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- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
Recent studies emphasize the importance of political decentralization and relatively broad political voice for the early spread of public primary education in developed economies. We identify the former and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
Lincoln Center is mind-boggling in its scope and prestige. Eleven resident organizations in arts and education share the campus: the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the...
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- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
discussing lifetime employment, Japan needs to preserve its assets. Japanese time horizons are an asset. Japanese skill and education levels are an asset. We sketch in the book some elements of a distinctly Japanese approach, but one that...
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by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
Hurricane Katrina as a catalyst for the transformation of the public education system in New Orleans, President Sarah Usdin and CEO Matt Candler must adapt their strategy to respond to a continuously shifting local context. By 2008,...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
technology, some business experience in the industry, and an MBA—that would be great. Education is an important ingredient, but experience is even more important. Almost no one gets venture capital money without actually having...
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by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
immigrant appears to be better trained to work in these fields, but this is conditional on educational attainment of comparable quality to natives. The exception to this is that immigrants have a disproportionate impact among the very...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
some people numbers speak, but I don’t think numbers speak to him. I give him a lot of credit for realizing this early on. Back in the 1960s a Citibank offer was like a golden ticket in India. People wouldn’t leave that job, and I’m sure...
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- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
considerably over time. While it was slightly positive on average in the period 1953–2009, it was unusually high in the early 1980s and negative in the 2000s, particularly in the downturns of 2000–2002 and 2007–2009. This paper specifies...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
reflect not a reversal of early mistakes but an effective sequence of organizing; and (2) why firms may benefit from unnecessary overlap between departments. They conclude that a period of decentralization and unnecessary overlap can be...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
for the post-colonial world and challenge Soviet leadership in the international communist movement in mid-1960s. When the wave of post-war decolonization crested in Africa in the late 1950s and early 1960s, inaugurating dozens of new...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
the quiet rule-breaking could mean developing code with management's approval for open-source external company projects. For mail carriers, the moral gray zone might mean finishing duties early yet staying "on the clock" until...
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by Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
substantially more global. The typical US-based multinational corporation has a much higher percentage of its total activity outside the US today. Early in our work, we'd talk to business executives and they would say, "I can't just...
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Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
possibility of platforms investing in "educating" unsophisticated users. In a competitive environment, such education is a public good among platforms and therefore the equilibrium level is lower than the one that would maximize...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
versus Posted Prices in Online Markets By: Einav, Liran, Chiara Farronato, Jonathan Levin, and Neel Sundaresan Abstract—Auctions were very popular in the early days of internet commerce, but today online sellers mostly use posted prices....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
inequalities in the public and the private spheres are affected by childhood exposure to non-traditional gender role models at home. We test the association between being raised by an employed mother and adult men's and women's outcomes...
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Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
public market. Explores at the corporate level the tension between Edison's effort to generate profits while achieving excellent educational outcomes. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/813113-PDF-ENG Harvard...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
production decisions. We find that insurance provision induces farmers to shift production towards higher-return but higher-risk cash crops, particularly among educated farmers. Our results support the view that financial innovation can...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
There's an important distinction. Very early in the program we decided that we wouldn't focus purely on nonprofits. We thought it should be about social enterprise, regardless of whether it's for-profit or nonprofit. We defined social...
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by Roger Thompson
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
education in local communities? To switch to renewable power? All of these actions might improve social welfare, and some of them might improve profitability, but they are very different, and the business case for each of them is...
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
on the team. Although she had been the key decision-maker in the early weeks of the project, Julia Narino now finds that her team increasingly discounts her deep client expertise while deferring to the senior partner's more generalized...
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Sean Silverthorne