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Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from HistoryFree Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History 

Global free trade is not the natural order of things, so it needs to be carefully tended to and maintained. Sophus Reinert and Dante Roscini discuss trade over time and what history teaches.  
11 Dec 2018  |  Research & Ideas

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Honda Created a Civic for Very Light Jets. How High Will It Fly?

Re: Gary P. Pisano
  • 06 Dec 2018
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After thirty years of research and development, HondaJet is finally in the air and winning its market. Gary Pisano discusses how Honda moved from cars and lawn mowers to multimillion-dollar private aircraft.

Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures

by Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Dec 2018
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  • Research & Ideas
If you want to get your messages through to employees, be ready to confess your own management shortcomings, counsels Alison Wood Brooks.

Why Employers Favor Men

by Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Sep 2017
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  • Research & Ideas
Why are women discriminated against in hiring decisions? Research by Katherine Coffman, Christine Exley, and Muriel Niederle finds the answer is more subtle than expected.

How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts

by Rachel Layne
  • 03 Dec 2018
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  • Research & Ideas
There is a connection between public sentiment about a company and how the market rewards its corporate social performance, according to George Serafeim. Is your company undervalued?

New Working Papers 

Scholarly papers that describe original research in a narrow field of study.

Platform Competition: Betfair and the U.K. Market for Sports Betting

by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Neil Campbell
  • 10 DEC 2018

Oral History and Writing the Business History of Emerging Markets

by Geoffrey Jones and Rachael Comunale
  • 07 DEC 2018

The Salary Taboo: Privacy Norms and the Diffusion of Information

by Zoë B. Cullen and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
  • 05 DEC 2018

Work from Anywhere or Co-locate? Autonomy versus Learning Effects at the United States Patent Office

by Prithwiraj Choudhury, Cirrus Foroughi, and Barbara Larson
  • 04 DEC 2018

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The Research Exchange is a way for faculty and corporate partners to collaborate on the following field studies.

Transparency & Productivity

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Best Practices for Considering Contract Workers

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Causes and Consequences of Withholding Critical Feedback in Organizations

Ashley Whillans and Chuck Howard

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