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- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
Working PapersFinding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya Authors:Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine, and Dean Karlan Abstract In much of the developing world,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
possible. Again, Thyssen realized that information and oversight was more critical for managing a large-scale enterprise than his personal interventions. Constant personal interventions from above lame personal initiative and hinder quick... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
Harvard Business School Note 706-044 Describes the emergence of several kinds of efforts to assure the safety of foreign investment in emerging markets: international arbitration, expanded official political risk insurance, credit from government agencies, and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
WalkRoundsTM—Based Intervention Authors:Anita L. Tucker and Sara J. Singer Abstract Background: Leadership WalkRounds have been widely adopted as a technique for improving patient safety and safety climate. WalkRounds involve senior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
about key intervention points for changing an institution. However, while adjacency is an important structural position, it is not, by itself, dominance. Dominance requires action. Dominating institutions exercise dominance by (1)... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
way for higher rates of customer acquisition and higher rates of repeat purchasing among existing customers in the direct channels in the long term. Our results are based on intervention analysis with a treatment/control group design. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
assessment system focused on organizational values. We find a counterintuitive result: the intervention drove even higher effort on dimensions of short-term financial performance associated with preexisting monetary incentives but did not... View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
interrelated, and all of them affected by government policy. U.S. lawmakers must carefully consider the effects of interventions in at least 12 areas, ranging from capital markets to tax treatment to intellectual property to health care.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne