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- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
Authors:Laura Alfaro and Anusha Chari Publication:India Policy Forum (forthcoming). (Also HBS Working Paper 10-030.) Abstract Using firm-level data, this paper analyzes the transformation of India's economic structure following the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-art-of-strategic-renewal/ August 2013 Journal of Development Economics Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India By: Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Stephen D. O'Connell Abstract—We quantify the link between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
are particularly interested in understanding how, if at all, the firm should go about effecting meaningful word-of-mouth (WOM). To tackle this problem, we collect data from two sources: 1) We implemented a large-scale field test in which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
conservative religious observance and policy from the Muslim "ulema." His domestic economic policy, which entailed diversification, infrastructure construction, education and a move towards a "knowledge economy,"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
August 2013 Journal of Political Economy Standard Essential Patents By: Lerner, Josh, and Jean Tirole Abstract—A major policy issue in standard setting is that patents that are ex-ante not that important may, by being included into the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
form of corporate social responsibility (CSR) through a sustainable business model that also generates superior financial performance. Read the paper: http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=4538 An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
engineer scarcity by limiting supply when secondary markets thicken to separate primary and secondary markets. We find support for these hypotheses in the U.S. concert ticket industry. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2359803 August... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
examination. This book combines insights and lessons from business practice, government policy, and individual decision-making to give voice to data and ideas that should drive the next wave of policy and business practice. Publisher's... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Oct 2006
- HBS Case
Governing Sumida Corporation
goal of listing the company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange was realized in 1998. Changes to the company's retirement policy encouraged a more performance-oriented culture, and in 2000, Yawata made English the company's official language,... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
large-scale corporations and free competition, American Fair Trade argues that trade associations of independent proprietors lobbied and litigated to reshape competition policy to their benefit. At the turn of the 20th century, this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
2017 Washington, DC: American Public Health Association Public Health Preparedness: Case Studies in Policy and Management By: Howitt, Arnold M., Dutch Leonard, and David W. Giles, eds. Abstract—This book provides detailed accounts of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
Membership? Harvard Business School Case 707-032 China has been a member of the WTO for more than five years. Its implementation of requirements has been a mixed bag. While China's growth is still spectacular, many institutional problems... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
hold a comparative cost advantage, carbon leakage can result despite the implementation of a carbon tariff. In such a setting, foreign firms adopt clean technology at a lower emissions price than firms operating in the regulated region,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
Context: How States, Markets, and Civil Society Shape Adherence to Global Labor Standards By: Toffel, Michael W., Jodi L. Short, and Melissa Ouellet Abstract—Transnational business regulation is increasingly implemented through private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
policy solutions, a challenging proposition in a politically polarized environment. This paper focuses on how CEOs engage in the political process to encourage government policies that will foster... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
core business, ranging from environmental issues to LGBTQ rights and race relations. In the first study of this phenomenon, we implement two framed field experiments to provide evidence on how CEO activism can influence public opinions... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
commercial and companion animals. The company has been growing rapidly and is considering whether or not to implement an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Ozark currently uses an IT system built and refined in house and, though... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
bungles things when it wades into the private sector. Lerner's book studies where public efforts to spur entrepreneurial activity have gone right and wrong—there are many more of the latter, the author acknowledges—and offers policy... View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
discussed supporting innovation through a range of additional policy interventions, including tax credits, loan guarantees, IP policy, regulatory mandates, codes, and standards. It is critically important that these kinds of interventions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
implement policy for presidents from Roosevelt through Nixon. My summer plan is to read Andrew Roberts’ Churchill: Walking with Destiny. For relaxation, I read crime and mystery stories, and have been a... View Details