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  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

Drive-In Nation

pressured to move quickly to improve its products and attract more buyers. Snow adds that in their factories, the Japanese often prefer to customize existing systems and equipment rather than installing the latest fancy technology. “Their... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade
  • 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009

local economic development. The reserve was in a region in the northeastern part of the country, not far from Mozambique, that sorely called out for progress in both these dimensions. The Sabi Sand Game reserve (within which Londolozi was... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25

Technology Adoption Author:Diego A. Comin Publication:In Handbook of Economic Growth, edited by Philippe Aghion and Steven Durlauf. Elsevier, forthcoming Abstract We present a tractable model for analyzing the relationship between View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It

is crucial to online success. A recent research paper offers insights that carry unexpected implications for advertisers or anyone else trying to capture that attention. The Empirical Economics of Online Attention was written by Andre... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Web Services
  • 25 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

passionately interested. It has long been appreciated that the way that a society treats its youngest and oldest members says much about its moral maturity. Economic development specialists also attest to the importance of health care in... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health
  • 01 Jun 2006
  • News

The Baby Business

families. By viewing this widespread activity through the lens and logic of markets — and daring to define it in terms of supply, demand, and property rights — Spar aims to bring realism and thoughtful public-policy debate to a subject that most people would View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Government; Health, Social Assistance
  • 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

whereas the contemporaneous marginal effect is higher for generalists. The paper also provides a key methodological insight to the marketing and economics literature. In the Nerlove-Arrow framework, moment conditions that are typically... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

mistakes. But there is another approach: alter the environment in ways that encourage people to make decisions that lead to good outcomes. Publisher's link: https://hbr.org/2015/05/leaders-as-decision-architects April 2015 American View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t927286744 Political Instability: Effects on Financial Development, Roots in the Severity of Economic Inequality Authors:Mark J. Roe and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

requires careful structuring of the transaction, cautious pricing of the shares, and wide diversification of the pockets of demand by the underwriters. These elements explain the concurrent convertible preferred stock offering, the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto
  • Web

Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them - Recruiting

unconscious bias is affinity bias in which people tend to gravitate towards others who look, act, and think as they do. In recruiting specifically, unconscious bias and affinity bias often express themselves as a preference for one... View Details
  • 25 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?

solution is to create institutions that allow consumers to build and claim the value of their marketplace identities, and that give producers the incentive to respect them. Privacy and identity then become opposing economic goods, and... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls & Sean Silverthorne; Advertising
  • 11 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Future of Boards

think there's a movement away from maximizing shareholder value as the primary focus and motivation for a corporation's existence, and toward a growing recognition that companies are economic institutions that provide benefits to many... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

to have their first child in Mumbai, or return to the U.S. for the delivery. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809045 Political and Economic History of the People's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2

unethical. In four experiments, participants wore purportedly fake or authentically branded sunglasses. Those wearing fake sunglasses cheated more across multiple tasks than did participants wearing authentic sunglasses, both when they believed they had a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10

detail, and supporting economic data is provided. By enabling an analysis of how long and how aggressively an artist should be supported before commercial success is achieved, serves as a vehicle for contrasting different approaches to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth

wished that his fellow students would give voice in class to the ethical concerns they preferred to convey to him in private. As he would later write of his MBA experience, “I stuck to the role I had been granted as a liberal bellwether,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; management; ethics
  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

Globalization Revisited

Salmon. The authors examined the overseas experience of retail giants Carrefour (France), Wal-Mart (U.S.A.), and Royal Ahold (the Netherlands). Occupied with their enormous domestic market, many American companies, like Wal-Mart, tend to focus on View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 10 May 2022
  • News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2022

preferred me to be more academic—which was a long shot.” Continental drift: “After college I taught physical education at a school in Oxford, and some Rhodes Scholars who lived in my building encouraged me to go to the United States. I... View Details
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

businesses is to generate economic returns, so it makes sense that some motives would tend toward the utilitarian, coexisting with altruistic motivations of business leaders and manifesting themselves in the collaborative undertakings.... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team
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