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  • 03 May 2022
  • Cold Call Podcast

Can a Social Entrepreneur End Homelessness in the US?

Keywords: Re: Brian L. Trelstad
  • 19 Feb 2019
  • News

Global Migration and Offshore Outsourcing

  • 29 Oct 2018
  • Working Paper Summaries

Public Sentiment and the Price of Corporate Sustainability

Keywords: by George Serafeim

    Leila Doumi

    Leila Doumi is a PhD Candidate in the Strategy Unit and an affiliate of the Digital Data and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard. She conducts research on technology adoption, corporate strategy, and the future of work with a focus... View Details

    • 24 Apr 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention

    data based on online prices that produces inflation indices for more than 20 countries. Cavallo admits with a shrug that the revelation Argentina was only reporting about a third of its actual inflation rate didn’t hurt the View Details
    Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail
    • October 2017 (Revised April 2018)
    • Case

    Improving Worker Safety in the Era of Machine Learning (A)

    By: Michael W. Toffel, Dan Levy, Jose Ramon Morales Arilla and Matthew S. Johnson
    Managers make predictions all the time: How fast will my markets grow? How much inventory do I need? How intensively should I monitor my suppliers? Which potential customers will be most responsive to a particular marketing campaign? Which job candidates should I... View Details
    Keywords: Machine Learning; Policy Implementation; Empirical Research; Inspection; Occupational Safety; Occupational Health; Regulation; Analysis; Forecasting and Prediction; Policy; Operations; Supply Chain Management; Safety; Manufacturing Industry; Construction Industry; United States
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    • 11 Feb 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Leviathan as a Minority Shareholder: A Study of Equity Purchases by the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES), 1995-2003

    Keywords: by Sergio G. Lazzarini & Aldo Musacchio
    • 12 Oct 2022
    • Video

    Elizabeth M. Adams: Civic Tech as Advocacy Work

    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    The Impact of Pensions and Insurance on Global Yield Curves

    By: Robin Greenwood and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen
    We document a strong effect of pension and insurance company (P&I) assets on the long end of the yield curve. Using data from 26 countries, the yield spread between 30-year and 10-year government bond yields is negatively related to the ratio of pension assets (in... View Details
    Keywords: Pension Funds; Investment Funds; Insurance; Assets; Interest Rates; Bonds
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    • November 2020
    • Case

    Axis My India

    By: Ananth Raman, Ann Winslow and Kairavi Dey
    Pradeep Gupta founded Axis My India (AMI) as a printing and publishing company in 1998. In 2013, AMI expanded into consumer research and election forecasting. Although a relatively unknown entity, AMI predicted several election results accurately. Gupta describes AMI’s... View Details
    Keywords: Market Research; Operations; Management; Infrastructure; Logistics; Service Operations; Political Elections; Forecasting and Prediction; Asia; India
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    • Forthcoming
    • Article

    From Bupkis to Sechel in Health Care

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard Boxer
    Fifty years ago, famed economist Milton Friedman declared that “The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits.” This free market manifesto was adopted by the healthcare industry as well. But transactional has evolved into transformational with the... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Customer Focus and Relationships; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Health Industry
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    • March 2006 (Revised February 2017)
    • Case

    Rwanda: National Economic Transformation

    By: Michael E. Porter, Kaia Miller, Michael McCreless, Kjell Carlsson, Jem Hudson and Haviland Sheldahl-Thomason
    Set in the year 2004, when Rwanda commemorated the 10th anniversary of a genocide that had claimed the lives of over 10% of its population. Focuses on the formulation of an economic strategy to rebuild the economy and its institutions after the devastation. Rwanda, one... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Developing Countries and Economies; Policy; Government Administration; Crisis Management; Strategy; Rwanda
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    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    What Factors Drive Director Perceptions of Their Board's Effectiveness?

    By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Richard Ellis Crum
    We use a survey of directors to collect data on their ratings of board effectiveness as well as board internal dynamics and key processes. Controlling for many of the governance metrics examined by prior research, we find that directors’ ratings of their boards’... View Details
    Keywords: Board Of Directors; Corporate Governance; Performance Effectiveness; Perception; Risk Management
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    • 26 May 2022
    • News

    Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?

    • Editorial

    Why ESG Funds Fail to Scale

    By: Gabriel Karageorgiou and George Serafeim
    You’ve seen the headlines about the growth in environmental, social, and governance funds. Many investment professionals might read these and believe that launching a new ESG investment firm or ESG offering will be an automatic success. Our analysis of the data shows... View Details
    Keywords: ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Disclosure; ESG Disclosure Metrics; ESG Ratings; ESG Reporting; Investment Management; Investment Strategy; Investments; Investment Fund; Sustainability; Sustainable Finance; Sustainable Investing; Investment; Management; Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Finance; Growth and Development; Failure
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    • 13 Feb 2018
    • News

    Is America in a Retail Apocalypse? Ask Yelp

    • 13 Apr 2017
    • News

    What Precision Medicine Can Learn from the NFL

    • 02 Nov 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize

    leaders need to be brave and not afraid of criticism." The research team didn’t study data in 2021, so it’s unclear whether government officials are continuing to underreport COVID deaths. But Rouen hopes... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Inventing the Endless Frontier: The Effects of the World War II Research Effort on Post-War Innovation

    By: Daniel P. Gross and Bhaven N. Sampat
    During World War II, the U.S. government launched an unprecedented effort to mobilize science for war: a newly-established Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) entered thousands of R&D contracts with industrial and academic contractors, spending one to... View Details
    Keywords: World War II; Vannevar Bush; OSRD; Mission-oriented R＆D; Direction Of Innovation; Geography Of Innovation; Technology Clusters; U.S. Innovation System; Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; Problems and Challenges; War; History; Government Administration; United States
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    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System, 1997-2007

    By: Stephen Haber and Aldo Musacchio
    What is the impact of foreign bank entry on the pricing and availability of credit in developing economies? The Mexican banking system provides a quasi-experiment to address this question because in 1997 the Mexican government radically changed the laws governing the... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Credit; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Foreign Direct Investment; Market Entry and Exit; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; Mexico
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