Population - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Jan 2013
Working Paper Summaries

The Political Economy of Bilateral Foreign Aid

15 Jun 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market

Keywords: by Bo Becker & Victoria Ivashina

Teaching Interest

Doing Business in Africa

This course introduces frameworks and models for smart and focused investing and operations across sectors, nations, industries, and time frames in Africa. Students will learn tools and skills to help navigate the business landscape of Africa in terms of selection... View Details

Keywords: Africa

01 Nov 2022
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Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

past two decades. As a result, the proportion of the US population that is foreign-born—to the extent we can count—has nearly tripled over the past 50 years to levels we last saw around 1900. There is one business “community” that has... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Apr 2010
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The Great Leap Forward: The Political Economy of Education in Brazil, 1889-1930

Keywords: by André Martínez-Fritscher, Aldo Musacchio & Martina Viarengo; Education

December 2023
Teaching Note

Buurtzorg

By: Ethan Bernstein and Tatiana Sandino

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 122-101. As co-founders of home nursing company Buurtzorg, Jos de Blok and Gonnie Kronenberg prized both self-management and organizational learning. Buurtzorg’s 10,000 nurses across 950 neighborhood nursing teams in the Netherlands were... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Employee Relationship Management; Knowledge Dissemination; Knowledge Management; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Learning; Health Industry; Netherlands

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18 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 18

that demographic stability affects the community composition of organizational forms, and we also investigate arguments about a community's income distribution, age distribution, population trends, geographic sprawl, and commuter... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity

different culture and were engaged in positive (harmonious), neutral, or negative neutral interactions—six scenarios in all. After viewing the videos, participants were given details about two cultures—a Mongolian tribe called the Ewenki and a South American View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

2016 Scientists Making a Difference: One Hundred Eminent Behavioral and Brain Scientists Talk about Their Most Important Contributions The Motivation for Creativity By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—Scientists Making a Difference is a fascinating collection of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 May 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China, 1880-1930

Keywords: by Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger & Se Yan

May 2024
Article

Design of Off-Grid Lighting Business Models to Serve the Poor: Field Experiments and Structural Analysis

By: Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Serguei Netessine, Ioanna Popescu and Rowan P. Clarke

A significant proportion of the world's population has no access to grid-based electricity and so relies on off-grid lighting solutions. Rechargeable lamp technology is gaining popularity as an alternative off-grid lighting model in developing countries. In this paper,... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Developing Countries and Economies; Consumer Behavior; Poverty; Logistics; Business Model; Utilities Industry

23 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform

and sellers to populate it," Hagiu notes. "On the other hand, if you operate as a reseller, you don't have the chicken-and-egg problem of populating a site with buyers and sellers. You just obtain the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

12 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

In a Landscape of 'Me Too' Drug Development, What Spurs Radical Innovation?

The rewards of research Do those investments pay off? Researchers examined revenue, stock returns, clinical value, and the population impacted by the novel drug. And they quantified the risk of those investments, coming up with a... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health; Pharmaceutical

18 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement

Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details

Keywords: by by Janelle Conaway; Green Technology; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing

23 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

As Climate Fears Mount, More Investors Turn to 'ESG' Funds Despite Few Rules

Investor interest in social responsibility has skyrocketed in the past three years, even as US regulations to hold companies accountable remain in flux and the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) label itself draws backlash. Investors are willing to pay a... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

in affiliates and associates that were started locally and were independent organizations. She wanted to build a culture around quality and accountability, and get more services out to the population that way, said Wei-Skillern. The... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Jul 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Charitable Giving When Altruism and Similarity are Linked

Keywords: by Julio J. Rotemberg

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

ago, when European explorers arrived on the shores of a new land, they faced indigenous populations that did not welcome the explorers' conquering intentions. Subduing the natives would require an arsenal of weapons and tremendous... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

15 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'

together, and across most of the country,” Greenstein says. Forces at work Two distinct and competing forces changed IT wages starting around the year 2000, Cao and Greenstein found. “On the one hand, the advantage of tech hubs and urban metropolises, especially the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology

04 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating

population is not who would be hired to solve intelligence problems for the Department of Defense." In terms of seeking out unique facts, the results showed that the most-clustered groups gathered 5 percent more information than the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Video Game; Web Services

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