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- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
survival of only the most productive domestic firms. We investigate the roles of the two different mechanisms in determining the aggregate productivity gains by exploring their distinct predictions on the distributions of domestic firms:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
The Deleterious Effects of Dirty Money
corporations, and fake transactions. The practice bolsters international crime and terrorism and contributes to global inequality and poverty, he writes. A guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a senior fellow at the Center for... View Details
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
investigated how an organization’s heightened focus on political ideology impacts employees. We address this gap by exploring how an individual’s political ideological misfit with an organization’s prevailing ideology impacts mobility. By... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
(forthcoming) Abstract We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi-natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
Andrew J. Higgins
biggest suppliers to the military mobilization effort for World War II. Over 90% of the navy vessels produced during the war were designed by Higgins Industries including most of the landing ships which... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Alfred B. Dick Jr.
During World War II, under Dick’s direction, approximately 50% of A. B. Dick and Company’s facilities were devoted to war materials production. After the war, Dick launched the 400 series of A. B. Dick... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
the government took so long to move could have been as simple as structure. “There are lessons to be gleaned from how the war on terrorism played out, post–9/11, where there... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
2017 Annual Review of Economics Agricultural Insurance and Economic Development By: Cole, Shawn A., and Wentao Xiong Abstract—This article provides a review of recent research on agricultural insurance (AI) in developing countries.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
The U.S. Army is one of the best training institutions in the world, says HBS professor Scott A. Snook, a retired Army colonel. How does the Army develop leaders? Snook discusses his new book, Making Sense of Officership: Developing a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
free trade in some industries or regions lead to requests for protection through trade barriers. Politicians pick up on those requests, and we witness periodic trade spats. The Catfish War is a famous... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
arbitrariness of the set. Drawing on Gestalt psychology, we develop a conceptual account that predicts what will—and will not—act as a pseudo-set and defines the psychological process through which these pseudo-sets affect behavior,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Leading the Charge
In the first days of military action in Iraq, with Americans unsure of what lay ahead, one commanding, symbolic image in this media–intensive war held sway: a U.S. Marine, ripping down a huge poster of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
School of Hard Knocks
Illustration by Richard Downs, Theispot.com When I was in sixth grade, I used to spend recess hiding under a truck in a garage at school. One of the few Caucasian students enrolled in what was my "neighborhood" school—on a Native American... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
increasing profitability by immersing themselves in the lives of their customers. This book shows how resilient organizations cut through internal barriers that impede action, build bridges between warring divisions, and transform former... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Examining the Magnitude of Syria’s Refugee Crisis
Syrian communities was phase one of a large-scale survey Fabbe conducted to gain insight into the effects of the war on those who had fled from the conflict at home. Throughout... View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- News
What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
essay with the Washington Post, which published it on March 27. The concern about shortages of masks, ventilators, hospital gowns, and testing kits got me to thinking about the Vietnam War, when I was the senior civilian official... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
there? SR: A lot of my work is on earlier periods, when trade wars were literally wars—when the English, say, set out to blow the Dutch out of the water, and they did. We aren’t in that world anymore, but it... View Details
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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
and altitude in a laboratory that included a climatic room, altitude chamber, and treadmills. The Lab made over 150 recommendations concerning clothing, nutrition, and survival gear to the War Department. View Details
- Portrait Project
John Kelleher
I want to help make the term "foreign policy" obsolete. Political and business leaders talk a great deal about globalization but too often fall back on old dichotomies—picturing a world divided between domestic and foreign... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
documents as well as from private diaries, letters, and secret audio recordings. The book casts new light on Roosevelt’s concealment of what America knew about Hitler’s war against the Jews and explores... View Details