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- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
important role of the infrastructure provision in any economy and how it shapes economic activity. Infrastructure includes everything from roads and airports to trains and broadband communication. We want to understand the impact for how... View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
But while corporate political actions such as lobbying can have a greater impact on environmental quality, they are ignored in most current sustainability metrics. It is time for these metrics to be expanded to critically assess firms... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
Starting a new job often brings excitement and high hopes of mingling with colleagues, sharing innovative ideas, and making a positive impact on an organization. Soon, however, a new employee’s excitement may start to wane, if the person... View Details
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
will make clearer the areas where a company's reputation is based on overlapping performance outcomes. Second is the need to assess and accept the impact of changing beliefs and expectations. These can happen suddenly (such as a major... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This a Golden Era for Marketing Productivity?
proportion of a firm's customers that account for nearly all of its profits may not exceed 10 percent when one takes into account the significant impact of so-called "apostle/owners" on a business. These are customers who are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
note discusses the significant impact venture philanthropy has had on the nonprofit sector despite its small size relative to total philanthropic giving. Venture philanthropists make large, multi-year, unrestricted grants coupled with... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
which financial market development impacts the diffusion of 16 major technologies, looking across 17 countries, from 1870 to 2000. We find that greater depth in financial markets leads to faster technology diffusion for more... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
ongoing debate about the impact of using financial incentives for donors or their families to encourage anatomical donations (Clay and Block 2002; Delmonico et al. 2002; Harrington and Sayre 2006; Obermann 1998). Similarly, surveys of... View Details
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
on California and Silicon Valley, we exploit Michigan's inadvertent reversal of its non-compete enforcement legislation as a natural experiment to investigate the impact of non-competes on mobility. Using the U.S. patent database and a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
recommendation levels, additions and deletions of records, and removal of analyst names. The changes appear non-random across brokerage firms, analysts, and tickers, and have a significant impact on the overall distribution of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2021
- What Do You Think?
Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work?
show COVID-19’s impact on women’s employment,” March 8, 2021, McKinsey, mckinsey.com. Summing up last month's column CEO activism triggered a debate among those responding to last month’s column, with about equal support against and in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
negatively impact job performance. But companies can mitigate these effects by adopting specific human resource policies, says Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. The... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 30 May 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Intellectual Property be Protected in International Trade?
China to buy more American goods—gets the publicity. But it’s likely to have less long-term impact than if China would agree to relax Chinese ownership requirements on American firms desiring to do business in that country through... View Details
- 27 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Social Network Marketing: What Works?
content). Q: Were you able to quantify social influence in terms of how it increased or decreased the percentage in sales revenue? A: The impact of the low-status group on revenue is negligible. Social influence increases revenue from the... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures
access has an impact on fundraising strategies and deal terms. These are among the research questions that will continue to occupy Kuemmerle and his MBA students in the future. View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
are symbiotic with new information technologies and the impact of greater information transparency throughout the supply chain. Either without the other would have limited relevance. In total, these concepts and technologies have resulted... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
maintains that the impact on consumers is complex. Sometimes consumers are winners and sometimes losers. And sometimes they're both, as in the case of lower prices for air travel of inferior quality "on many dimensions." In... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
attributes in online search interfaces changes the valuations of those attributes—and impacts subsequent choice—such that attributes that are displayed as separate categories tend to receive greater decision weight than attributes grouped... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
paradox by considering the enabling role of actors' social position. Adopting a relational view of human agency, I model the impact of their social position on the likelihood that actors will initiate changes that diverge from the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
there's additional work we might do that would benefit all the schools and faculties involved. Q: HBS spends nearly $80 million a year on research. How do you view the impact of that investment? A: It's huge. We think generating ideas is... View Details