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- 13 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?
Private equity buyouts are a polarizing financial prospect. One need only look at the name of the recent bill that Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) introduced to regulate private equity in the United States—the “Stop Wall Street Looting... View Details
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.
organizations tended to be created for the purpose of marketing countries as investment sites and not with the primary objectives of screening investment or negotiating with investors. Governments can adopt two polar positions in their... View Details
Keywords: by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint
- 15 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax
tax. The people [the president is] talking about taxing are the very people that we expect to reinvest in our economy and to create jobs." With the Presidential election of 2016 around the corner and political polarization at peak... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl
- 17 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News
Harvard Business School. “Even in this politicized, polarized environment that our country finds itself in, people value accuracy.” Ultimately, Jordan’s research casts doubt on the idea that reputational motivations, and in particular the... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
The children's classic The Polar Express tells the fanciful story of a young boy's journey to the North Pole on a train filled with chocolate and candy. But when Warner Brothers released a $165 million computer-animated version of the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Does December's Drug-Approval Dash Mean for COVID-19 Vaccines?
these vaccines. Kost: How can regulators maintain confidence in the drug review process, especially during such a politically polarized time? Cohen: That is probably the hardest question. I don't know the right answer. They’re between a... View Details
- 12 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict
Even as polarized political discussion appears to have frozen the possibility of compromise, new research suggests that divided sides can come together on many issues to make decisions. “Our research finds that inaccurate beliefs really... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
discuss the core challenges of fighting global carbon dioxide emissions in a shortsighted, ideologically polarized environment. To his mind, both in Europe and in the United States, government efforts to regulate carbon emissions have... View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707493 PublicationsMerchant or Two-Sided Platform Author:Andrei Hagiu Periodical:Review of Network Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper provides a first pass at clarifying the economic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
dukes"; 6) initiates and sustains cross-cutting actions to break down the polarizing effect of "fiefdoms" and "stovepipes"; as well as 7) focuses attention on cultivating and managing key external stakeholders... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2024
- Op-Ed
Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.
Like: Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace? How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation Feedback or ideas to share? Email the... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
education, and the arts—Forged in Crisis spotlights five masters of crisis: polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, President Abraham Lincoln, legendary abolitionist Frederick Douglass, Nazi-resisting clergyman Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
performance. In summary, the polarized claims that corporate voluntary regulation represents a win-win opportunity-or constitutes a smokescreen that allows firms to operate with less regulatory oversight-are misguided. Instead, the key to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?
As a polarizing US presidential election nears, moderating controversial content on social media poses a pressing problem for tech giants. But no matter how many employees they hire, lines of code they write, or new content policies they... View Details
- 04 May 2016
- What Do You Think?
What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?
million polar research ship. Johnson, the U.K. Government’s Science Minister responsible for, among other things, NERC, sought to get the effort off on the right inspirational foot by saying: “Can you imagine one of the world’s biggest... View Details
- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
in open water that the polar ice caps still cover. The list goes on and on. Within the past few days, Thomas Friedman, the journalist and best-selling author of The World Is Flat, intimated in an interview with Tim Russert that he is... View Details
- 20 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
about “content moderation”—not for the easy topics like spam or copyright material—but for the hard things revolving around political points of view, hate speech, polarizing perspectives, etc. How will Facebook strike the balance between... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Apr 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?
essentially treats them as means to an end. Why is that? Among other things, Pfeffer speculates that one reason is that we assume correctly that polar bears can't do much to affect their own well-being. Humans, on the other hand, can take... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
immigration going forward. "My belief is that the debate has become too polarized and you have people on both sides advocating positions that have become caricatures," Kerr says. "There are two sides to the sword. It's better for us to... View Details
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
added: "Predictive analytics could (provide) such specialized, repetitive solutions that society will become polarized into user niches that can no longer properly interact What a sad state of affairs." Philippe Gouamba... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett