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  • 29 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

(BRFSS) data on 2.3 million U.S. respondents, and Eurobarometer data that cover multiple business cycles over four decades. This research provides a new perspective on the welfare cost of View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

general emergence of modern business enterprise in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Many governmental policies after 1945 designed to facilitate catch-up ended up crippling... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

the heterogeneous payment requirements across the multiple payers and health plans contracting with the academic health center. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54127 March–April 2018 Harvard View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • August 2012
  • Supplement

William Jeffrey: Performance at Bay Colony (B)

By: Lena G. Goldberg
The decision-making process, policies and procedures, and legal obligations of the Board, the company's inside counsel and the company's outside counsel are explored in connection with on-boarding, investigating alleged misconduct of, and terminating a company's CEO,... View Details
Keywords: Leadership And Managing People; Employment Law; Business or Company Management; Law; Leadership; Governing and Advisory Boards; Employment; Corporate Governance; Financial Services Industry; Massachusetts
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  • 15 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

2017 Washington, DC: American Public Health Association Public Health Preparedness: Case Studies in Policy and Management By: Howitt, Arnold M.,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

Why are women so dramatically underrepresented in formal leadership positions, and what can be done about it? That's the basic question contemplated in a book of essays called, The Difference "Difference" Makes, edited by Debra... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
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The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

sales would fall, and Land would have to let go of hundreds of employees. Land's patent attorney Donald Brown explained, "Before the end of the War Dr. Land had decided that the expansion of the company's View Details
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Site Credits - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Moreland, Knowledge and Library Services, Harvard Business School Digital Photography Boston Photo Imaging Imaging Services, The Harvard College Library Susan Young A-V Production Northern Light Productions... View Details

    ULI Report Provides Wildfire, Energy, and Economic Resilience Strategies to Sonoma County

    Sonoma County, Calif., can enhance its ability to withstand and recover from wildfires by re-envisioning its land use, energy, and housing policies through a cooperative... View Details

    • December 2013 (Revised September 2017)
    • Case

    Atlanta Schools: Measures to Improve Performance

    By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred
    The widespread cheating scandal that rocked the Atlanta public school system in 2010 and 2011 illustrates how high-stakes performance pressure, without sufficient risk controls, can drive dangerous behavior. After becoming superintendent of the low-income and... View Details
    Keywords: Atlanta; Test; Testing; Standardized Test; Standardized Testing; No Child Left Behind; NCLB; Cheating; Performance Pressure; Measurement; Incentives; Atlanta Public Schools; Management; Leadership; Ethics; Performance; Performance Evaluation; Performance Expectations; Risk Management; Education; Education Industry; United States; Georgia (state, US); Atlanta
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    MBA Program at Harvard Business School: 1963 - 1970 | Baker Library

    the Harvard Business School." HBS Annual Report, 1964. Harvard Business School. HBS made a concerted effort to publicize that the school had opened its doors to women, a fact... View Details
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    Research Links | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

    documents, corporate histories and publications, and business directories. The collection holds a wide range of public relations literature... View Details
    • 21 Nov 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Caste and Entrepreneurship in India

    Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer, Tarun Khanna & Ashutosh Varshney
    • February 2015 (Revised December 2016)
    • Case

    Poseidon Carlsbad: Desalination and the San Diego County Water Authority

    By: John Macomber
    Extreme drought conditions in California have significant impacts on the ability of the San Diego County Water Authority to provide adequate water for current users. Water shortfalls also could curtail the economic development of one of the fastest growing regions in... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Partners and Partnerships; Resource Allocation; Public Sector; Private Sector; Environmental Sustainability; Policy; Infrastructure; Green Technology Industry; Utilities Industry; California
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    • 01 Mar 2011
    • News

    Tax and Grow

    © politicalcartoons.com/Jimmy Margulies With the U.S. economic recovery stuck in low gear and traditional monetary and fiscal policy options seemingly exhausted, now is a good... View Details
    Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices

      American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition,' 1890-1940

      American Fair Trade explores the contested political and legal meanings of the term fair trade from the late nineteenth century through the New Deal era. This history of American capitalism argues that business associations partnered with... View Details

      • 05 Sep 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

      actionable advice on more robust policies that drive both structural change and competitiveness upgrading. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53152 Harvard View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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      The Forgotten Real Estate Boom - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

      data on 1920s home prices and foreclosures means that many questions remain unanswered. 22 Historical trade publications like the weekly New York Real Estate Record and... View Details
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      Time and the Value of Data

      By: Ehsan Valavi, Joel Hestness, Newsha Ardalani and Marco Iansiti

      Managers often believe that collecting more data will continually improve the accuracy of their machine learning models. However, we argue in this paper that when data lose relevance over time, it may be optimal to collect a limited amount of recent data instead of... View Details

      Keywords: Economics Of AI; Machine Learning; Non-stationarity; Perishability; Value Depreciation; Analytics and Data Science; Value
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      • 28 Aug 2018
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      New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

      disclosure policy should focus not only on what information to disclose, but also on how and where to design disclosure Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54177 Investing... View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman