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- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
socioeconomic disparities in health and mortality is a well-established fact. Many pathways have been adduced to explain inequality in life spans. In this article we examine one factor that has been somewhat neglected: people with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
opportunity to misreport their performance or having their performance verified by an external monitor. To study the effect of social factors on the willingness to be subject to monitoring, we vary whether participants make this decision... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations
ripple through the balance sheets of businesses and households alike. Indeed, after years of debate, Congress recently took aim at drug prices through provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act. But there are many systemic factors leading... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- Op-Ed
'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year
more of an excuse to spend your hours at the office, lining your workplace's pockets at the expense of your life. It's human nature in this day of "stay at work to show your worth." Thanks, but no thanks! I do my own cooking and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?
have in manufacturing). Joan, while commenting that “the issue is multi-dimensional and complex,” observed that: “Things seem to be changing faster than we as humans can adapt ” Paul injected some humor into an ominous-sounding comment... View Details
- 04 Aug 2006
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?
efficiently reach any type of 'Long Tail' content." But even with increased ease of access, others pointed to added sources of scarcity. Soura Bhattacharyya commented, " there is no such thing [as a free lunch]. Scarcity of time on the part of the consumer is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
the single most important factor in the rapid proliferation of personal computers. Bricklin, who took a shine to computer programming while still in high school in the 1960s, earned an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
information technology capped an eighty-year trend in which decision rights moved mostly downward within business hierarchies," McCraw concludes, highlighting factors such as increased consumer power, intensified competition, and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
talks about. In a short space of 30 years, China has transformed itself radically and become a major factor in the world. Victor and I saw this abrupt change as the beginning of a golden age for a trading company like Li & Fung. The... View Details
- 30 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networks in China and America
States a rich field of study and one that's a specialty for Harvard Business School professor Roy Chua. Chua, a native of Singapore who speaks fluent Mandarin, draws on human psychology to better understand important social processes in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
welfare was not unique to the United States. Indeed, U.S. charitable lending institutions that emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century were modeled in part on older French financial institutions. Three historical factors drove... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
and army-influenced culture. Q: For social enterprises that choose the affiliate route, what are the likely factors that point them in that direction? A: Nonprofits may adopt an affiliate model because they have a bias towards local... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
Rotemberg Publication:Journal of Public Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper presents a model in which anonymous charitable donations are rationalized by two human tendencies drawn from the psychology literature. The first is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
several unique challenges that women entrepreneurs encounter as they develop new businesses. The authors focus on factors that influence female entrepreneurs’ choices of business and industry — personal motivation, commitment, education,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
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Books
marketers can understand human behavior on a much deeper level and begin to use that knowledge to their advantage. Zaltman argues that marketers need to embrace a new paradigm that connects mind, body, brain, and society. Consider the... View Details
- 30 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Not Slowing VC Investment
more basic factor has been holding back investment: remote work. Lockdowns and rising COVID-19 cases prompted many venture capitalists to literally head for the hills, decamping to vacation homes in Wyoming and Idaho. Even with its close... View Details
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Protestors Knock at Your Door
As globalization trends increase, so does the ability of non-governmental organizations such as Greenpeace, Oxfam International, and the World Wildlife Fund to shape public and corporate policy on everything from human rights to labor... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 02 Jun 2003
- What Do You Think?
What Can Aspiring Leaders Be Taught?
given to broader success factors which are ethical and value centered, are or certainly can be detrimental to the society they serve ...." A more acerbic point of view was offered by Mark Anton: "The area of ethics and values is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55043 Machine Learning and Human Capital: Experimental Evidence on Productivity Complementarities By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Evan Starr, and Rajshree Agarwal Abstract—Machine learning... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
emerging market entities as imitators. (Cases of bio-piracy indicate the opposite.) From a practical perspective, they wanted to suss out factors that might thwart bio-piracy altogether. In a series of new papers, the researchers trace a... View Details