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  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

conflicting policy mandates. Districts are increasingly being held accountable by external stakeholders for the academic performance of their students. The federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 set... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education
  • 05 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 5, 2006

overweighting of minor (but easy to evaluate) attributes that would be overlooked under an all-inclusive price format. The effect of price partitioning on demand can be detrimental or beneficial, consistent with existing conflicting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde

and, as he puts it, "get reality on the table." Since 1996, as a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and, currently, as a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington, D.C., Baker has conducted research on and... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Government
  • 06 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

Diversity and Firm Performance By: Zhang, Letian Abstract—How does a firm’s gender diversity affect its performance? Existing work has shown conflicting evidence—some finding a positive effect of gender diversity while others finding a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 May 2015
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First Look: May 19

almost all other products and services. This was a match of ambition with capability that can be replicated in other fast growing, semi-informal cities in the developing world. Publisher's link: http://www.amazon.com/Kumbh-Mela-January-2013-Ephemeral/dp/3775739904  ... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2007

initiative. Follows the company as these changes are driven through the business units, focusing on GE Transportation as it launches a series of groundbreaking, green products—from the Evolution Locomotive to the Hybrid Locomotive. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

Competing platforms are affected negatively because more information intensifies price competition. Publisher's link: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2360263   Working Papers Monetary Policy Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks By: Campbell, John... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9

sudden rise of new entrants, especially Germany. The study shows that natural resource endowment is a poor explanatory variable for this geographical skewing. Public policy was a more important factor, although its impact was nuanced. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 1

disagree with this assumption, preferring tax policies based at least in part on a classic alternative objective: the principle of Equal Sacrifice. I generalize the standard model to accommodate this preference for a mixed objective,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55865 in press Behavioural Public Policy Invisible Inequality Leads to Punishing the Poor and Rewarding the Rich By: Hauser, Oliver P., Gordon T. Kraft-Todd, David Rand, Martin A. Nowak, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

  Working PapersSecuring Jobs or the New Protectionism? Taxing the Overseas Activities of Multinational Firms Author:Mihir A. Desai Publication:(Forthcoming in Tax Notes) Abstract Tax policy toward American multinational firms would... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007

  Working PapersNone this week   Cases & Course MaterialsCommon Agricultural Policy and the Future of French Farming Harvard Business School Case 707-027 Presents the history and evolution of the EU Common Agricultural Policy, from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

How Business Schools Lost Their Way

accommodation to a host of conflicting interests, an arrangement that damaged society’s economic well-being. The agency theorists had a broad impact on corporate policy and, in particular, on a fundamental... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
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Betty J. Diener Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

cabinet position because there's a natural conflict between economic development and environmental protection. Interview by Livingston Grant, March 27, 2000. Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration Oral History Project ,... View Details
  • 22 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 22

and Creative Sparks: Enhancing Individual Creativity through Conflict and Integration Authors:E. Miron-Spektor, F. Gino, and L. Argote Publication:Enhancing Individual Creativity through Conflict and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Coming Full Circle

students; currently, 132 students are studying to receive a DBA (offered in accounting, management, marketing, strategy, and TOM) or, in collaboration with Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, a PhD (business economics, organizational behavior, and health... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7

Communicating Frames in Negotiation Authors:Kathleen L. McGinn and Markus Noth Publication:." In The Oxford Handbook of Economic Conflict Resolution, edited by Gary E. Bolton and Rachel T.A. Croson. Oxford University Press,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

Silverthorne: You write that Indonesia's 1980 nationalization of ITT's thirteen-year-old Indostat telecom business "marked the end of an era." What changed? Louis Wells: In the 1980s, a new attitude toward foreign investment swept the developing world. Old View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities
  • 12 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Facing the New World Order

period. However, the Global Competitiveness Report does include an analysis of the short- or medium-term economic impact of these tragic events and it is cut with a number of specific policy recommendations. I wanted to draw your... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 16 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 16

reversal of the state's policy towards private business from late 1978, and has grown rapidly since. While insurance as a concept and product has been a big success in post-reform China, the growth of the industry has created strong... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne