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- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
Abstract—This paper considers some of the large changes in the Federal Reserve's approach to monetary policy. It shows that, in some important cases, critics who were successful in arguing that past Fed approaches were responsible for mistakes that caused View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
crucial to the subsequent response of those on the receiving end. "We define a necessary evil as a work-related task that requires a person to cause physical, emotional, or material harm to another human being in order to advance a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
“Relationships can all too readily slide into cutthroat competition or totally collusive bonding. Either extreme will harm the firm's performance.” Less obviously, the drives to comprehend and to defend are also on opposite ends of the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
“Relationships can all too readily slide into cutthroat competition or totally collusive bonding. Either extreme will harm the firm's performance.” Less obviously, the drives to comprehend and to defend are also on opposite ends of the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
to something big. After a second field study, Solomon and Hillerstrom launched NeuroPhage. In tests on mice, the drug they developed improved both memory and cognitive abilities. “We believe it can identify harmful aggregates in the... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
harmful consequences of climate change fall disproportionately on poor nations that have done little to contribute to it. Agreement on a fund to mitigate the disastrous effects of climate damage in poorer nations was seen as a surprising... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
an economic crisis erupts, something that has happened with regularity. Nor does it stop governments from intervening at the risk of doing more harm than good. Few, it seems, learn from the lessons of history. In Ferguson’s view, the real... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
represent only one component of wartime harm, they nevertheless have profound effects. Specifically, civilians who lose a home to barrel bombing are more likely to see the Assad regime as a greater threat to themselves personally and to the whole of Syria. Such View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
of development projects, but empirical research shows that some projects deviate from strict mirroring, seemingly without harmful effects. In this paper, we formally define the mirroring hypothesis, describe its theoretical underpinnings,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
stated goal was to provide tobacco smokers with a less harmful e-cigarette alternative, JUUL Labs’s products had proven widely popular with teenage high school students who had never smoked. Some advocacy groups and public policy makers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
enlightened economists—and illustrates the extent to which each tribe has been captured by the concept of self-interest. After arguing that this fixation has caused—and is likely to continue to cause—significant harm to our economy, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
horseback, such representations have shaped the public’s perception of Native peoples and reinforced harmful stereotypes. Many of these objects also portray Indigenous people as a “vanishing race” or as belonging to the past, and... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
novel experimental design. In line with predictions, we find that information on the popularity of policy choices is beneficial when a minority of voters is biased but harmful when a majority is biased. In theory, information on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
pharmaceutical division and a diagnostic division. The company's antiviral drug Tamiflu dominates the market for prevention and treatment of seasonal influenza (flu). Tamiflu, however, could also play an important role in responding to the first wave of a pandemic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace