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- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
But, he says, the technology-driven gig economy and the global pandemic have already reshaped the future of work—driving many workers to seek flexibility at all costs—and... View Details
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
the risk-adjusted balance sheet, which shows the sensitivity of the enterprise's assets and liabilities to external "shocks." At the national level, the sectors of an economy are viewed as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy
matter where and at what price the money to fund an entrepreneurial venture comes from? The answer, it turns out, is that it does matter—a fact that policymakers may benefit from understanding as they look at ways to generate more... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
reverts faster in countries with less efficient governments. The findings suggest that country-level factors have an economically significant impact on the rate of corporate profitability mean reversion. The study has implications for forecasting profitability View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System
the book along with Regina M. Abrami, a former HBS professor now at the Wharton School; and F. Warren McFarlan, the HBS Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus. "We think the future of the Chinese View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
explore some of the many interesting developments going on in Eastern and Central Europe for my course Institutions, Macroeconomics and the Global Economy, so I contacted... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
necessary expertise either.” How can investors, businesses, and global society confront these challenges? Governments and development finance institutions (DFIs) clearly don’t... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808104 Partners in Health: The PACT Project Harvard Business School Case 608-065 Partners in Health (PIH) is a Boston-based, not-for-profit that provides health care to people in some of the poorest View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
global competition and efficient markets. A rewritten version of an earlier note. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407022 Duane Morris: Balancing Growth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
ago, in 2001, the wind farm would be visible from Hyannis Port and Osterville, two affluent communities. The coastal residents of those towns have led a campaign in Massachusetts and in Congress to thwart... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
Leaders of organizations in the social sector are under growing pressure to demonstrate their impacts on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. We review the debates around performance and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
science education from around the world as they discuss regional trends and models, with a specific focus on developments in and cooperation with China. Focusing on why this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
India's economy is enjoying robust growth with an expanding middle class. But the country, which has 22 official languages, also has its share of huge challenges: widespread poverty with 75 million homeless people, insufficient access to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-062.pdf September 2014 Managing Consumer Services: Factory or Theater Customer Experience and Service Design By: Karmarkar, Uday, and Uma R. Karmarkar... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
it downplay the consequences of displacement. But in other situations jobs are created. This paper is about the overall treatment of the economy from the immigration side." Is The Program Fair? Kerr is studying several areas in which the... View Details
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
forthcoming World Scientific Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets By: Iyer, Lakshmi Abstract—Emerging markets play an increasingly important role in the global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The New Math of Customer Relationships
updating the books with a new one titled The Ownership Quotient. In it, we highlight organizations like Harrah's Entertainment, Rackspace Managed Hosting (a Website hosting service), Baptist Health Care, and Wegmans (a View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
Authors:Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf Publication:NBER Innovation Policy & the Economy (MIT Press) 10 (2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://www.nber.org/books/lern09-1 ... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
local economies where they do business. We asked Harvard Business School professor C. Fritz Foley to discuss the research, which he conducted with Lee Branstetter and Raymond Fisman, both of the Columbia... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
For most of the 20th century, three bond ratings agencies—Moody's, Fitch, and Standard & Poor's—dominated the credit ratings industry, recently controlling 97 percent of the market. But the status quo was disrupted by the 2008 View Details