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- 2007
- Working Paper
The Political Economy of 'Natural' Disasters
By: Charles Cohen and Eric D. Werker
Natural disasters occur in a political space. Although events beyond our control may trigger a disaster, the level of government preparedness and response greatly determines the extent of suffering incurred by the affected population. We use a political economy model... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Government and Politics; Strategic Planning; Mathematical Methods; Natural Disasters; Welfare or Wellbeing
Cohen, Charles, and Eric D. Werker. "The Political Economy of 'Natural' Disasters." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-040, December 2007. (Revised November 2008.)
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-036.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsThe Bollingers: Negotiating with Wal-Mart Harvard Business School Case 907-009 More information and purchase:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
examples drawn from take-back regulations promulgated in Europe, Japan, and the United States governing waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-026.pdf Cases & Course... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
proof of one-sided strategy-proofness for worker–firm matching under continuously transferable utility. A new “Lone Wolf” theorem (Jagadeesan, et al., 2017) for settings with transferable utility allows us to adapt the method of proving... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2021
- Working Paper
Impact Investing: A Theory of Financing Social Enterprises
By: Benjamin N. Roth
I present a model of financing social enterprises to delineate the role of impact investors relative to “pure” philanthropists. I characterize the optimal scale and structure of a social enterprise when financed by grants, and when financed by investments. Impact... View Details
Roth, Benjamin N. "Impact Investing: A Theory of Financing Social Enterprises." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-078, February 2020. (Revised June 2021.)
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
For its part, HBS never traveled as far down the disciplinary road as other top business schools. While the School did hire more faculty with strong disciplinary research backgrounds, it remained steadfast in its mission to deliver a general management education,... View Details
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
together value chain participation strategies in a setting where they can also learn about industrial biotechnology, including some cutting edge methods in directed evolution. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/614001 Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
and rewarding more participatory, more sincere, and less directive marketing styles. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-017.pdf The Impact of Shareholder Activism on Financial Reporting and Compensation: The Case of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
private sector can also attain results in politics, the most public of all realms. Teaching Executives and Teaching MBAs: Reflections on the Case Method Author:David A. Garvin Periodical:Academy of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination
essential to evaluate methods for measuring discrimination and associated design changes over time. About the Author Kristen Senz is a writer and social media editor for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: RyanJLane]... View Details
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
views on distributive justice are shown to differ in two specific, related ways from what is conventionally assumed in modern optimal tax research. A large share of respondents, and in some cases a large majority, resist the full... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
disagree with this assumption, preferring tax policies based at least in part on a classic alternative objective: the principle of Equal Sacrifice. I generalize the standard model to accommodate this preference for a mixed objective, proposing a View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- April 2021
- Article
A Model of Multi-Pass Search: Price Search Across Stores and Time
By: Navid Mojir and K. Sudhir
In retail settings with price promotions, consumers often search across stores and time. However, the search literature typically only models one pass search across stores, ignoring revisits to stores; the choice literature using scanner data has modeled search across... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Search; Multi-pass Search; Price Search; Store Search; Spatial Search; Temporal Search; Spatiotemporal Search; Dynamic Structural Models; MPEC; Price Promotions; Store Loyalty; Consumer Behavior; Price; Spending; Marketing; Mathematical Methods
Mojir, Navid, and K. Sudhir. "A Model of Multi-Pass Search: Price Search Across Stores and Time." Management Science 67, no. 4 (April 2021): 2126–2150.
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
accelerated sharply in the U.S. economy. In this paper, we identify several other industry-level changes that have occurred during the same time and argue that they are consistent with an increased use of information technology (IT). We use View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 21, 2007
Working PapersNone this week Cases & Course MaterialsFinding the Right Job for Your Product Harvard Business School Note 607-028 Asserts that the typical ways that companies have learned to segment their markets, by product... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
combine administrative data on all firms in Spain with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset on the universe of corporate loans for 2003–2013 to identify bank-specific shocks for each year using methods from the matched employer-employee... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
collect the data, and then expect machine learning methods to spit out insight for you.” “We tend to think that when we have all this rich data and this machine learning technology, that the machines are going to just come up with the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
practice, and at a personal level, the impact she has had on each of our lives. Innovative ideas and novel methods have been the hallmarks of Linda's research on diverse topics: the impact of self‐serving conceptions of fairness on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
Surveillance Capitalism, you are fooling yourself.” David Wittenberg stated the case for the position that the source of the problem is us. “No matter how much businesses know about us, they cannot sell to us unless their products make... View Details
- 27 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)
that don't affect the results can cast a shadow on the credibility of academic research. In research to be published in a forthcoming issue of Psychological Science, John and coauthors George Loewenstein (Carnegie Mellon) and Drazen Prelec (MIT) write that although... View Details