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- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
instead a scenario where the traveler can summon a pooled vehicle that takes her and several other riders from where they live to where they work, saving them hours and saving the city money. No cash changes hands, reducing both petty corruption and crime. And the... View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
in research and development going forward,” Cohen said. Congress has considered more than a dozen bills that seek to control patent trolling by slamming companies that are found to be initiating frivolous suits with higher fees after the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
asking when the set of strategic decisions are exactly the decisions a CEO should control to give effective guidance. It finally shows how a CEO's vision, in the sense of a strong belief, about strategic decisions makes it more likely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
with the stock market. After the Crash of 1929, a new regimen of regulation was decreed for the financial services industry, with the 1940 Investment Company Act imposing especially tight controls on the nascent mutual fund industry. In... View Details
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
people spend less time at work by empowering them to take decisions without 2- or 3- levels up approvals ." Tema Frank said that "we need to move to a system where people are compensated based on results achieved rather than... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part Two]
territories where people control their own turf, their own profit-and-loss responsibility, and their own division. New ideas, whether that includes the Internet or anything else, don't descend upon a company in the boxes that have already... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
the model, we find that (i) the supply of long- relative to short-term bonds is positively related to the term spread, (ii) supply predicts positively long-term bonds' excess returns even after controlling for the term spread and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
in the control group receive a standard volunteer contract often offered for this type of task, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive small financial rewards, large financial rewards, and non-financial rewards,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
disastrous mistakes that can splinter a founding team, strip founders of control, and leave founders without a financial payoff for their hard work and innovative ideas. He highlights the need at each step to strike a careful balance between View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
identify three major dimensions that characterize change in regulatory systems generally: priorities and incentives, bureaucratic alignment, and transparency and monitoring. Using these dimensions, we first unpack the mechanisms that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
study highlights the small-world system's evolutionary dynamics at both the macro level of the network and the micro level of an individual actor. This dual analytical lens helps establish that, in competitive and information-intensive settings, a small-world View Details
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
universities. In 1952, these institutions were reorganized according to the Soviet model and remained highly specialized until the resurgence of comprehensive institutions after 1978. This background note describes this history and then elaborates on the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
not translate into a greater desire to purchase their preferred item or into an overall benefit for choice satisfaction. Time-of-day controls were used to confirm that the observed effects could not be explained by circadian influences.... View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
information in online retail. In our experiments, customers are randomly assigned to a treatment condition where virtual fit information is available or to a control condition where virtual fit information is not available. Our results... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
new industries in Japan are things like highly skilled specialist personnel; a lack of risk capital because of heavily controlled financial markets; barriers to commercializing university research; and limited incentives for risk taking.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
controlling for the potential effect of cultural norms. China provides a good research lab since it combines great heterogeneity in institutional development across the Chinese provinces with homogeneity in cultural norms, law, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
inspiration and guidance do you think retailers could draw from the Toyota Production System (TPS)? A: TPS highlights include the power of focusing and executing the operational details; the vital role of continuous process improvement;... View Details
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
distance where he could perform surgery. The consequences can be equally severe in technology companies: for instance, in 2001 Doron Kempel was forced to resign as the CEO of SANgate Systems after just three months when a judge determined... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
access to greater capital be the best strategy or would this cause the organization to lose its social mission? Salud Digna provided diagnostic medical tests to the poor, had experienced rapid growth, and was financially self-sufficient.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
against a control group of customers. Econometric analysis of historical data: Historical data are analyzed to determine how customers have responded to different marketing actions in the past. Predictions can then be made as to how... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne