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- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
outfitter Timberland, begun in 1989 when City Year requested from Timberland fifty pairs of boots for its urban youth service corps, founded the previous year. The service corps program organizes youths from diverse ethnic, racial, and View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
challenging in the past, and remains so today, the book argues that one reason was how they have both been defined. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52778 forthcoming Journal of International Economics The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
Authors:Michael J. Roberts, Howard H. Stevenson, William A. Sahlman, Paul W. Marshall, and Richard G. Hamermesh, eds. Publication:New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2006 Abstract New Business Ventures and the Entrepreneur, 6th edition, is a text View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
free entry of rating agencies, the provision of quality ratings is at least partially sustained by the reputational concerns of the rating agencies. The economically significant entry of a third agency into a market that was previously... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
is all this misconduct occurring now? A: I think it's the confluence of several factors: the use of powerful incentive packages, an exuberance that pushed equity prices to heights that were hard to justify economically and yet were very... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53540 2017 Swedish Economic Forum Report 2017: Svensk konkurrenskraft The Swedish Competitiveness Scorecard 2017 By: Ketels, Christian H.M. Abstract—The Swedish Competitiveness Scorecard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
has been little empirical evidence on the propensity with which core-periphery structures are observed in practice, the factors that explain differences in the design of such structures, or the manner in which these structures evolve over... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
result, sponsorship does not close the gender gap in competitiveness or earnings. We discuss how these insights from the laboratory could help to inform the design of sponsorship programs in the field. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
Summer 2018 RAND Journal of Economics Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Although tractors are now used in nearly every agricultural field operation and in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 17, 2006
organizations that design these programs, the companies that are investing resources to adopt them, and those that are relying on them to infer the quality of management practices. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
organizational design so as to reinforce and enable each other. August 2013 Harvard Business Review 91, no. 9 (September 2013): 68-76 Great Leaders Who Make the Mix Work By: Groysberg, Boris, and Katherine Connolly Abstract—Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
Without leaving the hallways of their public high school, dozens of students from the economically distressed city of Newburgh, New York, have earned associate’s degrees in cybersecurity, arming them with in-demand skills and preparing... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
announced merger between American Airlines and US Airways reminds us of the critical role that bankruptcy law, represented by Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code, has played in the ongoing economic recovery. Like other recent large... View Details
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
would have you, and themselves, believe in how 'hard' they work it's about productivity in spite of how workers report about how hard any of us 'feel' we work." TNoble101, arguing for better economic justice for overtime workers,... View Details
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
engineering and designing for 'buildability.'" Down The Road While U.S automakers retrench, Toyota is aggressively building American factories and, with other foreign automakers, adding billions of dollars to the U.S. economy while... View Details
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
Publications Forthcoming National Bureau of Economic Research Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 16 By: Lerner, Josh, and Scott Stern Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://papers.nber.org/books/lern15-1 2015... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
Effective self-policing is critical to contemporary regulatory designs that rely heavily on regulated entities to monitor and assure their own regulatory compliance. We investigate whether self-reporting, or the voluntary disclosure of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
times and worst of times if you're a consumer in the current U.S. housing market. On the plus side, thanks to the 1990s' economic boom, some two-thirds of Americans, more than ever before, currently own their homes. At the same time,... View Details
- 13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13
services obtained in return, reduces general anti-tax sentiment, and holds satisfaction with tax payment stable despite increased compliance with tax dues. With tax noncompliance costing the U.S. government $385 billion annually, providing taxpayer agency could have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2
equity-bondholder conflicts are economically important, determine capital structure choices, and affect welfare. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-070.pdf The Many Faces of Nonprofit Accountability Author:Alnoor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace