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  • 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

R. Kerr Publication:The American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract Why do firms cluster near one another? We test Marshall's (1920) theories of industrial agglomeration by examining which industries locate near one another, or... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

Chen Abstract—Quantifying the gains from multinational production has been a vital topic of economic research. Positive productivity gains are often attributed to knowledge spillover from multinational to domestic firms. An alternative,... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 31 Jan 2023
  • Op-Ed

Can Insurance Technology Solve the Uninsured Driver Problem?

designed to be big enough that forgoing the bulk purchase to buy a smaller number of days implied a cost of credit at least as high as a typical payday loan. Seeing a lot of drivers who prefer to buy smaller bundles would imply they might... View Details
Keywords: by Ray Kluender; Insurance
  • 05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007

itself from selling to a portion of the market. In addition, we show that contrary to standard results on double marginalization and pricing of complementary goods, a platform who already has exclusive access to content may prefer to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

efficiency, independence of irrelevant objects, and resource-monotonicity on two preference domains (Ehlers and Klaus, 2003, Theorem 1). They explicitly prove Theorem 1 for preference domain R0 which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

overview of business history research worldwide aimed at both researchers and practitioners, addressing challenging issues such as globalization, entrepreneurship, corporate governance, technology and innovation, and economic theory and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

August 2018 Journal of Accounting Research Virtual Issue on Empirical Management Accounting Research By: Abernethy, Margaret, and Dennis Campbell Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54619 forthcoming Jackson... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

preferences. Finally, we find no evidence that CEO activists using economic language are more persuasive in their appeals. The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market By: Di Maggio, Marco, Francesco... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

for which content will be exclusive despite foreclosing itself from selling to a portion of the market. In addition, we show that contrary to standard results on double marginalization and pricing of complementary goods, a platform that already has exclusive access to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Mar 2019
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?

Future at the New Frontier of Power, author Shoshana Zuboff identifies surveillance capitalism as the danger in our midst—not totalitarian government or even business institutions that practice surveillance capitalism. She presents surveillance capitalism as “a new... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products
  • 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

in others and show that all these definitions are equivalent. We then introduce a new class of substitutable preferences that allows us to model intermediaries with production capacity. We also prove that substitutability is preserved... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14

entertainment industry really works-and how to navigate today's high-stakes business world at large. Publisher's link: http://www.blockbusters-thebook.com/ 2006 Journal of Economic Perspectives The Investment Strategies of Sovereign... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

older investors prefer dividend-paying stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically varying demand for dividends. Firms headquartered in areas in which seniors constitute a large fraction of the population are more likely to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

demonstrates that underestimating the pleasure of rediscovery leads to time-inconsistent choices: individuals forgo opportunities to document the present but then prefer to rediscover those moments in the future. Underestimating the value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jun 2022
  • Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

propose a general mechanism of partner choice, "screening," that is similar to the economic theory of mechanism design. Imposing the appropriate costs and rewards may induce the informed individuals to screen themselves... View Details
  • 24 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?

from Firm-Level Surveys, was conducted by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Zoe Cullen and Associate Professors Michael Luca and Christopher Stanton, with colleagues Alexander Bartik, an economics professor at the University of... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18

a purely social act with economic considerations. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-012.pdf Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery Authors:David M. Cutler, Robert S. Huckman, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21

such as performance-based promotion. Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China Authors:Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger, and Se Yan Publication:Explorations in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 26

examine a prominent justification for capital income taxation: goods preferred by those with high ability ought to be taxed. In an environment where commodity taxes are allowed to be nonlinear functions of income and consumption, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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