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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
house Western companies happens in conditions that wouldn’t pass an OSHA inspection. Clean drinking water and indoor plumbing are a luxury, and slums line main roads. For many of the country’s 1.1 billion residents, life still exists...
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- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
percent are in the developing world. The first part of this paper explores the economics of HIV and treatment from a social marketing perspective. The second part of the paper uses three specific case histories of successful social...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016
Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51996 forthcoming Quarterly Journal of Economics Catering to Investors Through Security Design: Headline Rate and Complexity By: Célérier, Claire, and Boris Vallée...
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Carmen Nobel
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Art Nature Business
about environmental conditions at different moments in time. The sheets of newspaper form concentric circles, evoking time in the same way as recorded in trees." Lagos prefers newspapers because, in his words, "the essence of...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
eventually cut 15,000 jobs from the company's payroll. In ten years of growth between 1982 and 1992, the number of employees had risen from 41,500 to 116,700, and the airline's fleet had grown from 231 to 897 planes. However, in 1991, due to a variety of deteriorating...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
intellectual conditions of the times, Khurana explains. Over the past 30 years, historic shifts have taken place in the business arena that set the stage for the curriculum innovations playing out today at HBS and other business schools....
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- 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31
increased when the rules were introduced. We conclude that managerial fiduciary duties affect equity-bondholder conflicts in a way that is economically important, has impact on ex ante capital structure choices, and affects welfare. Read...
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Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
them, now more than ever before. After going through the pandemic and the associated economic and social upheaval, people care deeply about if their companies are socially responsible; they want to see evidence that they are helping...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
for the economy, because so many of those small businesses, those Main Street businesses, really provide the essence of the quality of life in a community, the essence of the community, itself. And as we look at the wake of Covid and the View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
environment, workplace safety, and community involvement, most firms do not provide this information. Second, it is not economically efficient for shareholders with a small stake in a number of companies to ferret out sufficient...
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by Carla Tishler
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
through collaboration. While business is key to the successful revitalization of urban areas, Austin notes that other alliances are also important. He sees a future in which leaders from all sectors build relationships that will improve the social and View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
Abstract Revenue recognition and measurement principles can conflict with liability recognition and measurement principles. We explore here under different market conditions when the two measurement approaches coincide and when they...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
study seeks to understand the effect of access to sex selection technologies such as ultrasound, and consequently skewed sex ratios, on the marriage market and intrahousehold outcomes of females in India. Existing economic theory and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
told Lo. “Because if the unit economics of this thing turn out to be even remotely true, it’s the future of food.” Lo’s interest was piqued. She knew almost nothing about farming and had always just trusted that the Western world’s food...
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- 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17
entrepreneurs constitute a key economic driving force for many countries, they often face unstable environments due to violence and civil unrest. Yet, we know very little about how environments characterized by high levels of political...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
reshored factories, or requiring a certain percentage of demand to be available from US or USMCA sources. Those would admittedly be bold moves, notes Fuller, but it’s the kind of thinking needed to have reshoring make real economic sense:...
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- 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15
these "common good" kinds of items, which use resources more productively. In the winning situations, this makes these cities more economically competitive at the same time. This article further argues for investments grounded...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3
as well as economic value and who pair micromanagement with big-picture aspirations about the future. The authors, who have studied, taught, and interviewed executives in some of the world's leading companies, assert that such leaders...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
a global institution devoted to expanding low-income women's economic access, participation, and power. The second half of her summer was devoted to fieldwork with ImpactPartners, a venture philanthropy organization that assists...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
and pursue my personal passions of women's economic empowerment and education. I began at Merrill Lynch, but in pursuit of independence, I eventually became an entrepreneur, founding and building a venture capital firm. I still enjoy...
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