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  • 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12

techniques and analysis tools. At the other extreme, clinical and QA/QC applications by their nature had a much higher need for automation because of the repetitive nature of tasks. Simple, integrated solutions seemed to make more sense... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12

Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy Abstract We conducted an analysis that explores the merits of a low-carbon development strategy for Liberia. This chapter describes both our cost-benefit View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2008
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Back to the Future

Three decades ago, Energy Future, a bestseller written at HBS, declared that American energy independence and sustainability were critical to the country’s well-being. Today, the book’s analysis is still compelling and its call to action... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining
  • 22 Apr 2014
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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
  • 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

Empirical Analysis of Mobile Money Agents in Africa By: Balasubramanian, Karthik, and David F. Drake Abstract—The use of electronic money transfer through cellular networks ("mobile money") is rapidly increasing in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2006
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Down the Memory Chute

approaching onset of the brain-bruising written assignments that were, for several decades, a requirement for first-year MBAs. These exercises came in several different incarnations, best known by their course acronyms: EA General (Elements of Administration –... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 01 Dec 2000
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Q&A: Andrew Kendall

As much as Kendall loved the nuts and bolts of manufacturing — he even trained on the company's assembly line and became a certified welder — he decided that the demands of a career in manufacturing would leave little time for community... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Special Design Services; Professional Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 21 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 21

  Working PapersIn Favor of Clear Thinking: Incorporating Moral Rules into a Wise Cost-Benefit Analysis Authors:Max H. Bazerman and Joshua D. Greene Abstract Bennis, Medin, and Bartels (2009) have contributed an interesting paper on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 30, 2007

to evaluate the link between dismissal costs and productivity. Drawing on establishment-level data from the Annual Survey of Manufacturers and the Longitudinal Business Database, our estimates suggest that wrongful-discharge protections reduce employment flows and firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7

certification strategy, in which they apply to a demanding but non-transparent certifier and lower their ambitions when rejected. We derive the comparative statics with respect to the sellers' initial reputation, the probability of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

  Working PapersLocal Dividend Clienteles Authors:Bo Becker, Zoran Ivkovich, and Scott WeisbennerNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15175, July 2009 Abstract We exploit demographic variation to identify the effect of dividend demand on firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 2002
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Pamela Thomas Graham

to satisfy a greater overall demand for coverage focusing on the intersection of political and economic issues. That shift is reflected in Capital Report and other new programming launched in February, which also includes more live,... View Details
Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 01 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens

who conduct research in Latin America. Argentine President Fernando de la Rua and HBS Dean Kim B. Clark Highlights included a classic case discussion (on Embraer, the Brazilian aircraft manufacturer, see related article), presentations and View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

migration databases, to the legal codification of national policies regarding high-skilled migration, to the analysis of patent data regarding cross-border inventor movements. A common theme throughout this research is the importance of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

outdated. Instead, innovations are increasingly brought to the market by networks of firms, selected for their unique capabilities, and operating in a coordinated manner. This new model demands that firms develop different skills, in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Apr 2018
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Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

city, a country—with a clear connection to making life better for the people who live there,” Condo says. “I’ve always thought that one should try to do work that benefits society.” Michael Porter was ultimately the advisor for Condo’s DBA thesis, which included an... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 11 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 11, 2007

own profits when one side is subsidized in equilibrium. By contrast, if platforms make positive margins on both sides, the same investment has the regular, expected effects. Our analysis implies that the strategy space and the logic of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

prompted renewed debate on the role of fiscal rules. Their optimality, however, remains unclear. We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules in a standard model of sovereign debt accumulation and default modified to incorporate... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 May 2008
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First Look: May 13, 2008

The framework has two parts—a business analysis and a personal analysis—each comprised of a set of yes/no questions for critical assessment criteria. The note also offers perspectives on entrepreneurship, observations about combining an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4

We propose that firms' corporate governance and firms' strategic business activities within an industry are interlinked. By conducting a simultaneous economic analysis of business strategy and corporate governance, scholars can better... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace