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- 24 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 24, 2007
Working PapersPoverty, Social Divisions, and Conflict in Nepal Authors:Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer Abstract We conduct an econometric analysis of the economic and social factors which contributed to the spread of violent conflict in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
product categories on the Internet. An analysis by Harris Interactive ecommercePulse computed the ratio of dollars consumers spent offline as a result of online shopping to dollars spent online. The greater the ratio, the more likely that... View Details
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Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
of the materials were created or gathered by Elfers as he wrote Greylock: An Adventure Capital Story, a company history published in 1995. The collection includes a series of Greylock & Co. analysis reports, 1966-1993. Stanley E. Pratt... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
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traces the experiences of nineteen new managers over the course of their first year on the job. Based on six years of intensive field research and data analysis by HBS professor Linda Hill, the book explores the transformation that takes... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25
Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World The Empire of Emulation: A Quantitative Analysis of Economic Translations in the European World, 1500-1849 By: Reinert, Sophus A. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14
employer-employee data. Unlike most previous work, we use the firm as the lens of analysis to account for a greater level of heterogeneity and the fact that many skilled immigrant admissions are driven by firms themselves (e.g., the H-1B... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7
perceived credit quality of the financial guarantors fell, and yields on insured bonds exceeded yields on equivalent uninsured issues. It does not appear that either property and casualty insurers or open-end municipal mutual funds were dumping insured bonds; View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
payouts-to-price, and earnings-to-price. That approach would tell an investor whether a stock is cheap or expensive with more confidence. Go beyond ratios. Consider doing a discounted cash flow analysis to estimate the intrinsic value of... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
this stickiest of bottlenecks? Create business partnerships by framing the right questions, says Giusti, and then identifying and combining existing datasets for analysis to answer those questions. The organization also rallies individual... View Details
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy
Why are people so drawn to social media? The question long haunted Mikolaj "Misiek" Piskorski and eventually led to his new book, A Social Strategy: How We Profit from Social Media. Drawing from years of research dating back to before Facebook, the book offers an... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
more favorable coverage when spills were reported—the researchers performed a textual analysis of the newspaper stories, mining the text with software that ranks the tone of the words used in a given story. When they added up the scores,... View Details
- 17 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 17
http://www.whartonsp.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0137044852 Institutions and Inequality in Single Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China Authors:Edmund Malesky, Regina M. Abrami, and Yu Zheng Publication:Comparative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Growth Good?
effects. His analysis suggests that major events occurring in response to periods of growth foster openness, tolerance, mobility, fairness, and democracy to support his thesis. The reverse is also true. He maintains that increasingly... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK
atmosphere of unbounded optimism, notes Zlatev. Yu adds that the constant risk-benefit analysis that comes with living through a pandemic has exacerbated employee uneasiness. "A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE FEELING APPREHENSION ... I THINK LEADERS... View Details
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The Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration: 1956 - 1962 | Baker Library
full-year courses in marketing, control (accounting and statistics), production, human problems in administration, finance, and economics. (2) The well-known Written Analysis of Cases course was also added. The HRPBA curriculum had many... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
perspectives of others, “This is a dialogue and I have to be a part of it.” She was also interested to see what was the baseline of her classmates’ analysis of this conversation, especially the international students. That kind of... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
city, a country—with a clear connection to making life better for the people who live there,” Condo says. “I’ve always thought that one should try to do work that benefits society.” Michael Porter was ultimately the advisor for Condo’s DBA thesis, which included an... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
that he had had two negative colonoscopies, so the risk suggested by the genetic analysis was mitigated substantially by the reality of those two tests with healthy outcomes. “The question is always and legitimately raised by health care... View Details
- 16 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 16, 2015
of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Emphasis is on executive leadership and firm strategy in coordinating across a global network of partners in the production of a new aircraft. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/615048-PDF-ENG Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
they may turn off your best employees altogether. Most Popular Faculty Working Papers from 2015 Are “Better” Ideas More Likely to Succeed? An Empirical Analysis of Startup Evaluation (547 visits) Pian Shu and colleagues examines whether... View Details