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  • 05 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless

amendment meant to broaden the scope and accessibility of democracy called for the creation of directly elected local councils at the district, intermediate, and village levels, and mandated that one-third of all council seats be filled by women. The amendment is an... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 29 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 29

Competing platforms are affected negatively because more information intensifies price competition. Publisher's link: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2360263   Working Papers Monetary Policy Drivers of Bond and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 17

exists between spending money on others (i.e., prosocial spending) and happiness. Participants recalled a previous purchase made for either themselves or someone else and then reported their happiness. Afterward, participants chose whether to spend a View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

New Releases

economy as a whole. The authors, who include HBS professor Dorothy Leonard-Barton and Rosenbloom, explore new ideas for linking research with commercial markets and identify the policy choices for industry, government, and universities as... View Details
  • 23 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Globalization: Little Impact on the Continent

Lagos Business School-Pan African University. Robin Kibuka, an adviser in the Africa Department of the International Monetary Fund, said, "Globalization is a force for development, but clearly it is a force for development that will... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
  • 01 Aug 2018
  • What Do You Think?

Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?

pressures from globalization have very different outcomes in terms of, say, income and wage inequality.” This suggests, he continued, that domestic social and political choices and the public policy mix are all important. “Rather than... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 26 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes

rupiah and the Brazilian real. A common cause of these price movements is shifts, or expected shifts, in US monetary policy. The United States is still the big gorilla in the global currency field, and when View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
  • 09 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?

firms ushered in increasingly accommodating policies to attract and retain staff. Turnover rates steadily decreased, while compensation expectations increased. This has fundamentally challenged the long-standing “up or out” model: As... View Details
Keywords: by David Fubini; Consulting
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Digital Archival Resources - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

specifications, and monetary value of Edwin Land's new instant photography system that would be commercially released in 1948. Memorandum to Polaroid Company: Submitted by George Albert Smith, Jr. and John G. McLean, 1945-1946. Land,... View Details
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IFC: Japan; Exploring Japan's Innovation Ecosystem - Course Catalog

Course Policies and Course Fee & Financial Aid . Visit IFC Financial Aid for a quick assessment to determine your eligibility and process or contact finaid@hbs.edu for more information. Enrollment: Limited to 45 MBA students (due to the... View Details
  • 15 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 15, 2007

Africa by 2010. The announcement raised questions whether debt relief would really help the poor. By examining past aid trends and policies of multilateral institutions, such as the International Monetary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Trick of Balancing Business and Government

Asked which institutions must be in place in order for African countries to grow, experts on a panel at the Africa Business Conference had no shortage of suggestions. One panelist, representing the International Monetary Fund, voted for a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jan 2007
  • News

Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965

Chairman, Synthes, Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 1959 M.S., Civil & Structural Engineering LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "I learned so much in C. Roland Christensen's Business View Details
  • 01 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 1

Jeremy C. Stein Abstract—We study optimal government debt maturity in a model where investors derive monetary services from holding riskless short-term securities. In a setting where the government is the only issuer of such riskless... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

according to the organization’s long-term values and goals. Surprisingly, we find that the intervention drove even higher effort on performance associated with pre-existing monetary incentives, but, on average, did not affect nonfinancial... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

two network surveys supported these hypotheses.   Cases & Course MaterialsAFSCME vs. Mozilo...and "Say on Pay" for All! (A) (Abridged) Harvard Business School Case 309-101 Richard Ferlauto, director of pensions and benefits View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 29, 2015

policy with two key features: (i) the central bank has private information about its long-run target for the policy rate and (ii) the central bank is averse to bond-market volatility. In this setting,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

House of Representatives on September 10, 2009. The subject of the hearing: "The World Bank's Disclosure Policy Review, and the Role of Democratic Participatory Processes in Achieving Successful Development Outcomes." [Webcast]... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
  • 01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008

Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308009 Kinyuseisaku: Monetary Policy in Japan Harvard Business School Case 708-017 Toshihiko Fukui, Government of the Bank... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jan 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism

outcome of that deep ambivalence within the Russian political elite has been a real inconsistency of foreign economic policies toward the region. One can see that, certainly, in its policies towards the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace