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Reforming Social Science

Social science research affects all of us. When researchers learned organ donation rates are higher in countries where human organs are automatically available for donation unless you specifically “opt-out” of the system, as opposed to countries like the U.S., where... View Details

The Money of Invention: How Venture Capital Creates New Wealth

When the economy was booming and dot-coms were flying high, venture capitalists were admired as impresarios of innovation. Then the market tanked, start-ups fizzled, and those same deal-makers were rebuked as predators out for a quick score. So... View Details

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Research Thrust

By: Rakesh Khurana

I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details

01 Jun 2007
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KPMG for Mayor!

and graft means that citizens are cheated out of a fair government that operates efficiently and in the public interest. It’s time to consider a radical idea: Corporations and nonprofit groups, in addition to individuals, should be... View Details

Keywords: Eric Werker; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

2012
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Labor Productivity and Quality Change in Singapore: Achievements in 1974-2011 and Prospects for the Next Two Decades

By: Koji Nomura and Tomomichi Amano

Labor productivity growth in Singapore that has grown at a rate of over 3.0 percent per year since 1970s considerably slowed down to 0.5 percent on average per annum in the latter half of the 2000s. The purpose of this paper is to ask, first, to what extent Singapore’s... View Details

Keywords: Labor; Performance Productivity; Quality; Economic Growth; Singapore

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January 2016
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Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey

This case study examines a market-based approach to economic development through the eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a US$9.5 million five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the... View Details

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By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Course Requirements

Students are required to prepare a business plan, which employs the framework of this course, to explore an entrepreneurial opportunity in health care, and to evaluate their classmates' plans.

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2018
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Zig-Zagging Your Way to Transformative Impact

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Tricia Gregg

Achieving transformative impact has been much discussed by social entrepreneurs, funders, and consultants. These discussions have focused on issues of increasing impact and scale, but often with no clear distinction between the two terms. In order to provide clarity,... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Performance Efficiency; Growth and Development; Outcome or Result; Strategy

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Professor Begenau’s research agenda is directed at better understanding how financial markets work and how they affect the real economy. She uses quantitative analysis to build both prescriptive and descriptive models concerning financial risk in banking, and she also... View Details

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Having grown up in a developing country, Professor Sikochi’s research focus is driven by a desire to understand how capital flows to firms and entrepreneurs with the ultimate goal to help build capital markets in the developing economies. To this end, he conducts... View Details

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The Evolution of Corporate Structure, Internal Governance, and Leadership

My research documents the evolution of the internal governance of senior management in large US firms over a 20-year period and explores, via multiple methods, the causes and consequences of these changes. My findings suggest that... View Details

2013
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International Health Economics

By: Mark Egan and Tomas J. Philipson

Perhaps because health care is a local service sector, health economists have paid little attention to international linkages between domestic health care economies. However, the growth in domestic health care sectors is often attributed to medical innovations whose... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Global Range; Economics

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2013
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Clusters and the New Growth Path for Europe

By: Christian Ketels and Sergiy Protsiv

This paper outlines elements of a conceptual framework that clarifies the role that clusters play relative to government policies and actions of individual companies in supporting the emergence of "High Road" strategies that lead to better New Growth Path–related... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Competition; Industry Clusters; Globalization; Economic Growth; Europe

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01 Dec 2020
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A New Approach to Contact Tracing

the fight against COVID-19. Government-led innovation such as this is a subject that fascinates Mitchell Weiss (MBA 2004), a professor of management practice and Richard L. Menschel Faculty Fellow at HBS. Upon hearing that Singapore’s View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government

02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

mitigation policies within its supply chain and in government policy. Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/caesars-entertainment-betting-on-sustainability/ Working Papers Market Reallocation and Knowledge Spillover: The... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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Corporate Lobbying Strategy and Foreign MNEs

“U.S. Defense Contracts and the Lobbying Strategies of Foreign MNEs: The Liability of Foreignness and Make-or-Buy Decisions about Political Goods”

Many firms engage in lobbying with the expectation that their lobbying efforts will... View Details

Keywords: Non-market Strategy; Political Strategy; Lobbying; Make V. Buy; Multinational Enterprise; Global Strategy; United States

01 Dec 2015
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Leading Boston and Beyond

who have stayed in Boston–in government and private institutions—who still keep our relationship to the City government and public agendas in some way,” says Stephen Chan (MBA 2009), Chief of Staff for the... View Details

Keywords: Jen Myers; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

01 Jun 2008
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The Real Deal

Leppert called on the business community to help combat homelessness and its root causes. “Investments are, at their heart, a belief that we can create opportunities,” he noted. “The private sector must step up. Government can’t do... View Details

Keywords: Homeless; Government; Government

01 Dec 2012
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An Advocate for Women's Equality

government and...the attitudes of those who practiced those skills of public administration and politics." Changes still to come would be authored by women whom Franklin recruited to public service. —SEAN SILVERTHORNE View Details

Keywords: Richard Nixon; Chuck Colson; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

19 Aug 2009
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The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution

Keywords: by N. Gregory Mankiw & Matthew Weinzierl