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- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
restrict the religious groups' acreage and make the roads even wider to control foot traffic—and land disputes-even more? What about expanding the festival site northward, thereby creating the equivalent of urban sprawl? Or will you...
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- 25 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?
Informing consumers and restricting bad apples: that’s the dual role that occupational licensing is supposed to play. If a plumber, painting contractor, or HVAC repairer has a license it should matter to consumers wanting their services,...
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- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
demonstrated how influence derives from instrumental agency as well as structural influence, but it has taken an unnecessarily restrictive view of politics and an overly materialist theory of power. Politics are about much more than...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
for behavior, and draws on concepts and techniques from neuroscience to inform her research in marketing. For corporations, on the other hand, the science is a means to an end goal of selling more stuff. But the tools, once restricted to...
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- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
interest intrigued Zappos' senior executives, they had not felt the time was right, until now. Amazon's offer—10 million shares of stock (valued at $807 million), $40 million in cash and restricted stock units for Zappos' employees, and a...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
Devices By: Exley, Christine L., and Jeffrey K. Naecker Abstract—Previous research often interprets the choice to restrict one's future opportunity set as evidence for sophisticated time inconsistency. We propose an additional mechanism...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
five-year legislative process for a major new law regulating chemicals in the European Union appeared to be nearing its conclusion. REACH—the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, and Restriction of Chemicals—would create a new...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Marijuana
medium-sized marijuana producers are already trying to build brand loyalty by marketing strains such as Grape Stomper, which boasts a high THC content; sweet-tasting Golden Goat; and low-THC Critical Mass, which markets itself as a more mellow bud. Price Of Pot Since...
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- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
incentive to zone restrictively for housing." Not surprisingly, affordable housing has also become a growing problem in the suburbs. Often devoting little thought to housing availability in outlying communities, companies have...
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- 30 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest Over Colgate?
Brand. Whereas, with AI, “we can get those answers in under 15 minutes,” he says. Using AI to run this type of analysis prior to embarking on a human study could dramatically increase both the efficiency of testing and the quality of the results, adds Israeli. “Because...
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- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
morality and decrease people's ability to justify dishonesty. The second principle, Visibility, aims to restrict anonymity, prompt peer monitoring, and elicit responsible norms. The third principle, Self-Engagement, increases motivation...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
capital ought to flow across country borders with minimal restriction and regulation. Freedom for capital movements became the new orthodoxy. In an intellectual, legal, and political history of financial globalization, Rawi Abdelal shows...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
The factors that paved the inside path to success in the twentieth century have shifted—education is far more important today. Going forward, a global perspective will be increasingly vital. Managing this level of complexity requires a broader view—one that is not...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
well. Clearly the man-of-action hero is a very important model for professional life for the upper middle class. However, for the purposes of this academic paper, we had to restrict the boundaries on our claims. Q: Are there people in...
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by Manda Salls
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
the creation of false accounts for added products without existing customers’ knowledge. Just as egregious was leadership’s claim it did not know of the practice. The result was the imposition of huge fines on the company, the departure of two successive CEOs,...
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by James Heskett
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
choose the platform with a restricted number of candidates. This is because those agents value the higher rate of acceptance more than access to more candidates. Agents with higher outside options choose the market with a larger number of...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
with the wrong kind of competition, on the wrong things. Instead, we have a zero-sum competition to restrict services, assemble bargaining power, shift the cost to others, or grab more of the revenue versus other actors in the system....
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- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
shootings depends on the party in power. A mass shooting increases the number of enacted laws that loosen gun restrictions by 75% in states with Republican-controlled legislatures. We find no significant effect of mass shootings on laws...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
and repay CPP funds early. Collectively, the results provide new evidence on the realized consequences of the CPP for bank SEOs. The tests suggest the CPP's indirect costs of restrictions on corporate policies and actions as the most...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
crisis of 2008-2009, emerging-market governments have increasingly restricted foreign capital inflows. The data show a statistically significant drop in cumulative abnormal returns for Brazilian firms following capital control...
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Sean Silverthorne