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- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health 33:166-167. Anteby, Michel, and Mikell Hyman. 2008. "Entrepreneurial Ventures and Whole-Body Donations: A Regional Perspective from the United States." Social... View Details
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
American Civil War, Maggie Lena Walker did her best to actively effect change by finding solutions to the social and economic problems facing blacks and especially black women. Taking charge of the flailing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens
feeling that way, however, when most of what we see government doing is slinging potshots on the news, says Norton. "The American people think government does nothing because most of what they see is politicians talking," he... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
progress that the effect of such an agreement may have been fatally compromised. But at least it was discussed and publicized. Is it time to revisit stretch? For example, if the concept had been employed in Detroit, would the American... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Racial Diversity Pays Off
rather than ignore or suppress them. Comparing 450 bank branches of a single organization, a large commercial bank in the northeast U.S., Ely and Thomas discovered that when work groups actively acknowledge and engage with their different... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
http://amr.aom.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/early/2015/02/10/amr.2015.0042.abstract February 2015 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems: An International Comparison By: Beshears,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
that are consistent with the company's diversity strategy... We did not set quotas, but we did set goals.— Lou Gerstner And third, Gerstner and later (current CEO Sam) Palmisano not only sanctioned the task force process but actively... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
collectivism) than do female stereotypes. In Studies 1 and 2, using different measures, Americans rated men as less collectivistic than women, whereas Koreans rated men as more collectivistic than women. In Study 3, bicultural Korean... View Details
- 15 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 15, 2007
that a monopolistic market maker is able to extract from impatient investors. The mechanism for trade is a limit order, and immediacy is supplied when the limit order is executed. We show that limit orders are American options and their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
generations of a customer-satisfaction program at a large American retailer, dubbed "Alpha Corporation" for the sake of confidentiality. The first of Alpha's customer satisfaction programs, launched in the early 1990s, fell... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
New Face of Chinese Industrial Policy: Making Sense of Anti-Dumping Cases in the Petrochemical and Steel Industries Author:Regina M. Abrami Publication:Journal of East Asian Studies (forthcoming) Abstract Why have China's petrochemical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
market development, the tax system, labor market regulations, and public spending on research and development correlate with venture capital activities across countries. Our case study suggests these institutional differences led to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
Publications Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance Author: Gary P. Pisano Publication: Harvard Business Review Press, in press. (due October 2012) Abstract For years-even decades-in response to intensifying global competition, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008
Asian industrial cluster with global scope which has no participants or competitors in the West. The case can also be used to expose students to the global supply chain for key information technology components. Taiwan and Korea are today... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
Looming over his colleagues at six feet, seven inches tall, Bos must contract his body more than most of us when operating a laptop, tablet, or smartphone. But many of us constrict our neck and hunch our shoulders when we use our phones. And statistics show that we use... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
the Harvard Kennedy School—explored this shift in a recent essay in the Journal of the American Medical Association. We asked them to discuss their reasons in an Q&A exchange via email. Danielle Kost: You argue that sustainability and... View Details
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
There has been much recent discussion about which objective the United States should pursue—democracy for them vs. security for us—in instances where the two seem at odds. The problem with this debate is that it stems from an imprecise articulation of View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Kanter, 2009; Porter & Kramer, 2011). Particularly striking is the marked growth of social enterprises, which adopt a social mission as their principal objective but sustain themselves through commercial activities (Battilana and Lee,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
media usage had declined among Americans less than 35 years old, and the only age group using Facebook more were people 55 or older, according to Edison Research.) As a marketing medium, online channels were cluttered and increasingly... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
good times. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-037.pdf What Impedes Oil and Gas Companies' Transparency? Authors:Paul Healy, Venkat Kuppuswamy, and George Serafeim Abstract We examine determinants of oil and gas companies' transparency in reporting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne