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  • June 23, 2020
  • Article

Inequality in Socially Permissible Consumption

By: Serena Hagerty and Kate Barasz
Lower-income individuals are frequently criticized for their consumption decisions; this research examines why. Eleven preregistered studies document systematic differences in permissible consumption—interpersonal judgments about what is acceptable (or not) for others... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Judgments; Consumption; Economic Inequalty; Income; Equality and Inequality; Spending; Judgments
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  • October 2021
  • Article

Changing Gambling Behavior through Experiential Learning

By: Shawn A. Cole, Martin Abel and Bilal Zia
This paper tests experiential learning as a debiasing tool to reduce gambling in South Africa, through a randomized field experiment. The study implements a simple, interactive game that simulates the odds of winning the national lottery through dice rolling.... View Details
Keywords: Debiasing; Experiential Learning; Behavioral Economics; Financial Education; Learning; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Behavior; Decision Making
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  • February 2017 (Revised January 2018)
  • Case

Womenomics in Japan

By: Boris Groysberg, Mayuka Yamazaki, Nobuo Sato and David Lane
This case profiles Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's vigorous attempts to revive Japan's economy, specifically by advocating for a larger role for women in the economy—not as a matter of social policy or gender equity per se, but as an essential element of any solution to... View Details
Keywords: Gender Equality; Japan; Leadership; Government-business Relations; Shinzo Abe; Economic Growth; Aging Society; Womenomics; Abenomics; Labor Market Discrimination; Workplace Culture; Women And Leadership; Change Management; Leading Change; Gender; Business and Government Relations; Growth and Development; Employment; Working Conditions
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  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Public R&D Investments and Private-sector Patenting: Evidence from NIH Funding Rules

By: Pierre Azoulay, Joshua S. Graff Zivin, Danielle Li and Bhaven N. Sampat
We quantify the impact of scientific grant funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on patenting by pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms. Our paper makes two contributions. First, we use newly constructed bibliometric data to develop a method for flexibly... View Details
Keywords: Economics Of Science; Patenting; Academic Reserach; NIH; Knowledge Spillovers; Patents; Research; Government and Politics
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    John Beshears

    John Beshears is the Albert J. Weatherhead Jr. Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit, teaching the second-year MBA course "Negotiation." He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.... View Details

    • July 2015 (Revised January 2020)
    • Case

    Horst Dassler, Adidas, and the Commercialization of Sport

    By: Geoffrey Jones, Michael Norris and Sophi Kim
    The case focuses on the career of Horst Dassler, the son of the founder of the German-based sports shoe manufacturer Adidas. The origins of the firm were in the interwar years, and it rose to public prominence after it provided spikes for Jesse Owens, the famous... View Details
    Keywords: Corruption; Economic History; Business History; Entertainment; Business; Strategy; Media; Digital Technology; Blockbuster; Superstar; Film; Television; Music; Publishing; Performing Arts; Nightlife; Crime and Corruption; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; History; Sports; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Fashion Industry; Sports Industry; Germany; South America; Europe; Asia; North and Central America
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      Matthew C. Weinzierl

      Matt Weinzierl is Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the MBA Program at Harvard Business School, where he is the Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit, and a Research... View Details

      Keywords: aerospace

        Jingpeng Hong

        Jingpeng is a Ph.D. student in Marketing at Harvard Business School. Previously, he received a B.A. in Economics from the National School of Development, Peking University and a M.A. in Social Sciences, Economics from the University of Chicago. His research interests... View Details

          Adi Sunderam

          Adi Sunderam is the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance at Harvard Business School, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Economics department. He teaches Finance 2 in... View Details

          Keywords: asset management; banking; brokerage; federal government; financial services; investment banking industry

            Samuel G. Hanson

            Samuel G. Hanson is the William L. White Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Economics department. He teaches Finance 1... View Details

            Keywords: asset management; banking; brokerage; federal government; financial services; investment banking industry
            • December 2002
            • Supplement

            Basic Statistics from the World Bank's World Development Indicators, 2002

            By: David A. Moss and Sarah A. Brennan
            Supplements National Economic Accounting: Past, Present, and Future. View Details
            Keywords: Non-Governmental Organizations; Data and Data Sets
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            • January 2007
            • Case

            Robert E. Rubin (A)

            By: Nitin Nohria, Robert Steven Kaplan and Nicole Davison
            Bob Rubin was a businessman given the task of setting up and running the National Economic Council for the Clinton Administration. Unfamiliar with management in a political climate, Rubin worked hard to design, staff, and position the Council to make better economic... View Details
            Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Government and Politics; Managerial Roles; Macroeconomics; Organizational Design; Economy
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              Laura Alfaro

              Laura Alfaro is the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration. At Harvard since 1999, she served as Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy in Costa Rica from 2010-2012, taking a leave from HBS. She is Co-Editor of the Journal of International... View Details

                Michael E. Porter

                Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies... View Details

                Keywords: biotechnology; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; internet; nonprofit industry; service industry; state government
                • Research Summary

                Overview

                We are studying the practical application of Michael Porter's value-based strategy to reform health care by examining best practices of integrated practice units, outcome measurement, cost measurement, value-based payment, episode based payment, regionalization of... View Details
                Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Outcomes; Healthcare IT; Health Care Quality; Health Economics; Value Agenda; Information Technology; Mobile App; Big Data; Electronic Health Records; Pers; Value Creation; Information Technology Industry; United States

                  Everybody Now Wants Supply Chains to Be ‘Resilient.’ It Won’t Be Easy—or Likely

                  Despite the current turmoil, memories will fade, and economics will trump concerns about national vulnerabilities. View Details
                  • March 2010
                  • Article

                  Contractibility and Contract Design in Strategic Alliances

                  By: Josh Lerner and Ulrike Malmendier
                  Earlier version distributed as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 11292. View Details
                  Keywords: Contracts; Alliances
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                  • March 2011
                  • Module Note

                  Varieties of Capitalism

                  By: J. Gunnar Trumbull
                  This module, part of the second year HBS course MITI, introduces a political economy approach to analyzing national economic strategies, with a primary focus on German economic policy. View Details
                  Keywords: Economy; Markets; Curriculum and Courses; Policy; Competitive Advantage; Goals and Objectives; Geographic Location; Strategy; Germany
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                    Vincent Pons

                    TO LEARN MORE ABOUT VINCENT PONS, CONSULT HIS WEBSITE.

                    Vincent Pons is... View Details

                      Shai Benjamin Bernstein

                      Shai Bernstein is the Marvin Bower Associate Professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in both the Corporate Finance group and the Productivity,... View Details