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  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

  Publications August 2013 The Industrial Policy Revolution I: The Role of Government Beyond Ideology Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal By: Alfaro, Laura, and Andrew Charlton Abstract—In this paper we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

School Case 510-033 Woolf Farming Company, a privately owned family farming business in California's Central Valley, found its business threatened by a lack of water, brought on by a combination of drought, poor quality well water, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jun 2020
  • Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

context of the economic turmoil at the turn of the 20th century, the alumni asked whether Harvard might develop a school to educate professional managers who would improve the quality and integrity of the managerial class, much as the law... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 07 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics

infrastructure make a case in point. The exorbitant cost of new structures, the limited number of opportunities for post-Games usage, and even the sometimes questionable quality of the construction are often lost in the excitement of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Sports
  • 05 Oct 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

decisions that would not have made been made on purely financial grounds. It's like P&G's Children's Safe Drinking Water program. When P&G could not make a commercial market out of water purification... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2009
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?

questions that we might consider. In Harwood's words, "How do we measure the quality of the information we receive? What makes information worth acting upon? When is information certain enough?" And Norman asked, "What will... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Publishing; Journalism & News
  • 03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3

water purification solution. We find that higher prices screen out those who use the product less. By contrast, we find no consistent evidence of sunk-cost effects. Welfare Payments and Crime Author:C. Fritz Foley Publication:The Review... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

training experience that will help you enhance the quality of your managerial judgment. Past editions have been used in top universities, in business schools, and in public policy, psychology, and economics classes. In addition, the text... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28

Gretchen M. Spreitzer, 552-565. Oxford University Press, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's link: http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Psychology/Health/?view=usa&ci=9780199734610   Working PapersCompetition and Illicit View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

18.2%—an effect driven by substitution of water for sugary drinks. Study 2 showed that graphic warning labels work by heightening negative affect and prompting consideration of health consequences. Study 3 indicated that public support... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Oct 2016
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October 18, 2016

Ejaz, Arti Grover Goswami, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the spatial organization and efficiency of manufacturing activity. The GQ project upgraded the quality... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

Nations Clean Development Mechanism Executive Board to China, for use of Arcadia's rice varieties, since they enabled farmers to reduce nitrogen fertilizer use, in turn lowering greenhouse gas emissions. But the company's proprietary traits for nitrogen use efficiency,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

lack prior ties to others at the bootcamp experience peer effects that influence the quality of their product prototypes. A one-standard-deviation increase in the performance of proximate teams is related to a two-thirds... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

not increase the quality of employee-company matches but is associated with relatively higher employee departure rates in stores where the manager is likely to be more informed than headquarters (stores that serve repeat customers, stores... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

perceived credit quality of the financial guarantors fell, and yields on insured bonds exceeded yields on equivalent uninsured issues. It does not appear that either property and casualty insurers or open-end municipal mutual funds were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016

increased resource utilization (i.e., longer average length of stay) for both minor and major teaching hospitals, relative to a control group of non-teaching hospitals. We find limited evidence of negative effects on quality as measured... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

overall quality of a country as a place to do business. The focus on output per potential worker, a broader measure of national productivity than output per current worker, reflects the dual role of workforce participation and output per... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007

Describes the challenges of using the Balanced Scorecard to implement a triple-bottom-line strategy for delivering excellent economic, environmental, and social performance. The owners and senior executive team of Amanco, a producer of plastic pipe and complete View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

1839 and 1939. We find large effects of the prizes on competitive entry and the quality of contemporaneous patents, especially when prize categories were set by a strict rotation scheme, thereby mitigating the potentially confounding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807157 PSI: Social Marketing Clean Water Harvard Business School Case 507-052 Senior management at PSI, arguably the world's largest and most successful social... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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