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- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
control condition, and this effect was mediated by self-reported feelings of moral purity. In Experiment 2, the same manipulation increased the amount of money participants donated to a good cause, and self-reported feelings of moral...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
improves financial performance on measures such as profitable investments at the individual portfolio-company level and overall fund returns. And even though associating with similar people can have social benefits for those people, it can lead investors and firms to...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
existing wifi networks to allow users to make calls on their mobile phones without purchasing extra minutes. “These startups are like fleas on the backs of dinosaurs too big to do much about it” "Decoupling separates two or more...
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by Michael Blanding
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
change, oil companies are diversifying their businesses, putting money toward renewable energy sources and green technology. While sustainable funds shun fossil fuel producers, which contribute half of the world’s greenhouse gases,...
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- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
the tax holiday. The results indicate that U.S. multinationals were not financially constrained and were reasonably well governed. The fungibility of money appears to have undermined the effectiveness of the regulations. Working...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
most rigorous extant methodologies for detecting "tunneling," or efforts by firms' controlling owner managers to take money for themselves at the expense of minority shareholders. We find that, in contrast to prior views, Indian...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
organization, which are increasingly inadequate in modern sectors, where innovation relies on platforms and horizontal ecosystems of firms producing complementary products. Using three case studies—:software, animation, and mobile...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
A New Way to Cut Credit Card Debt: Pay Off One Purchase at a Time
136,000 customers to allocate their credit card payments across 14 spending categories using the company’s mobile app. About 1.5 percent, or 2,157 customers, opted into the feature, which let them pay down categories, such as “home,”...
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- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
This growth differential in turn depends on the mobility of the technology's labor force, which we model through the extent that technologies depend upon immigrant scientists and engineers. Spatial adjustments are faster for technologies...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
possible responses to this shortage: Sharing addresses impedes new Internet applications and does not seem to be scalable. A new numbering system ("IPv6") offers greater capacity, but network incentives impede transition. Paid View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
of potential funding sources to solve social problems, much of it stemming from an intergenerational transfer of wealth and new wealth from financial and high-tech entrepreneurs. Download the paper:...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24
short-term and long-term thinking, and craft emotionally engaging visions while staying focused on execution. In this article, we analyze how one organization, GE Money Bank in Switzerland, successfully created a new growth business...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
"safe" jobs turned out to be not very safe at all, as large companies entered extended periods of malaise and restructuring. Ed O'Lear: It's important to note why money managers decided to allocate significant assets to venture...
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by Susan Young
- 04 Oct 2007
- What Do You Think?
Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?
transfer of wealth from public investors to the hands of business leaders, corporate insiders, and financial intermediaries." Headlines remind us of very large payouts to CEOs, regardless of their performance. (In fact, it could be...
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by Jim Heskett
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Michael Luca. That may be about to change. Thanks to the Internet, mobile apps, and a wide range of useful programs online, residents add to the pool of information with every keystroke...
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- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
information from their back pockets and transfer it to the problem at hand. In a four-week period of time, over 574 scientists investigated the problem statement and forty-two of them submitted potential solutions for considerations. The...
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by Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
profitability. In Chapter 6 we describe the work of drug company Cipla in India and telephone company China Mobile working in rural western China to bring affordable drugs, and smart telephone connections, respectively, to hundreds of...
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by Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
transactional planners responded to these differences in standards of judicial review; that these differences in judicial scrutiny created differences in outcomes for the minority shareholders; and that differences in outcomes created a social welfare loss, not just a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
consumers and producers, and such changes typically required the mobilization of political power to overcome resistance to such changes. In order to support such developmental changes, the political authorities of capitalism had to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008
transfer in security markets. We focus on connections between mutual fund managers and corporate board members via shared education networks. We find that portfolio managers place larger bets on firms they are connected to through their...
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Martha Lagace