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- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
Management as a Technology? By: Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract—Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they simply reflect contingent management styles? We View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. We see the interviews and the associated resources collected with them as helping to provide the resources to enable future scholars to write the business history of this era. The interviews are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
summarized in a critique by [Harvard economist] Martin Feldstein, "all property and individual abilities should be regarded as society's common resource." Instead, Equal Sacrifice assumes individuals have the first claim to their output, and that they voluntarily agree... View Details
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
states to collect export taxes to finance expenditures, rendered states with higher windfall tax revenues from the export of commodities to spend more on education per capita. Second, we prove that colonial institutions constrained the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
asked to refrain from discussing the diary content with colleagues.) By the end of the study, Amabile and Kramer had collected nearly 12,000 entries, what she describes as a “wonderful treasure trove of data.” "We have a window into... View Details
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DEI progress through community engagement, learning and development opportunities, and recruitment and retention plans. Fiscal 2023 will be a year of significant investment in the new digital transformation effort, as the School begins to develop a holistic approach to... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
and longitudinal data collection. Strengthen Connections—Engage and work with HBCU leaders and faculty. MORE STORIES ABOUT IMPACT: Advancing Racial Equity The Value of Difficult Conversations Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy Diversifying HBS's Case... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes WildChina founder Zhang Mei (MBA 1996) released her first book this year: Travels Through Dali with a Leg of Ham, a travelogue and recipe collection culled from the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
Long remembers eating lots of pumpkin — the only food readily available. The early engines of growth were holdovers from the Maoist era: township and village enterprises (TVEs) rooted in China’s vast rural regions, and state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The TVEs were... View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
definitions of what constitutes a "team." For this paper we collected a unique dataset from the men's major soccer league in Italy. For each match we computed the exact pay dispersion of each work team and estimated its effect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
Business School Case 719-417 National Australia Bank: Looking Out for the Customer After learning that most defaults were due to health, job, or marital problems, National Australia Bank revised its debt collection department to shift... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
design be guided too much by customers’ wants and needs, using off-price distribution channels, and partnering with a mass merchant on a shared collection (e.g., Target and H&M collaborations). Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
Through contemporary examples from a variety of industries and geographies, this collection provides students with an appreciation for the importance of consumer empowerment and consumer behavior in shaping both health and corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
his latest collection available to the broader entrepreneur community. Divided into 13 areas of focus, the book's contributors explore the metrics you need to run your startup, discuss lean prototyping techniques for hardware, identify... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
working on NLNS for more than three months after the contest," he adds, noting that he'd already accepted an offer from McKinsey. Yet the team received overwhelmingly positive verbal feedback from some judges and offers of funding. "We need to do this work now," is how... View Details
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
the collective interest levels of the angels can lead to a discrete change in the probability of funding for otherwise comparable ventures. We first show that angel funding is positively correlated with higher survival, additional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
this note, we present three methods for collecting and analyzing information about the internal and external marketing environments firms face: Five C's Analysis, Porter's Five Forces Industry Analysis, and SWOT Analysis. These analyses... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
are funding the Center by contributing 2 percent of TruePoint's revenue to fund the Center. Finally, I plan yet another book that will present the theory and method leading an honest, collective (organization-wide) and public conversation... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
and vertical mergers. Our model highlights a collective action problem: what is good for an individual firm is often not good for the cluster. We speculate that this conflict may be a source of strategic tension in platform firms.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
adaptation house-by-house, right? We can provide incentives for folks to use the proper materials and to weatherproof their home, et cetera. But it has to be infrastructure. I spoke to the mayor of Boston about porous sidewalk materials so that water doesn't View Details