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- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
impatience parameter is calibrated to local interest rates. A quantitative exercise calibrated to Brazil finds welfare gains of the optimal fiscal policy to be economically substantial, and the optimal rule to not entail a countercyclical...
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Carmen Nobel
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
more to their lower status parent group. Why? The present paper begins to establish the role of individual differences and social context in hypodescent, the process of assigning multiracials the status of their relatively disadvantaged...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
technologies on the health-care industry. A highly rated teacher, she is also an acclaimed public speaker, board member, and policy adviser whose expertise on health-care management has influenced private- and public-sector...
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- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
one mechanism for capturing the performance benefits of diversity in experience and provide insight into how the management of experience accumulation affects team performance. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-145.pdf PublicationsInstitutional...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
Cohly was skilled in Ayurveda, the ancient Indian practice of herbal medicine, and suggested they try using turmeric to heal the wound instead. The spice worked, and Das and Cohly later conducted Western medical trials to prove that turmeric was an effective View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Beyond Case Writing
option information without their partners present had a 57 percent reduction in unwanted births. When Ashraf presented her findings to the Zambian Ministry of Health last summer, officials pointed out that it was government policy to...
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- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and the Demise of Boston's Walk Zones By: Dur, Umut, Scott Duke Kominers, Parag A. Pathak, and Tayfun Sönmez Abstract—Admissions policies often use reserves...
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
default for those who don’t make an active choice: pharmacy pick-up without insurance subsidies. Under this program, 42% of eligible employees actively choose home delivery, 39% actively choose pharmacy pickup, and 19% make no active choice and are View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Task Force on Competition Policy and Antitrust Laws, Edelman wrote that the deal could have an anticompetitive effect on Internet advertising. "The proposed...
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- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
colonialism, European integration, and violent territorial expansion within Europe itself. Using the debate as a lens to understand the connections between a wide range of policy responses, this article argues that efforts to...
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Carmen Nobel
- 06 Sep 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom
integrated-circuit testing, admits it was anything but inevitable that he would end up at HBS. "I was interested in science and technology policy at the Kennedy School, and I also thought about law school," notes Fleming, who...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
at Hewlett-Packard for seven years and holds two patents in integrated-circuit testing, admits it was anything but inevitable that he would end up at HBS. “I was interested in science and technology policy at the Kennedy School, and I...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
shelter during his undergraduate studies had whet his appetite for volunteerism, so when his managerial background landed him “the world’s best Peace Corps assignment,” he was more than ready for the adventure. Murphy was assigned to the...
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- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
PublicationsDo Strong Fences Make Strong Neighbors? Authors:Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Publication:National Tax Journal 63 (December 2010) Abstract Many features of U.S. tax policy towards multinational firms—including the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
which job assignment is based on comparative advantage. Crucially, and consistent with almost all realistic hiring contexts, being hired and assigned to a job depends not only on one’s own skill but also on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707559 Vitreon Corp.: The Hyalite Project Harvard Business School Case 607-031 Considers decisions facing the leader of a manufacturing staff project team assigned to a plant...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
an artifact of soundtrack alone because attitudes toward sharks did not differ among participants assigned to audio-only control treatments. This is the first study to demonstrate empirically that the connotative attributes of background...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2016
- News
Taking Time Out for a Challenge
master’s degree in public policy from the Kennedy School in 2005. At HBS, she is pursuing a PhD in organizational behavior and sociology. Manning decided to take a leave from her PhD path and step in as acting CEO of Welbodi, providing...
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- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
was clear: launching this project became my priority. “We definitely need these types of initiatives! The policies required to address climate change require broad support to be implemented. That is impossible when only 16 percent of the...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
health-care reform in this country, we have to frame it as a managerial challenge. It’s not simply a policy issue. We won’t improve the system as a whole until we’ve improved the performance of individual health-care delivery...
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