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  • 21 Feb 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)

elections at all. We asked the study’s coauthor, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Vincent Pons, for some insights on the results. Pons has studied voter participation and engagement issues in France, Italy, and Africa. He... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010

presents the results of a study that investigated the use of the underdog effect in marketing. The idea of triumphing over disadvantages by impassioned determination is said to be a powerfully positive image, which can lead consumers to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Zig-Zagging Your Way to Transformative Impact

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Tricia Gregg
Achieving transformative impact has been much discussed by social entrepreneurs, funders, and consultants. These discussions have focused on issues of increasing impact and scale, but often with no clear distinction between the two terms. In order to provide clarity,... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Performance Efficiency; Growth and Development; Outcome or Result; Strategy
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  • 17 Aug 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?

applies road rules to extreme “driverless dilemmas,” and more on how it can make decisions in everyday cases that lie on the edge of hard-and-fast driving rules. “Human drivers take a test, and we then assume that they are going to use... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Auto
  • 20 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

William Aspray, in Computer, focus on the early years of the industry, with only three short chapters on the microprocessor era. They do not mention the Japanese challenge, nor do two detailed books on Microsoft, nor does Paul Cerruzzi's excellent View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products
  • 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8

  PublicationsTo Think or Not To Think about Trauma? An Experimental Investigation into Unconscious Thought and Intrusion Development Authors:Julie Krans and Maarten W. Bos Publication:Journal of Experimental Psychopathology 3, no. 2 (2012) Abstract The present View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea empirically using personnel and lending data from a financial services organization that implemented... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 8

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-081.pdf Top Executive Background and Financial Reporting Choice: The Case of Goodwill Impairment Authors:Francois Brochet and Kyle Welch Abstract We study the role of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009

communication. We propose that a barrier to the sharing of ideas pertinent to innovation in inter-cultural relationships is low affect-based trust, which arises from individuals' deficits in inter-cultural capability. Results from a study... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

scant direct empirical research on how human interaction patterns change as a result of these architectural changes. In two intervention-based field studies of corporate headquarters transitioning to more open office spaces, we... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

built through institutional deepening by means of dispute resolution processes. This shift, I argue, raises epistemic questions of expertise, the relationship of models to real-world outcomes, and methods for bounding disputes over scientific facts. Based on a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 3

clinical leadership responsibilities. The purpose of this article is twofold: first, to make the case for the need to refocus residency education around the development of outstanding "frontline" clinical leaders and, second, to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

recessions, it is not clear if this is due to demand or supply. We address this question by studying firms' substitution between bank debt and non-bank debt (public bonds) using firm-level data. Any firm that raises new debt must have a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

savings. They play the lottery heavily. They are optimistic about their future. That characterized more than half of the folks in the survey. I have observed use of the products elsewhere, and wrote a case View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 10 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 10

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-104.pdf Stretching the Inelastic Rubber: Taxation, Welfare and Lobbies in Amazonia, 1870-1910 Author:Felipe Tâmega Fernandes Abstract This paper examines the effect of government intervention via taxation on domestic welfare. A View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

multi-currency capital structure with both senior, secured bank loans and junior bonds. PCP has to decide whether to push for bankruptcy in a European court, or to push for out of court renegotiations. The case is a tool for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die

Corporations, Wells collects case studies from companies that have learned this lesson—some of them the hard way—and explains how all companies can strategize more intelligently. Michael Blanding: Why did... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13

Tommy Koh to negotiate the U.S.-Singapore Free Trade agreement serve as an extended case study of a complex, multiparty negotiation that illustrates and further elaborates the concept of a negotiation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016

advance; moreover, mitigating the conflict through flexible work policies has done little to improve women’s advancement prospects and often hurts them. Drawing on an in-depth case study of a professional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

number of structural changes that forced an ongoing re-examination and modification of traditional norms and policies emphasizing exclusivity in agency-client relationships. A typology of conflicts that has arisen in the U.S. shows the variety and complexity of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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