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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
self-interested. Our cases show that regardless of the precise motivational starting point, as long as cross-sector collaborations continue to serve the interests of all partners, their motivations are... View Details
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
case). How should senior management respond? Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111025-PDF-ENG Roshan: Light at the End of the Tunnel in Afghanistan Herman B. Leonard and Qahir... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
policy resolution. In so doing, they engender excess burden. This paper posits, calibrates, and simulates a life cycle model with earnings, lifespan, investment return, and future policy uncertainty. It then measures the excess burden... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women—a History
Madame C. J. Walker is an example of an entrepreneur who took advantage of industrial change, Koehn said. Walker, a creator of hair care... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
at the end of the course being leaders and effectively exercising leadership as their natural self-expression. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1640302 Making Savers Winners: An Overview View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
a challenge for researchers who wish to study them and for the governments, business leaders, and citizens striving to improve life quality in them. The limitations of the dominant development paradigm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
have their director candidates' names included on the ballots sent out by the company (dissident shareholders now must send out their own ballots); puts an end to staggered boards at all companies (boards traditionally elect one-third... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
P/E industries, which have a negative valuation change in the year after the investment. 2006 New England Journal of Medicine Leading Clinicians and Clinicians Leading By: Bohmer, Richard M.J. Abstract—More effective models View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
case involves an insurance CEO choosing between different designs for a variable annuity product in light of hedging, marketing, and pricing issues. The case provides students with background on the economics and regulation View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
which habits can lead people to make suboptimal decisions; for thinking too much, we discuss research documenting the ways in which careful consideration of attributes, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
loans to fight poverty around the globe since the end of World War II, nearly half the world's six billion people still live on less than $2 a day; a fifth get by on less than $1. At times, foreign aid has... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007
deregulations also led to a dramatic increase in "churning" at the lower end of the size distribution, where new startups fail within the first three years following entry. This churning emphasizes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
requirements or social norms, but because we are altruistic; we care intrinsically about the welfare of others. In this paper, we illustrate for these types of decisions how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
practitioners take this approach to applications in finance, there are huge gains to be achieved. We caution the reader that since our intention in this piece is to call attention to aspects of life and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
A. Arnaout Publication:Nature Biotechnology Abstract Advances in biotechnology have fueled the generation of unprecedented quantities of data across the life sciences. However,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 3, 2006
of the producing entities within these countries conform to a set of rules. This conformity is the product of over a century of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 18, 2007
affects emotions. Finally, work in economics on the design of monetary policy makes several assumptions (e.g., a representative agent, a summary measure of emotions akin to utility exists and that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?
technologies, industries, and organizations. He has also conducted extensive research on the watch industry. Raffaelli weighs in below on everything from battery life to the Apple Watch's implications for the health View Details
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
markets must also overcome the fact that some transactions are considered repugnant, especially in the infancy of an industry. (For instance, life insurance—in which companies essentially place bets on when... View Details
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
undertaking traditional value creation activities—from sourcing to engaging the poor in production to distribution and sales—in low-income markets. To the degree that these ventures empower the poor—either by improving their quality of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne