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- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
effective reforms of the acquisition process. High federal deficits at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, the continuing need for a strong defense, and a growing awareness of the need to deal more effectively with the high cost of defense...
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- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
these same kinds of inequality data but also provide evidence that child abuse, child poverty, teenage suicide, and violent crime, as well as the number of people living without health insurance, have all increased in the United States since the 1970s. These kinds of...
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by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
stalled right now. As the book argues, macroeconomic reforms and stimulus packages are not going to be the answer. There's still little real change in Japan on the government side, other than some marginal improvements. The response on...
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by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
effectively provide unconventional monetary stimulus by supporting the origination of debt that would not be originated otherwise. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51681 Creativity Under Fire: The...
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Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach
This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details
- 17 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Reserve Bank Governor Discusses India’s Financial Opportunities
not central to the big problem we're facing now," he said. Instead, he placed much of the blame on global investment cycles created by the Federal Reserve Board's stimulus policies in the wake of the global financial crisis....
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by Carmen Nobel
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
that the biggest mitigating factor for public sector job losses in the COVID-19 crisis has been the amount of cash governments had on hand and how much they received from federal government stimulus measures. Because of balanced budget...
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by Kristen Senz
- 14 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors
Toffel. "We decided to bridge this impasse by creating the experiment inherent in MapEcos, providing a diverse group of companies the opportunity to disclose their environmental management efforts. The map provides both the stimulus...
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs
annual basis as part of an annual pay package is a much more effective stimulus for success. For example, if a CEO is given options and the stock price drops, compensation is diminished, too. But incentives are preserved for the future if...
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by Judith A. Ross
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
1979). Counter to this notion, results from six experiments show that lay people adhere more to advice when they think it comes from an algorithm than from a person. People showed this sort of algorithm appreciation when making numeric estimates about a visual View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad
is created, which increases both interest in the brand and intent to buy. The idea is aligned with Pavlov's theory of classical conditioning, he says. If you show somebody a stimulus (the brand) and then you show qualities (fun) right...
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- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
going to entail is major public investment that is going to be a continued stimulus for the economy. The event may even provide a long enough stimulus that it might be able to turn around some of the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
to drag the economy into a recession. The Bush administration approved a fiscal stimulus package exceeding $150 billion. Interest rates had been repeatedly cut at the fastest pace in decades, to 2.25% as of March 2008. The Fed, in an...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
American families and businesses. Whether a new fiscal stimulus is merited or even possible is up for debate, but a fiscal retrenchment in the near term is likely to make things worse. Third, alarms about the long-term fiscal challenges...
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by Staff
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
respect to black leaders’ economic influence over the past century. Most remarkably, the former president of the United States, Barack Obama, was placed at the helm of the US economy in the midst of the Great Recession and executed multi-billion-dollar View Details
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Re: Gerardine A. Doyle
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
we could slip even more, and I think the world would suffer. People used to look to America for leadership, but I'm not sure they do anymore. I think we can bring it back. Q: What is the white-coat economy, and why is it important? A: This, I think, is the leading edge...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
finance a $4 billion fiscal stimulus package amid the global economic downturn. Velasco was now Chile's most popular minister. However, the future of Chile's fiscal policy was questionable with the election of a new president, Sebastian...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
starts paying attention to something or someone, it happens in one of two ways: executive control (that person deliberately chooses what to focus on) or attentional capture (the attention is captured by a stimulus in the person's sensory...
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- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
awards relatively modest, they limit efforts to misdirect these funds. Unfortunately, the funding of clean tech innovation under the stimulus program has been characterized by a lack of clarity and consistency. In this uncertain...
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- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
Ghemawat The organizational challenges involved in World War II were a vital stimulus to strategic thinking. The problem of allocating scarce resources across the entire economy in wartime led to many innovations in management science....
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by Pankaj Ghemawat