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  • 06 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

Forecasting Author:Walter A. Friedman Abstract The Harvard Economic Service pioneered in the business of economic forecasting by publishing a quarterly journal on economic statistics and, starting in 1922, a weekly letter on economic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 May 2011
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First Look: May 31

  PublicationsDo Voters Demand Responsive Governments? Evidence from Indian Disaster Relief Authors:Shawn Cole, Andrew Healy, and Eric Werker Publication:Journal of Development Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Using rainfall, public... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Business History around the World

structures of large manufacturing corporations remains important, but a new generation of researchers has explored business networks, the family firm, knowledge creation and transfer, public policy and business, and a host of other... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

Long-Run Investment: The Case of Innovation Authors:Josh Lerner, Morten Sørensen, and Per Strömberg Abstract A long-standing controversy is whether LBOs relieve managers from short-term pressures from public shareholders, or whether LBO... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Mar 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?

of public leadership, in recent years. Perhaps in reaction to what we read about in the daily news, these very concepts are at the core of what seems to be an increasing amount of research ranging from marketing to leadership. Take this... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 07 Aug 2017
  • Research & Ideas

'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips

kept getting longer, and I finally realized I might be able to do a service by putting all this information into one package. Silverthorne: Is the academic job market for accounting PhDs a difficult field to break into? Rouen: Every year,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting; Education
  • 11 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Digital Designs on the Inner City

the country's first public access technology center established in an inner city, said the center has 26 computers plus video and music editing equipment, and offers residents classes in computer programming. The center is conspicuously... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007

quality of the search service offered to consumers is more likely to be degraded (i.e. the probability that consumers find their favorite store in the first round of search is less than 1) when the intermediary derives higher revenues... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007

  Working PapersNone this week.   Cases & Course MaterialsAscent Media Group (A) Harvard Business School Case 607-064 Ascent Media races to adapt to the changes resulting from increasing digitalization of its business, from creative post-production View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

advantages, great employee and customer loyalty, and a smoother on-ramp in leadership succession. A book excerpt from The Ownership Quotient: Putting the Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable Competitive Advantage by HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24

  Publications March 2015 Partners or Creditors? Attracting Foreign Investment and Productive Development to Central America and Dominican Republic Foreign Direct Investment: Effects, Complementarities, and Promotion By: Alfaro, Laura... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

initial public offering, creating a market value of $323 million at the end of the first day of trading. It would prove to be the most successful investment of all the XTV companies. Even though Xerox's share had declined to 38 percent by... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
  • 23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23

(forthcoming) Abstract Competition among firms yields many benefits but can also encourage firms to engage in corrupt or unethical activities. We argue that competition can lead organizations to provide services that customers demand but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

of racial inclusion on boards of directors among large public corporations, and we draw upon in-depth interviews with key participants to gain insights into the mechanisms that are likely to have generated the patterns we detect in our... View Details
  • 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

communication on financial choices of married individuals in the Philippines. Making choices public moves men from putting money into their own account to consumption; communication with their spouse drives men to put income in their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.

crucial role in helping to combat Ebola in Liberia. Founded in 2007 to serve the most remote of Liberia’s 15 counties grappling with the HIV/AIDS crisis, Last Mile Health recruits, trains and supports community members not already in the health care field to provide... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health
  • 01 Apr 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?

and services is growing. This has been interpreted by some to suggest that such countries need not worry about deficits. “Modern Monetary Theory is based in part on the belief that there may be a disconnect between deficits, inflation,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 03 Apr 2017
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How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?

infrastructure in the nation’s history, called the GI Bill, had one of the highest rates of return to the economy that the government has ever realized. The GI Bill enabled me to complete graduate studies. In addition, just six months of Army classroom training during... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Construction
  • 02 Jul 2014
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Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?

Waterman), Level 5 Leadership (described by Jim Collins as centered around personal humility and professional will), servant leadership (defined by Robert Greenleaf in terms of service to others as a leader's most important role), and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 04 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 4

  Publications November 2014 Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias Los Buenos Tiempos Son Éstos: Los efectos de la incursión de la banca extranjera en México después de un siglo de crisis bancarias [These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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