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  • 24 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?

enough money to prosper, low-income families' access to health benefits, their civic participation, family stability, and mental wellbeing are all diminished by their low success rate in building assets. Peter Tufano, Sylvan C. Coleman... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 15 Nov 2010
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives

Cespedes: For most firms, the largest, most difficult, and increasingly expensive part of strategy implementation is aligning field behaviors and go-to-market systems with espoused strategic goals. It's the largest because doing this well is essential for marketplace... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 01 Dec 2021
  • What Do You Think?

How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?

contribute to real—not the measured kind of—productivity. Some will argue that the Metaverse is little more than a place in which misfits can escape their own U-Stor-Its. Before assuming that, remember that this will be a virtual world of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 03 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 3

promoting it a personal mission. Many had experienced what it was like to be an outsider, which gave them a deeper understanding of the barriers that women, in particular, face at work. The CEOs resoundingly agreed that an inclusive environment was one in which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 7

fairness within the industry. Coordinating conflicting programs requires a careful balance between equity and efficiency. In our work, we first develop a fairness metric to measure deviation from first-scheduled, first-served in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

Course MaterialsBASIX Harvard Business School Case 207-099 BASIX, an Indian microfinance corporation, must decide whether to continue to sell weather insurance to its clients. A brand-new financial product, weather insurance pays if View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

pairwise industry and establishment level and measure agglomeration in a global and continuous metric space. These indices exhibit distinct advantages compared to traditional measures of agglomeration... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

December 4, 2017 Harvard Business Review How a Fast-Growing Startup Built Its Sales Team for Long-Term Success By: Cespedes, Frank V., and David Mattson Abstract—It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

2015. Using web scraping, we collected daily prices for controlled and non-controlled goods and measured the differential effects on inflation, product availability, and price dispersion. We first show that, although price controls are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Mar 2021
  • Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

emphasize answers to those recurring questions. They include: How do you measure productivity? How do you trust people you barely see? How do you even think about digital tools? Blanding: One of the recommendations you make in the book is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 18 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 18

development, fluid teams of individuals with different sets of experience are tasked with projects that are critical to the success of their organizations. Although building teams from individuals with diverse prior experience is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

"dodge" a question they would rather not answer by answering a different question? Two experiments demonstrated conversational blindness—listeners' surprising failure to notice such dodges—and explored the interpersonal consequences of this phenomenon.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Making Biotech Work as a Business

productivity are hellishly difficult to sort out. This is due to the difficulty of measuring such amorphous factors as intellectual property creation and the long time lag before any expected return on investment. The sector's tendency to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Biotechnology; Health; Technology
  • 03 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 3, 2009

proof that standard and routinely used fiscal measures, including the deficit, taxes, and transfer payments, are economically ill-defined. Instead these measures reflect the arbitrary labeling of underlying fiscal conditions. Analyses... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

for anyone hoping to master the new-world skills required of successful business leaders today. As the narrative unfolds, Jim grapples with an array of business crises, some he inherited and some of his own making. As events push this new... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

Moskowitz, and Annette Vissing-Jørgensen Abstract We provide new evidence on the success of long-run risks in asset pricing by focusing on the risks borne by stockholders. Exploiting micro-level household consumption data, we show that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories of 2012

significant economic development of 2013. Use the "Comments" link to tell us what and why. Most Popular Stories In 2012 1. Clayton Christensen's "How Will You Measure Your Life?" Published: May 9, 2012 World-renowned... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 08 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 8

a comprehensive deal persuasively enough to transform more Iranian skeptics into active supporters-a necessary condition for success if there is an acceptable deal at the next stage. To sway skeptics, I recommend a specific... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 23

to practice and from simple to complex, the present paper builds on that work. It illustrates several classes of practical measures that negotiators can use to advance their own interests by focusing on the other side's Level II... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

Persistence By: Gallani, Susanna Abstract—Organizations often introduce temporary incentive programs with a view of establishing long lasting behaviors. Monetary payoffs are awarded upon achievement of team goals, which measure the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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