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  • 19 Apr 2016
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April 19, 2016

middle class—outweigh the challenges of operating there. And indeed, as embodied by Nigeria's status as a net food importer despite having 80 million hectares of potential agricultural land, the challenges are considerable. Animal feed is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure

Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation
  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

re-examine the relationship between FDI and growth. We use "quality" to mean the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However, this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and project... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

students and their middle class and white counterparts, the gap persists. By age nine, African American and Latino students are on average three grade levels behind, and students from low-income communities are seven times less likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education
  • 08 Jan 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

the middle decades of the twentieth century. In Paths to Power, we trace seven factors that either provided easy access to an insider track to power or functioned as obstacles to success. These include birthplace, nationality, religion,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?

saving the fish. You still have to spend any amount of money you can to protect it." It's easy to count the damages to the farmer, he added, but very difficult to value the damage caused by the extinction of the smelt. "The... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016

are difficult to assemble. We combine several restricted-access U.S. Census Bureau data sets to create a unique longitudinal data platform that covers 1992–2008 and many states. We describe differences in the types of businesses initially... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

thorough understanding of the phenomenon is difficult to achieve because relevant work is scattered across multiple fields. This paper presents a unified picture of mirroring in terms of theory, evidence, and exceptions. First, we... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

Schumpeter's point is admittedly difficult to sell in the "sound-bite" culture of our political debates, but that's why it is so important. Q: What are you working on now? A: I am currently working on a book about Renaissance... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5

strategy to provide textbooks for college accounting courses. The Joffes are trying to raise private equity financing, but market conditions have made it difficult and the company is at risk of exhausting the senior Joffe's savings. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

and gas had continued to cripple the middle and lower class as the U.S. economy slowly recovered. At the same time, the U.S. lagged behind developed economies in production of renewable energy. The acceptance of climate change remained a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Mar 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

to acknowledge and deal with reality. It is the choice—sometimes willful, sometimes unconscious, often semiconscious—to enter an "as if" world, to act "as if" facts are not facts because they are difficult to face. Sigmund Freud referred... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology
  • 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

story of creative destruction, the most pronounced impact was a massive increase in churning among new entrants. We argue that creative destruction requires many business failures along with the few great successes. The successes are very View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

institutions that did not contribute to the recent crisis? Whatever the impact, regulators also have to be careful not to be "fighting the last war." Today, we face a new battle. The household and government sectors are overleveraged. The View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 10 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table

reframing issues or setting up confidence-building mechanisms. The ability to foster productive working relationships is another key to managing conflict. Such relationships act as a kind of psychological buffer during difficult times. As... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
  • 10 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

a business opportunity. Walson charged two dollars a month for this service, and by the middle of 1948 had 727 customers. He and other entrepreneurs soon began setting up similar "Community Antenna Television" systems in rural... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

relationship between FDI and growth. We use 'quality' to mean the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However, this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and project characteristics which are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

performance, even after controlling for current performance, and that this relation is driven by the perceptions of middle management and professional staff rather than senior executives, hourly, or commissioned workers. Taken together,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14

management, innovation loses out. At best, leaders of core business units dismiss innovation initiatives as irrelevancies. At worst, they see the new businesses as threats to the firm's core identity and values. Many CEOs take a backseat in debates over resources,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23

difficult question is whether policymakers need to learn more from theorists, or the other way around. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-140.pdf   PublicationsInput Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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