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- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
government intervention " Gerald Nanninga was less willing to accept the notion of "too big to succeed," setting forth several ways of scaling up a company to minimize the burden of size on management. As he put it, "... View Details
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
book, Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy, Harvard Business School historian Sophus A. Reinert unearths John Cary's An Essay on the State of England. Writing in 1695, Cary laid out a powerful case for how England, through muscular... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
techniques for changing individual behavior in pursuit of policy objectives. The types of “nudge” interventions that governments are now adopting alter people’s decisions without coercion or significant changes to economic incentives. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
discussed supporting innovation through a range of additional policy interventions, including tax credits, loan guarantees, IP policy, regulatory mandates, codes, and standards. It is critically important that these kinds of interventions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
adding a number of different frictions to the website, including eliminating the link to the outlet catalog on the store’s landing page, removing the ability for customers to search by discount, and taking away markers that automatically calculate discounts for buyers.... View Details
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
“Setting up this ecosystem is better than a company trying to set up a point solution and directly train and hire people,” Kaplan says. “Without the intervention of a catalyst, the existing set of fragmented connections would have stayed... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
started by digging one-foot trenches to run water lines from homes to the pipes under the street. Toyota's launch vehicle was a Corona, not a Lexus. Health care is no different. An illustration: Angioplasty has transformed the View Details
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
investment banking--give their points of view. Joseph Bower, Baker Foundation Professor The GM IPO represents the beginning of the end of a remarkable piece of intervention by the Obama administration. The government's involvement in the... View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
information. In contrast, committing to a decision prior to contemplating suspicions precluded individuals from subsequently integrating critical information about the fund’s fraudulent activity. We extend these findings to other View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
Insights Team (BIT), which became the world’s first government organization dedicated to incorporating behavioral economics into policy. BIT saw the tax letter as an opportunity to test the value of behavioral interventions in a context... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine
the rest got $3. Flexible. Participants would be compensated for working out at any time, with the same $7 and $3 breakdown as the routine group. Control. This group was encouraged to exercise without financial incentives. During the four-week View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 30 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Compensation Game
continue to enjoy broad freedom to unload options, a practice that enables executives to benefit from increases in short-term stock prices that come at the expense of long-term value. That the market for CEOs has not been operating like other markets does not mean that... View Details
Keywords: by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
corporate executives, government officials, and journalists, for allegedly spreading false rumors online about the market’s stability. And in a turnabout, authorities also announced they will not institute more interventions to rescue the... View Details
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
recession. The financial crisis opened the door to massive public interventions in the world's economies, in which the government served as venture capitalist. But these efforts focused on the most troubled and poorly managed firms in the... View Details
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
the support of public sector firms. Huang argues that state interventions are a breeding ground for corruption, but in Singapore, the government solved this problem in a unique way—by paying civil servants competitively or even better... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
demand for control over remittances in the baseline survey. We also find positive spillovers of our savings intervention in the form of increased savings at other banks (specifically, banks in the U.S.). We interpret the effects we find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
States," Jones says, adding that many of the economies went through transition periods that involved a high degree of state intervention and hyperinflation. Then, by one means or another, the businesses in those economies came out of that... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
dramatically." According to Christensen, none of these changes will take place without staunch resistance from the medical establishment. Even federal regulators are being asked to enter the fray, recalling previous cries for government View Details
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
become something new, something they would not become without the intervention of a maker. This definition usually points to work that changes physical materials, iron ore and charcoal into steel, for instance. But the work and management... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
competition? On the government side, I think the big problem was that Japan never really grew up. Japan was defeated in World War II, and came out of the war a devastated country with massive poverty in the late '40s and early '50s. The government in those days pursued... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer