology across the organization. What I found, however, was View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Making Biotech Work as a Business

around seventy months in 2002. The length of time it takes to develop a drug is obviously a major driver of the cost of developing the drug, Pisano said. "The productivity of R&D biotech is certainly not increasing," he observed. "It seems to be... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Biotechnology; Health; Technology
  • 20 Nov 2015
  • News

Room to Grow

inspired by the work of Food Solutions New England, an organized network of agricultural experts, farmers, academics, concerned citizens, and regional grassroots organizations working to overcome barriers to increased local food production. “Their work is View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Dec 2006
  • News

One-on-One with Jeff Hicks

content that hopefully powers the marketing of companies. But is that advertising? A lot of the work we do for our clients involves media not on a rate card or in a typical distribution unit. Is producing the telephone “hold” music for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 23 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

extends existing work demonstrating the importance of political economy explanations for financial development and financial backwardness. It should help to better understand which policies will work for financial development, because political instability has causes,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Apr 2025
  • News

The Working Parent Revolution

been quite a significant retrenchment in terms of their ability to manage work and life. And the most progressive employers have added supports so that individual working families have been able to balance that work and that life. And... View Details
  • 15 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

structured finance instruments can be characterized as economic catastrophe bonds but offer far less compensation than alternatives with comparable payoff profiles. We argue that this difference arises from the willingness of rating... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

permanent cash flow shocks and transitory discount rate shocks to asset prices and returns. An increase in the cross-country correlations of cash flow shocks raises the risk of a globally diversified portfolio at all horizons. By... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 27

partially reversed when the congressman resigns, and are most pronounced among geographically concentrated firms. The effects are economically meaningful and the mechanism—entirely distinct from the more traditional interest rate and tax... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Apr 2016
  • Blog Post

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

than half of its call center employees quit only a few months after training. "Wipro presented us with the problem of figuring out whether there was anything we could do to reduce turnover," Gino says. "We thought it was... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • Web

Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity

better informed, more discerning, thoughtful practitioner. Cultivating the courage and patience to understand others' worldviews and experiences is labor that will enable you to operate differently at work. Gathering information in an effort to become more discerning... View Details
  • 24 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why Do We Tax?

Medicare were initiated, they kicked in at an age when work had become difficult for most people. They were intended, in fact, to prevent poverty among the elderly. These days, 65 doesn't seem nearly so old. Productive work at that age is now View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services
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