White Goods - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

decision-making is successful. Using plausibly exogenous variation in exposure to state-mandated personal finance and mathematics high school courses, affecting millions of students, this paper answers the question "Can good... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

June 2009
Article

Level Playing Fields in International Financial Regulation

By: Lucy White and Alan Morrison

We analyze the desirability of level playing fields in international financial regulation. In general, level playing fields impose the standards of the weakest regulator upon the best-regulated economies. However, they may be desirable when capital is mobile because... View Details

Keywords: Economy; International Finance; Multinational Firms and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Standards; Banking Industry

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08 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

fixed and observable measure of ability," Weinzierl continues. "That is where height comes in. It turns out that each inch of height is associated with about a 2 percent higher wage among white males in the United States. Wage... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews

“Lei”—and they also “Americanized” their interests by adding outdoorsy activities like hiking, snowboarding, and kayaking that are common in white western culture. One Asian applicant said she put her “very Chinese-sounding” name on her... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Aug 2023
Research & Ideas

Black Employees Not Only Earn Less, But Deal with Bad Bosses and Poor Conditions

rankings for these environmental factors with the racial makeup of various firms. When he did, Zhang found that Asian employees scored highest on work environment, followed by White and Hispanic employees, who ranked about the same,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

It Came in the First Ships: Capitalism in America

was the American Dream in its earliest form, and for the people living the dream, it had an aura of double-edged incredulity. There was disbelief not only at their own good fortune, but also at the backbreaking work required to capitalize... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw

06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53857 First Quarter 2018 Dialogue Beyond Engagement By: Hallowell, Roger, Hervé Coyco, and Randall White Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details

08 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

to deliver high-quality goods or services in a cost-effective manner. This concept has become increasingly relevant to cardiac catheterization laboratories, as insurers move away from fee-for-service reimbursement and toward payment... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3

over a specified time period. The bundled payment should be contingent on achieving good outcomes for the patient, with the provider bearing financial responsibility for poor outcomes, such as avoidable complications. Download working... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Sep 2023
Research & Ideas

Unpacking That Icky Feeling of 'Shopping' for Diverse Job Candidates

When companies try to hire employees from specific ethnic or racial backgrounds to meet their diversity, equity, and inclusion goals, an uncomfortable feeling often creeps into the process. Particularly among well-intentioned white... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

17 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve

are so biased it’s hard to trust the results. Further, entrepreneurs may have a good hunch there’s a job to be done that needs improving or replacing, but they can’t describe where in the customer journey they can truly make an impact.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

09 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Unilever—A Case Study

The issue of control is examined, as is the related question of the "stickiness" of knowledge within large international firms. The discussion draws on a case study of the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods manufacturer Unilever, which... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail

02 May 2023
What Do You Think?

How Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated—if at All?

assist, and score against an opponent with the help of AI and relentless 24-hour practice. Or when machines compose better memos, white papers, and poems than you could have written—by means of generative AI that recognizes patterns in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Information Technology; Technology

19 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

products like lip and eye cosmetics, although less so for foundation, because it is more expensive and needs to be a good match with skin tone. Achieving sustainable success in the beauty industry is another matter. It is fiercely... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics

15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

goods? If so, why? I study these questions in the context of the first wave of the Great Migration (1915–1930), when more than 1.5 million African Americans moved from the South to the North of the United States. Black inflows and the induced View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

30 Sep 2019
Book

6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees

are only three black CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, and not one of them is a woman. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/nLYZsznG22TM52YETsw8][/div] What doesn’t help, the authors say, are recent incidents in the news, including the 2017 View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

04 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

Introverts: The Best Leaders for Proactive Employees

named interim White House chief of staff, replacing the extraverted Rahm Emanuel. Barely known outside of Washington circles, Rouse is a quiet politician who seems to eschew the public eye, preferring instead to hunker down and deal with... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

25 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

The Secret Life of Supply Chains

Like archaeologists digging on a remote hillside, business researchers have unearthed an important segment of the United States economy all but hidden from traditional innovation policy, yet accounting for tens of millions of jobs crucial to America’s ability to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing; Service

29 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?

infrastructure staff, as well as advertisers, were not. Musk’s stated desire to make Twitter a haven for any speech “within the bounds of the law” has led to a sharp uptick in posts advocating white nationalism, anti-Semitism, homophobia,... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology

16 Feb 2024
Research & Ideas

As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers

overhaul of how policymakers, educators, and employers devise, construct, and manage career pathways, which are the routes aspiring workers take as they graduate from education and training to gainful employment. A white paper from the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology

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