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  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

implemented. The case also describes the draft used by the NBA to assign new players to teams. This allows for a discussion of whether a similar system may be preferable to lottery-based or bidding-based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

America the Unequal

whether different forms of wealth redistribution — for example, raising the minimum wage, or longer-term interventions like reducing disparities in education — are less likely to evoke heated opposition and... View Details
Keywords: income disparity; class mobility
  • 12 May 2016
  • News

Food Rescue Is on a Mission

drove it to Sacred Heart Mission in nearby St. Kilda where it became soup and solid meals for hungry families in need. “The role of the food is not just feeding people. It also helps them get back into society,” says Carson, who cofounded... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • 14 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 14, 2016

forthcoming Harvard Business Review Press Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work By: Badaracco, Joseph L. Abstract—Part of a manager's job is making tough calls, and the hardest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

Discusses attributes (e.g., heterogeneity of participants' preferences and asymmetry in available information) that determine whether and how marketplaces create value. Explains common causes of market failure and presents a framework... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

elements differently, I observed that the organizations able to pursue both social and financial goals over time seem to share a commonality—they maintain a hybrid organizational culture that holds and balances tensions between creating social and economic value. In... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

vulnerability indicators prior to the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) attributed to corporate financial roots provide a benchmark for comparison. The firm-level data suggest that emerging markets post-GFC have lower leverage ratios than the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

of lighter labor market regulations and more human capital specialize relatively more in people management. There is evidence for complementarities between information and communication technology, decentralization, and management, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Aug 2017
  • Blog Post

From Germany to HBS

corporate governance or redistribution of wealth in society, a European and German perspective was incredibly valuable in the classroom. I would like to share three pieces of advice specifically for... View Details
  • 08 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

efficiency, because some schools are strategic players that rank students in order of preference, while others order students based on large priority classes. Therefore it is desirable for a mechanism to produce stable matchings (to avoid... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 18, 2007

  Working PapersHappiness, Contentment and Other Emotions for Central Banks Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch Abstract We show that data on satisfaction with life from over 600,000 Europeans are negatively correlated with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21

its plans to develop radical innovation even when it thinks highly of the market potential for the radical innovation. The incumbent does so to avoid validating the high market potential to the entrant, who may otherwise be encouraged to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

52-week high; conversely, bidder shareholders react increasingly negatively as the offer price is pulled upward toward that price. Merger waves occur when high recent returns on the stock market and on likely targets make it easier for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 1998
  • News

Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International

ACCION's helm in 1994. You left Wall Street for ACCION. Why? During 4 a.m. leveraged-buyout marathons at KKR, I'd occasionally wonder if I might be doing something else, however small, that could help make the world a better place. At the... View Details
  • 08 Feb 2018
  • Op-Ed

What’s Missing From the Debate About Trump’s Tax Plan

resources should be redistributed and argues for a less progressive tax structure, just as we see in the current plan. Missing in action: debate Unfortunately, amid all the recent wrangling over rates and... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
  • 19 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 19

the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your organization's effectiveness. In What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, HBS professor and business leader Robert Kaplan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Navigating the Populism Phenomenon

such as workers facing decreased wages or losing their jobs. RDT: The elite, in general, have overclaimed the advantages of economic globalization. For example, in trade, globalization is potentially helpful View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 07 Nov 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs

Tax strategies used by top executives on their own taxes can also show up in the companies they run. Source: Melpomenem New research shows that top executives who prefer to reduce personal taxes appear to also influence the strategies of... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 29 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Research Papers of 2014

work prestige. And in Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men, we discover, with regret, that VC prefers to give money to men—and good looking men at that. But sometimes business glory goes to those... View Details
  • 20 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 20

Moreover, we show that this effect occurs not only in the case of IGOs that focus on economic issues, but also on those with social and cultural mandates. This demonstrates that relational governance is important and feasible in the global context and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne