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Disruptive Innovation
around innovation initiatives Rethink your product, market and strategy Apply disruptive theories to complex problems and opportunities Build the skills and vision critical to leading change Make better decisions through strategic View Details
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Hiring Organizations
alloy.com Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Alpine Investors Altem Technologies Pvt Ltd Amansa Capital Amazon Amazon Web Services - AWS American Century Investments American Express American Industrial Partners American Securities Amiti aMoon Fund aMORA Ampersand Capital...
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- June 18, 2021
- Article
Who Do We Invent for? Patents by Women Focus More on Women's Health, but Few Women Get to Invent
By: Rembrand Koning, Sampsa Samila and John-Paul Ferguson
Women engage in less commercial patenting and invention than do men, which may affect what is invented. Using text analysis of all U.S. biomedical patents filed from 1976 through 2010, we found that patents with all-female inventor teams are 35% more likely than...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Gender Bias;
Health;
Innovation and Invention;
Research;
Patents;
Gender;
Prejudice and Bias
Koning, Rembrand, Sampsa Samila, and John-Paul Ferguson. "Who Do We Invent for? Patents by Women Focus More on Women's Health, but Few Women Get to Invent." Science 372, no. 6548 (June 18, 2021): 1345–1348.
- July 2021
- Article
Availability and Nutrient Composition of Vegetarian Items at U.S. Fast-Food Restaurants
By: Caroline G. Dunn, Mark J. Soto, Sophia V. Hua, Elizabeth A. Keenan, Lindsay M. Jaacks, Julia A. Wolfson and Sara N. Bleich
Research Questions: What are patterns in availability of vegetarian items in U.S. fast-food chains (2012 to 2018) and are there differences in nutrient composition between and within vegetarian and nonvegetarian items annually and over time?
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Keywords:
Fast Food;
Restaurants;
Vegetarian;
Consumer Health;
Sodium;
Food;
Nutrition;
Health;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United States
Dunn, Caroline G., Mark J. Soto, Sophia V. Hua, Elizabeth A. Keenan, Lindsay M. Jaacks, Julia A. Wolfson, and Sara N. Bleich. "Availability and Nutrient Composition of Vegetarian Items at U.S. Fast-Food Restaurants." Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 121, no. 7 (July 2021): 1306–1311.
- October 11, 2016
- Article
Innovation Network
By: Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit and William R. Kerr
Technological progress builds upon itself, with the expansion of invention in one domain propelling future work in linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its strength. Past innovation...
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Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and William R. Kerr. "Innovation Network." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, no. 41 (October 11, 2016).
- June 2012
- Article
Collective Memory Meets Organizational Identity: Remembering to Forget in a Firm's Rhetorical History
By: Michel Anteby and Virag Molnar
Much organizational identity research has grappled with the question of identity emergence or change. Yet the question of identity endurance is equally puzzling. Relying primarily on the analysis of 309 internal bulletins produced at a French aeronautics firm over...
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Anteby, Michel, and Virag Molnar. "Collective Memory Meets Organizational Identity: Remembering to Forget in a Firm's Rhetorical History." Academy of Management Journal 55, no. 3 (June 2012): 515–540.
- 13 Nov 2013
- News
Can Twitter Continue to Fly High?
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Machine Learning Approaches to Facial and Text Analysis: Discovering CEO Oral Communication Styles
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Dan Wang, Natalie A. Carlson and Tarun Khanna
We demonstrate how a novel synthesis of three methods—(1) unsupervised topic modeling of text data to generate new measures of textual variance, (2) sentiment analysis of text data, and (3) supervised ML coding of facial images with a cutting-edge convolutional neural...
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Keywords:
CEOs;
Communication Style;
Machine Learning;
Spoken Communication;
Nonverbal Communication;
Personal Characteristics;
Analysis;
Performance
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Dan Wang, Natalie A. Carlson, and Tarun Khanna. "Machine Learning Approaches to Facial and Text Analysis: Discovering CEO Oral Communication Styles." Strategic Management Journal 40, no. 11 (November 2019): 1705–1732.
- 09 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”
such analysis shows that the marginal costs are lower, and marginal profits are higher, than the full cost. This doctrine biases companies to leverage what they have put in place to succeed in the past, instead of guiding them to create...
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- 17 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
‘Not a Bunch of Weirdos’: Why Mainstream Investors Buy Crypto
liabilities, and partly by investing it into both traditional assets and crypto.” Di Maggio found that was only partially true. His analysis of transactions from the database found that consumers invested $5.09 in crypto and $8.23 in...
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by Ben Rand
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Managing the Future of Work
organization and create the workforce of the future? Featured Reports Healthy Outcomes By: Joseph B. Fuller 10 JAN 2024 An analysis of employers who offer employees caregiving support services shows that there is indeed a positive return...
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Students on the Job Market - Doctoral
timing of market entry and learning. An empirical analysis of 1,445 enterprise software companies supports these ideas, showing that firms trying to sell less developed products persist longer in the face of negative market signals and,...
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Curriculum - MBA
HKS Policy Analysis Exercise (PAE) . MBA/MPA-ID Curriculum Year 1 at Harvard Kennedy School Fall and spring semesters courses in the Harvard Kennedy School Master in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) Core...
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- Research Summary
Microfinance
"Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines." (with Dean Karlan and Wesley Yin) Quarterly Journal of Economics 121, no. 2, 2006.
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Recovering Investor Expectations from Demand for Index Funds
By: Mark Egan, Alexander J. MacKay and Hanbin Yang
We use a revealed-preference approach to estimate investor expectations of stock market returns. Using data on demand for index funds that follow the S&P 500, we develop and estimate a model of investor choice to flexibly recover the time-varying distribution of...
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Keywords:
Stock Market Expectations;
Demand Estimation;
Exchange-traded Funds (ETFs);
Demand and Consumers;
Investment
Egan, Mark, Alexander J. MacKay, and Hanbin Yang. "Recovering Investor Expectations from Demand for Index Funds." Review of Economic Studies 89, no. 5 (October 2022): 2559–2599.
- 2021
- Working Paper
Recovering Investor Expectations from Demand for Index Funds
By: Mark Egan, Alexander J. MacKay and Hanbin Yang
We use a revealed-preference approach to estimate investor expectations of stock market returns. Using data on demand for index funds that follow the S&P 500, we develop and estimate a model of investor choice to flexibly recover the time-varying distribution of...
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Keywords:
Stock Market Expectations;
Demand Estimation;
Exchange-traded Funds (ETFs);
Demand and Consumers;
Investment;
United States
Egan, Mark, Alexander J. MacKay, and Hanbin Yang. "Recovering Investor Expectations from Demand for Index Funds." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 26608, January 2020. (Accepted at the Review of Economic Studies. Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-122, May 2020. Direct download. Revised July 2021.)
- 2001
- Book
The Performing Arts in a New Era
By: Kevin F. McCarthy, Arthur C. Brooks, Julia Lowell and Laura Zakaras
This book examines recent trends in the performing arts and discusses how the arts are likely to evolve in the future. It is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the performing arts, including analysis of opera, theater, dance, and music, in both their...
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McCarthy, Kevin F., Arthur C. Brooks, Julia Lowell, and Laura Zakaras. The Performing Arts in a New Era. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2001.
- June 2014 (Revised January 2017)
- Supplement
YAAS's Service Center (C)
By: Brian Hall and Sara del Nido
This case is about a compensation change at an automotive service company in the Middle East. The case allows investigation and analysis of many issues related to compensation design and human resource management, and even change management. The focus of the case is...
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Keywords:
Compensation;
Emotions;
Values;
Human Resources;
Labor;
Negotiation;
Organizations;
Social Psychology;
Value Creation;
Motivation and Incentives;
Auto Industry;
Service Industry;
Kuwait;
Middle East
Hall, Brian, and Sara del Nido. "YAAS's Service Center (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 914-051, June 2014. (Revised January 2017.)
- January 2009
- Background Note
Financial Networks and Informal Banking in China: From Pawnshops to Private Equity
By: Elisabeth Koll
Provides an analysis of why informal financial networks and institutions still play an extremely important role in China's economy in the 21st century. Although China has emerged as one of the fastest growing economies in the world, it still suffers from a weak...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Private Equity;
Banks and Banking;
Financing and Loans;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
State Ownership;
Business and Government Relations;
Networks;
China
Koll, Elisabeth. "Financial Networks and Informal Banking in China: From Pawnshops to Private Equity." Harvard Business School Background Note 809-111, January 2009.
- March 2008 (Revised July 2011)
- Supplement
Cadbury Schweppes: Capturing Confectionery (D)
By: David Collis, Toby Stuart and Troy Smith
In late 2002, global confectionery and beverage maker Cadbury Schweppes needed to decide whether or not to make an acquisition bid for Adams, an underperforming gum company which had been put up for sale by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. Examining the decision from a...
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Collis, David, Toby Stuart, and Troy Smith. "Cadbury Schweppes: Capturing Confectionery (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 708-491, March 2008. (Revised July 2011.)