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  • March 2025
  • Supplement

Next Street, LLC (B)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Pre-abstract: Instructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details. View Details
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  • March 2025 (Revised March 2025)
  • Case

Peru: 'A Beggar Perched on a Throne of Gold'

By: Sophus A. Reinert and Jonathan Schlefer
Keywords: Peru
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  • March 2025
  • Case

Primetime Partners: Investing in Healthspan, Wealthspan, and Workspan

By: Rembrand Koning, Nicole Tempest Keller and Susan Wilner Golden
In the fall of 2024, Abby Miller Levy (HBS ’01), co-founder and managing partner of Primetime Partners, was preparing to raise a second fund. Founded in 2020 with veteran investor Alan Patricof, Primetime was a horizontal fund focused on early-stage companies serving... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Demographics; Age; Social Issues; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • March 2025
  • Supplement

Rose Electronics Distributing Company (B)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Pre-abstract: Instructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details. View Details
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  • March 2025
  • Teaching Note

Unintended Consequences of Algorithmic Personalization

By: Ayelet Israeli and Eva Ascarza
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 524-052. View Details
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  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Centralized Governance in Decentralized Organizations

By: Lin William Cong, Daniel Rabetti, Charles C.Y. Wang and Yu Yan
We systematically document governance centralization in decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and study its drivers and economic implications. Using multiple data sources and granular on-chain transactional data, we compare our findings to those in corporate... View Details
Keywords: Blockchain; Governance; Voting; Organizations; Financial Services Industry
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  • March 2025
  • Article

Boomerasking: Answering Your Own Questions

By: Alison Wood Brooks and Michael Yeomans
Humans spend much of their lives in conversation, where they tend to hold many simultaneous motives. We examine two fundamental desires: to be responsive to a partner and to disclose about oneself. We introduce one pervasive way people attempt to reconcile these... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Motivation and Incentives; Perception; Behavior
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  • March 2025
  • Article

Do Public Financial Statements Influence Private Equity and Venture Capital Financing?

By: Brian K. Baik, Natalie Berfeld and Rodrigo S. Verdi
We study whether private firm public financial statements influence the probability of raising venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) financing. In particular, we propose that private firms’ public financial statements can help the VC/PE search process by... View Details
Keywords: Business Economics; Search Costs; Accounting; Venture Capital; Governance; Private Equity; Financial Statements
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  • March 2025
  • Article

Does Communicating Measurable Diversity Goals Attract or Repel Historically Marginalized Job Applicants? Evidence from the Lab and Field

By: Erika L. Kirgios, Ike Silver and Edward H. Chang
Many organizations struggle to attract a demographically diverse workforce. How does adding a measurable goal to a public diversity commitment—for example, “We care about diversity” versus “We care about diversity and plan to hire at least one woman or racial minority... View Details
Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Recruitment; Diversity; Goals and Objectives; Communication Intention and Meaning; Behavior
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  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Expert Patients’ Use of Avoidable Health Care

By: Amitabh Chandra, Pragya Kakani and Simone Matecna
We measure whether expert patients – those trained as physicians and nurses – have fewer emergency department visits and the reasons for these differences. Relative to similar patients physicians and nurses had 19.8% and 5.1% fewer ED visits, principally due to fewer... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Health Industry
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  • March, 2025
  • Article

Global Talent and Economic Success

By: William R. Kerr
Access to top performers sets an upper bound on a country’s aspirations View Details
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  • March 2025
  • Article

Is Personal Identity Intransitive?

By: J. De Freitas and L. J. Rips
There has been a call for a potentially revolutionary change to our existing understanding of the psychological concept of personal identity. Apparently, people can psychologically represent people, including themselves, as multiple individuals at the same time. Here... View Details
Keywords: Identity; Judgments
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  • March 2025
  • Article

Limited Accountability and Awareness of Corporate Emissions Target Outcomes

By: Xiaoyan Jiang, Shawn Kim and Shirley Lu
Firms are increasingly announcing targets to reduce their carbon emissions, but it is unclear whether firms are held accountable for these targets. Here we examine emissions targets that ended in 2020 to investigate the final target outcomes, the transparency of target... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Goals and Objectives; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Accountability; Environmental Sustainability; Public Opinion
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  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Methane Abatement Costs in the Oil and Gas Industry: Survey and Synthesis

By: Joseph E. Aldy, Forest Reinhardt and Robert N. Stavins
There is growing recognition of the relative importance of anthropogenic emissions of methane as a contributor to global climate change. An important source of such emissions in some countries, including the United States, is the oil and gas (O&G) sector. This points... View Details
Keywords: Emission Reduction; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Pollutants; Energy Industry
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  • March 2025
  • Article

Novice Risk Work: How Juniors Coaching Seniors on Emerging Technologies Such as Generative AI Can Lead to Learning Failures

By: Katherine C. Kellogg, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Steven Randazzo, Ethan Mollick, Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Edward McFowland III, François Candelon and Karim R. Lakhani
The literature on communities of practice demonstrates that a proven way for senior professionals to upskill themselves in the use of new technologies that undermine existing expertise is to learn from junior professionals. It notes that juniors may be better able... View Details
Keywords: Rank and Position; Competency and Skills; Technology Adoption; Experience and Expertise; AI and Machine Learning
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  • March 2025
  • Article

Optimal Illiquidity

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, Christopher Clayton, Christopher Harris, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
We study the socially optimal level of illiquidity in an economy populated by households with taste shocks and present bias with naive beliefs. The government chooses mandatory contributions to accounts, each with a different pre-retirement withdrawal penalty.... View Details
Keywords: Retirement; Financial Liquidity; Personal Finance; Saving
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  • March 2025
  • Book Review

Retrofitting Leninism: Participation Without Democracy in China | by Dimitar D. Gueorguiev // Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China | by Lynette H. Ong

By: Meg Rithmire
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  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Unwinding Loan Prospecting Pressure Through Renegotiation: The Role of Loan Officer Changes in Debt Contracting

By: Jung Koo Kang, Regina Wittenberg Moerman and Jessie Cheong
We examine the impact of loan officer changes on debt contract design. Loan officers play a critical role in initiating and maintaining lending relationships but also face pressure to originate more loans, incentivizing them to offer loan terms more favorable than... View Details
Keywords: Financing and Loans; Borrowing and Debt; Contracts; Negotiation; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Workplace Segregation Between College and Non-college Workers

By: Francis Dillon, Edward L. Glaeser and William Kerr
We measure the level and growth of education segregation in American workplaces from 2000 to 2020. American workplaces show an educational segregation, measured by the degree to which the establishment has mostly workers of similar education levels, that is... View Details
Keywords: Isolation; Segregation; Mobility; Learning; Human Capital; Competency and Skills; Demographics
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  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Code-Washing: Evidence from Open-Source Blockchain Startups

By: Ofir Gefen, Daniel Rabetti, Yannan Sun and Che Zhang
This study examines startups' management of source code repositories, distinguishing authentic developers ("code-producers''), from those inflating activity to mislead investors ("code-washers''). Using global blockchain startup and GitHub data, we find that... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Open Source Distribution; Business Startups
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