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- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
the extra costs (not directly borne by the global producer) and risks of cross-border operation continue to be very significant. As a result, the net price premia, adjusted for risk, available to producers...
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by Martha Lagace
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
them to focus on. Recognizing that there's a lot of big wins people are making right now because their emissions are dropping because they're not going on those long trips that they had planned on doing otherwise and thinking more about how we can View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
for having a poor location score relative to nonblack hosts," the researchers write in the paper. "These differences highlight the risk of discrimination in online marketplaces, suggesting an important unintended consequence of a...
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- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
risk his life and that of other soldiers to reenter a home rigged with an explosive to save three Iraqis. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311085-PDF-ENG Joe Gifford in Tal Afar, Iraq (B) Joseph Badaracco, Richard...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
Cup Series, we model the probability that a driver crashes his car in a race. Our findings are that drivers crash their vehicles with greater frequency when their positions are increasingly at risk of displacement by their nearby, lower...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
country unit to adjust to local needs is a critical balancing act. Rule 4: Timing is critical. Retailers would do well to stop planting flags and focus instead on a limited set of opportunities where they can establish operations of...
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Carmen Nobel
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
methodologies such as machine learning. We highlight the importance of distinguishing between which customers are at risk and which should be targeted—as they are not necessarily the same customers. We identify trade-offs between reactive...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
decisions ranging from whom to date to whom to hire. When faced with decisions about disclosure, decision makers should be aware not just of the risk of revealing but of what hiding reveals. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
financial management and the usefulness of formal hedging of agricultural production risks was offered to randomly selected farmers in Gujarat, India. The authors evaluate the effect of the financial literacy training and three marketing...
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Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
unwilling, to invest directly in Turkey because of political risk and government restrictions. The case ends in 1988 when the founder received a report from the management consultancy Bain calling for the firm to reduce the range of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
fewer risks for fear of making mistakes and thus losing their job? Also of interest to us is whether companies adjust their strategies based on noncompete enforcement. We might expect, for example, that...
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by Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
risks for physicians on innovation may be positive or negative, depending on the characteristics of the technology. Empirically, we find that, on average, laws that limit the liability exposure of healthcare providers are associated with...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School
for the work that we thought we should be doing to move things forward. We have certainly made some progress and adjustments along the way. In the spring we took stock of the 38 commitments embedded within the seven pillars of the plan...
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- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
of broadening consumer participation in financial activities; (3) do-it-yourself consumer finance, which allowed and forced consumers to take greater responsibility for their own financial lives; and (4) the resultant increase in household View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
real time, adjust what the skills are.Fuller: It’s interesting. I did a paper with some colleagues at Deloitte on how boards and senior management teams think about talent hiring and these issues, as an issue of View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
adjustments should she make to lead remotely, and what tweaks (if any) should be made to her Miami-based management team? The case details the numerous challenges Swan initially faced in launching Nickelodeon Latin America, from winning...
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- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6582.html http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-053.pdf Published: January 4, 2011 Paper Released: November 2010 It's a challenge that all good managers face: How do you strike the right balance between encouraging autonomy among your employees...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
There’s a lot of self-learning that goes on in the process of adjusting to a different environment. “Some students are better at reaching across cultures and being effective communicators in ambiguous situations,” continues Abrami, who...
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- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
infrastructure and ready talent, and an underdeveloped consumer market. Some innovators, however, have succeeded by building franchises to serve poorer consumer segments; tapping the vast opportunity represented by nonconsumption; internalizing View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
auditor, we identify structural contingencies in the institutional environment and in program design under which codes and monitoring are more likely to be associated with improvements in working conditions. At the institutional level, suppliers improve more when they...
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Dina Gerdeman