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- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
find that perceptions of crime and individual experience with crime (crime victimization) are positively correlated with left-wing beliefs within countries, controlling for income and other correlates of ideology, in a sample of Latin American View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
forthcoming American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Using Online Prices for Measuring Real Consumption Across Countries By: Cavallo, Alberto, Erwin Diewert, Robert C. Feenstra, Robert Inklaar, and Marcel P. Timmer Abstract—We... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
their authentic selves, and the organization respected and leveraged their talents and provided a sense of connectedness. Eight best organizational practices for instilling such a culture emerged from their interviews: 1. Measure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
obligations, but by 2009 it was rated America's most livable city by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Countries, like cities, have gone through their own bankruptcies on the path to recovery. Liberia, a small country in West Africa where... View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
emerging Asian markets. Paper: http://www.asiabusinessinsights.com/articles.html#sub_articles_E-commerce_in_Asia Issuer Quality and Corporate Bond Returns Authors:Greenwood, Robin, and Samuel G. Hanson Publication:Review of Financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
are four main recommendations that emerge from the research, which are developed further in the final section of this testimony. For the World Bank to enhance democratic participatory processes that can achieve successful development... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
Justus at eBay Germany (C) Harvard Business School Supplement 409-029 This case traces the development of eBay Germany, eBay Inc., and the career of eBay Germany's first country manager, Philipp Justus. The case covers from 2000 through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
Does Planning Regulation Protect Independent Retailers? By: Sadun, Raffaella Abstract—Regulations aimed at curbing the entry of large retail stores have been introduced in many countries to protect independent retailers. Analyzing a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
country unit to adjust to local needs is a critical balancing act. Rule 4: Timing is critical. Retailers would do well to stop planting flags and focus instead on a limited set of opportunities where they can establish operations of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
options. Several conclusions emerge: 1. As suggested by the example above and further elaborated on below, the dual-reporting system can enable opportunistic behavior by managers at the expense of investors and tax authorities. This insight, from an View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
developed countries. Large emerging economies with little inward FDI include India and Turkey, despite the relaxation over the last two decades of the restrictions imposed on foreign firms between 1950 and 1980. This working paper... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
democratic governments respond better to salient emergencies than to less conspicuous ones. Even so, the results suggest that even the most responsive government will fare worse in the subsequent election than had there been no disaster.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
pre-production stage. This summer, Elkins will be focusing on her latest research project, which will become her next book. It’s a deep dive into the recent history of violence in several former British colonies; she has set up research sites in 14 View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
countries improve trade conditions and build sustainable practices. Back then, fair trade essentially referred to a system of price-fixing, using Resale Price Maintenance contracts to help smaller businesses and associations compete... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
countries. The book draws on literatures and archives that have previously only been available in Spanish, while the concluding chapter makes use of Harvard Business School's new project known as “Creating Emerging Markets,” which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
forthcoming Abstract A broad literature has emerged over the past decades demonstrating that firms' environmental strategies and practices are influenced by stakeholders and institutional pressures. Such findings are consistent with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
Case 709-429 This case explores the role that MTV, with its heavy diet of music and general youth-oriented media content, plays in spreading public-service messaging to contain the scourge of HIV/AIDS worldwide. There is a focus especially on its efforts in several... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
some companies hard-code ethical values—for example, the numerical value of a human life—into an algorithm. Others set up self-teaching AI to “learn” what risks the AV can take. Countries often want automated systems to adhere to local... View Details
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
led to the emergence of new industrial clusters around the world. In this paper, we examine how "first nature" location fundamentals and "second nature" agglomeration economies jointly determine the global landscape of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
(NBS) institutional framework (Whitley 1997, 1999), we theorize about and empirically investigate the impact of nation-level institutions on firms' corporate social performance (CSP). Using a sample of firms from 42 countries spanning... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne