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  • 29 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 29

inspected employers experienced a 9.4% decline in injury rates (95% confidence interval = -0.177 to -0.021) and a 26% reduction in injury cost (95% confidence interval = -0.513 to -0.083). We find no evidence that these improvements came at the expense of employment,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Nov 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

teaching leadership development programs (and even members of a leadership team inside a business), to feel confident in their ability to teach any of the class sessions, modules, or the entire course," Sucher explains. We asked Sucher to discuss her View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education
  • 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

percent are in the developing world. The first part of this paper explores the economics of HIV and treatment from a social marketing perspective. The second part of the paper uses three specific case histories of successful social... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008

  Working PapersFixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India Authors:Shawn A. Cole Abstract This paper integrates theories of political budget cycles with theories of tactical electoral redistribution to test... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 4

overcome the institutional void of credit for small entrepreneurs in developing and emerging economies. Using a large global panel of MFIs from 119 countries, we find that social globalization that embraces egalitarian institutions on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008

the quality of research. Does Familiarity Breed Trust? Revisiting the Antecedents of Trust Authors:Ranjay Gulati and Maxim Sytch Periodical:Managerial and Decision Economics 29 (March - April 2008): 165-190 Abstract This paper investigates how the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

People Express Airlines Thomas R. Eisenmann and Lauren BarleyHarvard Business School Case 812-134 Recounts the history of People Express Airlines, which grew rapidly after its inception in 1980 then failed spectacularly in 1986. Profiles... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23

financial crisis of 2008 laid bare the hidden network of relationships in corporate governance: who owes what to whom, who will stand by whom in times of crisis, what governs the provision of credit when no one seems to have credit. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative

both Clark and Pfizer. The Clark Foundation had spent 25 years funding research to prevent tropical diseases and now had an opportunity to leverage this experience and see its research applied in affected communities. Indeed, it had funded the research that was View Details
Keywords: by Diana Barrett, James Austin & Sheila McCarthy
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

case:http://hbr.org/search/813060-PDF-ENG Microsoft Office 2007 (Abridged) Iansiti, Marco, and Bianca BuccitelliHarvard Business School Case 613-061 A discussion of the history and processes behind the development of Microsoft's Office 12... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55694 forthcoming Journal of Monetary Economics U.S. Monetary Policy and Emerging Market Credit Cycles By: Bräuning, Falk, and Victoria Ivashina Abstract— Foreign banks’ lending to firms in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

characteristic-based portfolio strategy that requires relatively low annual turnover. This is a continuum, with small size (a very persistent characteristic) at one end of the spectrum and high frequency reversal at the other. Unlike low-turnover tilts, a full View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

and how much, to use fiscal stimulus to resuscitate the economy. To help students understand Obama's options, the case reviews both the recent tax cuts under President George W. Bush, including the supply-side and demand-management justification given for them, and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Oct 2017
  • Research Event

In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?

conference, Carroll had introduced the audience to the term “Ad Tech Duopoly,” which refers to the current dominant twins of the online advertising environment: Facebook and Google. Both have linked user profiles to search histories in... View Details
Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting; Journalism & News
  • 19 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

Smarter Policy” to help provide evidence on matters of small-business financing—looking in particular about whether and how the financial crisis created a credit gap for small businesses. Despite gathering information, however, the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14

management and continuous improvement, as well as the dynamics of service competition in a rapidly growing market. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/615043-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 315-027 CreditEase: Providing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?

Parcells out of retirement. Parcells went on to coach the struggling Cowboys to a 34-30 record in four years, including a 10-6 record his first year. The team made the playoffs twice during Parcells’ tenure, and he was credited with... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 31 May 2011
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First Look: May 31

and James WeberHarvard Business School Case 511-065 Kevin Laracey, founder of Paydiant, needed to figure out how to launch a payment processing company with a new technology based on smart phones. Consumers had increasingly turned to electronic payment methods such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

disasters had a positive impact. Firms' philanthropic history and communities' inter-corporate network cohesion moderated some of these effects. This study extends institutional and community literatures by illuminating the geographic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23

(forthcoming) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/bvillalonga/VillalongaAmit_FM_Final.pdf Working Papers Banking Market Concentration and Consumer Credit Constraints: Evidence from the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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