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Currency Unions, Product Introductions, and the Real Exchange Rate
By: Alberto Cavallo, Brent Neiman and Roberto Rigobon
We use a novel dataset of online prices of identical goods sold by four large global retailers in dozens of countries to study good-level real exchange rates and their aggregated behavior. First, in contrast to the prior literature, we demonstrate that the law of one...
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Keywords:
Currency Union;
Law Of One Price;
International Prices;
Global Firm;
Currency Exchange Rate;
Price;
International Finance
Cavallo, Alberto, Brent Neiman, and Roberto Rigobon. "Currency Unions, Product Introductions, and the Real Exchange Rate." Quarterly Journal of Economics 129, no. 2 (May 2014): 529–595.
- 03 Nov 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses
- 2019
- Working Paper
The Comprehensive Effects of a Digital Paywall Sales Strategy
By: Doug J. Chung, Ho Kim and Reo Song
This paper explores the multiple and comprehensive effects of a digital paywall sales strategy, an increasingly common means of go-to-market for media firms. Specifically, we examine the effects of a digital paywall on a media firm’s two sources of income—subscription...
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Keywords:
Digital Paywall;
Demand Substitution;
Spillover Effect;
Synthetic Control;
Sales;
Strategy;
Media;
Newspapers;
Publishing Industry
Chung, Doug J., Ho Kim, and Reo Song. "The Comprehensive Effects of a Digital Paywall Sales Strategy." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-118, May 2019.
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
orientation. I left class thinking I didn't find my group yet and after 5 minutes on the quad, one by one, a group of black women formed and we just gravitated towards each other. We enjoyed one another's presence and View Details
- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
some examples today? Anat Keinan: Brand biographies contain underdog narratives that highlight the companies' humble beginnings, hopes and dreams, and noble struggles against adversaries. The View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 2011
- Working Paper
The Dark Side of Creativity: Original Thinkers Can Be More Dishonest
By: Francesca Gino and Dan Ariely
Creativity is a common aspiration for individuals, organizations, and societies. Here, however, we test whether creativity increases dishonesty. We propose that a creative personality and creativity primes promote individuals' motivation to think outside the box and...
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Gino, Francesca, and Dan Ariely. "The Dark Side of Creativity: Original Thinkers Can Be More Dishonest." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-064, January 2011.
- 2010
- Article
Hospital Performance, the Local Economy, and the Local Workforce: Findings from a U.S. National Longitudinal Study
Background: Pay-for-performance is an increasingly popular approach to improving health care quality, and the US government will soon implement pay-for-performance in hospitals nationwide. Yet hospital capacity to perform (and improve performance) likely depends on...
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Blustein, Jan, William Borden, and Melissa Valentine. "Hospital Performance, the Local Economy, and the Local Workforce: Findings from a U.S. National Longitudinal Study." PLoS Medicine 7, no. 6 (2010).
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
Today's frenzied world of dot-com mania might have been hard to predict 25 years ago, but the Class of 1975 has always had an eye for opportunity. For its time, the class had a sizable number of military...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
perspective, he says the 2008 crisis can be seen through the lenses of bad beliefs and bad incentives—the latter being the idea that there was a View Details
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Making 'Green Giants': Environment Sustainability in the German Chemical Industry, 1950s–1980s
By: Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski
This article examines the evolution of corporate environmentalism in the West German chemical industry between the 1950s and the 1980s. It focuses on two companies, Bayer and Henkel, that have been identified as "green giants," and traces the evolution of their...
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Keywords:
Business History;
Green Business;
Regional Strategy;
Pollution;
Henkel;
Bayer;
Globalization;
History;
Chemical Industry;
Germany;
United States
Jones, Geoffrey, and Christina Lubinski. "Making 'Green Giants': Environment Sustainability in the German Chemical Industry, 1950s–1980s." Business History 56, no. 4 (July 2014): 623–649.
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
months, as 108 began to cover areas outside of Andhra Pradesh’s cities, the ambulances had to be outfitted to deal with snake bites, which turn out to be common in rural villages. Treatment and...
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- 07 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
Get to Know the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association
career in business. While we all served in uniform in different ways, there is so much we have in common - that strong foundation makes our community special and unique. For me, the opportunity to serve as a...
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How Beliefs about Self-creation Inflate Value in the Human Brain
By: Raphael Koster, Tali Sharot, Rachel Yuan, Benedetto De Martino, Michael I. Norton and Raymond J. Dolan
Humans have a tendency to overvalue their own ideas and creations. Understanding how these errors in judgement emerge is important for explaining suboptimal decisions, as when individuals and groups choose self-created alternatives over superior or equal ones. We show...
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Koster, Raphael, Tali Sharot, Rachel Yuan, Benedetto De Martino, Michael I. Norton, and Raymond J. Dolan. "How Beliefs about Self-creation Inflate Value in the Human Brain." Art. 473. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9 (September 2015): 1–10.
- 30 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
Demystifying the HBS Application
jitters. Dispelling Myths Webinar: In this webinar, current MBA students sit down with Chad to discuss common myths and misconceptions about life at HBS. View Video Application Tips Summer Series: This summer, Chad broke down each part...
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- 20 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change
long-time scholar of institutional change, has identified common themes among those social movements that don't merely broadcast the need for a social change, but actually create long-term impact. According...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 2023
- Article
Let's Coordinate! The Reinforcement of a ‘Liberal Bastion’ within European Industrial Federations, 1978-1987
By: Sabine Pitteloud
This article focuses on the establishment in the 1970s of a new international private governance forum, the so-called ‘Interlaken Conferences’, which gathered together the leading figures of the Industrial Federations of the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria,...
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Keywords:
Business Interest Association;
Lobbying;
Neo-Liberalism;
Neocorporatism;
Coordination;
Economic Policy;
Business and Government Relations;
Labor Unions;
Economics;
Policy;
Europe
Pitteloud, Sabine. "Let's Coordinate! The Reinforcement of a ‘Liberal Bastion’ within European Industrial Federations, 1978-1987." Special Issue on Brokers of the wealthy (Transnational business associations) edited by Pierre Eichenberger, Neil Rollings and Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl. Business History 65, no. 2 (2023): 345–365.
- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
the real deal, capping two decades of investment in developing software algorithms and AI technologies. It showed that AI had moved to the center of the company, to View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
updates on their work, even as he interjects encouraging, urgent reminders of its common purpose. “We’re all in the same boat, doing the best we can,” he observes at one point....
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- 27 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Working to Change the Food System
introducing folks to the many common ties between fighting climate change, energy, and food production. My other (more personal) goal is to create real friendships among club members, beyond it being a...
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- 2021
- Working Paper
The Value of Data and Its Impact on Competition
By: Marco Iansiti
Common regulatory perspective on the relationship between data, value, and competition in online platforms has increasingly centered on the volume of data accumulated by incumbent firms. This view posits the existence of "data network effects," where more data leads to...
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Keywords:
Online Platforms;
Data Network Effects;
Analytics and Data Science;
Value;
Competition;
Digital Platforms
Iansiti, Marco. "The Value of Data and Its Impact on Competition." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-002, July 2021.