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- 29 Jan 2015
- Op-Ed
The Fall of Greece
election, the Athens stock market index is down by almost 20 percent and the bank index by 45 percent. Investors, which are so badly needed in order to restart the Greek economy, are fleeing the country... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
a mutual course benefiting each of their strategies, HBS professor James Austin, head of the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE), took note. "Here was a new arena," he says, "in which the goals of different kinds of... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
an action plan to implement back home what they've learned on campus. We then visit each district a few months later to check on the progress of their action plans, and to identify topics to study in the next cycle. Then the knowledge... View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
America Innovation Network By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and William R. Kerr Abstract— Technological progress builds upon itself, with the expansion of invention in one domain propelling future work in linked fields. Our analysis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
actually increase overall social welfare. We also consider the environmental impact of BPS and derive competitive conditions under which BPS reduces and increases emissions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-098.pdf ... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
opportunity to see both sides of the issue. When Hrad enters into a contract to create a new accounts payable system for Welsh toy distributor Tegan, the outsourcing firm from the Czech Republic views the project as another step in its View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
progressed in different parts of one country. We could keep many things constant—the conflict's ultimate goals, the personality of the leader, the tactics, the kind of a political system they already have—and focus on the role of economic... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
industrial production (Alfaro and Chen, 2014). Using a unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location, ownership, and operation information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business
top executives "to get rich no matter what happens to the shareholders." Options should be indexed options. These options pay for performance, not for volatility in the markets. Pervasive conflicts of interest are other key... View Details
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
the nature of technological discovery. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-038_54e189cf-0289-4cfc-b0da-e29552016f3b.pdf Seesaws and Social Security Benefits Indexing By:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Can We Expect in the Other War?
The first is: Are these transitory feelings that may fade in intensity with progress in the war on terrorism? Let's assume instead that what we may experience is an intensification of trends in personal lifestyles already noticeable prior... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
decent pay and job security) workforce to supply the manpower with which to create sophisticated products. The export of these well-designed and efficiently produced goods was actively supported by the government in many ways while domestic consumption was constrained... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
field of neuromarketing, which uses brain-tracking tools to determine why consumers prefer some products over others. And there is neuroleadership, which applies neuroscience to management research. Looser is looking to integrate insights from View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
team found that a sense of making progress on meaningful work was the single most important factor in igniting creativity, satisfaction, and productivity among employees–far more than factors like monetary compensation, praise, or... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
of recent large-scale asset purchases by central banks. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53531 Governance Through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation and Corporate Behavior By: Chattopadhyay, Akash,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
how to implement Performance with Purpose in their local markets. PepsiCo India has made progress under the mission but continues to be challenged by the inherent tension between short-term financial performance and long-term investments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2018
- Research Event
Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?
Celsius?" A number of practitioners reported that progress could and was being made in their sectors, despite the challenges. Many are focusing energy on addressing short-term biases in capital markets and in the ability of investors... View Details
- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
feelings and aesthetics rather than ideas, a stronger interest in people rather than things, prefer jobs in social or artistic areas, extraversion expressed as gregariousness rather than assertiveness, and neuroticism, characterized by... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George