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  • 12 Apr 2022
  • Book

Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence

Britain’s 20th century empire was the largest in human history, with a quarter of the world’s land and nearly 700 million people. Yet the empire drew its strength from violence. That’s the conclusion Harvard Business School Professor... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 22 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 22

contribute to the intensity of violence once conflict has started. Finally, in contrast with some cross-country analyses, ethnic and caste polarization, land inequality, and political participation are not significantly associated with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 10

better equilibrium-but courage will be needed to put such reforms in place. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/06/the-price-of-wall-streets-power/ar/1 August 2013 European Business Review The Magic of Innovation By: Thomke, Stefan, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • HBS Case

A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

in seconds today. If Miller hadn’t concealed his previous life of crime, would he ever have been given the chance to start fresh and perform his way to remarkable success, making his mark as a highly influential African American business leader who ultimately View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories
  • 22 Aug 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Can Amazon Remake Health Care?

Haven, along with JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway, which was a naive effort to reform health care. Haven folded in 2021. And in the late 1990s, they tried to buy drugstore.com. So, they’ve been interested in health care for a very... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Health
  • 28 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

How Property Ownership Changes Your World View

"a natural experiment," about 1,800 landless families (organized by a Catholic priest) occupied the area in 1981, believing it was owned by the state. In fact, it was made up of privately held tracts of land belonging to 13... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 02 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

creation of a system of secure land titles, and a homestead program to encourage cultivation of public lands. During the first phase of American occupation (1898–1918), we find that the progress of implementing these View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 11

surprisingly, local governments exercise the greatest control over urban land in cities that adopted market reforms earliest. Slavery's Scientific Management: Accounting for Mastery Author:Caitlin... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

micrograms of total suspended particulates per cubic meter, yet the World Health Organization establishes 90 as a maximum safe level (Berlin's level is 50). Over 25,000 square kilometers of land were deforested in Brazil each year from... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
  • 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

a 5.3% increase in RVUs per clinician workday; an increase in delegation of EHR tasks of 1 standard deviation resulted in an 11.0% increase in RVUs per clinician workday (P August 2013 Journal of Development Economics Evolution of Land... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016

Successful Change: Ten Insights from the Private Sector By: Henderson, Rebecca Abstract—The aim of this book is to catalyze global interest in the pursuit of transformational changes in natural resource and environmental management. It is shown that transformational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

protagonist is trying to decide whether to purchase and develop an aquifer lying beneath rural land near Fresno, California. The project could fill a void for local farmers as well as surrounding municipalities and a variety of other... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 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 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

three reforms to property rights introduced by the United States in the Philippines in the early 20th century: the redistribution of large estates to their tenants, the creation of a system of secure land... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 27

had undertaken to impact three of the world's most urgent challenges-nutrition, water, and rural development-and Jöhr's team was fundamental to each of these pillars. Yet the forces changing the global food system were formidable: unprecedented levels of hunger,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2016
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July 5, 2016

range of behavior change models and evidence related to littering, water and energy conservation, and land management. We also discuss the methodology and data needed to answer these questions. We illustrate how these questions have been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2019
  • Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

That is the story of my family. If we want to have a more equitable economy, if we want America to continue to be the land of opportunity, we need to pay close attention to this trend. Lagace: What are the sticking points in getting... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services
  • 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2

medical schools continue to focus on the basic sciences, to the exclusion of such managerial topics as running effective teams. The approach to executing reform appears to assume that practice managers and entrepreneurs can undertake the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Curse of Double-Digit Growth

many infrastructure challenges as well. It is one of the rainiest lands in the world, making many of its roads impassable half of the year. There's little electricity generated, about enough to power a small university campus, to serve... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009

marketing of stylish, lower-tech bicycles. The company's future hangs in the balance. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609042 KPMG (B): Risk and Reform Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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