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- 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2
religious group and for the population as a whole. To control for politician identity to be correlated with constituency level voter preferences or characteristics that make religion salient, we use quasi-random variation in legislator... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
possible under COVID-19. South Korea, a country of 52 million, recently held a national parliamentary election, with 66 percent of its population turning out to vote. Two weeks ago, South Korea’s professional baseball league opened its... View Details
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
that covers all the procedures, tests, drugs, devices, and services involved in inpatient, outpatient, and rehabilitative care for a patient's medical condition. For chronic conditions and primary care, a bundled payment is a single payment to cover the care for the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
best locations to generate it are far from the densely populated areas that need it. Wind-generated electricity traveling from western Kansas to St. Louis, for example, loses up to 15 percent of its energy en route. The Grain Belt... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
places over the past several years. The fact that so many factory workers had to leave their families for extended periods was untenable in the long run. There were the terrible Foxconn suicides. The one-child-per-family policy was beginning to create a View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
re-create the transparency and social accountability that would come if a couple met offline through a mutual friend. The app populates a user’s dating profile with information and current photos from Facebook; recently Hinge added... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
Using data from a randomized field experiment embedded in a startup boot camp for early stage entrepreneurs, our findings show that innovators who are more open to experience do generate better ideas, but only when they converse with extroverted peers. Further, we find... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
terrible Foxconn suicides. The one-child-per-family policy was beginning to create a population shortage that meant cheap labor was running out. The old low-cost manufacturing-for-export strategy had run out of steam. They were developing... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
value on average quality and less value on total quantity. With competing platforms, the effect of user preferences for quantity is reversed. Furthermore, exclusion incentives depend in a non-trivial way on the proportion of high-quality users in the overall View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
BRIC-Brazil, Russia, India, and China. These four countries encompassed almost 50% of the world's population in 1910, but remarkably few of their citizens attended any school in the early 20th century. We present new, comparable data on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23
in a population. This chapter advances a historical comparison of these two methods-individual case reports and population meta-analysis-and draws attention to the fragmentation of the institutional basis for assessing pharmaceutical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
intellectual perspectives—political science, history, philosophy, anthropology, economics, and applied mathematics—to discuss how the two most populous societies in the world have addressed the issue of building meritocracy historically,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
unused in villages ravaged by disease, and boxes of mosquito nets that could slow the spread of malaria go unopened. The problem is that, sometimes, not enough attention is paid to what motivates the target population to use medicines or... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
only seventeen depository institutions to serve more than 600,000 residents. In that article, "Collaborating with Congregations: Opportunities for Financial Services in the Inner City," the authors argued that inner-city populations... View Details
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
healthcare providers with revenue cycle management and population health management; the case provides an overview of both sectors. Conifer has been growing rapidly, leading some to question what the best relationship is for Tenet and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
degradation, frequent natural disasters, and critical threats to water supply; population growth by the billions in the coming decades, along with increased urbanization; and a volatile and tentative world economy. In the face of such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009
most densely populated areas in the world. The slum's living conditions are abysmal by Western standards and gets little to no support from the local government due to the entrenched bureaucracy that has seemingly misaligned interests in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
Identification Authority of India. India had no nationally accepted way to prove identity and hence 42% of the population at the base of the pyramid had to resort to bribery to access entitlements, while a web of fake or multiple... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
formulate recommendations on design choices, pricing, and global expansion. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/918005-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-052 Liberté, égalité, fragilité: The Rise of Populism... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel