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- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
variability in productivity means the marginal productivity of labor depends substantially on which new workers are hired—which requires not an estimate of a causal effect, but rather a prediction. We demonstrate that there can be large social welfare gains from using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
relationship between preparatory nonverbal behavior and subsequent performance, and highlighting preparatory power posing as a simple performance-boosting tool with the potential to benefit almost anyone. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
mid-2000s. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717436-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 417-010 Faber-Castell By 2016, Count Anton-Wolfgang von Faber-Castell had led the 255-year-old pencil manufacturer... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Combining supermarket scanner data with firm-level financial data, we find evidence that differs from prior literature. Instead of reducing expenditures to boost earnings, soup manufacturers roughly double the frequency of marketing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
the Panama Canal to make use of both conventional historical methods and the tools of quantitative analysis, The Big Ditch examines the impact of the Panama Canal on the Republic of Panama, the United States, and the world. Noel Maurer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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(tiles that absorb CO2, bacteria that eat the microplastics in the ocean etc.) We look at companies like Twist Bioscience, that will design and manufacture DNA to order, Moderna that can use AI and digital technologies to create new... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
that help people solve problems in their daily lives. That investment focus on manufacturing would go against the private equity trend, another factor he considered. But he knew few, if any, general partners at major private equity firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
being born globally—chasing opportunities created by distance, learning to manage faraway operations, and hunting for the planet's best manufacturing locations, brightest talent, most willing investors, and most profitable customers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
presented in mid-May 1995 to 650 students and some 70 faculty members and administrators by students coached in case-method teaching. "Using the tools we've learned at HBS, it served as a catalyst for the SA to solicit direction, ideas,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
jailed again, this time for armed robbery. After five years, the child was taken back by a member of her biological family. Two years later, as the meth crisis raged on, Langford had a phone call from Lee Shaw, formerly of Shaw Industries, a leading carpet View Details