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- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
welfare. Yet, our understanding of this decision is limited. Using an instrumental variables strategy and dataset new to this literature, we provide the first precise, causal estimates of the effects of education on financial market participation. We find a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
applications available on it. Our model is based on the observation that even if users prefer application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects. When there are direct network effects, users prefer to consume the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
documents adopted by companies their compliance leaders admired, such as GE and Microsoft, they saw models that focused on specific steps employees should take when faced with difficult decisions. One result: Those examples inspired... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
many carriers may have to develop a fundamentally different business model—the commercial segment model is not viable for the public exchanges.” INGREDIENTS FOR SUCCESS From consumers: Consumers need to learn how to make smarter choices... View Details
- 03 Apr 2013
- What Do You Think?
Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?
women." Marlis Krichewsky presented an interesting hypothesis when she classified male and female managers in three groups: those who conform to the gender role model, those who imitate the role model of the other gender, and those... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
HBS Professor Marco Iansiti and H.T. Kung, William H. Gates Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, solicited views on new directions for the Internet in a panel discussion called "e-Service: The Next e-Wave." The current shift on the 'Net, said Iansiti, is toward a... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gsj.28/abstract Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation Authors:Carliss Baldwin and Eric von Hippel... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
experience in the for-profit sector? Mario Morino: My background was in the IT industry, working in systems management, which is fundamentally about tracking the performance and integrity of large computing platforms. What I experienced... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
criticism have followed Standard & Poor's decision to downgrade America's credit rating. However, the real story is about how unsustainable the massive US government deficits are, and how difficult they will be to close. The deficits were View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
Corporations have responded to society's plea to provide innovative solutions to deep-seated problems of human misery. Organization and management scholarship can play an important role in understanding and guiding this corporate action. To date, this challenge has... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Through a working agreement with the PGA TOUR, we have obtained access to proprietary "ShotLink" data that pinpoints the location of every shot taken on the PGA TOUR. Using these data, we develop distance-based models for two... View Details
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
that in countries with higher GDP growth leverage is correlated with less corporate financial fragility. Consistent with Gabaix (2011) this paper finds a granularity effect in that large firms are systemically important—idiosyncratic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
experiments are underway with professionals trying different ways of configuring and managing services. On that list I include experiments with disease management programs, substituting nurse practitioners for physicians in certain circumstances, the in-store clinic... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
theoretical model that looks beyond its idiosyncratic elements. Looking at prices alone is insufficient to look at the relative viability of globally standardized vs. locally customized products.— Pankaj Ghemawat The case concerns STAR... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
large firms often encounter difficulties in formulating and committing changes due to the complexity in firms' activities. Beyond cognitive limitations, perhaps the most intriguing type of failure is when managers fully understand the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
restructuring that left the Panigoros with a 34.1 percent equity stake in Medco. Two other large shareholders are now looking to sell their combined stake of 50.9 percent, and have selected Temasek, the Singapore government's investment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
sidebar "Are Board Self-Evaluations Enough?") Separate The Positions Of Chairman And Ceo. This suggestion is hardly novel—in fact, splitting the positions is a common practice in many boardrooms outside the United States—but in light of our View Details
- 14 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism
large degree on who they think they are—and aren't. Lagace: The word "nationalism" has bad connotations for many people. Some might think of terrible problems in the former Yugoslavia, for example. What does nationalism mean to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
data are often voluminous and unstructured, presenting analytical challenges for traditional tools that were designed for well-structured, quantitative data. We adapt methods from natural language processing and machine learning to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
strategies for launching them for 10 years. In this article he draws on research on dozens of platform sites and products to offer a framework for building a successful platform business. It involves asking five basic questions: (1) Can I attract a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne