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- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
outcomes and costs empowers local personnel-physicians, nurses, and administrators-to improve the value of care they deliver. It also permits benchmarking across the group's multiple hospital sites to identify best practices that can be... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 28 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants
to test the concept on a national scale, where Roth's work is likely to prove equally influential. "Al's work has already influenced local policies and is perhaps about to go national," Trichakis says. View Details
- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
researchers at Harvard, the Boston Fed, and other local universities where we get together twice a year to talk about consumer finance research. This fall, we're launching a national consumer finance working group at the National Bureau... View Details
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
a new toothpaste that had helped drive Colgate to a record value share in the important U.S. market, was in the global pipeline for 2005. Burton had on his desk the proposed marketing launch plans for CMF in China and Mexico. Each plan sought to maximize the business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
local resources in innovative ways can be catalyzed and maintained. Through an examination of a range of network strategies, from funder networks to intraorganizational networks to grassroots networks, this research is aimed at... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Growing CEOs from the Inside
who somehow have maintained enough detachment from the local traditions, ideologies, and shibboleths that they have retained the objectivity of an outsider," Bower writes. Think Anne Mulcahy, CEO of Xerox, who started out as a sales... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Center Focuses on Europe
political leaders, educational institutions, and local alumni. In Europe, a group of executives and professionals, all HBS alumni, form the European Leadership Council (ELC), which provides advice on the work of the ERC. Cynthia... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
PublicationsGlobal, Local, and Contagious Investor Sentiment Authors:Malcolm Baker, Jeffrey Wurgler, and Yu Yuan Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We construct investor sentiment indices for six major stock markets and decompose them... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
Flows," revised from NBER Working Paper No. 8472, September 2001, Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 03-006, 2002, revised December 2005) Abstract We examine the forecasting power of international portfolio flows for local... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
at Genoa involves communicating with state agencies about remaining regulatory obstacles to telehealth care. He also is a national advocate through Mental Health America, which is using its free online screening program to monitor COVID-19’s impact on mental health. “I... View Details
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
fix those problems. The researchers studied a sampling of data from Hazel Analytics, which gathers food safety inspections from local governments across the United States. The sample included information on 12,017 inspections by 86... View Details
- 04 May 2016
- What Do You Think?
What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?
been able to anticipate. As Duncan Philps-Tate noted, “This after all is the nation which elected H’Angus the Monkey (the local soccer team’s mascot) as Mayor of Hartlepool.” Those endorsing the name saw it as a way of popularizing a... View Details
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
Depression during the financial crisis of 2008, with the failures consisting mostly of community banks. This environment—where troubled local banks appear unable to meet re-emerging small firm credit needs—would be an ideal market for new... View Details
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
rates to those facing high tax rates. Evidence from the worldwide operations of U.S. multinational firms indicates that affiliates in low-tax jurisdictions use trade credit to lend, whereas those in high-tax jurisdictions use trade credit to borrow: 10% lower View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Where is Home for the Global Firm?
example, the fragmentation of production around the world, distribution outlets worldwide, and research and development facilities that capitalize on local talent pools. But we still basically think that firms belong to some home country... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
political views aside to address the impediments to housing and homeownership at the state and local levels. This volume is a compilation of bipartisan recommendations from the authors and success stories from all corners of the country.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?
thoroughly nasty industry. The saddest thing about it is that it will not put an end to uninvited outbound telemarketing. You'll still get calls from firms you deal with, including those you have no choice but to deal with such as local... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
often come from these joint projects. Changing the company's dynamics requires collective commitments to new courses of action lest local decisions, taken in isolation, undermine that change. New strategies are possible when new kinds of... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part Two]
in small, nonprofit organizations that say, "What we do is human service. This technology has no relevance for us." They are afraid that if people can make charitable contributions over the Web, they won't pay attention to the little View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
working with poorer communities to strengthen their local economies. In Chapter 10, we describe the community involvements of Cummins in Columbus, Indiana, and JP Morgan in Detroit and show how those involvements were fundamentally... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace