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  • 06 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

welfare state. Restricting immigration would require budget cuts that would harm natives by reducing pension benefits or increasing the age of retirement, for example. “It’s thus impossible to conclude that... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
  • 08 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 8

Warmth and competence represent the central dimensions of group stereotypes, the majority of which are ambivalent-characterizing groups as warm but incompetent (e.g., older people, working mothers) or competent but cold (e.g., model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

though, may evolve into journal articles, books, or be used to feed broader research in which Latin American entities play a key role. According to HBS Professor Herminia Ibarra, who moderated the series of presentations by HBS faculty on... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 30 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 30, 2016

results are mainly driven by urban weavers competing aggressively against rural coworkers. Our results highlight the important role of social identity in mitigating or enhancing competition. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • July 2009 (Revised August 2009)
  • Case

From Little Things Big Things Grow: The Clontarf Foundation Program for Aboriginal Boys

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Michael Vitale
This case focuses on the growth of an innovative non-profit institution that motivates aboriginal children to attend school by harnessing their love of football. View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Welfare; Education; Sports; Service Industry
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  • 25 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 25, 2006

changes in incentives for achieving integration. Examining a systemic tradeoff consciously acknowledged by the organization, we further argue that alignment encouraged by this collaborative engagement can be more important than achieving superior performance along such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 10

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-104.pdf Stretching the Inelastic Rubber: Taxation, Welfare and Lobbies in Amazonia, 1870-1910 Author:Felipe Tâmega Fernandes Abstract This paper examines the effect of government intervention via... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 6

http://hbr.org/2012/03/enriching-the-ecosystem/ar/1 Reviving Entrepreneurship Authors:Josh Lerner and William Sahlman Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012) Abstract New enterprises don't exist in a vacuum: They rise View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2013
  • Research & Ideas

‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs

primarily by the sale of the glasses themselves. VisionSpring is what organization scholars call a "hybrid" social venture, since it combines the social welfare logic of a nonprofit and the commercial logic of a for-profit business. When... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 06 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

for a primary care visit, about 20% of revenues, up to $215 for an inpatient surgical procedure. The high costs were not caused by wasteful, inefficient processes, duplicate or redundant tasks, or the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Looking Behind Bad Decisions

receive a 5 percent pay increase, and want to know whether to be happy or not, you find out the increases of your colleagues to create meaning of the 5 percent. People do not choose less for themselves. If I ask people whether they would... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 15 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Funding the Design of Livable Cities

buildings to be more livable and environmentally sustainable, and incorporate low- or no-carbon emitting public transportation systems. Yet while mayors often have greater legislative freedom to shape local energy use and building... View Details
Keywords: by Lisa Chase; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities
  • 04 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 4

Delphi debt, or to speculate on future Delphi bond prices. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210002-PDF-ENG Denmark: Globalization and the Welfare State Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 1

recessions, it is not clear if this is due to demand or supply. We address this question by studying firms' substitution between bank debt and non-bank debt (public bonds) using firm-level data. Any firm that raises new debt must have a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good

she crosses over to work in the new “parallel” or art cinema, those films challenge those views. Deshpandé: Very few crossover actors are successful; there is a big divide between the two. She is probably the most successful. She gets to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Motion Pictures & Video
  • 07 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?

Trumbull, that unfettered marketplace has "virtually disappeared." "Today, arguably no other economic actor in the advanced industrial countries—not the investor, not the worker, not the welfare recipient—enjoys a more thorough set of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

David Grabowski, and David Cutler Abstract— Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) has been credited with lowering risk-adjusted readmission rates for targeted conditions at general acute care hospitals. However, these reductions appear to be... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Professional Networks in China and America

term for these relationships: guanxi. Guanxi literally means connections or relations, but also refers to the socio-emotional bond that ties people who do business together. Guanxi networks tend to have significant overlap between... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

self-report of the licensee. The self-reporting aspect of the environment gives rise to demand for auditing by the licensor or third-party attestation by the licensee. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 1, 2016

piping. Standard welfare economics teaches us that either subsidies or Pigouvian fines can solve that problem, but both solutions are problematic when institutions are weak. Subsidies lead to waste and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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