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  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

incentivized boards of directors may have played a role in protecting the interests of outside investors. Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth Authors:Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn Publication:NBER Macroeconomics Annual (forthcoming) Abstract In the aftermath of World... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

relative viability, even if one focuses just on prices, is the pass-through of a higher price realization to the global producer after typically higher transportation and distribution costs, tariffs, or even risks, are netted out. Empirical evidence from the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016

role of specific economic and political institutions in shaping the business environment and economic growth in emerging markets. It gives answers to the following questions: When will governments define and enforce property rights? When... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jul 2016
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July 26, 2016

and clinician-reported outcomes. These need to be used for internal improvement in health care delivery organizations, as well as for public reporting, so that patients can make informed choices about their health care. We need to do a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17

and Moritz Schularick Abstract For the better part of the past decade, the world economy has been dominated by a world economic order that combined Chinese export-led development with U.S. over-consumption. The financial crisis of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

through signature—e.g., at the end of tax returns or insurance policy forms. Yet even when people care about morality and want to be seen as ethical by others, they sometimes transgress when beneficial to their own self-interest, at great cost to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Apr 2020
  • Book

Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings

think awareness is heightened, and in this economy there'll be a drop in demand for space, both for apartments and offices,” he says. “With those two things together, I think that the offices with the premier health story will get the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Real Estate; Health
  • 24 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost

investment budget is only about $20 billion – for all areas of concern in all nations, according to World Bank Information. Further, the entire GDP of Nigeria, the largest economy in Africa, is only about $37 billion - for everything, not... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Hard Choices

products that make people’s lives easier, safer, and more enjoyable. In many capitalist economies in 2018, and especially in our own, innovation is unending, and its pace may even be accelerating. The creative destruction of capitalism... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
  • 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16

the severity of pension plan underfunding, state budget deficits, and the use of high discount rates. Further we find opposing states are subject to more stringent balanced budget requirements and greater political pressure from unions.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4

interpretation of and response to these challenges, but external and internal changes may require corresponding changes in a group's core identity. In a qualitative study of longshoremen in San Pedro, California, we observe an evolution... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

Business School Supplement 707-020 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707020 Global Climate Change and Emissions Trading Harvard Business School Case 707-015 Global climate change is an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Mar 2023
  • News

Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria

College Society of Arab Students (SAS), and an independent effort by Ahmet Akbiyik, a Ph.D. student in political economy and government. “A single dollar goes a long way,” said Syrian native and... View Details
  • 15 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

nation's social enterprise organizations. Today, the United States has more than 1.4 million non-profit organizations, and they account for 5 percent of GDP. Annual contributions have grown faster than the economy for years, and experts... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
  • 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52034 2016 Contemporary Turkish Politics Forward-Facing and Behind the Scenes: Shifts in Political Islam in Post–July 15 Turkey By: Fabbe, Kristin Abstract—No... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

profound importance to contemporary readers, but also will be seminal secondary source for economic and political historians for generations to come. If you own a copy, keep it. A scholarly grandchild will thank you. Robert Kaplan My... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 14 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

direction and the internal data to understand its own strengths and weaknesses can be overly influenced by outside demands for metrics that may not always be relevant to its ultimate success. “Without understanding outcomes, you can't get... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Alumni Books of 2016

business endeavors through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England’s economy via trade with the New World, the author traces an entrepreneurial golden line through men such as Thomas... View Details
  • 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

Firm in a Nascent Industry By: Zuzul, Tiona, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—This paper explores how entrepreneurs' efforts to legitimate a firm and a nascent industry affect the internal development of the firm. Through a three-year case... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 17 Jun 2021
  • News

Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity

impacts on the working women of Canada: More women than men left careers as schools shut down to care for families. Twice as many women as men applied for Canada’s child care benefit. The country’s economy lost more than 800,000 jobs.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley