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  • 16 Dec 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

percent in 2015. Yet nearly one-third of Indian housewives express the desire to work. How do governments go about changing perceptions of women in the workforce when it’s in their economic interest to do so? A recent working paper by... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • Web

Research & Applications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

leaders can improve competitiveness by focusing on national policies as well as regional initiatives and cluster development. Cross-National Regions Strategies that coordinate economic View Details
  • Web

HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

change, energy policy, and economic development. Most recently, Gordon served under California Governor Gavin Newsom as the Director of the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR) and Senior Policy... View Details
  • 08 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

explicitly and with intent. The implication for leaders: overcommunicate, and over-reinforce boundaries and expectations. While organizational policies are the infrastructure of meeting employees’ four drives, managers implement those... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

West Palm Beach, FL MA Heather Bagdoian Claremont Academy Worcester, MA AL Suzanne Bailey Virgil Grissom High School Huntsville, AL CO Denny Bain Poudre High School Fort Collins, CO Subjects: American Government, US History, Economics MA... View Details
  • 23 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 23, 2015

  Publications Forthcoming National Bureau of Economic Research Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 16 By: Lerner, Josh, and Scott Stern Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2017
  • Other Book

Good Work: The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices

By: Matthew Taylor, Greg Marsh, Diane Nicol and Paul Broadbent
I was not the only person appointed to the Review. My fellow Review team members, Greg Marsh, Diane Nicol and Paul Broadbent have not only been an important source of ideas and wisdom throughout the process but have led in engaging with key groups of... View Details
Keywords: Future Of Work; Labor Relations; Marketplaces; Employment; Labor and Management Relations; Labor; Markets
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  • 14 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 14

the past decade, despite economic growth of 4.7% annually. Many factors contribute-everything from infrastructure, to banking, to informality. President Santos, one year into his second term, is well aware of these difficulties and has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2009 (Revised March 2009)
  • Case

AFSCME vs. Mozilo...and "Say on Pay" for All! (A)

By: Fabrizio Ferri and James Weber
Union seeks to protect its pension funds through shareholder activism focused on corporate governance and executive compensation. The case uses Countrywide Financial as an example. Richard Ferlauto, director of pensions and benefits policy at the AFSCME, the largest... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Mortgages; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Labor Unions; Business and Shareholder Relations; United States
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  • 19 Jul 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior

nudges can in some cases be more than 40 times more effective than the next most effective method, a dramatic result for governments dealing with scarce resources. “If you take a particular policy objective as a given, nudges give you a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Matthew C. Weinzierl | About

philosophical principles underlying policy choices. Recently, he has launched a set of research projects focused on the commercialization of the space sector and its economic implications, viewable at... View Details
  • December 2001 (Revised February 2003)
  • Case

Netherlands:The, A "Third Way?"

By: Bruce R. Scott and Jamie Matthews
The economic success of The Netherlands in the 1960s can be attributed to Dutch wages that were kept substantially below those in neighboring countries. But increased pressures in the 1970s led to a wage explosion, which in turn pushed unemployment and disguised... View Details
Keywords: Wages; History; Policy; Problems and Challenges; Macroeconomics; Economic Systems; Employment; Performance Productivity; Jobs and Positions; Economic Growth; Netherlands
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  • 16 Jul 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Understanding the ‘Want’ vs. ’Should’ Decision

project, conducted by the same team of Katy, Todd, and Max, analyzed the implications of want-should conflict in the context of online DVD rentals. The second project, conducted by Todd and Max, tackled the prescriptive policy question:... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Retail; Entertainment & Recreation
  • Web

Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Michael Porter’s ideas about competitive strategy. Shared value creation focuses on identifying and expanding the connections between societal and economic progress. Policies and operating practices that... View Details
  • 26 Apr 2022
  • Book

What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose

purpose” as a way to build trust and in so doing achieve both impressive economic results and positive social impact. The book demonstrates how purpose-driven business leaders find success by clearly articulating a purpose for the... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
  • Web

Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

research in his industry Arjun Bhandegaonkar Film studio executive Strengthen your analytical skills before pursuing an MBA or other graduate program. I majored in engineering and minored in economics as an undergraduate, but the content... View Details
  • February 2010 (Revised April 2011)
  • Case

The Political Economy of Carbon Trading

By: Forest L. Reinhardt, J. Gunnar Trumbull, Mikell Hyman, Patia McGrath and Nazli Zeynep Uludere
Global climate change is an increasingly prominent political and business problem. Design of market-based systems to reduce carbon emissions has proven difficult. More broadly, national attempts to comply with the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol present both... View Details
Keywords: Policy; International Relations; Risk Management; Agreements and Arrangements; Business and Government Relations; Natural Environment; Pollutants; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Public Administration Industry
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  • 17 Sep 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery

Keywords: by David M. Cutler, Robert S. Huckman & Jonathan T. Kolstad; Health
  • 13 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?

landmark National Bureau of Economic Research working paper by Lerner and five colleagues at the University of Michigan, University of Maryland, University of Chicago, and the US Census Bureau cuts through some of the fog to reveal for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking
  • 14 Mar 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

No Taxation without Information: Deterrence and Self-Enforcement in the Value Added Tax

Keywords: by Dina Pomeranz