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- 23 Jan 2008
- Op-Ed
A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?
expectations of profit. The standard usage definition will hark back to the older one: an anchor in a community where a family can live, work, and play. Future generations may wonder why Americans for a... View Details
- 22 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
An Economic Principle For Us All: Comparative Advantage
provides a most important glimpse of truth. Political economy has found few more pregnant principles. A nation that neglects comparative advantage may pay a heavy price in terms of living View Details
Keywords: Re: David A. Moss
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
Sandino Abstract—Many service organizations rely on information sharing systems to boost employee creativity to meet customer needs. We conducted a field experiment in a retail chain, based on a registered report accepted by Journal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
its installation and customization, no surgical subspecialties besides the congenital heart and transplant surgery groups conducted prospective, patient outcomes measurement, but by 2015, the outcomes of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
formidable research and teaching talents on bringing business-focused solutions and perspectives to address these problems. Some examples: In Zambia, Nava Ashraf and several colleagues conducted field studies to determine if charging for... View Details
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?
ways." The researchers used professional research firms to conduct interviews with some 500 large firms in major Asian industrial cities. Deshpandé said the work has been criticized in some quarters. At one conference, Deshpandé was... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
place at the right time or penalized just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. A strong case can also be made for the superiority of properly designed restricted stock grants and deferred cash payments. Yet current accounting... View Details
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
analysis are based on publicly available information, and also, and perhaps even more importantly, on our Chief Executive's survey we have conducted earlier this year. More than 4,500 Chief Executive Officers have responded to that... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
low, but it is also unequal,” says Pons. “Many citizens are disengaging in participation in society. That may decrease the legitimacy of elected governments overall.” In four recent studies conducted in... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time
officers are particularly helpful in identifying creditworthy minority borrowers with atypical application profiles.” “There are lots of people who are creditworthy borrowers, but don't have W-2s. And if you don't have a W-2, it's going... View Details
- 24 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 24
PublicationsThe Need for Sector-Specific Materiality and Sustainability Reporting Standards Authors:Robert G. Eccles, Jr., Michael P. Krzus, Jean Rogers, and George Serafeim Publication:Journal of Applied... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
transparency for shareholders and other stakeholders. The primary argument is that, without high standards of personal integrity posed from within, Section 404 will be of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Recruiting Platform - Recruiting
the tools and resources. Recruiters that create an HBS account in 12twenty are agreeing to the HBS Recruiting Standards of Conduct . Once a recruiter creates an account, they... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
and environmental impact and provide a standardized comparison across different kinds of social and environmental activities and their impact. The case allows students to discuss the challenges in measuring... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
relative availability of credit is the Federal Reserve's Senior Loan Officer Survey (SLOS). This survey shows that demand for small business loans tightened significantly in 2009 and began loosening slightly in 2010, but only at... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
with unique (but are they mitigating?) personal circumstances. The third vignette puts students in the role of an employee conducting a bottom-up review, as he struggles to balance honesty with the potential... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
biggest surprise to me was the level of involvement that firms engage in with community forms on software development and standard setting in general. That is, forms that are not government sponsored nor... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
newspaper is a recipient of government advertising. The correlation is negative. The size is considerable: a one standard deviation increase in monthly government advertising (0.26 million pesos View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
could lead to populist politics that would adversely affect the conduct of capitalism. A second major concern was that our productive system, as currently operated, contributes to unsustainable environmental... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
the political process of determining institutions of capitalism is "thin," in that managers find themselves with specialized technical knowledge unavailable to outsiders and with little political... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne