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- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
observationally result in the same thing—‘I don’t trust them’—but has very different policy implications and takeaways for practitioners.” IN BELIEF WE TRUST Minor says the overarching issue is what leads people to trust one group over... View Details
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
importance of these effects depends on the nature of the innovation problem being solved. The analysis uses data from TopCoder's software contest platform, on which elite software developers were assigned different problems to solve... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
the business to 'roughly' understand what a person was earning . Each role was assigned to a pay range. The greater percentage of that range was awarded dependent on performance, benchmarked through goals and objectives agreed earlier in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
secure vaccines for the UK as soon as possible. The second was to ensure equitable and fair distribution internationally, and the third was to put plans in place to make sure the UK was better set up for next time. In seven months, we’ve met our goals.” Mango was... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
has invested over $1 billion in laying 2,000 miles of water lines and building 33 wastewater treatment plants while returning strong profits for shareholders. Equally important, the company has emerged as a model for integrating financial... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Beyond Case Writing
option information without their partners present had a 57 percent reduction in unwanted births. When Ashraf presented her findings to the Zambian Ministry of Health last summer, officials pointed out that it was government policy to... View Details
- 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008
local levels of government; (3) the Chinese electoral system; and (4) current pressures for change. Also includes a number of useful exhibits on Communist Party membership, political structure, and the administrative system. Can be View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
Advances in Strategic Management Innovation Policies By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—Past work has shown that failure tolerance by principals has the potential to stimulate innovation but has not examined how this... View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
things going on in a store and a lot of inputs," Karmarkar says. So she and Bollinger dug deeper with a series of experiments, enlisting participants for a number of online surveys. In the first experiment, the researchers assigned... View Details
- 24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24
Lakshmi, Xin Meng, Nancy Qian, and Xiaoxue Zhao Abstract—This paper studies the policy determinants of economic transition and estimates the demand for labor in the infant private sector in urban China. We show that a reform that untied... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24
and further development of the original cluster framework. The fourth part then explores the policy implications to be drawn from Porter's work on clusters. Porter develops recommendations on how to leverage clusters as a tool in economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
pursue her passion in technology and risk not seeing her family for a long time; or visit her family in Canada or the U.K., and risk losing her livelihood. The question she posed: Would I be willing to sign the ‘no-to-immigration-ban’ petition? “It is a lazy person’s... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
policy issues remained strong. He enrolled at HBS because he believes that, more so than policymakers, “managers who lead health-care systems are the ones today who are introducing needed changes.” At the School, Jain has done three... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
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Disability Pride Month | Baker Library
of the featured women, Dr. Temple Grandin, transformed the cattle industry by applying her understanding of animal behavior to design low-stress livestock handling systems, now used in facilities processing over half of North America's cattle. Her innovations proved... View Details
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Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online
Concepts Understand the science, economic impact, and policy implications of climate change Identify and communicate the risks and opportunities posed by climate change across industries Leverage insights from real-world examples to... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
Division Problems Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Emin Karagozoglu, and Bettina Klaus Abstract We consider estate division problems a generalization of bankruptcy problems. We show that in a direct revelation claim game, if the underlying division rule satisfies efficiency,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving
overweight the risks, punishing the charity simply for not being perfect. “People exaggerate a charity’s metrics to the extent that they use it as an excuse not to give at all,” she says. In her current study with Judd B. Kessler, a business economics and public View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Sep 2005
- What Do You Think?
What are the Lessons of New Orleans?
"Perhaps there's too much policy and procedure in place and not enough thinking." For David Brewster, lessons included the "failure of strategic planning to consider the small, frontline detail . . . a matter of getting... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change (SESC) - Course Catalog
semester, culminating with an integrative final assignment that through a peer review process can lead to the development of a new case study for the class. Course Modules Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change :... View Details
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
policy at the Harvard School of Public Health. Trained as an industrial engineer, Tucker is interested in the perspective of frontline workers in productivity and process improvement, including how internal supply chains and other... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry