by Lakshmi Iyer - Publications - Faculty & Research

had a similar high school athletic record and were black, he would have been recruited by a basketball powerhouse instead of Harvard," the questions we ignore are to what extent we implicitly believe that African-Americans have a... View Details

Keywords: by Lakshmi Ramarajan; Entertainment & Recreation

12 Jun 2007
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Public Action for Public Goods

Keywords: by Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer & Rohini Somanathan

11 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Marissa Mayer Should Bridge Distance Gap with Remote Workers

Marissa Mayer's decision to ask Yahoo! employees to work from offices rather than at home has at least two potentially negative consequences, one for her and one for her employees. But she can mitigate both by linking personal and... View Details

Keywords: by Lakshmi Ramarajan; Publishing; Web Services

11 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits

Is it still possible to build a career that is both morally satisfying and materially rewarding? To do well by doing good? Professionals and executives in a range of fields grapple with this question as rapid technological change and... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

05 Apr 2011
Working Paper Summaries

The Power of Political Voice: Women’s Political Representation and Crime in India

Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer, Anandi Mani, Prachi Mishra & Petia Topalova

21 Nov 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Caste and Entrepreneurship in India

Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer, Tarun Khanna & Ashutosh Varshney

05 Oct 2010
Working Paper Summaries

A Positive Approach to Studying Diversity in Organizations

Keywords: by Lakshmi Ramarajan & David Thomas

17 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood

middle class, and the fact that India's film industry sold 3.2 billion tickets in 2009. “Movie piracy in India is rampant—you can get one online the day after a release” Harvard Business School Associate Professor Lakshmi Iyer, a native... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Motion Pictures & Video

17 Dec 2012
Working Paper Summaries

An Outside-Inside Evolution in Gender and Professional Work

Keywords: by Lakshmi Ramarajan, Kathleen McGinn & Deborah Kolb

06 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal

working paper that Iyer coauthored with Quy-Toan Do, of the World Bank, probes this topic in depth by examining the country of Nepal, the land-locked home of Mount Everest. Nepal's internal conflict has... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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The Bloody Millennium: Internal Conflict in South Asia

Mental Health in the Aftermath of Conflict

Poverty, Social Divisions and Conflict in Nepal

The Cost of Property Rights: Establishing Institutions on the Philippine Frontier Under American Rule, 1898-1918

Redrawing the Lines: Did Political Incumbents Influence Electoral Redistricting in the World’s Largest Democracy?

Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India

Colonial Land Tenure, Electoral Competition and Public Goods in India

Path-Breakers: How Does Women’s Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success?

Poverty and Crime: Evidence from Rainfall and Trade Shocks in India

Religion, Politician Identity, and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India

Finding the Right Jeremy Lin Storyline