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- 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
refers to corporate leaders speaking out on social and environmental policy issues not directly related to their company’s core business. Distinct from nonmarket strategy and traditional corporate social responsibility, the recent wave of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
week's US Supreme Court ruling. It's time to end three-and-a-half years of political wrangling and make the Affordable Health Care Act (AHCA) work. The law's shortcomings are well known. It provides health care access to 30 million... View Details
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
Silicon Valley or the Napa wine country) that can lead to competitive advantage. Porter's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness has just introduced a new database tool to help corporations and policy makers pinpoint these clusters,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
that priming relevant networks (e.g., family or friends) makes products associated with those networks more attractive. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/anik norton.pdf The Influence of Prior Industry Affiliation on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30
non-local investments suggests that policy makers in regions without local venture capitalists might want to mitigate costs associated with established venture capitalists investing in their geographies rather than encouraging the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
pandemic has motivated and facilitated lift outs in two key ways: Market volatility has motivated searches. Market agitation at any level, from firm to industry to global, can motivate people to browse job ads and take or make that first... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
Enables readers to analyze the business plan and make recommendations for funding. Rewritten version of earlier supplements. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807051 A Note on Applying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
A stable matching may not exist when couples are present. We find conditions under which a stable matching exists with high probability in large markets. We present a mechanism that finds a stable matching with high probability, and which View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
about baseball and race, he's explored questions such as how much money motivates ministers, and how much financial journalists affect the stock market. "I am interested in what motivates people," he says, "and what causes them to View Details
- 19 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Marijuana
Administration, holds a joint appointment at Harvard School of Public Health as Professor in Health Policy and Management. Creating Demand One big open question is the degree to which illegal demand will be significantly diminished by the... View Details
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
advisor to Liberian president and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a 1971 graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School, wrote the policy memorandum at the request of the Liberian government, which seeks fast growth of its own. To... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
immigration as one of the ways to keep the population base at its size or greater, and even better if that can be a skilled workforce." Bitter Debate Yet in the United States, specific policies and admission levels of skilled immigrants... View Details
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
easier answer than yes. The cynics and the critics can look really smart because it's possible to poke holes in anything. I decided to take a risk by being positive. It's possible to get attention by being negative, but that gets us nowhere. It only View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
Increased financial disclosure standards on such issues as executive compensation should provide more useful information for investors, policy makers, and regulators. But do the companies themselves benefit? What researchers are now... View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
policy tool that has attracted increased interest. Yet questions about the efficacy and the efficiency with which funds are used are subject to frequent debate. This paper examines empirical data from the Danish National Advanced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
that neither view is quite right. Although the new forms (built upon a half-century of research on and experience with self-managed teams) can help organizations become more adaptable and nimble, most companies shouldn't adopt their principles wholesale. A piecemeal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 22
We then introduce a framework that provides a unified perspective on these research streams, thereby highlighting some important areas for future research and policy analysis in entrepreneurial finance. Organizational Designs and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
Borland, Girl in Translation, by Jean Kwok, and Inside Out & Back Again, by Thanhha Lai. Each is so beautifully written and makes me think about how we are often caught between worlds and identities—and the ways we must choose to... View Details
- 20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20
exclusion restriction separating current and future payoff and (2) a finite horizon model in which there is no forward looking behavior in the last period. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44102 August 2013 MIT Press Beyond Platinum:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 14 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions
belonged to a union, while in other states the union density was only 3 to 5 percent. "So the people who had jobs said, ‘Let’s unionize to make sure these farmers don’t take our jobs’" According to the Bureau of Labor... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel