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  • 09 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

micrograms of total suspended particulates per cubic meter, yet the World Health Organization establishes 90 as a maximum safe level (Berlin's level is 50). Over 25,000 square kilometers of land were... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
  • 18 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

under-provision of innovation. Firms have clear incentives to engage in strategic behavior because policymakers use market outcomes as a benchmark in designing regulation. This study examines a unique energy efficiency standard for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 13

invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data and some resulting empirical regularities. Innovative activity tends to be more concentrated than industrial activity, and we discuss... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

RCP Terms of Service - Research Computing Services

agreements (DUAs), contracts, or IRB documentation that impact the handling of your data and use of RCP (relevant policies can be found here ). The RCP is only appropriate for data assessed at Harvard... View Details
  • 04 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Don’t Lose Money With Customers

disciplined firms are at the market and segment levels if the same focus and precision don't exist in customer choice.— Narakesari Narayandas Accomplishing this requires finely tuned approaches that target... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
  • 06 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 6, 2015

2015 University of Chicago Press Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy By: Goldfarb, Avi, Shane Greenstein, and Catherine Tucker, eds. Abstract—As the cost of storing, sharing, and analyzing data has decreased, economic activity has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

inventors who patent since 1920; a dataset of the employment, location, and patents of firms active in R&D since 1921; and a historical state-level corporate tax database since 1900, which we link to an existing database on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI

ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations, had reached an estimated 100... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Jun 2003
  • News

Up Against The Firewall

company can ever be completely safe — even if a firm disconnects from the Internet, unauthorized personnel or disgruntled employees inside the company’s facilities can figure out ways to access its computers — some firms, especially those... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Robert Austin; Corporate Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 12 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 12, 2008

firms' ownership structures affect their earnings quality and long-term performance. Focusing on a unique sample of private firms for which there is financial data available in the years before and after... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

The Right Connections

backgrounds or experience levels of the top management team -- the CEO, CFO, and chief scientific officer, in particular -- aren't really the deciding factors for investment bankers," explains HBS associate professor Monica C. Higgins,... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 12 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?

often very visible decisions. Q: You, your co-authors, and other research partners undertook a survey of 600 corporations in seven countries. Why have corporate headquarters been so under-researched? What particular assumptions were you trying to examine? A: It is hard... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence

data mining to coding. Eventually, there will be industries that are fully automated and certain jobs will go away, but new ones will be created in that process. From Baker Library: Not surprisingly, high tech and telecom View Details
Keywords: April White
  • Web

Research at HBS | Information Technology

determine the Data Security Level which needs to be applied and what tools are appropriate to protect this data. Training for Researchers Harvard Community Members can complete this training through the... View Details
  • January 1998 (Revised February 1998)
  • Case

Timberjack Parts: Packaged Software Selection Project

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Mark Keil and Darryl S. Romanow
This case provides a realistic, current, and detailed view of software procurement in an international business environment where the competition in enterprise-wide software solutions is growing. Focuses on the selection of packaged software to serve multiple sites... View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Information Technology; Analytics and Data Science; Multinational Firms and Management; Operations; Management Practices and Processes; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry
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  • 31 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 31

have a large impact on the dynamics of corporate investment and growth. Investment is "locked in" in profitable firms when payout is heavily taxed. Thus, apart from any level effects, payout taxes... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 9

The data show a statistically significant drop in cumulative abnormal returns for Brazilian firms following capital control announcements. Large firms and the largest exporting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

Short Takes

corporate performance. Using archival sources, Kang examined data from all publicly held firms in the U.S. textile industry from 1983 to 1992. "I was able to look at an industry with different kinds of... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

use loan-level data to study how the organizational structure of banks impacts small business lending. We find that decentralized banks—where branch managers have greater autonomy over lending decisions—give larger loans to small View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

Established in 1997, the program provides health insurance to uninsured children in moderate-income families. To research the link between SCHIP and entrepreneurship, Olds studied 1992-2011 data from the United States Census Bureau's... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health