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- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
clearly aren’t going far enough to reduce segregation overall. Companies should start asking new questions: What work are they doing in-house and what work are they hiring contractors to do? And is the work they are contracting out...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
field research methods, this paper connects these achievements to bureaucratic norms, unwritten rules within the state that guide the behavior of public officials and structure their relations with civic agencies outside the state....
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Carmen Nobel
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
paradox by considering the enabling role of actors' social position. Adopting a relational view of human agency, I model the impact of their social position on the likelihood that actors will initiate changes that diverge from the...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
encompasses the birth of the consumer society, the shift away from an industrial economy, and the decline of the social contract between companies and workers. So the Times articles were chosen — from a huge array of possibilities — to...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
miserable conditions, are inspiring. I was contracted through the Coalition Provisional Authority to help the oil ministry think about strategies for financing reconstruction. In the short term, the options are fairly limited; over time,...
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- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
and expects to be nationwide by the end of 2022. A pioneer in the creation of a new, community-based, green workforce, Terry’s goal is to train 1000 technicians - every quarter. ChargerHelp!’s future growth depends on two variables: the number of View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
sites and perform other labor-intensive high-tech work. A year later, that company is up and running. CitySoft (www.citysoft.com), which harnesses the computer skills of young adults from low-income Boston neighborhoods, has just completed its eleventh View Details
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
freshman year at Harvard, where he worked part-time in a student dining hall and took an interest in the workers’ ongoing contract negotiations. When he started wearing a union button to work, “it just changed the relationship I had with...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
corporations, financial institutions, and government agencies, including the Justice Department, Treasury Department, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Securities and Exchange Commission. He frequently comments in the news media on matters View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
raise funds from outside investors. The relationship appears not to be causal but instead driven by selection effects across heterogeneous teams with varying degrees of inequality aversion. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51237 2016 The...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
in their competition against p2p. Other differences are related to the "packaging" of content. Digital rights management (DRM) technologies, for example, are used to limit the playback of music purchased on iTunes, while music...
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- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
questions related to personal plans. First, what are the effects of plans on behavior? Second, when are plans formed? Third, how do plans deviate from optimality? For each of these questions, we (a) offer a brief overview of research that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
David, and Stefan Spinler Abstract—Paul Kleindorfer was among the first to weigh in on and nurture the stream of Sustainable Operations Management. The thoughts laid out here are based on conversations we had with Paul relating to the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
multinational resource and related investments were highly enclavist and embedded in the institutional arrangements of Western imperialism and autocratic dictators. Western firms reinforced rather than disrupted institutional and societal...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
more Americans were willing to borrow. Chimerica, in other words, was the underlying cause of the surge in bank lending, bond issuance, and new derivative contracts that “Planet Finance” witnessed after 2000. It was the underlying cause...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2018
HBS alumni and friends. These funds are supplemented by unrestricted funds as necessary, which totaled $6 million in fiscal 2018. Publishing & Printing Publishing and printing expense includes HBP’s production costs plus a small amount of spending View Details
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
on 2,521 participants demonstrating the embodied effects of expansive versus contractive nonverbal postures. We discuss a new addition to this list that found an embodied effect of nonverbal expansiveness on self-reported feelings of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
brother-in-law. Gordon works with partners like Benedetti and the Kempinski to plan events and conferences at the hotel; today, they are discussing a joint US road show to sell Cuba as a travel destination to luxury and corporate travel agents and some View Details
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
related bills that have both costs and benefits are combined. In our first laboratory study, we confirm across a set of four legislative domains that this bundling technique increases support for bills that have both costs and benefits....
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
Environmental Strengths, in contrast, do not accurately predict the outcomes. We discuss the implications of our findings for advocates and opponents of corporate social responsibility, as well as for studies relating social...
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Sean Silverthorne