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- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
economic decentralization and broke what remained of the bank into small pieces. By 1950, facing a proposal from leading German bankers to allow the big banks to begin reconstituting themselves, the Allied powers and the new German... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
update to the (A) case by illustrating how charter school management organization Uncommon Schools responded to the disparity in its students’ 2013 standardized test results. In 2015, CEO Brett Peiser and his management team decided to align the previously View Details
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
1997, 2002). This paper explains how state governments got the funds to pay for education and examines the incentives that politicians had to spend on education between 1889 and 1930. Our findings are threefold. First, we show that the Constitution of 1891, which View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
school board, where it is used to monitor and guide the district's accomplishments. The implementation, however, hits some problems when the superintendent resigns, followed by high turnover among his replacements. Enables a discussion of the role of centralization... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
commodity boom that had asymmetric effects among states. These two effects generated variation in revenues per capita at the state level thanks to the extreme form of fiscal decentralization that the Brazilian government adopted in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase the book: http://www.oup.co.in/search_detail.php?id=145499 Is Decentralization Helping the Lagging Regions? Authors:Lakshmi Iyer, Ejaz Ghani, and Saurabh Mishra Publication:In The Poor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
organization, which focus on decentralizing and externalizing R&D, as well as revamping the resource allocation process to parallel more of a venture capital-based model. The case also explores the views of Christoph Westphal on the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
intuition for the basic economic forces in this decentralized market through a series of examples that sequentially build on each other layering on the particular fees and collateral requirements commonly levied in short-selling... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
markets differed, but the belief in local autonomy and decentralized decision-making became a core value within the company .Meanwhile, the largest American consumer products company remained cautious about international markets. During... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
famously standing up to Steve Jobs’s plan to eliminate Apple’s US warehouses and decentralize distribution. (The details were captured in the 1986 HBS case, “Donna Dubinsky and Apple Computer, Inc.”) She and Hawkins then teamed up to... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
access pushes decisions down, as it allows for superior decentralized decision making without an undue cognitive burden on those lower in the hierarchy. Better communication pushes decisions up, as it allows employees to rely on those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
through which frontline staff can share and learn new ideas, especially for those who feel safe to speak up and believe that new ideas are not tested frequently enough. Practice Implications: The contest’s potential to decentralize... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
for something completely new. They returned to campus that fall ready to devote serious time to their nascent idea: a decentralized car company that produced region-specific, small-batch vehicles in microfactories. They enrolled in an... View Details
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
and situates land policy in the larger context of China’s reforms and pursuit of economic growth. It argues that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has strengthened the institutions that permit land expropriation—namely, urban/rural dualism, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
level thanks to the extreme form of fiscal decentralization that the Brazilian government adopted in the Constitution of 1891, which gave states the sole right to tax exports. We also use indices of export prices for each state as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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include emerging opportunities in pharma & biotech, medical device & diagnostics advances, and related topics such as digital therapeutics, platform technologies, use of real-world evidence, data and computing, AI and GenAI, decentralized... View Details