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- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
It’s Back to Business-Basics for Nonprofits
underlying economics of the organization," he said. In order to get a handle on how money is spent, he recommends that companies do a series of basic cost allocation exercises. One helpful exercise is for nonprofit leaders to measure... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
that, although misaligned economic incentives can play a role in explaining misalignment of planning behaviors, there is another important issue to consider: in our setting, the key factor that determines whether two functions or firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
Sustainable Evaluation System Strategy By: Eccles, Robert G., and Peijun Duan Abstract—China's sustainable development faces three challenges: first, the follow-up momentum of sustainable economic growth and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
design principles and properties for a non-technical audience; reviews its past, present, and future uses; and points out risks and regulatory issues as Bitcoin interacts with the conventional financial system and the real economy.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
immediate impasse—and defining a meaningful path forward. Publisher's site: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu The Effect of Dividends on Consumption Authors:Malcolm Baker, Stefan Nagel, and Jeffrey Wurgler Publication:Brookings Papers on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
Working PapersDo Corporate Social Responsibility Ratings Predict Corporate Social Performance? Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji, David I. Levine, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Ratings of corporations' environmental activities and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
implies that the side effects associated with periods of rapid growth generate sufficient difficulties that periods of retrenchment are sure to follow. Neoclassical economics teaches us to examine not just the short-run supply and demand... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
the firm to shift from a "product and waste" mentality to a "product and product" mentality, and thereby actively manage the quantities of both products to maximize profit. Conditions in the two markets determine... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
2014 became the first woman to win the Fields Medal, which is equivalent to the Nobel Prize in mathematics. These superstar worries are real, and there are many more one-in-a-thousand talents that could be missed too. But the real... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
October working paper The Air War versus The Ground Game: An Analysis of Multi-Channel Marketing in US Presidential Elections, was cowritten with HBS doctoral student Lingling Zhang. Chung and Zhang pored over 18,650 observations on voting outcomes and campaign View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
complex. Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/x/55314 August 2013 Journal of Monetary Economics Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
Britain’s perceived glory days in the nineteenth century, when the country was the economic hub of the world. The Governor of the Bank of England, a legion of economists, and scores of other experts have pointed to the View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
significantly increased the returns on capital. However, contrary to what economic theory might lead us to expect, the cost of capital as measured by long-term real interest rates has not increased, but... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part One]
decades consulting to major businesses and governments all over the world, had something to say about this. I surveyed 785 companies, start-ups as well as the global giants, on many continents of the world, in collaboration with Inc. Magazine and the World View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
What are the implications for entrepreneurs seeking funding given the current uncertain economic climate? A: The bad news is that raising money today is clearly much tougher than it was twenty-four months ago. Venture groups are much more... View Details
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
Visibility of best practices. People are realizing the enormous amounts of money they've been leaving on the table in supply chain management because they have not been doing things right. So we're really talking about a need for greater understanding of supply chain... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
causes, including LGBTQ rights, immigration, the environment, and racial equality. Not only are CEOs speaking out, but they’re flexing their firms’ economic muscles by threatening to move business activities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
influence-seeking risk managers (1) establish and maintain interpersonal connections with decision makers and how they (2) adopt, deploy, and reconfigure tools-practices that we define collectively as toolmaking. Using prior literature and our empirical observations,... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
in the market research labs don't necessarily see," she says. "Montague wanted a real bicycle that would fold—something to use for serious cycling that was sturdier than available folding models. He designed and built a... View Details
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
evidence of NPE opportunism: targeting of firms that have reduced ability to defend themselves, repeated assertions of lower-quality patents, increased assertion activity nearing patent expiration, and forum shopping. We find moreover... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman