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15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016

levels and frequency of default typical of emerging markets even if the household impatience parameter is calibrated to local interest rates. A quantitative exercise calibrated to Brazil finds welfare gains of the optimal fiscal policy to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

PublicationsPerspectives on the Social Psychology of Creativity Authors:Teresa M. Amabile and Julianna Pillemer Publication:Journal of Creative Behavior 46, no. 1 (2012) Abstract Scholars began serious study into the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

To Buy Happiness, Purchase an Experience

stuff," explains Norton, an associate professor of marketing at Harvard Business School. "But we have shown in research that stuff isn't good for you. It doesn't make you unhappy, but it doesn't make you happy. But one thing that does... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

category for “Zebra Medical Vision” with Sarah Gulick (HBS Case 619-014, September 2018). Christian Kaps : Winner of the 2024 Best PhD Paper Award from the Commodity & Energy Markets Association for "Residential Battery Storage—Reshaping... View Details

July 2020
Article

Exploring the Effect of Environmental Orientation on Financial Decisions of Businesses at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Evidence from the Microlending Context

By: Anton Shevchenko, Xiaodan Pan and Goran Calic

Existing research has accumulated substantial evidence on the effect that an environmental orientation has on businesses' economic performance. Yet this research does not cover small businesses from bottom‐of‐the‐pyramid (BOP) markets. In fact, despite increasing... View Details

Keywords: Micro-lending; Environmental Sustainability; Financing and Loans; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Small Business

2017
Working Paper

A Historical Approach to Clustering in Emerging Economies

By: Valeria Giacomin

Clusters are defined as geographically concentrated agglomerations of specialized firms in a particular domain. The cluster concept in its broader meaning of industrial agglomeration has been the focus of longstanding debates in the social sciences. This working paper... View Details

Keywords: Industry Clusters; Research; Theory; Developing Countries and Economies; History; Analysis; Globalization

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06 Jun 2008
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Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?

"budget slashers" focused on short-term success. Questions that this effort raises include: (1) Why so much publicity? (2) Isn't "deep thinking" what leaders are paid to do? and (3) Why do these kinds of effort require so much protection? In their... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Events - Private Capital Project

Partner, The Engine), and Tex Schenkkan (Director, National Security Innovation Capital, U.S. Department of Defense), moderated by Josh Krieger (Harvard Business School) Public Market Replication of Private Equity January 18, 2022 “Public... View Details

05 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Exploring the Beauty Industry through an Independent Project

Alessia Vettese is a second-year MBA student with a background in consulting and social impact. Alessia enjoys discovering innovative skincare products and hopes to pursue a career at the intersection of business and beauty. After a... View Details

17 May 2016
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May 17, 2016

of social science and intellectual history more generally. In this book, some of the world’s leading economists and experts on Serra explore the enduring appeal of his Short Treatise. The authors analyse the work in its historical,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Nov 2009
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http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-104.pdf Stretching the Inelastic Rubber: Taxation, Welfare and Lobbies in Amazonia, 1870-1910 Author:Felipe Tâmega Fernandes Abstract This paper examines the effect of government intervention via taxation on domestic welfare. A case... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 27

intensive companies, and blind review of solution submissions. We find that technical and social marginality, being a source of different perspectives and heuristics, plays an important role in explaining individual success in problem... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

June 2018
Case

Candor at Clever

By: Ethan Bernstein and Om Lala

Clever, a high-growth EdTech company based in San Francisco, had grown quickly in market share and headcount. As with many high-growth companies, however, early employees (many of whom had never managed people before) had been given the opportunity to manage teams, and... View Details

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and develop your own to gain influence and make an impact within your organization and society. 6 weeks, 6-7 hrs/week Pay by August 14 $1,850 Certificate Global Business Professor Forest Reinhardt Understand how decisions affect markets... View Details

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Machine Learning Approaches to Facial and Text Analysis: Discovering CEO Oral Communication Styles

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Dan Wang, Natalie A. Carlson and Tarun Khanna

We demonstrate how a novel synthesis of three methods—(1) unsupervised topic modeling of text data to generate new measures of textual variance, (2) sentiment analysis of text data, and (3) supervised ML coding of facial images with a cutting-edge convolutional neural... View Details

Keywords: CEOs; Communication Style; Machine Learning; Spoken Communication; Nonverbal Communication; Personal Characteristics; Analysis; Performance

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14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

insight into how firms can realize the benefits of empowerment strategies while mitigating their risks. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54820 forthcoming Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Pettiness in View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jul 2014
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that have informed LGBT organizational research from the late nineteenth century to date. The frames include a "medical abnormality," "deviant social role," "collective identity," and "social... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

2018
Book

Markets, Morals, Politics: Jealousy of Trade and the History of Political Thought

By: Béla Kapossy, Isaac Nakhimovsky, Sophus A. Reinert and Richard Whatmore

When Istvan Hont died in 2013, the world lost a giant of intellectual history. A leader of the Cambridge School of Political Thought, Hont argued passionately for a global-historical approach to political ideas. To better understand the development of liberalism, he... View Details

Keywords: Morals; Politics; Istvan Hont; Jealousy Of Trade; Enlightenment; Economic Nationalism; Markets; Moral Sensibility; Government and Politics; Trade; History

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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Recipient of the 2020 Russell Sage Foundation Presidential Authority Grant in the Future of Work program for “The Labor Market and Political Effects of Automation” with Sydnee Caldwell. Marlous van Waijenburg : 2020: Finalist for the... View Details

November 2022 (Revised June 2023)
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UGG Steps into the Metaverse

By: Shunyuan Zhang, Sharon Joseph, Sunil Gupta and Julia Kelley

In the fall of 2022, boot maker UGG and its parent company, Deckers, were working to position the brand in the nascent but fast growing metaverse. The metaverse, the online realm that individual users could navigate as digital avatars, was becoming more commercialized,... View Details