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- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
Tightly packed workers and other weak protections allowed COVID-19 to sweep through American slaughterhouses during the past year, infecting at least 45,000 employees and killing an estimated 240 people. To Harvard Business School... View Details
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
number of tough moments,” says Karen G. Mills, senior fellow at Harvard Business School. “I’m quite concerned that we haven’t even seen the tip of the iceberg of business closures.” Yelp, the online review website, estimates that almost... View Details
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
the partner type and private consumption. We estimate our model using the 2013 "Living Costs and Food Survey" database. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54695 forthcoming The Economics of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
trade relations between the two expanded. China, for a time, became a primary manufacturer of goods for US markets--economists estimate that up to 2 million manufacturing jobs shifted from America to China. At one time, the Chinese... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
almost overwhelming." He said estimates indicate there are about 700 venture capital or private equity firms currently active, and it is expected they will raise more than $230 billion this year. "I heard somebody say recently... View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
that internal agglomerations have a positive impact on location. The effects of internal agglomerations vary by activity, and they arise both within an activity (e.g., among plants) and across activities (e.g., between sales and manufacturing). Our results also suggest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
commissions, albeit lower, still exist, but they represent a relatively minor source of revenue for the big brokerages compared to investment banking fees. Either way, the cost of sell-side research, estimated at over $8 billion in total,... View Details
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
your developers are following secure coding and testing practices. Those who aren't may be costing your company large sums of money. One multinational database supplier estimates that releasing a major patch (a fix for a problem in... View Details
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
to paint a vivid and compelling picture of social life. In the extreme, Bales (1999) conservatively estimates that there are 27 million slaves in the world today, while Attaran and Sachs (2001) report that 35 million people are now... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
the effects of RER changes in terms of differences in export intensity, import intensity and financial constraints. We estimate the model and quantitatively evaluate the different mechanisms by providing counterfactual simulations of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
"treated" with electronic monitoring is 13% (40% lower). We convince ourselves that the estimates are causal using peculiarities of the Argentine setting. For example, we have almost as much information as the judges have when... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
restaurants in the experimental sample. Positive results for restaurants Luca and Dai were right in their hypothesis. Restaurants included in ads saw an average surge of 24.6 percent in Yelp page views, which estimate is the equivalent to... View Details
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
comparative product testing in Germany. Product tests, conducted by the Warentest Institute and published in their monthly magazine Test, influence both consumers and producers. With an estimated 5 million readers, Warentest is the... View Details
- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
their schedules from week to week provide significant value to America’s estimated 1.6 million gig workers, many of whom don’t work enough hours to qualify for the benefits and protections typically associated with full-time employment.... View Details
- 20 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 20, 2007
model to establish these interrelationships at a firm level. Using publicly available financial data we estimate the six causal effects among sales, inventory, and gross margin. Our results show that sales, inventory, and gross margin are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad
of people are affected by this topic." An estimated 50 percent of multinationals use English as their common company language, Neeley says. Countless more have the same policy on an unofficial basis, she adds. After the CEO of GlobalMoves... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
them "data whisperers") is so acute that it may be years before a sufficient supply can be trained. The McKinsey Global Institute estimates that up to 190,000 are needed now in the US, along with 1.5 million managers capable of using... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
The health insurance system in the United States is broken, and business is paying the price. Employers' insurance premiums reached an estimated $450 billion in 2000, and then shot up again, at three times the rate of inflation, in 2001.... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
industrial complex that limits healthy competition in order to promote its continued growth and caters to the power and profit-driven demands of its best customers instead of the broader public interest. During the 2016 election cycle, the report View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
intellectual property have something to gain. However, the estimates of distinct effects that I have seen suggest that the benefits are disproportionately large for patent holders. Q: What are the implications of your research for policy... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell