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  • 10 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 10

systematic is going on. It must have purpose; all the vigorous uploading, posting, commenting, and sharing must be generating results. We claim that the new order is, in fact, rule-governed, and the rules are the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2010
  • Book

A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy

By: Amar Bhide
Our prosperity requires the enterprise of innumerable individuals and businesses who exercise their imagination and judgment—and bear responsibility for outcomes. And it is through dialogue and relationships that widespread enterprise is fostered, not merely prices in... View Details
Keywords: Recession; Banking; Banks; Finance; Economics; Macroeconomics; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Estimating Productivity in the Presence of Spillovers: Firm-Level Evidence from the U.S. Production Network

By: Ebehi Iyoha
This paper examines the extent to which productivity gains are transmitted across U.S. firms through buyer-supplier relationships. Many empirical studies measure firm-to-firm spillovers using firm-level productivity estimates derived from control function approaches.... View Details
Keywords: Supply and Industry; Partners and Partnerships; Production
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  • July 2014
  • Article

Network Effects in Countries' Adoption of IFRS

By: Karthik Ramanna and Ewa Sletten
If the differences in accounting standards across countries reflect relatively stable institutional differences (e.g., auditing technology, the rule of law, etc.), why did several countries rapidly, albeit in a staggered manner, adopt IFRS over local standards in the... View Details
Keywords: International Accounting; Financial Reporting; Network Effects
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  • January 2016 (Revised February 2016)
  • Case

Citizens United and Corporate Speech

By: David Moss and Marc Campasano
The story of Citizens United began in late 2007, as leading members of the Republican and Democratic parties were preparing for the 2008 presidential primaries. Democrats expected a three-way contest in their party between Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, Senator (and... View Details
Keywords: Rights; Internet and the Web; Political Elections; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business and Government Relations
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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Network Effects in Countries' Adoption of IFRS

By: Karthik Ramanna and Ewa Sletten
If the differences in accounting standards across countries reflect relatively stable institutional differences (e.g., auditing technology, the rule of law, etc.), why did several countries rapidly, albeit in a staggered manner, adopt IFRS over local standards in the... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Network Effects; Standards; Adoption; Value
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  • 26 Oct 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

forth five times among the contractors to get the best possible price? Or does each contractor get just one chance to put a best offer on the table? In a typical auction, like what you might see at Christie's or Sotheby's, the rules are... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 25 Jul 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

Bias in Official Fiscal Forecasts: Can Private Forecasts Help?

Keywords: by Jeffrey A. Frankel and Jesse Schreger
  • 24 Mar 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Fiduciary Duties and Equity-Debtholder Conflicts

Keywords: by Bo Becker & Per Stromberg
  • 13 Apr 2012
  • HBS Seminar

Drazen Prelec, Professor of Management Science and Economics at MIT Sloan School of Management

  • 30 Oct 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Do Voters Appreciate Responsive Governments? Evidence from Indian Disaster Relief

Keywords: by Shawn A. Cole, Andrew Healy & Eric D. Werker
  • 18 Feb 2022
  • News

Why Really Smart Executives Do Really Stupid Things

    W. Earl Sasser

    Earl Sasser is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and has been a member of the faculty there since 1969. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from Duke University in 1965, an MBA from the University of North Carolina in 1967, and a Ph.D. in... View Details

    Keywords: airline; automotive; banking; broadcasting; communications; construction; credit card; education industry; entertainment; fast food; hotels ＆ motels; insurance industry; marketing industry; oil ＆ gas; restaurant; retailing; service industry; sports; tourism; transportation
    • 17 Feb 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?

    who has studied how companies make organizational decisions in industries such as health care and education. “They are figuring out how to use the information of managers and combine it with this new technology.” Testing the testers To... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment
    • Article

    Beyond Individualized Recourse: Interpretable and Interactive Summaries of Actionable Recourses

    By: Kaivalya Rawal and Himabindu Lakkaraju
    As predictive models are increasingly being deployed in high-stakes decision-making, there has been a lot of interest in developing algorithms which can provide recourses to affected individuals. While developing such tools is important, it is even more critical to... View Details
    Keywords: Predictive Models; Decision Making; Framework; Mathematical Methods
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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Voting Rules, Turnout, and Economic Policies

    By: Enrico Cantoni, Vincent Pons and Jérôme Schäfer
    In recent years, voter ID laws and convenience voting have generated heated partisan debates. To shed light on these policy issues, we survey the recent evidence on the institutional determinants and effects of voter turnout and broaden the perspective beyond the most... View Details
    Keywords: Voting; Political Elections; Policy
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    • 16 Dec 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice

    gained after sleep may have made people less able to rule out some of the bags—making the decision harder, not easier. She hastens to add that this study can’t tell you for sure whether people picked the... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail
    • Article

    Mission-Driven Governance

    By: Raymond Fisman, Rakesh Khurana and Edward Martenson

    The purpose of this paper is to provide a useful, easily applied theory of governance performance. The existing model is fundamentally adversarial, rooted in the paradigm of principal-agent conflict. At its base is an image of governance as a never-ending struggle... View Details

    Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Knowledge Management; Standards; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation
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    • September 2020
    • Case

    Disrupting Justice at RightNow: Persevere, Pivot or Perish

    By: Shikhar Ghosh and Amir Reza Rezvani
    The case examines the focus of an early stage company, and how an unexpected external incidence can threaten or void the business model. It encompasses issues such as defining and pivoting a business model, organizational requirements for a pivot, investor relations,... View Details
    Keywords: Legal Aspects Of Business; Startup; Teams; Pivot; Financing; Entrepreneurship; Law; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Financing and Loans; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Legal Services Industry; Germany
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    • May 2020 (Revised July 2020)
    • Case

    Justice-as-a-Service at RightNow

    By: Shikhar Ghosh and Amir Reza Rezvani
    The case examines the focus of an early stage company, and how an unexpected external incidence can threaten or void the business model. It encompasses issues such as minimal viable product, defining and pivoting a business model, organizational requirements for a... View Details
    Keywords: Legacy Business; Teams; Startup; Business Models; Pivot; Entrepreneurship; Law; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategy; Legal Services Industry; Germany
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