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- 19 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving
information in a way that benefits themselves,” says Exley. “That’s discouraging to economists; we think one of our primary tools is information.” The lesson for nonprofits That result may be discouraging to the nonprofit sector as well,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?
financial service companies. Benro was very familiar with European customers in the financial services sector but had no experience with other industries. "Working with Benro might be cheaper than doing this all on our own, at least... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
workplace. Across six studies, we found convergent evidence that emotional acknowledgment led to greater perceptions of costliness, and in turn, to higher evaluations of trust.” Working Papers Deregulation, Market Power, and Prices: Evidence from the Electricity View Details
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
that the biggest mitigating factor for public sector job losses in the COVID-19 crisis has been the amount of cash governments had on hand and how much they received from federal government stimulus measures. Because of balanced budget... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 18 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?
missing the consequences and longer-term effects.” UNEQUAL PAY FALLOUT Partnerships remain key to the way the professional service and investment sectors are run. Previous research has shown that the partnership structure has many... View Details
- 28 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Manufacturing Matters
manufacturing is not part of the innovation process. In many sectors that's simply not true. The ability to develop very complex, sophisticated manufacturing processes is as much about innovation as dreaming up ideas. Thompson: What does... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
modern competition; how they arise and decline; how they affect productivity, new business formation, and economic growth; and the roles both the private and the public sectors can have in developing them. Q: So, even in an age of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
business sector is economic value creation, the altruistic dimension prevails in the third sector. In our cases, social leaders approached companies for a variety of reasons that most certainly included accruing some organizational... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Innovation: Evidence from China By: Fang, Lily, Josh Lerner, Chaopeng Wu, and Qi Zhang Abstract—: Governments are important financiers of private sector innovation. While these public funds can ease capital constraints and information... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions
interview. "The start of properly regulating the economy is to understand how regulation is made, and this means forgetting what we thought we knew about the weakness of groups." A consumer policy expert, Trumbull wrote Strength in Numbers after nearly a decade of... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
It’s Back to Business-Basics for Nonprofits
the audience, comparing the recent focus on nonprofit strategy to the rise of interest in for-profit strategy in the 1970s. In Bradach's view, the sector is on the front end of a curve, with nonprofits less afraid to look critically at... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
you have fabulous leadership," Bannick said. "We think it's important to invest in leadership in the social sector to help those organizations to fulfill their potential." VPP's Morino stressed the importance of getting to... View Details
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
with the largest market caps in their industries, underperform in a majority of cases the average stock in their respective sectors over the next one-, three-, five-, and 10-year periods. In fact, "top dogs" enjoy that status,... View Details
- 04 Oct 2007
- What Do You Think?
Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?
Internet, it doesn't take a billion dollar R&D platform to discover the next technology platform." Jim Winkelmann agreed, but with a caveat: "The rebirth as always (will) be in the entrepreneurial sector creating... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
U.S. frontier. To address reverse-causality concerns, reduced-form specifications exploit exogenous changes in U.S. immigration quotas. Consistent with a model of sector reallocation, output growth in less developed economies is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
comprehensive set of policies and regulations in place and the climate for investment is favorable." The flip side of that coin is that in some countries the government exerts such a large influence on the energy sector that it can... View Details
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
the technologies that are developed in the high-income countries. While this is a bad year for the technology sector, we're putting our bets squarely on the recovery of the technology sector over the medium term and that View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507005 Chief Timothy Adeola Odutola and Nigeria's Manufacturing Sector Harvard Business School Case 407-027 Chief Timothy Adeola Odutola was an important contributor to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
accelerated economic growth since adopting an outward-oriented market strategy. The services sector has largely driven GOP while manufacturing has expanded and foreign direct investment has become robust. Now, the country faces both... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace