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  • 02 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 2

across geographies is a fool's errand. Best practices simply don't travel well across borders. That's because conditions not just of economic development but of institutional maturity, educational norms,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Judges - Alumni

World Economic Forum. Industry Business Products and Services (B2B), Healthcare Verticals Digital Health Area(s) of Expertise B2B, Building a Team, Co-Founder Dynamics, Customer Acquisition, MVP Development... View Details
  • Web

Bibliography – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Bendix, Reinhard and Lloyd H. Fisher. "The Perspectives of Elton Mayo," The Review of Economics and Statistics , vol. 31, no. 4, Nov. 1949, pp. 312-319. Full text available as a networked resource (valid Harvard ID required). Brammel, D.... View Details
  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Show or Tell? Improving Agent Decision Making in a Tanzanian Mobile Money Field Experiment

By: Jason Acimovic, Chris Parker, David F. Drake and Karthik Balasubramanian
When workers make operational decisions, the firm's global knowledge and the workers’ domain-specific knowledge complement each other. Oftentimes workers have the final decision-making power. Two key decisions a firm makes when designing systems to support these... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Decision Making; Training; Performance Improvement; Money; Mobile Technology; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Services Industry
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  • 25 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

management should understand about IT is its associated economics. Driven by Moore's Law, those evolving economics have enabled every industry's transaction costs to decrease continually, resulting in new View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Technology Innovation and Diffusion as Sources of Output and Asset Price Fluctuations

By: Diego A. Comin, Mark Gertler and Ana Maria Santacreu
We develop a model in which innovations in an economy's growth potential are an important driving force of the business cycle. The framework shares the emphasis of the recent "new shock" literature on revisions of beliefs about the future as a source of fluctuations,... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Economic Growth; Asset Pricing; Technological Innovation; Mathematical Methods; System Shocks; Technology Adoption
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  • December 2014 (Revised May 2019)
  • Case

Bhutan: Governing for Happiness

By: Sophus A. Reinert, Thomas Humphrey and Benjamin Safran
Unique among the world’s countries, the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan had abandoned the traditional policy goal of increasing Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in favor of pursuing Gross National Happiness (GNH). Famously, Bhutan ranked highly on lists of the happiest... View Details
Keywords: Happiness; Economic Growth; Governance; Cost vs Benefits; Bhutan
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  • November 2021 (Revised November 2023)
  • Case

Hitting Home: Amazon and Mary's Place

By: Paul M. Healy, Debora L. Spar and Amy Klopfenstein
In 2020, Amazon, the $386 billion online retail behemoth, built an eight-story shelter for women and families experiencing homelessness on its expanding headquarters in Seattle, Washington. The shelter, operated in partnership with a non-profit organization known as... View Details
Keywords: Business Ethics; Homelessness; Business And Society; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Corporate Accountability; Urban Development; Society; Information Technology; Ethics; Technology Industry; Seattle; United States; North America
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  • 19 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 19

priorities?; (3) Do I give subordinates timely and direct feedback they can act on? Have I developed a succession roadmap?; and (4) Is my leadership style still effective, and does it reflect who I truly am? This highly readable and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

forthcoming Journal of International Economics Corporate Debt, Firm Size and Financial Fragility in Emerging Markets By: Alfaro, Laura, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari, and Ugo Panizza Abstract— The post-Global Financial Crisis period shows a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • June 2010 (Revised July 2012)
  • Case

Dubai: Debt, Development, and Crisis (A)

By: Aldo Musacchio, Andrew Christopher Goodman and Claire K. Qureshi
On November 25, 2009, the city state of Dubai stunned markets by announcing that Dubai World, its flagship state holding company, would seek a six-month "standstill" on at least $4 billion U.S. dollars of its $26 billion in debt obligations. This case describes Dubai's... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Decision Choices and Conditions; Development Economics; Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Strategy; State Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Dubai
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  • 27 Jan 2015
  • Working Paper Summaries

College Admissions as Non-Price Competition: The Case of South Korea

Keywords: by Christopher Avery, Alvin E. Roth & Soohyung Lee; Education
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

the firm than in its absence. An Exploration of Technology Diffusion Author:Diego A. Comin Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract We develop a model that, at the aggregate level, is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Apr 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

faculty; the program is also supported by a very professional and skillful administrative team. Although it is a new program, GMP actually grew out of two other longstanding programs with a deep tradition and knowledge base at the School, the Program for Management... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 14 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-005.pdf Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The controversy over whether and how much to charge for health products in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

and Economic Development By: Schwab, Dan, and Eric Werker Abstract—Using industry-level manufacturing data, this paper demonstrates a negative effect of rents, measured by the mark-up ratio, on productivity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Innovating in Science and Engineering or 'Cashing In' on Wall Street? Evidence on Elite STEM Talent

By: Pian Shu
Using data on MIT bachelor's graduates from 1994 to 2012, this paper empirically examines the extent to which the inflow of elite talent into the financial industry affects the supply of innovators in science and engineering (S&E). I first show that finance does not... View Details
Keywords: Higher Education; Engineering; Personal Development and Career; Science; Finance
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  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Collusive Investments in Technological Compatibility: Lessons from U.S. Railroads in the Late 19th Century

By: Daniel P. Gross
Collusion is widely condemned for its negative effects on consumer welfare and market efficiency. In this paper, I show that collusion may also in some cases facilitate the creation of unexpected new sources of value. I bring this possibility into focus through the... View Details
Keywords: Collusion; Compatibility; Railroads; Rail Transportation; Standards; Integration; Trade; History; United States
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  • Web

Global Activities 2020

School’s intellectual impact and reach while furthering faculty research and forging deeper connections with alumni around the world. Africa Fellowship Enables Alumni to Accelerate Economic Growth in Africa Tuyee Yeboah (MBA 2018) and Ike... View Details
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Industry Information - Alumni

faculty from the fields of business, economics and law. + – CPG/Marketing AdAge Leading trade publication of the marketing and media landscape. Tiered subscription model (free registration for a limited number of articles per month;... View Details