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- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
consumer welfare if the internal content is inferior to organic search results. In this paper, we provide a legal and empirical analysis of this practice in the domain of online reviews. We first identify the conditions under which...
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- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
White stay-at-home mothers are idealized, while black stay-at-home mothers are stereotyped as lazy welfare exploiters, because unlike white mothers, society expects black mothers to work. In one experiment Cuddy described, participants...
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by Maggie Starvish
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
nature of willpower and are reliable predictors of economic outcomes in the adult. The implication is that one might, for example, be able to strengthen a "weak" child's ability to resist temptation, and in so doing offer View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
America's health care system—figures in the insurance, hospital, employment, governmental, and academic sectors. She proves how our current system, which is organized around payers and providers rather than the needs of its users, is dangerously eroding patient View Details
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Martha Lagace
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Commencement 2011 Address | About
make when they are in positions of influence? It is deeply important to get this right. We’re at a point in history when the bond of trust between business and society has been fractured, if not broken, yet I firmly believe that business is and must remain the engine...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
communities we serve, and ensuring the safety and welfare of all caregivers. This approach enables decisions—such as training, the skills, the educational opportunities, the advancement, mentorship—really to be made from the standpoint of...
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- December 2020 (Revised February 2021)
- Supplement
The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations
By: Mihir A. Desai and Suzanne Antoniou
How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government...
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- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
welfare in Mexico. Did liberalization lead to an increase (or decrease) in the supply of credit? Did liberalization lead to an increase (or decrease) in the cost of credit? Did liberalization lead to an increase (or decrease) in the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
We close with an attempt to identify strategies to close the gap between the unethical people we are and the ethical people that we strive to be. Truth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
important social welfare benefit by facilitating the initiation of M&A deals. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52924 A Welfarist Role for Nonwelfarist Rules: An Example with Envy By: Weinzierl, Matthew...
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
increasing the welfare of poor people in poor countries. Nongovernmental organizations are largely staffed by altruistic employees and volunteers working towards ideological, rather than financial, ends. Their founders are often intense,...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
"institutional capital." And, I was convinced that these Baxter-based social networks were instrumental not just for individuals and their ability to get their careers off to a good start, but for the welfare of their young...
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by Mallory Stark
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
of research conferences is in the works, including this April's "Business Leadership in the Social Sector" - which will explore how businesses are dealing with critical social issues such as public education, moving welfare recipients...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
evolved a strong sense of responsibility for the welfare of their societies as they continue to overcome past legacies of impoverishment. Three recently added interviews illuminate these themes of transformational change and societal...
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- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
When participation costs are large relative to the volume of traffic an ad platform can offer, an advertiser may forego use of an ad platform that the advertiser otherwise finds profitable. Mergers between ad platforms can increase advertiser View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
decomposed welfare effects of multinational production. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-111.pdf Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration? Evidence from Trade Policy Authors:Laura Alfaro, Paola Conconi, Harald...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
welfare reform, as well as the effective tax rates of both investors and workers. Another important theme relates to Slovakia's desire to join the EU and adopt the Euro. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
harmful. Specifically, lower consumer surplus and welfare result from inflated retail prices, over-investment in providing benefits to buyers, and excessive adoption of the intermediary's services. Competition among intermediaries...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
Egg Movement Michael W. Toffel and Stephanie van SiceHarvard Business School Note 611-021 Describes the social movement confronting conventional egg production techniques (battery cages) based on animal welfare concerns, and some merits...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
(BRFSS) data on 2.3 million U.S. respondents, and Eurobarometer data that cover multiple business cycles over four decades. This research provides a new perspective on the welfare cost of business cycles, with implications for growth...
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Dina Gerdeman