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  • 18 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 18

  Publications August 2013 Social Science & Medicine Who Donates Their Bodies to Science? The Combined Role of Gender and Migration Status Among California Whole-body Donors By: Asad, Asad L., Michel Anteby, and Filiz Garip... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

enterprise for virtually all of its 114-year history. Philips's saga not only points to alignment challenges but also reminds us that regionalization is rarely a triumphal march from the home base to interregional platforms or mandates.... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 22 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Negotiation is Like Jazz

preferences across issues, often with little introductory discussion. Procedural acts are scarce. The parties go straight to the issues and discuss all of them simultaneously from the onset of the interaction. Building-a-relationship improvisations focus on View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Finding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya

By: Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine and Dean Karlan
In much of the developing world, many farmers grow crops for local or personal consumption despite export options which appear to be more profitable. Thus many conjecture that one or several markets are missing. We report here on a randomized controlled trial conducted... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Developing Countries and Economies; Trade; Profit; Product Marketing; Standards; Failure; Risk and Uncertainty; Non-Governmental Organizations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Service Industry; Kenya; Europe
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  • October 1996 (Revised May 2001)
  • Case

Cantuga Farmworkers Clinic (A)

By: James E. Austin and Catherine Overholt
The board of directors of a rural health clinic fires its executive director. The case elaborates the evolution and progress of the clinic under this director during a period of growth and a changing health care environment. Factors contributing to and questioning the... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Resignation and Termination; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Problems and Challenges; Rank and Position; Social Enterprise; Health Industry
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  • 14 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

social returns when they succeed. The problem, says Esty, is that many of the largest products have hit financial turbulence. Esty, whose new book Modern Project Finance: A Casebook, was published recently, teaches the "Large-Scale... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 16 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs

Beverage, Shanda, Fosun, Focus, and Tsinghua University. Purpose: Begin to comprehend some of the fundamental changes in the Chinese economic and social system, and how entrepreneurship is being facilitated to play a role in this. Also... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Dec 2016
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December 6, 2016

cultural values (perceived social mobility) and differences among cultures (North America vs. Europe) to demonstrate moderators and boundary conditions of the positive associations derived from signals of busyness. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Aug 2017
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significant increase in the number of initiatives seeking to mobilize investor voice toward positive social impact. In this paper, I provide a framework outlining the role of investors as stewards of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16

policies can be partially explained by respondents' low trust in government and a disconnect between concerns about social issues and the public policies meant to address them. Publisher's link: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50690 2016 Handbook of Media Economics User-Generated Content and Social Media By: Luca, Michael Abstract—This paper documents what economists have learned about... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

severity of the coordination problem faced by users. Read the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=38648 The Costs of Ambient Cultural Disharmony: Indirect Intercultural Conflicts in Social Environment Undermine... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Nov 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation

you entrepreneurial.' "From the very get-go, we get very different messages about who we are as economic beings," she observed. Women's economic education, continued Godfrey, a former social worker, "is really one of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2016
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March 1, 2016

Enforcement: Evidence from Two Field Experiments By: Luo, Hong, and Julie Holland Mortimer Abstract—Effective dispute resolution is important for reducing private and social costs. We study how resolution responds to changes in price and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2006 (Revised May 2006)
  • Case

JA Worldwide: Managing Change in a Multi-governed Environment

By: Michael Chu and Barbara Zepp Larson
Post-merger, the head of Junior Achievement (JA) Worldwide must now oversee operations in 98 countries serving 6.6 million students, with over 7,600 local chapter board directors. President and CEO David Chernow's own board has increased to 111 members. Two separate... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Model; Change Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Governance; Business or Company Management; Service Operations; Organizational Structure; Nonprofit Organizations; Balance and Stability
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  • 16 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 16, 2008

in 2006. The case invites students to consider how domestic and multinational companies should respond to the Chinese government's invitation to comment on the proposal. The case also describes the impetus for the new legislation and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

Privado y las Responsabilidades Públicas: El Rol de las Soluciones Comerciales en la Temática Social Authors:Michael Chu Publication:Chap. 1 in Negocios Inclusivos y Creación de Empleo. Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

access to Coartem in the private sector through a low-margin, high-volume social business model to eventually enable the Malaria Initiative to break even and become financially sustainable. Was this the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 26

Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera, and Kelsey Jack Abstract A substantial body of research investigates the design of incentives in firms, yet less is known about incentives in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 18

mid-2012 Lit Motors had created both engineering and design prototypes and conducted initial customer tests on less than $750,000 of investment. Lit Motors' founder, Daniel Kim, had started the company to design and manufacture an... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino

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