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- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
including suggestions for future research. The Many Faces of Nonprofit Accountability Authors:Alnoor Ebrahim Publication:Chap. 4 in The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management. 3rd ed., edited by David O. Renz,... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
Arab people.’” Even the concept of a systematic large scale, door-to-door, get-out-the-vote campaign is new in France. When the researchers looked at the results, however, they found a significant effect on voter turnout for immigrant... View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
Chinese exceptionalism? This concept dovetails with the idea that China must change its development model in order to gain long-term economic and social stability. Economists have been saying this for a long time and the Chinese... View Details
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
represent numbers in search of concepts that provide the illusion of meaning where none exists. This paper, dedicated to our dear friend, David Bradford, provides a general proof that standard and routinely used fiscal measures, including... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
(61%). Note that this 61% penetration rate is essentially at parity with home ownership (64%) and higher than that of 401(k) retirement account ownership (53%). Life settlements, or life insurance settlements, allow individuals to sell... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015
led to cuts in basic public services, declines in population, and significant urban blight. The State of Michigan appointed an emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, to lead the city though the restructuring process. In March 2014, Orr and his... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17
trading and investing being particularly controversial. We focus on the role of banks in the private equity market. We show that bank-affiliated private equity groups accounted for a significant share of the private equity activity and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
role of telecommunications firms in providing content. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53774 forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research Effects of an Information Sharing System on Employee Creativity,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
questions raised about plan-based approaches undermine longstanding claims that those approaches, when realized, represent maturity of practice. In this commentary, we call for research programs that will move beyond partisan disagreement to a more nuanced discussion,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
of such historical accounts but observing that they can (1) bring to light complex realities and subtleties that parsimonious analytic models may neglect; (2) suggest overlooked, non-obvious aspects of the process that merit deeper, more... View Details
- 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14
viable product, in order to real-world test Gallop's "business of the future" concept while development was ongoing. IWRTW was conceived to bring together human good intentions with corporate good intentions, to activate both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13
services is much more widespread than has hitherto been appreciated. Drawing on concepts from research on scale economies and transaction costs, we develop a set of hypotheses about differences in the expected depth of internalization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008
Invention Factory, an advanced concept lab, would develop new breakthrough products and reinvigorate the company's culture of innovation. Since the 1960s, Timberland had relied on innovation, developing the world's first waterproof boot... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
"Rediscovering the End Consumer, Over and Over Again" we show how most "new" business concepts are simply self-referring. They do not move beyond the rules of a certain way of doing capitalism, and therefore they... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28
game-theoretical agent-based models to explore group genesis in homogeneous populations and find robust group formation with just two basic principles: reciprocity and transitivity. These emergent groups demonstrate in-group cooperation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
results suggest for-profit insurers are likelier than not-for-profit insurers to exercise market power when they possess it. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55635 forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne