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  • 11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016

Kramer, Mark R., and Marc W. Pfitzer Abstract—Governments, NGOs, companies, and community members must all be involved in programs to create shared value, yet they work more often in opposition than in alignment. A movement known as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

Meanwhile, Allstate continued to lose market share to GEICO and Progressive as it struggled to build its direct sales business in the face of opposition from its tied-agent distribution system. During the May 2011 Annual General Meeting... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Sep 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

Scholz have a sequence of papers claiming that IRAs and 401(k)s displace existing savings without adding much new saving. Jim Poterba, Steven Venti, and David Wise have argued the opposite case. I don't think that the matter is totally... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 19 Jan 2021
  • In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

divisiveness and elevate their stature, which will soften the opposition block. Biden and Harris have a secret weapon in the quest for unity: the idealism of young people. Let the young lead. National service programs can be used to bring... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Jan 2021
  • Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

Author Martha Lagace is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: damircudic] Click to watch. Book Excerpt Chapter 1: Problems as Opportunities By Mitchell Weiss There is a particular and much loved kind of administrative/convergent/scarcity thinking that appears so... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 05 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

2010 in one of the earliest high-profile controversies resulting from the Supreme Court Citizens United ruling. Target had contributed to a super PAC supporting business friendly candidates. As one of the candidate's opposition to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How Small Wins Unleash Creativity

at all until we cure cancer.'" (Shifting goals constantly, on the other hand, would be an inhibitor. Imagine a meeting at which the leader says something to the effect of, "Do this because I said so, and never mind that I said the exact View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55625 Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration By: Tabellini, Marco Abstract— In this paper, I show that political opposition to immigration can... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

optimistic about the merger of these entities with seemingly opposite company cultures. How should the two entities plan to integrate? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/417042-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

(forthcoming) Abstract Two aspects of media bias are important empirically. First, bias is persistent: it does not seem to disappear even when the media is under scrutiny. Second, bias is conflicting: different people often perceive bias in the same media outlet to be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

"educate Indians"-a suspected euphemism for bribery. Opposition political parties accused Wal-Mart of bribing the Indian government, which, on the eve of a general election, appointed a judicial commission to investigate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

opposite pattern for proposals with images of multiples races or of all White students. A laboratory experiment demonstrated that negative stereotypical beliefs about African Americans (e.g., that they are lazy) increased with age more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3

pay to the plan. We document an oppositional reaction: the presence of peer information decreased the savings of nonparticipants who were ineligible for 401(k) automatic enrollment, and higher observed peer savings rates also decreased... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

are managed by sophisticated real-time information systems; colleagues working 12 time zones apart can see and hear each other as they work at their desks—or in airport lounges on opposite sides of the planet. Publications, like this one,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

overhauling other parts of the public system, in order to afford a perceived cut in tax revenues through a flat tax implementation, is needed. This, however, does not indicate that the opposite is impossible. The fact that many countries... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 08 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

Undoubtedly, goals calibrated to maximization have the power to inspire. "Be all that you can be" sounds more like a virtue than a vice. "Go further than humankind has ever gone." Who would argue the opposite as a rule... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
  • 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

"internal" with "external" negotiations, especially focusing on how each side can best manage internal opposition to agreements negotiated "at the table." Implicit in much of this work is the view that each... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

Jamshedpur. Metro Cash & Carry's primary business filled voids in the food supply chains in emerging markets, reducing waste and bringing more transactions into the tax net, although this argument could not overcome entrenched View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

multihoming also make platforms' price-cutting strategies on the consumer side less effective. This second effect on equilibrium pricing structures goes in the opposite direction relative to the first one. Third, variable fees charged to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28

self-control, while in the private condition the opposite holds. Our findings suggest that announcing decisions publicly and to large groups may be part of a solution to some social dilemmas. In addition, the fact that public... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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