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  • 20 Feb 2008
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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
  • 17 Dec 2024
  • News

Solving the Underemployment Crisis

to call out perhaps two or three states that are doing some interesting, compelling things, certainly Texas on data systems, on employer alignment, some of the things they’ve done with how they fund technical colleges and community colleges. Virginia around targeted... View Details
  • 17 Jul 2012
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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
  • 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
  • 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

time recorded was used to obtain estimates for physician documentation time on both control (no scribe) and intervention (scribe) shifts. Results: Control shifts yielded approximately 3 hours of documentation time per 8 hours of clinical... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

government relations is part of the inner circle. You can look at Turkcell and see it as a typical emerging-market story. Government intervention is everywhere. Regulators even set prices, service by service. The competition is tightly... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010

explore interventions at the individual level and focus on recognized cognitive barriers from behavioral decision-making literature. In particular, we highlight three cognitive barriers that impede sound individual decision making that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

demonstrates the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of an intervention even without perfectly predicting a firm’s response still has enormous value for setting policy. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55959... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Sep 2015
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September 15, 2015

information. In contrast, committing to a decision prior to contemplating suspicions precluded individuals from subsequently integrating critical information about the fund’s fraudulent activity. We extend these findings to other View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

A Healthy Profit

ensures an intervention reaches all those who need it, at the lowest price and in the shortest amount of time." Could a similar, market-driven approach be enlisted in the world's fight against disease and illness? As Chu notes, commerce... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

to the support of companies, investors, and the initiatives of a number of NGOs, widespread regulatory intervention has yet to materialize. Outside of South Africa, adoption remains voluntary, accomplished via social movement abetted, to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008

reducing social costs requires the intervention of a centralized institution. Surprisingly little work has considered what happens in between—when transaction costs exist but recourse to hierarchical institution is barred. This paper uses... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Too Big To Fail

banking panics roughly every fifteen to twenty years,” explains Moss. When the Great Depression struck, it was “in a league of its own” in severity and governmental response, he continues. With the banking system near collapse, the Roosevelt administration engineered... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance
  • 10 Mar 2015
  • News

Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

entrepreneur) did not study interventions to change this bias—which was as prevalent among female investors as among male investors—but she hopes the findings will spark conversations about how to change the disparity. “The first step is... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

and pairs researching similar clinical areas. Our results suggest that matching between scientists may be subject to considerable frictions-even among those in relatively close geographic proximity and in the same organizational system. At the same time, even a brief... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

demand for control over remittances in the baseline survey. We also find positive spillovers of our savings intervention in the form of increased savings at other banks (specifically, banks in the U.S.). We interpret the effects we find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment

the support of public sector firms. Huang argues that state interventions are a breeding ground for corruption, but in Singapore, the government solved this problem in a unique way—by paying civil servants competitively or even better... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10

patterns with the calorie labeling present. These findings highlight the potential importance of portion control interventions that specifically activate consumers' self-control. Environmental Federalism in the European Union and the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel