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- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
cons of mixing business with social service? Can nonprofits effectively serve two masters, their nonprofit mission and the call of the market? At the annual Dialogue on Social Enterprise, a daylong event held April 20 at Harvard Business...
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by Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
in what people think, and you need to find the right people to talk to you,” says Elkins, a professor of history and African and African American Studies at Harvard, and the founding director of the Harvard Center for African Studies....
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by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55344 Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives' Marriage and Fertility By: Carlana, Michela, and Marco Tabellini Abstract—In this paper, we study the effects of immigration...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
and consumer lending. The researchers chose to study risk-management experts because their role has risen in importance with demands for improved corporate governance and the need for better forecasting and modeling. After the financial...
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- 02 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 2, 2009
information. To start closing this gap, we study transfers of income to real-world poor people in the context of dictator games. Our dictators can purchase signals about why the recipients are poor. We find that a third of the dictators...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), to participate in a workshop with academics who study government regulation and industry compliance. The event featured a series of presentations by scholars sharing...
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by Michael Blanding
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
around show business. Q: What are you working on next? A: I just released a new case on fashion magazine Vogue, which I can't wait to teach later this month, and have a few other exciting case studies in the pipeline. I am also thinking...
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- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
market. By early 1917, Ahmednagar held 1,169 civilians, mostly men in their mid-30s. Although the prisoners’ movements were restricted, they were treated fairly well. They were allowed to build tennis courts, for example. Many spent their days learning foreign...
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- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
bungles things when it wades into the private sector. Lerner's book studies where public efforts to spur entrepreneurial activity have gone right and wrong—there are many more of the latter, the author acknowledges—and offers policy...
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- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-066.pdf The Surprising Power of Age-Dependent Taxes Authors:Matthew Weinzierl Abstract This paper provides a new, empirically driven application of the dynamic Mirrleesian framework by studying a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
framework that has significant corporate applications as well. The concepts in this book are grounded in a historically significant case study on how the American President deals with foreign policy. We are highly critical of much...
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by Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/419016-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 419-017 Christine Lagarde (A): A French Prime Minister Calls This case covers formative events and influences in Christine Lagarde’s childhood and her...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Growing CEOs from the Inside
HBS case study mentioned in Bower's book, Mulcahy drew counsel from a wide constituency of friends and acquaintances at the company to help set its future direction based on color printers and office services. Xerox has since rebounded...
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- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
employed in a study of the market for federal judicial law clerks conducted in 1998-2000, we have broadly surveyed both federal appellate judges and law students about their experiences of the new market for law clerks. This paper...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
people intuitively discount the future to a greater degree than can be rationally defended. Second, positive illusions lead us to conclude that energy problems do not exist or are not severe enough to merit action. Third, we interpret View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
Platform Competition, Compatibility, and Social Efficiency (revised) Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda Abstract Katz and Shapiro (1985) study systems compatibility in settings with one-sided platforms and direct...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
economics, primarily in the understanding of foreign aid, is also one of the few economists who studies issues of humanitarian and emergency assistance. One of his papers, on a refugee camp economy, has been accepted by the Journal of...
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by Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
people to buy forecasts? Does the act of forecasting set in motion unforeseen events that can counteract the forecast made? Publisher's link: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10057.html August 2013 Edward Elgar Publishing Business...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
learned today and prepare for tomorrow. The Rapid Eye Movement (REM) phase of sleep appears to be dedicated to the former function, shaping the day’s barrage of stimuli and events into memories and lessons, and connecting those memories...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19
Electronic Monitoring Authors:Di Tella, Rafael, and Ernesto Schargrodsky Publication:Journal of Political Economy Abstract We study criminal recidivism in Argentina by focusing on the re-arrest rates of two groups: individuals released...
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Sean Silverthorne