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  • 30 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.

players tend to offer. The problem is that lending to small businesses falls through the regulatory cracks, specifically on borrower protections. As a case in point, safeguards such as the Truth in Lending Act afford consumers View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills and Brayden McCarthy; Financial Services
  • 10 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 10

rubber markets during the boom years of 1870-1910 shows that the government generated 1.3% of GDP through an export tax on rubber but that it could have generated 4.7% in total, had the government set the tariff at the optimal level.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 12, 2006

Set Harvard Business School Exercise 807-036 Purchase this exercise: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807036   PublicationsDisruptive Innovation for Social Change Authors:Clayton M. Christensen, Heiner... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

Incentives, and Explicit Incentives Authors:Romana L. Autrey, Shane S. Dikolli, and D. Paul Newman Publication:Journal of Management Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract We examine a setting in which managers have differential... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

actually have a lot to learn from one another, rather than setting one country's management practices up as a standard to which others should conform—or else they do not measure up or are somehow... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2002
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Marrying Distance and Classroom Education

Traditionally, businesses thought about doing distance learning because it saved money or provided logistics benefits. But your suggestion is that it can be a better way of doing things if you really think it through and set it up right.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

Millions of Americans, from hourly retail staffers to corporate vice presidents, wrestle with the demands of work while parenting young children, caring for a sick spouse or aging parent—or both. That juggling act is made even tougher by rigid practices and rules View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

Business Answers the Call

be rectified.” Major changes included individualizing resource allocation and basing it on a child’s educational needs (“In Seattle, the schools with the smallest classes, the most teachers, and the most resources are the ones with the kids who are most difficult to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 29 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 29, 2008

in historically low-waged markets. As a COO, Bridle needed to ensure that Shangri-La's signature standards of "Asian Hospitality" were maintained during this expansion. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 19

differences in accounting standards across countries reflect relatively stable institutional differences (e.g., auditing technology, the rule of law, etc.), why did several countries rapidly, albeit in a staggered manner, adopt IFRS over... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2017
  • News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

IBM team pitched their superiors on the company building a computer that could compete on Jeopardy!. It was bold, even risky; Jeopardy! was the ur–game show of idioms and double meanings. Building software for natural-language processing meant coding a small View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
  • 29 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

his insights to set the stage. Senior Lecturer Clayton S. Rose, who for 20 years worked at JP Morgan & Company and headed global investment banking and global equity there, discussed the implications of change in commercial and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 25 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 25

1990s and 2000s magnified these challenges, as illustrated by the deployment of the descendent of the NCSA HTTPd server, otherwise known as Apache. This study asks whether this experience could produce measurement issues in standard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 6

politicians only provide the services people vote for within the civil and property rights protections set forth in the constitution. Publisher's link: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard

professional group's distinct standards can create a false impression that all is well. Yet the Murdoch case teaches us that nesting dolls require our full attention. Although these configurations may seem nimble, they can also be highly... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Journalism & News; Publishing
  • 28 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 28

people to buy forecasts? Does the act of forecasting set in motion unforeseen events that can counteract the forecast made? Publisher's link: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10057.html August 2013 Edward Elgar Publishing Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

all it provides. Second, we redistribute to a large degree through the tax system, and that's a really important set of social decisions. Finally, we create a set of incentives for behavior and that's... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

decision-making is limited. Exploiting exogenous variation in state compulsory schooling laws in both standard and two-sample instrumental variable strategies, we show education increases financial market participation, measured by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 28

learn if a standardized and institutionalized organizational learning process like SFP can enhance dynamic capabilities. The SFP model is illustrated with an application to Hewlett-Packard's Santa Rosa Systems Division. 2006 Journal of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society

they understand themselves differs from the standards society has set. These contradictions produce potent demands for what Holt terms utopian desires—the desire for imaginative constructions that will resolve the felt tensions. Brands... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace