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- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
research shows health outcomes are poorer in impoverished neighborhoods that border wealthier areas. In terms of the haves, people aware of their higher status tend to be more selfish, entitled, and scornful, creating a psychological... View Details
- 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12
engaging in real earnings management and suggest the effects on subsequent reporting periods and competitor behavior are greater than previously documented. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-073.pdf Negotiating the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
''How long can this be sustained without effective push-back?" Others noted the benefits of scale in fostering success for the foreseeable future. Robert Duque suggested that the organization will learn from its subsidiaries, such as... View Details
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
Harvard business and public health students called Consumers, Corporations and Public Health, says food safety is more challenging than ever for three reasons: The globalization of the food business: Food products and ingredients travel across View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
and desire for it. Consistent with this conceptual account, we demonstrate that this brand flirting effect is mediated by excitement. Moreover, the brand flirting effect is most likely to emerge under... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
its origins at the Harvard Business School in the late 1920s. Over the following century, the editors show that the discipline and its practitioners often found themselves on the margins of academic discourses and their own institutions. There was a constant struggle... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how aid is spent by tracking its short-run effect on aggregate demand, prices, the national accounts, savings, and the balance of payments. We find that aid is mostly consumed, primarily... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008
awareness. We use a network approach to demonstrate that the connections between two countries through joint-membership in the same IGOs are associated with a large positive influence on the foreign direct investment that flows between them. Moreover, we show that this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23
borders and to allow U.S. multinationals to form new affiliates abroad without the support of local joint venture partners. Thus, this paper points out that immigration can enhance the competitiveness of multinational firms. Charitable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
capital ought to flow across country borders with minimal restriction and regulation. Freedom for capital movements became the new orthodoxy. In an intellectual, legal, and political history of financial globalization, Rawi Abdelal shows... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
Management Journal The Ethnic Migrant Inventor Effect: Codification and Recombination of Knowledge Across Borders By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Do Yoon Kim Abstract—Ethnic migrant inventors may differ from locals in terms of the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
designed to enhance safety and effectiveness had the unintended effect of changing how men enacted their masculine identities at work. Interview and participant observation data show that the major... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
borders with minimal restriction and regulation. In fact, two very different visions for financial globalization have been in conflict. The U.S. approach to globalization has been ad hoc, relying on the bilateral influence of the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44800 Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly By: Baker, Malcolm, and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract—Minimum capital requirements are a central tool of banking regulation.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
Designed around the course at Harvard Business School, Collis' new text takes the firm that operates across borders as a unit of analysis and the senior manager in a multinational as the typical decision maker. Illustrated with examples... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016
and face disincentive effects from taxation but acquire positive benefits from public infrastructure. Political corruption governs the efficiency with which tax revenues are translated into infrastructure. The model predicts an inverted-U... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
high levels of inequality. While closing the borders of small markets to globalization has been a recipe for slow growth and low productivity, opening them all too often is a recipe for instability and shocks. View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
that internal agglomerations have a positive impact on location. The effects of internal agglomerations vary by activity, and they arise both within an activity (e.g., among plants) and across activities (e.g., between sales and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
90th percentile of corruption are much lower across the board. We make progress towards causality through Granger-style tests and by considering periphery counties where effective tax policy is largely driven by View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne