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- May 2021
- Article
Preparing for a Pandemic: Accelerating Vaccine Availability
By: Amrita Ahuja, Susan Athey, Arthur Baker, Eric Budish, Juan Camilo Castillo, Rachel Glennerster, Scott Duke Kominers, Michael Kremer, Jean Lee, Canice Prendergast, Christopher M. Snyder, Alex Tabarrok, Brandon Joel Tan and Witold Wiecek
Vaccinating the world’s population quickly in a pandemic has enormous health and economic benefits. We analyze the problem faced by governments in determining the scale and structure of procurement for vaccines. We analyze alternative approaches to procurement, arguing...
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Keywords:
Vaccines;
Procurement;
Health Pandemics;
Health Care and Treatment;
Acquisition;
Cooperation
Ahuja, Amrita, Susan Athey, Arthur Baker, Eric Budish, Juan Camilo Castillo, Rachel Glennerster, Scott Duke Kominers, Michael Kremer, Jean Lee, Canice Prendergast, Christopher M. Snyder, Alex Tabarrok, Brandon Joel Tan, and Witold Wiecek. "Preparing for a Pandemic: Accelerating Vaccine Availability." AEA Papers and Proceedings 111 (May 2021): 331–335.
- May 2021
- Article
Private and Social Returns to R&D: Drug Development and Demographics
By: Efraim Benmelech, Janice Eberly, Dimitris Papanikolaou and Joshua Krieger
Investment in intangible capital such as R&D has increased dramatically since the 1990s. However, productivity growth remains sluggish in recent years. One potential reason is that a significant share of the increase in intangible investment is geared toward consumer...
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Keywords:
Drug Development;
Research and Development;
Investment Return;
Demographics;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Benmelech, Efraim, Janice Eberly, Dimitris Papanikolaou, and Joshua Krieger. "Private and Social Returns to R&D: Drug Development and Demographics." AEA Papers and Proceedings 111 (May 2021): 336–340.
- 2021
- Working Paper
Property Rights and Urban Form
By: Simeon Djankov, Edward L. Glaeser, Valeria Perotti and Andrei Shleifer
How do the different elements in the standard bundle of property rights, including those of possession and transfer, influence the shape of cities? This paper incorporates insecure property rights into a standard model of urban land prices and density, and makes...
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Djankov, Simeon, Edward L. Glaeser, Valeria Perotti, and Andrei Shleifer. "Property Rights and Urban Form." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28793, May 2021.
- May–June 2021
- Article
Savvy Self-Promotion: The Delicate Art and Science of Bragging
By: Leslie K. John
Everyone knows that success at work depends on being—and being seen as—both competent and likable. You need people to notice your growth and accomplishments while also enjoying your company. But if you draw attention to the value you’ve created, to ensure that managers...
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John, Leslie K. "Savvy Self-Promotion: The Delicate Art and Science of Bragging." Harvard Business Review 99, no. 3 (May–June 2021): 145–148.
- May 2021
- Article
Stability, Strategy-Proofness, and Cumulative Offer Mechanisms
By: John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers and Alexander Westkamp
We consider the setting of many-to-one matching with contracts, where firms may demand multiple contracts, but each worker desires at most one contract. We introduce three novel conditions—observable substitutability, observable size monotonicity, and...
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Keywords:
Matching With Contracts;
Stability;
Strategy-proofness;
Substitutability;
Size Monotonicity;
Cumulative Offer Mechanism;
Marketplace Matching;
Balance and Stability
Hatfield, John William, Scott Duke Kominers, and Alexander Westkamp. "Stability, Strategy-Proofness, and Cumulative Offer Mechanisms." Review of Economic Studies 88, no. 3 (May 2021): 1457–1502.
- May 2021
- Article
The Firm Next Door: Using Satellite Images to Study Local Information Advantage
By: Jung Koo Kang, Lorien Stice-Lawrence and Forester Wong
We use novel satellite data that track the number of cars in the parking lots of 92,668 stores for 71 publicly listed U.S. retailers to study the local information advantage of institutional investors. We establish car counts as a timely measure of store-level...
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Keywords:
Satellite Images;
Store-level Performance;
Institutional Investors;
Local Advantage;
Overweighting;
Processing Costs;
Alternative Data;
Big Data;
Emerging Technologies;
Information;
Quality;
Institutional Investing;
Decision Making;
Behavioral Finance;
Analytics and Data Science
Kang, Jung Koo, Lorien Stice-Lawrence, and Forester Wong. "The Firm Next Door: Using Satellite Images to Study Local Information Advantage." Journal of Accounting Research 59, no. 2 (May 2021): 713–750.
- 2021
- Chapter
The Professionalization of Compliance
By: Eugene F. Soltes
Keywords:
Compliance
Soltes, Eugene F. "The Professionalization of Compliance." Chap. 3 in The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance, edited by Benjamin van Rooij and D. Daniel Sokol, 27–36. Cambridge Law Handbooks. Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- May 2021
- Article
Value-Based Healthcare in Urology: A Collaborative Review
By: Chanan Reitblat, Paul A. Bain, Michael E. Porter, David N. Bernstein, Thomas W. Feeley, Markus Graefen, Santosh Iyer, Matthew J. Resnick, C.J. Stimson, Quoc-Dien Trinh and Boris Gershman
Context:
In response to growing concerns over rising costs and major variation in quality, improving value for patients has been proposed as a fundamentally new strategy for how healthcare should be delivered, measured, and... View Details
In response to growing concerns over rising costs and major variation in quality, improving value for patients has been proposed as a fundamentally new strategy for how healthcare should be delivered, measured, and... View Details
Keywords:
Value-based Healthcare;
Integrated Practice Units;
Outcome Measurement;
Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing;
Health Care and Treatment;
Value;
Cost Management;
Strategy;
Outcome or Result;
Measurement and Metrics
Reitblat, Chanan, Paul A. Bain, Michael E. Porter, David N. Bernstein, Thomas W. Feeley, Markus Graefen, Santosh Iyer, Matthew J. Resnick, C.J. Stimson, Quoc-Dien Trinh, and Boris Gershman. "Value-Based Healthcare in Urology: A Collaborative Review." European Urology 79, no. 5 (May 2021): 571–585.
- May–June 2021
- Article
Why Start-ups Fail
If you’re launching a business, the odds are against you: Two-thirds of start-ups never show a positive return. Unnerved by that statistic, a professor of entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School set out to discover why. Based on interviews and surveys with hundreds...
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Eisenmann, Thomas R. "Why Start-ups Fail." Harvard Business Review 99, no. 3 (May–June 2021): 76–85.
- April 2021 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
Balancing Act: Deborah Lovich (A)
By: David G. Fubini and Patrick Sanguineti
Deborah Lovich, Partner at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), has been given the opportunity of a lifetime: to join the firm's Executive Committee as its youngest member and only current woman, as well as just the second woman in its history. Encouraged by her mentors,...
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Keywords:
Work/life Balance;
Work/family Balance;
Work-Life Balance;
Family and Family Relationships;
Personal Development and Career
Fubini, David G., and Patrick Sanguineti. "Balancing Act: Deborah Lovich (A)." Harvard Business School Case 421-060, April 2021. (Revised June 2021.)
- April 2021 (Revised June 2021)
- Supplement
Balancing Act: Deborah Lovich (B)
By: David G. Fubini and Patrick Sanguineti
This case provides updates on Deborah Lovich's decision and how she navigated her work and family responsibilities over the following decade.
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Keywords:
Work/life Balance;
Work/family Balance;
Work-Life Balance;
Family and Family Relationships;
Personal Development and Career
Fubini, David G., and Patrick Sanguineti. "Balancing Act: Deborah Lovich (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 421-063, April 2021. (Revised June 2021.)
- April 2021 (Revised June 2021)
- Supplement
Balancing Act: Deborah Lovich (C)
By: David G. Fubini and Patrick Sanguineti
This case provides further updates on Deborah Lovich's decision, as well as reflections from her family and mentors on her path.
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Keywords:
Work/life Balance;
Work/family Balance;
Work-Life Balance;
Family and Family Relationships;
Personal Development and Career
Fubini, David G., and Patrick Sanguineti. "Balancing Act: Deborah Lovich (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 421-064, April 2021. (Revised June 2021.)
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Dance Between Government and Private Investors: Public Entrepreneurial Finance around the Globe
By: Jessica Bai, Shai Bernstein, Abhishek Dev and Josh Lerner
This paper examines the interaction between governments and private capital investors when financing early-stage ventures. We first provide a simple conceptual framework to explore when collaboration between governments and private investors is likely to emerge. Using...
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Keywords:
Public Entrepreneurship;
Subsidy;
Industrial Policy;
Entrepreneurship;
Public Sector;
Financing and Loans;
Venture Capital;
Global Range
Bai, Jessica, Shai Bernstein, Abhishek Dev, and Josh Lerner. "The Dance Between Government and Private Investors: Public Entrepreneurial Finance around the Globe." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-120, April 2021. (Revised January 2022.)
- 2021
- Working Paper
Financial Flexibility and Corporate Employment
By: Rebecca Lester, Ethan Rouen and Braden Williams
We study the role of financial flexibility on COVID-19 employment actions. Using daily data from March through May 2020 for 354 of the largest U.S. employers, we find that firms facing a negative demand shock were 28.8 percentage points more likely to reduce their...
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Keywords:
Financial Flexibility;
COVID-19;
Pandemic;
Employment;
Health Pandemics;
System Shocks;
Finance
Lester, Rebecca, Ethan Rouen, and Braden Williams. "Financial Flexibility and Corporate Employment." Harvard Business School Series in Accounting and Control, No. 21-119, April 2021.
- April 29, 2021
- Article
How to Build a Life: Stop Spending Time on Things You Hate
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: Stop Spending Time on Things You Hate." The Atlantic (April 29, 2021).
- April 2021 (Revised November 2022)
- Supplement
Muddy Waters vs. eHealth: The Debate of a 'Lifetime' Spreadsheet Supplement for Instructors
By: Jonas Heese
- April 2021 (Revised November 2022)
- Supplement
Muddy Waters vs. eHealth: The Debate of a 'Lifetime' Spreadsheet Supplement for Students
By: Jonas Heese
- April 2021
- Background Note
HEAD vs. LEAD: Disruptions Originating at the High- vs. Low-End of the Market
By: Elie Ofek, Olivier Toubia and Didier Toubia
Twenty five years after it was initially proposed, Clay Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation continues to be a major reference for entrepreneurs, corporate innovators, and investors. However, the term “disruptive innovation” is often used in ways and contexts...
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Keywords:
Market Entry;
New Product Management;
Targeting;
Disruptive Innovation;
Market Entry and Exit;
Entrepreneurship;
Product;
Management;
Innovation Strategy;
Technology
Ofek, Elie, Olivier Toubia, and Didier Toubia. "HEAD vs. LEAD: Disruptions Originating at the High- vs. Low-End of the Market." Harvard Business School Background Note 521-104, April 2021.
- April 2021
- Case
Distinct Software
By: Das Narayandas, Arijit Sengupta and Jonathan Wray
Distinct Software (disguised name), a global enterprise software company, is at an important point in its growth trajectory where the luster of its mantra of “grow and win at any cost” has dimmed with increasing competition and margin pressures. To help navigate its...
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Keywords:
Artificial Intelligence;
Marketing;
Sales;
Performance Productivity;
Technological Innovation;
AI and Machine Learning
Narayandas, Das, Arijit Sengupta, and Jonathan Wray. "Distinct Software." Harvard Business School Case 521-101, April 2021.
- 2021
- Article
Evidence of Decreasing Internet Entropy: The Lack of Redundancy in DNS Resolution by Major Websites and Services
By: Samantha Bates, John Bowers, Shane Greenstein, Jordi Weinstock, Jonathan Zittrain and Yunhan Xu
This paper analyzes the extent to which the Internet’s global domain name resolution (DNS) system has preserved its distributed resilience given the rise of cloud-based hosting and infrastructure. We explore trends in the concentration of the DNS space since at least...
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Keywords:
Domain Name System;
Resilience;
Entropy;
Internet and the Web;
Infrastructure;
Performance Effectiveness;
Safety;
Cybersecurity
Bates, Samantha, John Bowers, Shane Greenstein, Jordi Weinstock, Jonathan Zittrain, and Yunhan Xu. "Evidence of Decreasing Internet Entropy: The Lack of Redundancy in DNS Resolution by Major Websites and Services." Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media 1 (2021).