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- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?
in a recent working paper, Market Solutions to Privacy Problems? And what would consumers get in return for their personal information? Money perhaps, or price discounts, better customer service, maybe products tailored specifically to... View Details
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
whereas South Korea has 216 cases per million. "South Korea created a vast number of testing sites, which included not only big hospitals but local clinics and public health care facilities." What South Korea teaches us is that proactive testing and tracing, along with... View Details
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
We find clear evidence that (1) bonuses enhance productivity, (2) overachievement commissions help sustain the high productivity of the best performers even after attaining quotas, and (3) sales people exhibit present bias consistent with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-030.pdf Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers Authors:Shawn Cole, Martin Kanz, and Leora Klapper Abstract This paper uses a series of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
industry.The challenge that we face—making health care affordable and conveniently accessible to most people—is not unique to health care. Almost every industry began with services and products that were so complicated and expensive to... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
Reserve's Tenth Annual Report of 1923. The three principles I focus on are 1) the discouraging of speculative lending by commercial banks, 2) the desire to meet the credit needs of business, and 3) the preference of a focus on credit over... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
are the emerging clusters of multinational production the rule or the exception? What drives the offshore agglomeration of multinational firms in comparison to the agglomeration of domestic firms? Using a unique worldwide plant-level... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
from the collusive price, thereby raising total production costs. Our results can thus rationalize the apparently contradictory empirical facts that the market for IPO underwriting exhibits seemingly collusive pricing despite its low... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
"War Stories: Success Criteria for Business in Greater China." On the panel were several veterans of the Chinese commercial battlefield. "I believe the future is in China," said a solemn Thomas Kirkwood, director and CEO of China General,... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
and professional activities of academic biomedical scientists. In qualitative and quantitative analyses, we show that scientists match to their postdoctoral mentors based on two dominant factors, geography and scientific focus. They then adopt their advisers'... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016
new products and businesses. The three-box framework makes leading innovation easier because it gives leaders a simple vocabulary and set of tools for managing and measuring these different sets of behaviors and activities across all... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
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Losing Passion for Your Job? Why Quitting Might Be the Right Move | Working Knowledge
going.” Your first success doesn’t need to define you Jachimowicz points to professional athletes who retire due to physical limitations and have no choice but to try something new. Just look at former soccer star Mathieu Flamini, who now runs a biochemical company... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
attorney, put up seed money and became a silent partner. (Jardine is no longer involved in the company; his ideals soon clashed with the realities of a commercial venture.) Soon after, Coup and Kim moved to Boulder, the laid-back college... View Details
- 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016
functional proximity over base proximity when locating preventive health services. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51094 forthcoming Production and Operations Management Multi-Echelon Inventory Management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
behavior and preferences into service cost and productivity standard metrics. Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios Authors:W. Jakub Jurkek and Luis M. Viceira Publication:Review of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Ansel Adams and Polaroid R&D | Baker Library
competence is complete. . . . I should like to send you a camera and associated equipment and film as a personal gift.” (2) Land asked Adams to serve as a consultant to test Polaroid cameras and films. Assessment of the performance and functionality of Polaroid View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17
quickly to execute the strategy. The firm has committed $1b in investment, building out a new software center in California and a commercial sales function at headquarters to deploy the new products and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
affairs, could create national wealth based on manufacturing. This production would be fueled by an imperialistic British Empire, which through its expansion would provide the needed raw materials. The book proved extremely persuasive at... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne