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- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
distinct roles, one to administer the existing institutional frameworks, including the provision of infrastructure and the administration of laws and regulations, and the second to mobilize political power to bring about modernization of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
attracted criticism for its purely empirical approach, its failure to make consistently accurate predictions, and its pursuit of commercial objectives in a university setting. Harvard's efforts to build a forecasting service are an early chapter in the evolution of the...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
a degree. There’s a big financial barrier there, so that hampered social mobility. But also, there’s a big academic barrier that doesn’t need to exist. Right? Actually, there’s no correlation between academics and job performance, so why...
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- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
significant scope in choosing where to work, these uncompensated risks may undermine the efficacy of accountability reforms by limiting the ability of low-performing schools to attract and retain effective leaders. This paper empirically evaluates the economic...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
shipment is little red scooters, with a 60-mile range. In the spring, we’ll have four-wheelers, with nice touches like windows you can operate and with a heater and that have a 60-mile range, and cost us less than those first scooters with a 10-mile range. That’s...
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- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
physical assets (such as health records); combining data within and across industries (to, say, coordinate supply chains); trading data (as mobile providers do with information on users' whereabouts); and codifying best-in-class...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
This growth differential in turn depends on the mobility of the technology's labor force, which we model through the extent that technologies depend upon immigrant scientists and engineers. Spatial adjustments are faster for technologies...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Nancy Barry (MBA 1975), founder and president of Enterprise Solutions to Poverty, which mobilizes and supports leading companies and entrepreneurs in building profitable and inclusive businesses that incorporate millions of low-income...
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- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
information that function as organizational, location, and personnel mobility barriers among quasi-autonomous units within a mega-agency or holding company have become an essential component of conflict policies. Subject to the protection...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
learning is quite good. And if I don’t need to be on a campus, and I don’t want to actually be in a classroom, et cetera, even if I want the social engagement with all of my fellow students of similar ages, et cetera, I can actually have...
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- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
that of the DAX 30 (but not much more) is the exception to the rule. That means potential global investors in such companies will have to deal with actively involved owners or families, rather than managers. For such family-controlled firms, they will have to deal with...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
Common Asset Management, Boston, Massachusetts Leaders should learn empathy and seek employees who bring greater empathy to their work. Social intelligence distinguishes a firm and leads to superior outcomes. Having diversity of...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
can be a force multiplier. I’ll use a very specific example. I think about a social entrepreneur that I know in D.C. He runs a nonprofit focused on helping returning citizens get back to work after they leave, which we know is an...
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- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
corporate sales from multiple sources, including approximately 50 million mobile devices. These measures contain information from both the earnings quarter (within quarter) and the period between that quarter's end and the earnings...
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- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
social networks shape the emergence and development of nascent ventures. Scholars have argued that founders' and firms' networks influence innovation and the identification of entrepreneurial opportunities, as well as facilitate the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
joining the mobile network every month,” says Mittal. “Mobile phones have moved from an aspirational product to a mass product in a decade.” At the Tata Group, engineers are at work on a $2,000 car, the next step up for the millions of...
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Julia Hanna
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
sector. In a second section, a multidisciplinary team of sociologists and an economist map how reforms in economic and social policies have produced declines in the social standing of some specific groups...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
Moreover, we find that relatively higher wages also promote social norms such that coworkers are less (more) likely to collude to steal inventory from their company when relative wages are higher (lower). Our research contributes to an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
each one of us receives from this community are very important. I want to thank all of you for participating in this support system and for sustaining the unique set of values that defines HBS. "Stacey M. Childress (MBA '00), director of the HBS Initiative on View Details
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
to the local university and hire people who have the skill we need that is hot this year, which is what the tech world has been doing. And that’s why they’re constantly complaining there’s nobody to hire is because they want a Java programmer with View Details