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- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
It is no secret that immigration has reshaped American innovation. Immigrants are the backbone of America’s most innovative industries, provide a quarter of our patent applications, and are numerous among our science and engineering superstars. Taken from World...
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by William R. Kerr
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/asunderam/market_segmentation.pdf The Ordinary Heroes of the Taj Authors:Rohit Deshpandé and Anjali Raina Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 12 (December 2011) An abstract is unavailable at this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
entrepreneurs, many of them expatriate Americans, helped ensure that formally protected areas remained sustainable parks and reserves by providing revenues, conservation education to tourists, and community development and jobs....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought
ZMET in addition to digital imaging, for corporate clients as well as MBA and Executive Education students. He's also involved in Harvard's interdisciplinary initiative Mind/Brain/Behavior, and studies neuroimaging techniques as applied...
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by Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
will experience food insecurity due to the pandemic, and a Brookings Institution analysis shows two in five households with mothers and children under the age of 12 unable to afford enough food. COVID-19 also is causing disruptions...
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- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
restrictions included the ability to get visas for highly talented foreign workers and graduate students. One of the great strengths of America is our phenomenal system of higher education; we have educated the world's engineers and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
worked like this: The New York City Department of Education asked students to submit a ranked list of the five high schools they'd most like to attend, and the students would oblige. Next, the department would photocopy the list and send...
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- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
lower the better, with the logic being that more money can then go to actual programs. So an organization might report, "We spend 6 percent on fundraising, whereas the industry average is 12 to 14 percent." That's typical, but...
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by Roger Thompson
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
abundant channel capacity, cable could become the savior of American television, which had become a "vast wasteland" in the hands of greedy capitalists. 12 In "wired cities," citizens could produce their own...
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- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
and, eventually, through its decision to execute a management buyout to exit the public market. Explored at the corporate level is the tension between Edison's effort to generate profits and achieve excellent educational outcomes. Brief...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
search terms team, teamwork, work groups, or collaboration, in combination with survey or questionnaire. Principal findings. We found 58 scales that measured teamwork; 12 of them have been shown to relate to non-self-report outcomes of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
attempt to merely deflect international criticism about the countries’ human rights records. In fact, the researchers found that the treaties corresponded to better factory conditions. For each international labor treaty a country signed, its factories had View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
significantly enriched. We then discuss several applications related to online and brick-and-mortar intermediaries. American Exceptionalism?: A Comparative Analysis of the Origins and Trajectory of U.S. Business Education Development...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=108011 PublicationsOvercoming the Saving Slump: How to Increase the Effectiveness of Financial Education and Saving Programs Author:Annamaria Lusardi, ed....
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
Education in Brazil, 1889-1930 Authors:Musacchio, Aldo, Andre Martinez-Fritscher, and Martina Viarengo Abstract In this paper, we examine the role of trade shocks in promoting the diffusion of elementary View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads Authors:Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin, and Patrick Cullen Publication:Journal of Management Development 30, no. 5 (2011) Abstract The paper seeks to examine major challenges facing MBA programs...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
simultaneously, with little market testing. Over Johnson's final 12 months as CEO, J.C. Penney shares dropped more than 50%. The case describes the environments at Target, Apple, and J.C. Penney during Johnson's tenure and how his...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
Evidence on Attitudes, Behavior, and Cognitive Biases By: Carpena, Fenella, Shawn A. Cole, Jeremy Shapiro, and Bilal Zia Abstract—This paper uses a large-scale field experiment in India to study attitudinal, behavioral, and cognitive constraints that can stymie the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
unprecedented expansion of higher education and, in the most recent time, efforts at reform and restructuring. Harvard has overhauled its undergraduate curriculum in a comprehensive fashion for the first time in 30 years. European...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
what was maybe behind the scenes that people didn't know about him. I would ask you, maybe just to set the stage for us, how does the case begin, Bill? George: The case is set about 12 years before that Mountaintop speech, back in January...
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