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- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
centers. It uses a transfer-pricing system designed to account for interdependencies between profit centers and to induce coordination. Further, profit center managers are incentivized with own-level residual income measures. The use of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
elected as a state legislator encourages the subsequent political participation of women, using a regression discontinuity design on constituency level data from India. We find that female incumbents are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
second-class citizens, the immigrants saw that these visitors fully considered them participants and counted on their votes.” Do candidates encourage turnout? One visitor who, it turns out, does not help increase election turnout is the... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
of sorts. They have allowed entrepreneurs to build empires out of fiber and thin air and to establish these empires in a realm without rules. They have challenged governments and their traditional authority—not by design or intent, but... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
patents nor copyright to protect its technology. The company even allows its designers to use its software when they do independent work. The case encourages a discussion of the role of intellectual property... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
component of bid-ask spreads. We empirically examine these predictions for a sample of large U.S. banks, exploiting recent mandatory disclosures of financial instruments designated as fair value levels 1, 2, and 3, which indicate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
from consumers shopping at the more popular store. Second, the intermediary may have an incentive to degrade the quality of search even further when its design decision influences the prices charged by stores. By altering the composition... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
says. By allowing everyone to feel safe about reporting bad behavior, the onus is taken off of only women to step forward and encourages men to speak up, too. Similar to how the idea of a designated driver... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
deliberation. The Bank should also encourage debate on the project or policy reform in national legislatures prior to board discussion; The Implementation, Supervision, and Completion stage should use participatory monitoring and... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?
$10 behind health care, there's a problem." Dr. Pride Chigwedere, an Oak Foundation Research Fellow at the Harvard AIDS Institute who worked as a physician in Zimbabwe, said the policy issues begin with difficulties designing... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
Funding: Bridging the "Valley of Death" Michael J. Roberts, Joseph B. Lassiter, and Ramana NandaHarvard Business School Case 810-144 The case focuses on the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the $38 billion of stimulus funding the DOE received to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
would manufacture lithium-ion batteries used in Tesla’s electric vehicles on an unprecedented scale. In early 2015, Tesla announced a new product line of battery packs designed for large-scale energy storage for residential, commercial,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
Increasing Energy Efficiency through Normative Influence (B) Maarten W. Bos, Amy J.C. Cuddy, and Kyle T. DohertyHarvard Business School Supplement 911-061 The case profiles OPOWER, an energy efficiency software company that applies Cialdini's principles of social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
initial evidence for a positive feedback loop between prosocial spending and well-being, these data offer one potential path to sustainable happiness: prosocial spending increases happiness, which in turn encourages prosocial spending.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
know-how are applied. The iPod, for example, was an example of purchased (largely non-U.S.) technological innovations combined with Apple design capability and knowledge of the U.S. market, where the vast majority have been sold. If one... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
consumers were that deregulation: (1) unleashes the power of a self-correcting free market (Jeff Struck), giving customers services at prices they are willing to pay and quality levels that they are willing to pay for (at least in the airline industry, according to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
has been little empirical evidence on the propensity with which core-periphery structures are observed in practice, the factors that explain differences in the design of such structures, or the manner in which these structures evolve over... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
For the last quarter century, many fought hard to overcome gender discrimination in the workplace by raising awareness, strengthening antidiscrimination policies, and encouraging more women to enter the corporate world. At first blush,... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
details Schön Klinik's founding, its early focus on measurement and improvement, and the design and implementation of a system-wide structure for measuring and reporting actual health outcomes. The case details the care cycle for eating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne