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- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
Tower). Even controlling for factors including perceived quality and location, the researchers found that listings with nonblack hosts earned roughly 12 percent more than those with black hosts for... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
amount of talk about free markets or balanced budgets will make a difference. The solution is an entirely new engine of change: a World Development Corporation (WDC). This entity could be chartered by the United Nations View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
negative impact on innovation at targeted firms: firms substantially reduce their innovative activity after settling with NPEs (or losing to them in court). Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
E-See You Now Elie Ofek and Ron LauferHarvard Business School Case 510-061 What is next for healthcare IT provider American Well, whose innovative Online Care technology allows physicians to deliver care to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 May 2002
- Op-Ed
A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures
disciplinary powers similar to those of the stock exchanges. And, like them, it would be overseen by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SRO board should balance members of the accounting profession... View Details
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
there’s innovation that doesn’t happen,” says Gompers. “This is true [for] women, its true for underrepresented minorities, and it’s true for the formerly incarcerated as well.” Gompers says the case poses... View Details
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
says, "will kill us financially and medically it will ruin our economy, deny us the health care services we need, and undermine the important genomic research that can fundamentally improve the practice... View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
literacy may slow adoption of these products. This article reports on a field experiment that offered an innovative new financial product, rainfall insurance, to 600 small-scale farmers in India. A customized financial literacy View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
than 350 interviews in 20 countries to identify the leadership practices and operating methods of major companies seeking profitable growth through innovation that benefits society. For example, when the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
create fertile soil for dynamic capabilities. The five micromechanisms are values-based decision heuristics; intrinsic motivation with positive emotions; an organizational control system based on entrepreneurial self-organization,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
successful agreement. Following Robert Putnam's (1988) two-level games schema, I characterize such "behind the table," or "Level II," barriers more broadly, offer several innovative examples of how each side can help... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
of the reason he was given the top coaching job. Losing streaks are associated with autocrats who cling to control even as events spin out of control—one consequence of my principle that "powerlessness corrupts." But in winning... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
target firms and their 150,000 establishments before and after acquisition, comparing outcomes to controls similar in terms of industry, size, age, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
starts a premium vodka business, bringing in his cousin at an early stage, but with no initial discussion of the eventual split of equity or managerial control between the two. The article offers each man's case for his ownership stake in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Essentials for Enlightened Experimentation
New technologies such as computer simulations not only make experimentation faster and cheaper, they also enable companies to be more innovative. But achieving that requires a thorough understanding of the link between experimentation... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
outcomes while controlling for the endogenous matching of projects and organizational forms. Solo firm leases are less profitable than alliance leases because alliance members combine their information View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007
faced the future with a new financial structure, world-class assets, a proven management team, a sound balance sheet, and access to capital for stability and expansion. In the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
through an auction, it does not set prices. See, e.g., Larry Page's May 2008 remarks to C|NET: "AdWords is an auction. We're not setting prices. Auctions are determined by supply and demand." 1 I disagree. Google View Details
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
system doesn’t absolve leaders of responsibility, either. “Be vigilant,” Badaracco says. “Try to control the uses of what you produce, and develop a value, or a culture, of aggressive responsibility.” Learn... View Details
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
implications of these results for retail atmospherics are discussed. Small Worlds and Regional Innovation Authors:Lee Fleming, Charles King III, and Adam Juda... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne