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  • 21 Jan 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and US Ethnic Invention

Keywords: by William R. Kerr & William F. Lincoln

    Jerry R. Green

    Jerry R. Green

    David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy

    John Leverett Professor in the University

    Harvard University

     

    Jerry Green is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells... View Details

    Keywords: aerospace; education industry; insurance industry; professional services

      Ranjay Gulati

      Ranjay Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration and the former Unit Head of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He is an expert on leadership, strategy, and organizational issues... View Details

      Keywords: biotechnology; computer; financial services; industrial goods; information technology industry; pharmaceuticals; professional services; retailing
      • 04 Dec 2018
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

      public firms during this period were only 41% of net income. And, in fact, during this decade investment increased substantially while cash balances ballooned. In short, S&P 500 shareholder-payout figures cannot provide much basis for... View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
      • November 2002 (Revised April 2004)
      • Case

      TCS: An Entrepreneurial Air-Express Company in Pakistan

      Introduces Khalid Awan, co-founder of TCS, an entrepreneurial air-express company in Pakistan. Awan has succeeded in building a sizeable company despite serious obstacles, including pressure from the public postal system, an environment prone to corruption, and a... View Details
      Keywords: Family Business; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Leasing; Transportation Industry; United Arab Emirates; Pakistan
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      • 18 Oct 2013
      • HBS Seminar

      George Borjas, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

      • Article

      Three Principles to REVISE People's Unethical Behavior

      By: Shahar Ayal, Francesca Gino, Rachel Barkan and Dan Ariely
      Dishonesty and unethical behavior are widespread in the public and private sectors and cause immense annual losses. For instance, estimates of U.S. annual losses indicate $1 trillion paid in bribes, $270 billion lost due to unreported income, as well as $42 billion... View Details
      Keywords: Behavior; Ethics; Policy
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        Ashish Nanda

        Ashish Nanda is Senior Lecturer and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator at Harvard Business School. From 2018 to 2021, he was course head for the MBA Required Curriculum course in Strategy. Beginning in 2022, he is teaching an MBA Elective... View Details

        Keywords: accounting industry; advertising; asset management; banking; brokerage; consulting; e-commerce industry; education industry; executive search; financial services; information technology industry; internet; investment banking industry; legal services; management consulting; professional services; real estate; service industry; sports; tourism

          Michael W. Toffel

          Professor Toffel is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management. His research examines how companies are addressing climate change (especially decarbonization) and other environmental and working condition issues in their operations and supply... View Details

          • 07 May 2013
          • First Look

          First Look: May 7

            Publications 2006 Review of Financial Studies Unstable Equity: Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing By: Fang, Lily H., Victoria Ivashina, and Josh Lerner Abstract—Bank-affiliated private equity groups account for 30% of all... View Details
          Keywords: Carmen Nobel

            Michael E. Porter

            Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies... View Details

            Keywords: biotechnology; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; internet; nonprofit industry; service industry; state government
            • Summer 2021
            • Article

            The World Management Survey at 18: lessons and the way forward

            By: Daniela Scur, Raffaella Sadun, John Van Reenen, Renata Lemos and Nicholas Bloom
            Understanding how differences in management ‘best practices’ affect organizational outcomes has been a focus of both theoretical and empirical work in the fields of management, sociology, economics, and public policy. The World Management Survey (WMS) project was born... View Details
            Keywords: Firm Objectives, Organization, And Behavior; Business Economics; Choice Of Technology; Management Of Technological Innovation And R＆D; Technological Change: Choices And Consequences; Management Practices and Processes
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            • 03 Dec 2018
            • Research & Ideas

            How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts

            flavijus For the first time, a link has been drawn between public sentiment about a company’s sustainability practices and how that company is valued in the market. The results are important both for investors searching for under-valued, socially responsible companies,... View Details
            Keywords: by Rachel Layne
            • 29 Oct 2020
            • Research & Ideas

            The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying

            people's perceptions over time." Survey respondents also answered questions about how much they agreed with a variety of restrictive public policy measures, including closing schools, shutting down... View Details
            Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

              Michael Montelongo

              Michael Montelongo is a Lecturer of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Managing Service Operations in the MBA elective curriculum that shows how to effectively design, manage, and improve... View Details

                Frank Nagle

                Frank Nagle is an assistant professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Professor Nagle studies how competitors can collaborate on the creation of core technologies, while still competing on the products and services built on top of them - especially... View Details

                • 22 Feb 2022
                • Research & Ideas

                When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?

                Crisis. What we have are unprecedented low interest rates that people are scrambling to lock in before rates rise—because everybody knows that rates are going to go up. Has the Fed’s policy contributed to the rise in residential assets... View Details
                Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
                • 2022
                • Case

                Polarizing Government Work: McKinsey & Co. and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

                By: Andrew J. Hoffman
                When Donald Trump announced his run for president in 2015, he placed immigration front and center in his campaign. He promised to drastically expand U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and build a border... View Details
                Keywords: International Relations; Immigration; Public Opinion; Ethics
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                • February 2024
                • Article

                Fifty Shades of QE: Robust Evidence

                By: Brian Fabo, Marina Jančoková, Elisabeth Kempf and Ľuboš Pástor
                Fabo et al. (2021) show that papers written by central bank researchers find quantitative easing (QE) to be more effective than papers written by academics. Weale and Wieladek (2022) show that a subset of these results lose statistical significance when OLS regressions... View Details
                Keywords: Quantitative Easing; Research; Mathematical Methods; Perception; Banks and Banking; Body of Literature
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                • 2016
                • Working Paper

                Meet the Oligarchs: Business Legitimacy, State Capacity and Taxation

                By: Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra and Alejandro Lagomarsino
                We analyze the role of people’s beliefs about the rich in the determination of public policy in the context of a randomized online survey experiment. A question we study is the desirability of government-private sector meetings, a variable we argue is connected to... View Details
                Keywords: Business Legitimacy; State Capacity; Meetings; Taxes; Top 1%; Regulation; Prejudice and Bias; Values and Beliefs; Taxation; Business and Government Relations
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