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- August 2004
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Inequality and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different?
By: Rafael Di Tella, Alberto Alesina and Robert MacCulloch
We study the effect of the level of inequality in society on individual well-being using a total of 123,668 answers to a survey question about “happiness”. We find that individuals have a lower tendency to report themselves happy when inequality is high, even after... View Details
Di Tella, Rafael, Alberto Alesina, and Robert MacCulloch. "Inequality and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different?" Journal of Public Economics 88, nos. 9-10 (August 2004): 2009–42.
The Stock Market and Bank Risk-Taking
We argue that stock market pressure to generate earnings encourages banks to increase risk. We measure risk using confidential supervisory ratings as well as financial information released in regulatory filings. We document that there is an increase in the risk-taking... View Details
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Adding a Social Dimension to Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
service via knowledgeable, flexible, and highly motivated personnel Flat compensation structure Own seafood procurement and processing facilities to control quality, sustainability and price from the boat to the counter Heavy emphasis on... View Details
- 28 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the US Food and Drug Administration faced the task of convincing a skeptical public of the safety of new vaccines when the agency began authorizing them for emergency use less than a year after the pandemic began. Ultimately, the... View Details
- 04 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating
Information-sharing, and Trust), developed by the US Department of Defense's Command and Control Research Program. In the DoD's high-stakes "whodunit" game, players try to solve several aspects of an imaginary pending terrorist... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and the Internet
Internet commerce partners. Rather than make trade-offs, they have rushed to offer every conceivable product, service, or type of information. Rather than tailor the value chain in a unique way, they have aped the activities of rivals. Rather than build and maintain... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
- 14 Aug 2006
- HBS Case
On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”
primarily around rewards and punishments. Tight supervision, a controlling type of leadership style characterized by a great deal of social distance between leaders and led." That's what you want to do, to get people to broaden the... View Details
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For Alumni - Health Care
Initiative Hawes 101 Open to the Harvard community Join the Student Health Care Club and the Health Care Initiative for an engaging conversation with Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Former Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... View Details
- 20 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Language Wars Divide Global Companies
industry), and they were at the mercy of the Germans." What Managers Can Do In a previous paper—The (Un)Hidden Turmoil of Language in Global Collaboration—the same authors outline steps managers can take to control the damage of... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
activity. Moreover, CDVC is likely to be in earlier-stage investments and in industries outside the venture capital mainstream that have lower probabilities of successful exit. Even after we control for this unattractive transaction mix,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
among them. Findings are as follows: MNC corporate headquarters are more involved in "obligatory" and value creating and control functions than in operational activities; there are no systematic differences in the determinants... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Enron’s Lessons for Managers
of death. His own task for Enron is complicated by the fact that the patient was constantly evolving long before it collapsed. Its business model, control system, and culture were in continuous motion, and by 1997 these factors were... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
Focuses on the decisions made post-fire and the rebuilding process and eventual bankruptcy of the company. Also outlines creditors' struggle to decide whether to lend Feuerstein additional funds to enable him to regain control of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day
devoted to satisfy our needs—coffee, cigarettes, Facebook, etc.—can increase productivity.” Results and implications The researchers crunched the data to show the difference in average tests scores for tests taken between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. They View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is “Executive Intelligence” for Leaders?
successful leaders in nonprofit organizations) "legislative leadership," the ability to create coalitions both within and outside of organizations. While concluding that leaders have less control than most people think, Pfeffer... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
jobs. The many unknowns of the pandemic mean that people’s overall need for comprehension and control is severely stymied. Organizations that can satisfy this drive for their employees will find them highly motivated in return. People are... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 19 Nov 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Management and the Financial Crisis (We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us …)
Keywords: by William A. Sahlman
- 2015
- Discussion Paper
The Roles of Import Competition and Export Opportunities for Technical Change
By: Claudia Steinwender
A variety of empirical and theoretical trade papers have suggested and documented a positive impact of trade on the productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While trade papers focus on access to export markets,... View Details
Steinwender, Claudia. "The Roles of Import Competition and Export Opportunities for Technical Change." CEP Discussion Paper, No. 1334, February 2015.
The Founders and Finance
In 1776 the United States government started out on a shoestring and quickly went bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war’s end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies
Why did a group of Harvard Business School professors become interested in an innovative new heart surgery technique? It turns out that a hospital's operating room provides an excellent controlled arena from which to explore the role that... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer