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- 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13
2001-2008 period. We find a positive and separate influence of each driver on output per potential worker. The microeconomic environment has a positive effect on output per potential worker even after controlling for historical legacies.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
have capital requirements tied to the credit ratings of their investments. Conditional on ratings, insurance portfolios are systematically biased toward higher yield, higher CDS bonds. This behavior appears to be related to the business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
challenging in the past, and remains so today, the book argues that one reason was how they have both been defined. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52778 forthcoming Journal of International Economics The Real View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
that these spillover effects cannot be seamlessly offset, even though issuers are large, highly rated firms. Our results illustrate that instabilities associated with money market funds persist despite... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
effective December 31, 1999. The true story of the Canal upends the more conventional tale of U.S. triumphalism and its shepherding of one of the largest infrastructure works ever built. First, the Canal produced great economic dividends... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
traditional products are transforming into smart connected products and ecosystem platforms at a rate much faster than most organizations think. Schaeffer andSovie show how this reinvention is made possible: by AI and digital... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
issues: taxes (“I believe in lower taxes”), spending (“I believe the federal government is spending too much”), abortion (he’s against it), the Second Amendment (“I’m a lifetime member of the NRA, and my opponent is antigun”), and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Praise for March Cover Congratulations on cracking the mold of a one-subject cover for the March issue. I found the four of your financial crisis articles extremely interesting, especially Niall Ferguson’s book excerpt on “Chimerica”! Peter Tufano’s proposal to invest... View Details
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence
really good score on this math test,'" she says. “But our results suggest that this feedback is less effective in closing the gender gap than we might hope. It’s harder than we thought to convince women in male-typed fields that they’ve... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
higher overall ratings than the "branch-wed" non-ATM customers did. However, the reverse was true when videoconferencing was added. It appeared that heavy ATM users actually disliked interacting with humans! Lesson 5: Build... View Details
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
vignette with some of the negative statements about the water privatization that Argentina's president expressed during the nationalization process. Interestingly, the effect of the vignette on households that gained water is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
200,000 qualified plug-ins domestically—a number that Tesla and GM could hit within the next year. Sales of all-electrics would undoubtedly slump were the Trump administration to end the federal tax credit program altogether, as some EV... View Details
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
workplace in the early 1990s, BigAC found discrepancies between its own hiring rates and promotion rates for women. At the CEO's prompting, an initial analysis phase focused on the question, "Why are... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
egocentrically believe they have contributed more of the total work than is logically possible. Actively considering others' contributions effectively reduces these egocentric assessments, but this research suggests that undoing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
Airlines. Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation Are Changing Life on Earth by Juan Enriquez (MBA 1986) and Steve Gullans (Current) The authors survey how humans are changing the course of their evolution, seen, for example, in rising View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
second senior advisor delivered some further bad news. The higher the teaching ratings you get, he told Sahlman, the more likely you won’t be promoted. Come again? Entrepreneurship is amorphous. It’s storytelling. And storytelling is... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Business and government officials arrived in force to talk up India’s growth, exceeding an annual rate of 6 percent for the last fifteen years. GDP growth hit 7.6 percent in 2005... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
insurance benefits) for providing worker insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor market insurance mechanisms. Venture capital investors are especially sensitive to these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne