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- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
Their findings were published in the May 17, 2016, issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A TEMPORARY STATE OF INEQUALITY Research on inequality usually measures a relatively fixed socioeconomic status based on... View Details
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
by a public health organization are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group receive a standard volunteer contract often offered for this type of task, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive small... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016
for rigorous accounting research. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50473 forthcoming Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Hiding Personal Information Reveals the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
overall business offering. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508003 The Allstate Corporation Harvard Business School Case 708-485 In 2007, Allstate was the number two property and casualty View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
Corporation) equivalent insures 401(k) assets—these two literatures came to the same conclusion: Locate highly taxed assets inside of tax-deferred accounts. Jim and I came in to this literature from a different angle. Rather than taking a... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? Authors:Diego A. Comin, William Easterly, and Erick Gong Abstract We assemble a dataset on technology adoption in 1000 B.C., 0 A.D., and 1500 A.D. for the predecessors to today's View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8
national health systems and health policy. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710469-PDF-ENG CEIBS: A Global Business School Made in China John A. Quelch,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
do health care insurance or additive manufacturing. You know, how much more quickly they can move, how much more dedicated they are. I think those are things. And when I think back, like if I could have done... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
happens more locally.” The conviction in Cognetti’s voice makes it clear that she doesn’t harbor Washington ambitions, although her ideas can be big and national in scope, like changing how public schools are funded: “School districts... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
least a quarter of per capita income differences. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-093.pdf Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? Authors:Diego A. Comin, Bill Easterly, and Erick Gong Publication:American... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017
regulate the industry. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52032 Populism and the Return of the 'Paranoid Style': Some Evidence and a Simple Model of Demand for Incompetence as Insurance Against Elite Betrayal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
thinking through the issues facing rail transportation and discusses three recent freight rail infrastructure projects that hold promise for the future: the National Gateway, the Keystone Corridor, and the CREATE decongestion project in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10
inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
(MBA 1963) Xulon Press Have you ever wondered how a nation feeding a starving population during the Great Depression could, 20 years later, be approaching the greatest growth period in history? This book could be the story of you, your... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009
hunters with an area in which to hunt wildlife. The government retained a portion of the reserve as the Kruger National Park, which allowed visitors to view wildlife, but banned hunting, in an effort to boost wildlife populations. The KNP... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
The choice is that we live in the Marina in San Francisco and we have health insurance and I work for Goldman Sachs—and people would give their left arm in this economy to have this job.” And she said, “Oh,... View Details
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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Psychology doctoral program. Her research examines the experience of discrimination, its impact on mental health and intergroup relations. Her courses have ranged from Abnormal Psychology to the Psychology of Racism. Banks has published... View Details
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
downstream companies lobbying in favor of the general protection of highly integrated conglomerates. In the steel industry, by contrast, national industrial policy in the absence of exogenous economic shocks fails to weaken local state... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
gaining or losing national share, and whether it is getting broader or narrower in depth. The data covers not only the overall cluster but also segments or "subclusters." These further reveal the cluster's strengths and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
positions ranged from lawyer, judge, preacher, entrepreneur to the first African American commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and to the head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne