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  • 02 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity

documenting the disparities we’ve known about for 20 or 30 years,” says Harvard Business School Professor Amitabh Chandra. “One more research paper that finds that minority health care is separate and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 09 May 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

May 2017 Journal of Financial Economics The Value of Trading Relations in Turbulent Times By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Zhaogang Song Abstract—This paper investigates how dealers’ trading... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2010 (Revised April 2010)
  • Case

Greenbriar Growth Partners and Microsurgery Devices

Greenbriar Growth Partners (GGP), a venture capital (VC) firm, has been an investor in Microsurgery Devices (MSD) for four-plus years and has come into conflict with the company's founder. Should the Board's nominating committee re-nominate the VC investor, and should... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Initial Public Offering; Governing and Advisory Boards; Conflict of Interests; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States
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  • March 2021
  • Article

Opting-in to Prosocial Incentives

By: Daniel Schwartz, Elizabeth A. Keenan, Alex Imas and Ayelet Gneezy
The design of effective incentive schemes that are both successful in motivating employees and keeping down costs is of critical importance. Research has demonstrated that prosocial incentives, where individuals’ effort benefits a charitable organization, can sometimes... View Details
Keywords: Incentives; Prosocial Behavior; Behavioral Economics; Field Experiments; Recycling; Prosocial Motivation; Decision Making; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior
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  • December 2010
  • Case

Everything or Nothing: Martti Ahtisaari and the Aceh Negotiations (A)

By: James K. Sebenius and Alex Green
In early 2005, Martti Ahtisaari planned negotiations to end the decades-long conflict between Acehnese insurgents and the Indonesian government that had claimed thousands of lives. The "modern" phase of the insurgency by the fighters from the Free Aceh Movement that... View Details
Keywords: Government and Politics; Negotiation; Conflict and Resolution; Conflict Management; Indonesia
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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Inequality and Decision Making: Imagining a New Line of Inquiry

By: David Moss, Anant Thaker and Howard Rudnick
The substantial increase in inequality in the United States over the past three decades has provoked considerable debate, with some analysts characterizing rising inequality as among the greatest threats facing the nation and others dismissing it as little more than a... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Income; Decision Making; Government and Politics; Economics; United States
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  • 16 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

between immigrants and natives. Results in this paper indicate that, even when diversity is economically beneficial, it may nonetheless be socially hard to manage. Publisher's... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Published CSV Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

settings. CVS had to navigate a rapidly shifting competitive environment. Discovery Limited by Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer, and Aldo Sesia Discovery Ltd. is a South-African based insurance company. Started in the early 1990s,... View Details
  • August 2011
  • Article

Independent Invention During the Rise of the Corporate Economy in Britain and Japan

By: Tom Nicholas
Independent inventors accounted for approximately half of all patents in Britain and Japan by 1930, despite the rise of the corporate economy and the spread of industrial R&D. A mixture of patent renewal and historical citations data reveals that the quality of... View Details
Keywords: Independent Innovation and Invention; Development Economics; Research and Development; Patents; System; Motivation and Incentives; Tokyo; London; United States
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  • 21 May 2024
  • Research & Ideas

What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year

cycle right now? Rettl: In the Global North, it comes from the slowdown of economic growth and a sense that there is very little upward social mobility. It is related to the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 25 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better

chooses to spend his or her time has much more of an effect on a company's success or failure than if a middle manager spends a half hour more at lunch. With that in mind, Sadun and three colleagues-Oriana Bandiera View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

(When) Does Appearance Matter? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Tarun Khanna, Christos A. Makridis and Subhradip Sarker
While there is evidence about labor market discrimination based on race, religion, and gender, we know little about whether physical appearance leads to discrimination in labor market outcomes. We deploy a randomized experiment on 1,000 respondents in India between... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Economics; Coronavirus; Discrimination; Homophily; Labor Market Mobility; Limited Attention; Resumes; Personal Characteristics; Prejudice and Bias
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  • 24 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Trick of Balancing Business and Government

outsiders, including the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, is desired? No country can easily exist in a vacuum and cut itself off from the global economic... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 11 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits

mostly fallow for a few decades: the role of morals in careers. Once a major area of research in the 1950s and 1960s, it has “receded in focus” since then, the authors note, even as these issues have arguably become even more relevant in... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • Web

CSV in Practice - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

thinking. Profits involving a social purpose represent a higher form of capitalism—one that will enable society to advance more rapidly while allowing companies to grow even more. The result is a positive cycle of company View Details
  • 2013
  • Article

Planning Prompts as a Means of Increasing Preventive Screening Rates

By: Katherine L Milkman, John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
Keywords: Reminder Systems; Communication; Economics; Behavioral; Primary Prevention; Colonoscopy; Memory; Behavior; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Communication Strategy; Health Industry
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  • 14 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

for a new enterprise logic that will fundamentally alter the orientation, purpose, and economics of commerce. The Support Economy is intended to contribute to that search as it invites discussion of a new... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • October 2001
  • Case

TIGR and ILRI: Solving Problems with Genomics

By: Ray A. Goldberg and James M Beagle
Discusses nonprofit institutional leadership applying advances in genetic science to solve health and animal problems in industrial countries and the developing world. View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Health; Technological Innovation; Leading Change; Emerging Markets; Genetics; Non-Governmental Organizations; Technology Adoption; Biotechnology Industry
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    Making Sense of Past and Present

    Coco Chanel climbed the ladders of her success from lover to lover, nor that she was a Nazi agent. I would have never suspected that the famous cultural patron Guggenheim pushed Chile to an economic and... View Details
    • 13 Sep 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Cash and the Woman-Owned Business

    particularly large gender disparity was reported between male and female executives. For example, in 1999, only 5 percent of women executives were then earning $80,000 or more, but 23 percent of male... View Details
    Keywords: by Candida Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, Patricia G. Greene & Myra M. Hart