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- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
in developed countries. Of 4.1 billion workers, 3.3 billion would be unskilled living in developing countries. In developed countries the benefits of growth were increasingly... View Details
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
Evolution and Resilience Britain: Global Legacy and Domestic Persistence By: Jones, G. Abstract—This chapter explores the British experience in a volume which examines the historical evolution of business groups in developed Western... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Deconstructing the Price Tag
available—for example, in cases where goods are produced by a variety of manufacturers. For companies with goods and services that depend on high fixed costs, such as research and development and overhead, simply providing variable costs... View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
Working PapersThe 'Thin Film of Gold': Monetary Rules and Policy Credibility In Developing Countries Authors:Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick Abstract This paper asks whether developing countries can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
is a lot other work at the school going on around these issues by many other faculty. For instance, Dave Scharfstein is doing great work on how capital market forces influence the development strategies of biotechnology companies. David... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
different stakeholders base their trust. As a result, dominant conceptualizations of organizational trust are overly generalized. Building on existing research on organizational trust and stakeholder theory, we introduce a more nuanced perspective on the nature of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
face major challenges including headline-grabbing litigation, imminent patent expirations, new technologies, rising drug development costs, generic drug substitution,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
destructive behaviors such as cutting, excessive use of alcohol, taking drugs and suicide attempts. These patients are very difficult to treat and TBC has developed programs that make a noticeable difference... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
arbitrariness of the set. Drawing on Gestalt psychology, we develop a conceptual account that predicts what will—and will not—act as a pseudo-set and defines the psychological process through which these pseudo-sets affect behavior,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
context of the economic turmoil at the turn of the 20th century, the alumni asked whether Harvard might develop a school to educate professional managers who would improve the quality and integrity of the managerial class, much as the law... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
reduce them. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-012.pdf Thinking about Technology: Applying a Cognitive Lens to Technical Change Authors:Sarah Kaplan and Mary Tripsas Abstract We apply a cognitive lens to understanding technology trajectories across... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
"Transforming Life, Transforming Business: The Life-Science Revolution," a McKinsey Award-winning article he coauthored in the March-April 2000 issue of Harvard Business Review. "As distinctions between food and medicine fade, we will see a proliferation... View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
credit and documentary collection terms. Transactions are more likely to occur on cash in advance or letter of credit terms when the importer is located in a country with weak contractual enforcement. As an importer develops a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
that marijuana was a popular treatment in the nineteenth century, and the drug was listed in the Dispensatory of the United States by the 1850s. The paper looks at how the Federal Bureau of Narcotics managed not only to illegalize the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
the job, having access to independent, high-quality research from outside sources can make a real difference both in developing good policies and in getting broad-based support for their implementation.” Researchers and Regulators The... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
chronic work stress, while only 36 percent reported their employers provided adequate support to manage it. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, some 6.7 percent of American adults experience "major depressive disorder; antidepressants are the most... View Details
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
developed by the company’s marketers and strategists. “They want to react to changing demand and supply conditions,” says study author Alexander J. MacKay, an assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School who... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
facing the scientific founder and CEO of a promising, early stage bio-pharmaceuticals company. Should the company establish a proposed alliance with a pharmaceutical firm? Should it create a nutraceuticals business in parallel to its effort to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
Alejandro EIsztain, CEO of Cresud S.A., is faced with the difficult choice of whether to sell, develop, or continue to hold the 151,000 hectares of remaining undeveloped farmland at the company's Los Pozos farm in Argentina. Developing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
successful convenience foods business to more countries. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511070-PDF-ENG PureCircle David E. Bell and Aldo SesiaHarvard Business School Case 510-032 In December 2008, the U.S. Food and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne