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  • 20 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 20

Limited Companies Act in order to achieve greater representation of women on corporate boards. According to the amendment, all state-owned companies and public limited companies were required to have at least 40% women on their boards.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6

(humans, mannequins) and dog form (real dogs, toy dogs). We used multivariate pattern analysis of BOLD responses to uncover the representational similarity space for each area in the core face network. Here, we show that only responses in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16

process with team-level prioritizing, updating, and helping, based on new-found accountability, overlapping representations of work, and belonging-despite the lack of stable team composition. Quantitative data revealed changes to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

governance are the most daunting because the very foundations of governance—vote allocation proportionate to economy, representation by finance ministries, absence of parliamentary scrutiny, and the relative voicelessness of the poorest... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
  • 02 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

is that women’s thin representation at senior levels remains in place. We conclude by highlighting contributions to work-family, workplace inequality, and systems-psychodynamic theory. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

Eight studies demonstrate that when firms empower consumers to vote, consumers infer a series of implicit promises—even in the absence of explicit promises. We identify three implicit promises to which consumers react negatively when violated: View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

higher payout, greater leverage, higher CEO turnover, lower CEO compensation, and reduced investment. With the exception of the probability of being acquired, these estimated effects are generally greater when activists obtain board representation, consistent with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

based on new-found accountability, overlapping representations of work, and belonging-despite the lack of stable team composition. Quantitative data revealed changes to the coordination patterns in the ED (captured through a two-mode... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

professional service firm reshaped its activities and beliefs over nearly two decades as it adapted to shifts in the social discourse regarding gender and work. Analyzing archival data from the firm over eighteen years and representations... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23

understanding the impact that branding activity (the audio-visual representation of brands) and consumers' dispersion of attention have on their moment-to-moment avoidance decisions during television advertising. It formalizes this in a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

value loop. It also introduces business model representations and proposes four tests for evaluating business models in isolation. This is the first note in a series of three written for the HBS elective course "Competing through... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

time to increase customer satisfaction. New research suggests there's a better approach: showing customers a representation of the effort, whether literal or not, being expended on their behalf while they wait. (The prototypical example... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

paper seeks to provide clear, accessible descriptions and novel graphical representations of four major approaches to first-best benefit-based taxation; explain how these approaches relate to each other; and apply them within the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Dec 2018
  • News

Lesson Plan

motion to disqualify a firm that inaccurately stated it had not contributed to current school board members’ election campaigns—yet had incorporated two PACS donating $3,000 to the sitting school board president’s campaign—did not pass. The firm also failed to disclose... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

issues of econometric and scientific uncertainty. As a result, the basis for the broader legitimacy of the WTO is shifting from questions of representation that have long drawn attention to epistemic issues, especially concerning the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

6000 citizens were incarcerated in and around New Orleans without representation and with all official records destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Professor Sullivan designed an indigent defense delivery system that resulted in the release of... View Details
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

answers on the national college entry exam in Chile. We find that the policy change significantly reduced a large gender gap in questions skipped. It also impacted gender gaps in performance, leading to increased representation of women... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Dec 2018
  • News

Source Code

The common language is ASCII, a binary code consisting of combinations of ones and zeros. But your brain doesn’t operate this way. Instead of ASCII, your brain understands sparse distributed representations (SDRs). SDRs are also zeros and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg
  • 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

on the political and institutional contexts within which opportunities for policy learning emerge. In particular, opportunities for policy learning are examined with respect to (a) agenda or priority-setting on environmental issues, (b) stakeholder access and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

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introduced in the RC finance course, but with an emphasis on how investors should incorporate what have traditionally been considered “non-financial” criteria in their decisions: for example, climate risk, environmental sustainability, minority View Details