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- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
founder of Celtel, which when sold had over 24 million mobile phone subscribers across Africa, and Ela Bhatt, Indian activist and founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association of India. The interviews, many on video, are intended to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
observers perceive employees who express distress as less competent than employees who do not. Across five experiments, we explore how reframing a socially inappropriate emotional expression (distress) by publicly attributing it to an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
policies can be partially explained by respondents' low trust in government and a disconnect between concerns about social issues and the public policies meant to address them. Publisher's link: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
finance. Wilson then addresses issues central to the present-day political discussion, such as the fairness of US tax policy, the social safety net, health care, and income inequality. Faculty Books Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
Regulate Companies like Airbnb and Uber? By: Edelman, Benjamin G., and Damien Geradin Abstract—New software platforms use modern information technology, including full-featured web sites and mobile apps, to allow service providers and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
Systems with multiple components that are tightly linked to one another are prone to such events. Increasingly, our industrial, commercial, and social systems are coming to have the characteristics that predict system-level accidents—in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
evolution of the organization’s attempts to grow its social impact in Brazil and beyond—including a loose network of sister organizations, social franchising, licensing agreements, and government adoption.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
that of the DAX 30 (but not much more) is the exception to the rule. That means potential global investors in such companies will have to deal with actively involved owners or families, rather than managers. For such family-controlled firms, they will have to deal with... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
results of a customer interview. After creating a quick landing page and announcing the product launch through social media channels, the company finds significant customer interest. With only two weeks of promising data, the CEO must... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
people?” Founded in 2003 as a phone number for residents to dial (311) from a landline for information on city services and to log complaints, the city launched a 311 website and mobile app in 2009 and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
credentializing strategies (Power, 1992); they mobilized and drew on different cultural resources to construct the reliability of their techniques and to discredit and "minoritize" the others. This credibility contest was won by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
From social media to the grocery store to the corner office and all the way to the stratosphere, the research and entrepreneurial adventures HBS faculty, doctoral students and alumni undertook this year have changed the way we understand... View Details
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
2005 book Jealousy of Trade, which explores the birth of economic nationalism and other social effects of expanding eighteenth-century markets. Markets, Morals, Politics brings together a celebrated cast of Hont’s contemporaries to assess... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
in the future. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317094-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-048 BYJU's The Learning App BYJU’S The Learning App (BYJU’s) is India’s largest K-12 education app with about 300,000 annual paid subscribers. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
affiliation. These results hold through a large number of specifications and cannot be attributed to mobilization against the laws, measured by campaign contributions and self-reported political engagement. ID requirements have no effect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
rigorous methods to problems of great social importance, tirelessly championing multi-level analyses of problems that matter. His impact on our field has been immense. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
attracted criticism for its purely empirical approach, its failure to make consistently accurate predictions, and its pursuit of commercial objectives in a university setting. Harvard's efforts to build a forecasting service are an early chapter in the evolution of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Nancy Barry (MBA 1975), founder and president of Enterprise Solutions to Poverty, which mobilizes and supports leading companies and entrepreneurs in building profitable and inclusive businesses that incorporate millions of low-income... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
physical assets (such as health records); combining data within and across industries (to, say, coordinate supply chains); trading data (as mobile providers do with information on users' whereabouts); and codifying best-in-class... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
This growth differential in turn depends on the mobility of the technology's labor force, which we model through the extent that technologies depend upon immigrant scientists and engineers. Spatial adjustments are faster for technologies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace