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- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), allowing businesses to cite religious freedom as a defensible reason to deny service to a customer. Critics, who included a number of high-profile CEOs, argued that the law granted... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
Funding to scale Citizens Connect, Boston's 311 app, is both a blessing and a burden and tests two public entrepreneurs. In 2012, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts provides Boston's Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics with a grant to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
organizations. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55936 forthcoming Psychological Science Using Behavioral Science to Inform the Design of Sugary Drink Portion Limit Policies By: John, Leslie, Grant E.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
private information with borrowers. When lenders grant debt forgiveness to borrowers, borrowers communicate that information to other borrowers, who are then more likely to strategically default on their own obligations. This strategic... View Details
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
riskier projects and scale them, without taking on more risk. But we are also going to need members of the public who are granting them their permission, encouragement, and even co-participation. More specifically, private entrepreneurs,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
well-connected. From the empty BioValley complex in Malaysia to the repeated U.S. Small Business Innovation Research grants to Beltway "mills" that produce few real innovations, this pattern is depressingly familiar. Successful... View Details
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
stakeholders tend to impute the status of the latter onto the former, thus granting higher status to the young firm. I found that young agencies with high-status clients performed better and grew faster than agencies without high-status... View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
a practice described here as “structured empowerment” to balance control and flexibility as they grow. I define structured empowerment as a practice that grants employees both (a) the power to make choices from narrow sets of options on a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
kidney transplant (11th), women's health (16th), heart (25th), and cancer (29th) as among the best in the nation. Its $292 million in National Institutes of Health research grants ranked ninth in the nation. Over the previous decade, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
Corporation (MCC), provides aid to developing countries, focusing on poverty reduction through economic growth. It measures results through an economic rate of return based on increases in farmer incomes anticipated over twenty years. As MCC and Ghana finalize a $547... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
learned of another alleged relationship between Easterbrook and an employee. This time, its investigation turned up three additional workplace relationships and sexually explicit photos and videos. Plus, the board discovered that Easterbrook had View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
sense that we didn't even have an income tax until 1913. It was viewed as unconstitutional and we needed an amendment to allow us to have a direct income tax. Around the same time, the corporate income tax was introduced. So, some of the key features of the tax system... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
whether or not employees are selected via channels that are likely to sort on the alignment of their preferences with organizational objectives. I find that employees selected through such channels are more likely to use decision-making authority in the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
royalties from content sales. We consider a game-theoretic model in which two platforms offer different standalone utilities to users. We find that incentives to establish one-way compatibility—the platform owner with smaller standalone value View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
812-070 The growth of companies that facilitate the sales of unregistered stock, such as that granted to employees of successful but long-private companies, has raised a number of questions among regulators, investors, and company... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
constrained environment of norms, regulations, and practices that are taken for granted or in a context of pluralistic and contested demands (D'Aunno, Succi, and Alexander, 2000; Denis, Lamothe, and Langley, 2001; Abbott, 1988; D'Aunno,... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
art citations listed in all U.S. patents granted in 2001-2003 and found that examiners played a significant role in identifying prior art, adding 63% of citations on the average patent, and all citations on 40% of patents granted. An... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
Tarun Khanna Abstract—In the patenting literature, economists and legal scholars have focused on the question of improving the quality of prior art available to patent examiners and mitigating the filing and granting of patents where... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
standard measures of patent quality, we find that patents granted to firms involved in private equity transactions are more cited (a proxy for economic importance), show no significant shifts in the fundamental nature of the research, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
Psychological Science Psychologically Informed Implementations of Sugary Drink Portion Limits By: John, Leslie, Grant Donnelly, and Christina Roberto Abstract—In 2012, the New York City Board of Health prohibited restaurants from selling... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne