Publications

May 2009
Article

Lobbies and Technology Diffusion

By: Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn

This paper explores whether lobbies slow down technology diffusion. To answer this question, we exploit the differential effect of various institutional attributes that should affect the costs of erecting barriers when the new technology has a technologically close... View Details

Keywords: Technology Adoption; Cost; Problems and Challenges; Knowledge Dissemination; Competition

01 Mar 2004
News

He Loves New York

Why, observers puzzled, would Wall Street dealmaker Bruce Wasserstein (MBA 1971, JD 1970) pony up $55 million to buy New York magazine? Once the standard-setter of the city-magazine genre, the publication no longer seems to be the must-read it used to be among the Big... View Details

01 Feb 2001
News

HBSi Combines HBS Content with State-of-the-Art Technology

creation of leading-edge business knowledge and its dissemination to executives. "HBSi's winning combination of e-learning technology and seasoned educators will extend the reach and impact of the School to every level of a firm and to... View Details

Keywords: HBSi; HBS Interactive; e-learning; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

June 2023
Article

The Salary Taboo: Privacy Norms and the Diffusion of Information

By: Zoë Cullen and Ricardo Perez-Truglia

The limited diffusion of salary information has implications for labor markets, such as wage discrimination policies and collective bargaining. Access to salary information is believed to be limited and unequal, but there is little direct evidence on the sources of... View Details

Keywords: Search Costs; Privacy; Norms; Compensation; Financial Industry; Field Experiment; Knowledge Dissemination; Equality and Inequality; Gender; Compensation and Benefits; Societal Protocols

June 2010
Article

The Circulation of Ideas across Academic Communities: When Locals Re-import Exported Ideas

By: Julie Battilana, Michel Anteby and Metin Sengul

The circulation of ideas across academic communities is central to academic pursuits and has attracted much past scholarly attention. As North American-based scholars with European ties, we decided to examine the impact of Organization Studies in North American... View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Dissemination; Organizational Structure; Learning; Archives; Civil Society or Community; North and Central America; Europe

2023
Working Paper

Targeting, Personalization, and Engagement in an Agricultural Advisory Service

By: Susan Athey, Shawn Cole, Shanjukta Nath and Jessica Zhu

ICT is increasingly used to deliver customized information in developing countries. We examine whether individually targeting the timing of automated voice calls meaningfully increases engagement in an agricultural advisory service. We define, estimate, and... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Knowledge Dissemination; Customization and Personalization; Performance Effectiveness

16 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 16

Working PapersOpen to Negotiation: Phenomenological Assumptions and Knowledge Dissemination (revised) Authors:Corinne Bendersky and Kathleen L. McGinn Abstract Phenomenological assumptions—assumptions about the fundamental qualities of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

March 2019
Article

When Does Advice Impact Startup Performance?

By: Aaron Chatterji, Solène Delecourt, Sharique Hasan and Rembrand Koning

Why do some entrepreneurs thrive while others fail? We explore whether the advice entrepreneurs receive about managing their employees influences their startup's performance. We conducted a randomized field experiment in India with 100 high-growth technology firms... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Field Experiment; Peer Effects; Entrepreneurial Ecosystems; Advice; Management Style; Management Practices and Processes; Knowledge Dissemination; Entrepreneurship; Performance; India

Web

About Baker Library | Baker Library

unlocks insights across campus, the university, and beyond. We are at the vanguard of academic library innovation, experimenting with linked data, semantic data modeling, and digital product development to disseminate faculty research... View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

HBX: Expanding Our Reach

disseminating their ideas to a broader audience. One product HBX plans to launch next year is a suite of pre-MBA courses drawn from HBS's pre-matriculation and Analytics programs. It will be designed for serious and committed learners,... View Details

Keywords: online learning; curriculum; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

09 Jun 2015
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Social Media

consumers not only discuss and disseminate branded content, they also create it. Why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge was a Social Media Blockbuster Most companies should envy the financial and brand awareness brought about by the ALS Ice... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Advertising

01 Dec 2004
News

Emmons Heads Christensen Center

In addition, the center will conduct and disseminate research on best practices and innovations in case-method pedagogy, and serve as a convener for symposia on teaching and learning. Funding for the center has been an important goal of... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2012
News

The Key to Innovation: Flexible Funding

business and other sectors so that we continue to produce and disseminate research and teaching materials with power in practice. To fulfill the School's enormous potential, a larger portion of the HBS annual budget will be invested in... View Details

Keywords: Robert Steven Kaplan

Web

Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit, Information, and the Courts

the coming information age in their dedication to the rapid collection, centralization, storage, and dissemination of data, the credit reports they gathered had little in common with the terse list of payment histories that appear in... View Details

summer 2003
Article

Patents, Invalidity, and the Strategic Transmission of Enabling Information

By: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao

The patent system encourages innovation and knowledge disclosure by providing exclusivity to inventors. Exclusivity is limited, however, because a substantial fraction of patents have some probability of being ruled invalid when challenged in court. The possibility of... View Details

Keywords: System; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge Dissemination; Courts and Trials; Competition; Patents; Corporate Disclosure