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  • 03 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?

Beyond what we can do as individuals to reduce our risks of exposure, are there objective measures employers can use to validate what is effective? The answer, fortunately, is yes. Many claims will be made over the next few weeks and... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber and Joseph Allen; Real Estate
  • 16 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 16, 2015

manufacture their goods risk reputational harm if the working conditions in those factories are revealed to be dangerous, illegal, or otherwise problematic. While firms are increasingly relying on private-sector "social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 13, 2007

  Working PapersAdding Bricks to Clicks: The Effects of Store Openings on Sales through Direct Channels Authors:Jill Avery, Mary Caravella, John Deighton, and Thomas Steenburgh Abstract We assess the effect of opening physical retail... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

ideas, assesses their importance today, and explores their potential for the future. Through its wide historical focus, this Reader challenges the widespread assumption that creativity research is mainly a product of the second half of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Aug 2016
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August 9, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51407 The Importance of Unemployment Insurance as an Automatic Stabilizer By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Amir Kermani Abstract—We assess the extent to which unemployment insurance (UI) serves as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12

generally. Paper: http://www.benedelman.org/publications/convergence_in_position_auctions.pdf Assessing Potential Carbon Revenues from Reduced Forest Cover Loss in Liberia Authors:Donovan, Jessica, Keith Lawrence, Christopher Neyor,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

critical principles followed by companies that formed successful collaboration programs. What are these principles? A: First, firms must develop a collaboration strategy that is aligned to their business needs. At its heart, this requires View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50187 Capital Requirements, Risk Choice, and Liquidity Provision in a Business Cycle Model By: Begenau, Juliane Abstract—This paper develops a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

2018 Northamption, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time By: Jones, G. Abstract—Published at a time of ever-increasing warnings that the pace of climate change and other environmental changes View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

Bussgang, Jeffrey Abstract—Relative to established organizations, start-ups can be hard to figure out. What are the jobs to be done? The best entry points? How can you tell whether a company has potential for success and is the right fit for you? The author advises... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

Cup Series, we model the probability that a driver crashes his car in a race. Our findings are that drivers crash their vehicles with greater frequency when their positions are increasingly at risk of displacement by their nearby, lower... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 3, 2006

proposal involved changing a basic design feature of LinkedIn by allowing members to contact each other without intermediaries for a fee. Fewer members would avail themselves of this feature, but those who did would be willing to pay as much as $5-$15 per message. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Nov 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

in the black. "They underestimated the risk associated with paying bribes, but they also overestimated what they were going to make on profits," says Healy. "Most companies don't have the luxury of going back and saying what was the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 14 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 14

cancer patients with a high risk of clinical progression and death. DiagnoFirst had applied for patents, in both the U.S. and EU, for the sequence of 40 genes, the new methodology for gene amplification, and the specific mechanics of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

in designing and assessing policy. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54968 Large-Scale Demand Estimation with Search Data By: Amano, Tomomichi, Andrew Rhodes, and Stephan Seiler Abstract—Many online... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10

broad-based therapies. Instead, the focus should be on enrolling subpopulations, based on diagnostic testing, in trials of targeted drug treatments and on monitoring and assessing effectiveness after drugs are approved. A dysfunctional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

perceive the quality of others' decisions to be greater when other individuals engage in the right amount of thinking for the situation. These assessments then affect observers' own decisions and openness to influence. Publisher's link: View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25

four factors allows special committees and their advisors to assess the degree to which the playing field is level in an MBO, and (by extension) the extent to which a market canvass can provide a meaningful check on the buyout price. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jul 2008
  • Op-Ed

What Should Employers Do about Health Care?

management of chronic conditions. Here, many employers in the United States and Europe have made impressive starts. Some companies cover the costs of smoking cessation and weight loss programs, or reward participation in health and risk... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth O. Teisberg & Scott Wallace; Health
  • 19 Dec 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016

situations that are not amenable to quantitative risk modeling. They argue that firms can avoid the artificial choice between quantitative and qualitative risk management, allowing both to play important... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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