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  • 24 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Who Sets Your Benchmarks?

of the twentieth century, the first twenty-two years of my life seemed to revolve around an unending series of tests designed to rank me versus my peer group. At the end of each grading period, my mom would ask me if I had made the honor... View Details
  • 10 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

that the teleradiology industry views its product as a commodity—that is, two qualified radiologists are expected to read the same image in the same way. That situation provided the research team an opportunity to test three questions... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health
  • 27 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

models and policies are incomplete without taking into account the bargaining process and, in particular, the way in which this process interacts with underlying control structures in the household. Testing the Commitment Hypothesis in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

newer technologies have been adopted faster than old ones. The cross-country variation in the adoption of technologies accounts for at least a quarter of per capita income differences. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-093.pdf Bank Accounting View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Computer Security is For Managers, Too

your developers are following secure coding and testing practices. Those who aren't may be costing your company large sums of money. One multinational database supplier estimates that releasing a major patch (a fix for a problem in... View Details
Keywords: by Robert D. Austin & Christopher A.R. Darby
  • 20 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 20, 2016

Feeley, Robert S. Kaplan, and Steven J. Frank Abstract—Question: Can we create a value-based tool to visualize the outcomes and cost of various treatments that could facilitate patient-centered decision making? Summary Answer: We developed a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2017
  • What Do You Think?

How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?

and skills that the American economy needs.” (Higgins) “ provided it is spent on the areas where there is the greatest performance gap ” (Lewisman). Samuel Reich added that, “ it should (be) limited (to) schools where standard View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Construction
  • 05 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 5

local standards in the 2003-2008 period? We test the hypothesis that perceived network benefits from the extant worldwide adoption of IFRS can explain part of countries' shift away from local accounting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 25

channel); and (iii) individuals who were out of the market when they were excessively angry in the unregulated market, decide to purchase once the firm is regulated, reducing the standard distortions described in the first channel (mixed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

Two Truths and a Lie About 5G

Illustration by Mengxin Li After years of speculation, 2020 was meant to be a big year for the implementation of 5G, the fifth generation of standards for broadband cellular networks. And somewhere between a pandemic and a mountain of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 05 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 5, 2007

to an orthodoxy of capital controls in 1944 and then back again by 1994? How have such standards of appropriate behavior been codified and transmitted internationally? Contrary to conventional accounts, Abdelal argues that neither the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 13, 2010

micro-determinants are not well understood. We test leading theories of low demand for financial services in emerging markets, combining novel survey evidence from Indonesia and India with a field experiment. We find a strong correlation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 19

differences in accounting standards across countries reflect relatively stable institutional differences (e.g., auditing technology, the rule of law, etc.), why did several countries rapidly, albeit in a staggered manner, adopt IFRS over... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

of the most successful and insightful leaders of our time, the CEOs from companies as diverse as Standard Chartered Bank, Infosys, Nokia, Cummins, IKEA, Tata, and Campbell's Soup. The authors reveal how these leaders from around the world... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

multinational firms requires a similar fortitude. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-107.pdf Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank Authors:Ashwin Kaja and Eric Werker Abstract We test for evidence of corporate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jun 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

they probably didn't do a good job." Learning By Doing For decades, Harvard's case-study method has been the gold standard in business-school education, emulated around the world for its methodology that teaches students... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education
  • 06 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 6, 2007

findings to the retailer for comment, but received no response. While Wal-Mart did not respond, the company had taken several steps to strengthen its ethical standards worldwide in recent years. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 26

robots-while examining how understanding botsourcing can inform the psychology of outsourcing-the replacement of jobs in one country by humans from other countries. We test four related hypotheses across six experiments: (1) Given... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • News

The Year in Ideas 2015

create informed, online test prep through Khan Academy. Free, accessible coaching, Khan reasons, will help “level the playing field”—giving every student, everywhere access to elite-level SAT coaching. J.R. Simplot’s White Russet is... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White
  • 23 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It

States, women’s share of board seats on the S&P 500 is 19.2 percent.) In other words, inasmuch as the gender gap is intractable in Sweden, it’s probably more so in most other countries. It is standard practice for researchers to View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel