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  • 03 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

firms as reflected in the growth of their numbers, assets, sales, and profits. Yet, closer scrutiny reveals no dramatic transformation in the wake of liberalization. The story, rather, is one of an economy still dominated by the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Feb 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

their contributions, despite gender stereotypes.” It's important to note, Coffman says, that these studies also show that men have less confidence than women in their ability to shine in fields dominated by women. “It’s not that women are... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 2009
  • Article

Acting Globally but Thinking Locally? The Enduring Influence of Local Communities on Organizations

By: Christopher Marquis and Julie Battilana
We develop an institutionally oriented theory of how and why local communities continue to matter for organizations in a global age. Since globalization has taken center stage in both practitioner and academic circles, research has shifted away from understanding... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Business and Community Relations; Local Range; Civil Society or Community; Power and Influence
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  • Spring 2014
  • Article

Ex-Ante Agreements in Standard Setting and Patent Pool Formation

By: Gaston Llanes and Joaquin Poblete
We present a model of standard setting and patent-pool formation. We study the effects of alternative standard-setting and pool-formation rules on technology choice, prices, and welfare. We find three main results. First, we show that allowing patent pools may reduce... View Details
Keywords: Standard Setting; Patent Pools; Royalty Stacking; Ex-ante Agreements; Coalition Formation; Motivation and Incentives; Patents; Agreements and Arrangements; Standards
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  • 2013
  • Book

Flourishing: A Frank Conversation About Sustainability

By: John Ehrenfeld and Andrew J. Hoffman
Flourishing: A Frank Conversation about Sustainability invites you into a conversation between a teacher, John R. Ehrenfeld, and his former student now professor, Andrew J. Hoffman, as they discuss how to create a sustainable world. Unlike virtually all other... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Culture; Behavior; Society
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  • 2008
  • Article

The Gordon Research Conferences As Scientific Infrastructure

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich and Leah Shaper
Conferences serve as a crucial part of scientific infrastructure by offering participants the opportunity to announce novel findings, discuss research methods, and take part in a variety of networking activities. Presenting papers and learning about unpublished new... View Details
Keywords: Conferences; Interpersonal Communication; Infrastructure; Science-Based Business; Social and Collaborative Networks
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  • June 2011 (Revised September 2011)
  • Case

Two Key Decisions for China's Sovereign Fund

By: Robert C. Pozen and Xiaoyu Gu
The China Investment Corporation (CIC) was China's sovereign wealth fund (SWF), established with $200 billion of registered capital in September 2007 to diversify China's foreign exchange holdings and increase risk-adjusted returns on those assets. CIC was unusual in... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Business Growth and Maturation; Decisions; Capital; Investment Banking; Investment Funds; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Wealth; Expansion; Financial Services Industry; China; United States
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    Capitalism at Risk: How Companies Can Lead

    Q. Who should take the lead in fixing market capitalism? A. Business, not government alone. The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. Pandemics, income inequality, resource depletion,... View Details

    • October 2015 (Revised August 2019)
    • Background Note

    Higher Education in China: Internationalization in Turbulent Times

    By: William C. Kirby, Joycelyn W. Eby and Yuanzhuo Wang
    The rapid growth in quantity and quality of universities in China since 1978 is the most recent evolution in a long history of higher education. From as early as the Tang Dynasty, academies existed to prepare scholars for the civil service examination, but by the... View Details
    Keywords: Non-profit Management; University Administration; University Faculty; University Curriculum; Education Reform; Nonprofit Organizations; Management; Higher Education; History; Governance; Education Industry; China
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    • November 2010
    • Technical Note

    Technical Note: An Abridged History of the American Corporation

    By: Rakesh Khurana, Andrew David Klaber and Eric Baldwin
    This note examines the development of the corporate form in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present, focusing primarily on legal issues. It identifies several major trends in the history of the American corporation: the transition of corporations... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Corporate Accountability; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; History; Code Law; Managerial Roles; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Private Ownership; United States
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    • December 2011
    • Article

    Economics Education and Greed

    By: Long Wang, Deepak Malhotra and J. Keith Murnighan
    The recent financial crisis, and repeated corporate scandals, raise serious questions about whether a business school education contributes to what some have described as a culture of greed. The dominance of economic-related courses in MBA curricula led us to assess... View Details
    Keywords: Behavior; Ethics; Attitudes; Business Education; Economics; Education
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    • Article

    Understanding the Advice of Commissions-Motivated Agents: Evidence from the Indian Life Insurance Market

    By: Santosh Anagol, Shawn Cole and Shayak Sarkar
    We conduct a series of field experiments to evaluate the quality of advice provided by life insurance agents in India. Agents overwhelmingly recommend unsuitable, strictly dominated products, which provide high commissions to the agent. Agents cater to the beliefs of... View Details
    Keywords: Advice; Customers; Insurance; Service Operations; Motivation and Incentives; Ethics; India
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    • 05 Sep 2023
    • Book

    Failing Well: How Your ‘Intelligent Failure’ Unlocks Your Full Potential

    childhood friend Bill, who had arranged for her to travel from Vassar College to Princeton, New Jersey, to spend a weekend dining, dancing, and socializing with his friend. The weekend turned out to be a bust, since her date drank too... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 24 Aug 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Equalizing Outcomes vs. Equalizing Opportunities: Optimal Taxation when Children’s Abilities Depend on Parents’ Resources

    Keywords: by Alexander Gelber & Matthew Weinzierl
    • Web

    Business Economics - Doctoral

    (2023-2024), Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Assistant Professor (2024) Advisors: Andrei Shleifer , Lawrence Katz , Gautam Rao , and Katherine B. Coffman Erica Moszkowski, 2023 Federal Reserve Board... View Details
    • January 1998 (Revised February 2002)
    • Case

    Funai Consulting Company, Ltd. (A)

    By: Lynn S. Paine and Tomoya Nakamura
    In the summer of 1997, a consultant at Japan's Funai Consulting Co. Ltd., must decide how to respond to a client's proposal to offer "open pricing" (based on willingness to pay) to customers unable to pay the standard price for the client's product. The client, Akita... View Details
    Keywords: Business or Company Management; Price; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Decisions; Agribusiness; Management Practices and Processes; Business Ventures; Consulting Industry; Japan
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    • 05 Dec 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Lessons in Decision-Making: Confident People Aren't Always Correct (Except When They Are)

    correct answer more confident than those with incorrect answers, equally confident, or even less confident? When the right people are confident, they dominate the outcomes of markets or organizations, which is beneficial overall. But when... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • Article

    Search-Based Peer Firms: Aggregating Investor Perceptions Through Internet Co-Searches

    By: Charles M.C. Lee, Paul Ma and Charles C.Y. Wang
    Applying a "co-search" algorithm to Internet traffic at the SEC's EDGAR website, we develop a novel method for identifying economically-related peer firms and for measuring their relative importance. Our results show that firms appearing in chronologically adjacent... View Details
    Keywords: Peer Firm; EDGAR Search Traffic; Revealed Preference; Co-search; Industry Classification; Perception; Internet and the Web; Investment
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    • 12 Nov 2024
    • HBS Case

    Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers

    Launching a social justice startup takes more than a moving story. Ask Harley Blakeman, the 32-year-old founder of Honest Jobs. He has perfected his elevator pitch, but that doesn’t mean launching his business has been easy. A... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman; Employment
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    By: Peter Tufano
    Tufano’s research has focused on financial innovation and financial engineering—and for more than two decades, household finance. While he continues to study these topics, his current primary research is on the role of business in addressing climate change. With... View Details