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- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
Whaling Ventures Nicholas, Tom, and Jonas Peter AkinsHarvard Business School Case 813-086 : Whaling was a prominent global industry in the nineteenth century and the United States was dominant. By 1850 there were about 900 whaling ships... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
exclude customers without Internet access or a bank account. That strikes me as a relatively small investment to make for a relatively large number of individuals. Tufano suggests a few adjustments to "reinvent" the savings bond program, such as allowing... View Details
- 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25
old technology, and "retreat" strategies, which attempt to accommodate the rise of the new technology by repositioning the old technology in the demand environment. Underlying our arguments is the observation that the emergence... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
managers. Health care innovators must master not only managerial skills but also the complex forces affecting the sector." One clear message emerging from the conference was the importance of change management. How are concepts underlying... View Details
- 16 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 16, 2008
city, state and federal level, and explores the role of economic and cluster performance through 2005. Detailed historical economic and social data allows for an evaluation of policy results. The case finishes with Mayor Michael Bloomberg... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
the past to lower risk and instill consumer confidence. "From the founding of the republic until 1933, the United States experienced banking panics roughly every fifteen to twenty years," explains Moss. When the Great Depression struck,... View Details
- 18 May 2010
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First Look: May 18
market. We present statistics on the activity in these market mechanisms and present survey evidence that both mechanisms have facilitated matches. The paper concludes by discussing the emergence of platforms for transmitting job market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
nation's social enterprise organizations. Today, the United States has more than 1.4 million non-profit organizations, and they account for 5 percent of GDP. Annual contributions have grown faster than the economy for years, and experts... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
carry out community service projects, to which they gave more than twenty thousand employee hours in 1998. Each organization considers the relationship with the other to be of central strategic importance. That these emerging strategic... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
growth, voting rules, and media consumption, vs. individual factors, such as race and education. We use individual-level panel data covering the vast majority of the U.S. voting-age population from 2008 to 2014 and track changes in movers’ behavior as they cross View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 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
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
computer science, actually emerge in regions that import less expensive goods from China. Service jobs like retail and restaurants fall slightly, but not in a statistically significant way, the researchers found. Robots on the march... View Details
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
risks—including spending hours reading or watching the news. "This is such an impermanent state of affairs that we just have to do as best we can." Rather than ruminating on the virus and replaying possible future outcomes in our minds,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
and Indonesia to the Philippines, is now just half the world average. Poverty is not, of course, a new phenomenon. But during the Cold War, economic misery abroad did not matter to Washington; the United States and its allies were... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4
variety of important domains, from education and business to law and societal discourse. An emerging research literature has revealed the many ways in which colorblindness shapes individual, group, and institutional efforts to handle... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
potentially vaccine-resistant. McKinsey & Co. argues that hoping for herd immunity in the United States and United Kingdom by October 2021 is optimistic, pointing out the likely possibility of “unexpected safety issues View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
Heinz, of the famous food company; Marshall Field, the Chicago retailer; Estée Lauder, who created one of the largest cosmetics companies in the world; Howard Schultz, of Starbucks Coffee Company; and Michael Dell, of Dell Computer Corporation. Their genius, she points... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Dark Side of Trust
Americans find it especially difficult to overcome trust barriers. Why did you look at this, and what were the results? A: Great business ideas can emerge anywhere in the economy. In fact, as we know from a long line of research, many... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
today, a combination of fragmentation in consumer shopping behavior and emerging alternatives to home delivery will change how Americans buy consumables. The inexorable march of internet technology will create significant changes in the... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
symbiotic economic relationship that has developed between the People's Republic of China and the United States of America. The entry of Chinese labor into the world economy has significantly boosted the returns on capital relative to the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace