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- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
Double-digit long-term growth might justify bragging rights for any country. But a turbocharged GDP comes at a price, says Eric D. Werker, an associate professor in the Business, Government and International Economy unit at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
experiments replicated and extended this basic effect, providing evidence of when and why it occurs. Taken together, these studies imply that the proactive revelation of costs can improve a firm’s bottom line. Government Technology Policy, Social Value, and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
person's view of the water privatization (relative to other privatizations) was 16% more negative if he/she was read a vignette with some of the negative statements about the water privatization that Argentina's President expressed during the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
their data for two years before publishing it. "Today," he said, "the standard is 24 hours to put information on the Web; that's the rule for participating in the Genome Project." (The U.S. Human Genome Project, a joint effort of the U.S. Department of Energy and the... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? Authors:Diego A. Comin, William Easterly, and Erick Gong Abstract We assemble a dataset on technology adoption in 1000 B.C., 0 A.D., and 1500 A.D. for the predecessors to today's View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
gender and commercial activity within founders’ local communities. The presence of female business owners in the same community mitigates the role of founders’ gender on the use of commercial activity. We examine these issues through a novel sample of 584 social... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
capitalist Shibusawa Eiichi in a global historical perspective. The chapter reviews the similarities and differences over time and between countries of proponents of corporate responsibility, including Andrew Carnegie and Robert Anderson in the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
embedding environmental and social factors in their supply chain management and by signing on the United Nations Global Compact, while Malaysian firms adopted reporting guidelines. We do not find any... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
most of these minorities fled or were killed. In other words, the country’s entrepreneurial elite were decimated. It proved a lengthy and challenging process over subsequent decades to build a new Muslim national business class employing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
Federal Reserve Bank, succinctly explained the purpose of ARD in an address he gave in November 1945 before the National Association of Securities Commissioners in Chicago. "We have the [greatest] number of possibilities for new... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50225 Harvard Business School Case 515-701 Wynton Marsalis & Jazz at Lincoln Center Under the leadership of artistic director Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) hosts performances and education events... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
students look mediocre, or worse, in comparison to students in other industrialized countries. Urban districts on average perform far below national averages, and have highly concentrated student enrollments. In fact, while the 100... View Details
- 27 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Beware the Lasting Impression of a 'Temporary' Selfie
encourages people to take more risks when they decide to post. So the impression from those posts can linger in the mind of an observer, say, a colleague or employer, and “come back to haunt,” according to new research published in a recent issue of Proceedings of the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10
inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?
fact, large global companies to which jobs were formerly outsourced have begun setting up operations in the US and United Kingdom. Is it time to recognize the advantages of bigness when it comes to employment and economic development? If... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- June 2024
- Teaching Note
Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR
By: Boris Groysberg, David Lane, Susan Pinckney and Alexis Lefort
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 424-004. Unicorn human relationships startup Beamery evaluates it growth versus depth strategy as its strategic partners and customers could become future competitors in a quickly changing AI based human resources and talent management... View Details
Keywords: Analysis; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Startups; Business Plan; Disruption; Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Decisions; Diversity; Ethnicity; Gender; Nationality; Race; Residency; Higher Education; Learning; Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Growth and Development; AI and Machine Learning; Digital Platforms; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Job Offer; Job Search; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Product; Mission and Purpose; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Corporate Strategy; Equality and Inequality; Valuation; Value Creation; Employment Industry; United Kingdom
- 26 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 26
PublicationsBanks as Multinationals Author:Geoffrey Jones Publication:New York: Routledge, 2012 Abstract This is a revised edition of a comparative, international study which looks at the history of multinational banks. Researchers from the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
in captivity? Three professors in Harvard Business School's Entrepreneurial Management unit who focus on the study of creativity recognize the romantic allure of believing it's a rare quality bestowed on a chosen few, but all agree that... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
are particularly interested in understanding how, if at all, the firm should go about effecting meaningful word-of-mouth (WOM). To tackle this problem, we collect data from two sources: 1) We implemented a large-scale field test in which a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
long-term growth with disruptive potential, Summa invested in four thematic areas that were mapped to megatrends outlined in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals—trends Summa believed presented... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne