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- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
several critical sectors of the economy, including banking and private insurance, federal and state governments act as insurers of last resort, assuming literally trillions of dollars in contingent liabilities. Whether you like it or not,...
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by Laura Linard
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Fuller: Thank you, Bill. It’s fun to be on the other side of the table for a change.Kerr: Joe, why don’t we begin with you. The Managing the Future of Work Project has been tracking contingent labor—broadly speaking, the gig market—for...
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- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
perhaps extremely severe, that are routine because they can be anticipated and prepared for) and "true crises" (which, because of significant novelty, cannot be dealt with exclusively by pre-determined emergency plans and...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
spontaneous meetings that we don’t have to plan everything out and have back-to-back video calls to get things done. I was with a group a while back where we solved a problem in 10 minutes that we may not have even thought about solving...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
had occurred, but we were prepared," Lhota explains. "We had done a tremendous amount of contingency planning for disasters and terrorism events. Within a few hours, we were able to set up a command post at...
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- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
reserves at all. This finding is robust to considering interest rate shocks, sudden stops, contingent reserves and reserve dependent output costs. Download the paper (purchase from NBER required: $5): http://www.nber.org/papers/w13216...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
tireless student president also trained for and completed the Boston Marathon (a feat he repeated in this year's centennial anniversary of the race). How did he accomplish it all? "I got about three hours of sleep a night," smiles Dobron, who View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Marshall Plan for Moms, shares her formula for structural change. Joe Fuller: Despite greater awareness of the gender gap in the technology sector, it’s been hard to make a lasting dent. Between 1984 and 2020, the share of women in the...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
also this recognition of how different types of contributions—might lead one to also think that Shopify is going to embrace a lot more gig workplace in the future, a lot more contingent or different work arrangements. Is that true? Or is...
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- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
the company's marketing department into an integral part of product development, product management, and strategic planning after years of relative neglect is considered. The role of Chief Executive Officer Jeff Immelt in initiating and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-120.pdf The Contingent Effect of Absorptive Capacity: An Open Innovation Analysis Authors:Andrew A.King and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract Technological advancement and innovation requires the integration of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
world and capture relevant management information. In 2007, ProntoWash, an international car-wash company based in Argentina, was planning for rapid growth through a combination of owned and franchised operations. CEO Sergio Kompel needed...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
assuming superior productivity of one vintage over another, we examine contingency effects on productivity by heterogeneity in prior specialized knowledge bases in complementary human capital and provision of concurrent expert advice....
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- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
just maintaining their capital ratios. Third, the best way to deal with the inevitable gaming of any set of ex ante capital rules is not to propose further rules, but rather to allow the regulator sufficient flexibility to address unforeseen View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
free riding. Using the principles of Ostrom's commons theory, we show that the design commons organization was robust, although it displayed some areas of fragility. We conclude with the rudiments of a contingency theory describing when...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
calibrate these arguments to assess their quantitative importance. We use a dynamic equilibrium model with tax distortion, government outlays uncertainty, and contingent-debt service. Our framework also recognizes that contingent debt can...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
our research examines. We find that, to the contrary, the success of voluntary regulation is contingent on a robust regime of government inspection and enforcement. Within such a regime, we find that voluntary compliance efforts by...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
shock that occurred when the agency expanded the scope of its ratings. Our study is among the first to theorize about the impact of ratings on subsequent performance, and we introduce important contingencies that influence firm response....
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
fall of 2019, “Who are the most essential workers?” in any one of the companies you mentioned, they would’ve been talking about succession planning for the C-suite.Bersin: Right.Fuller: And by September 2020, they were talking about...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
traditional ways of getting work done, and organizations where “lines and boxes” still define how people are managed. As work and organizations have become more fluid and business strategy is no longer about planning years ahead but about...
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