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  • 2006
  • Working Paper

Male Circumcision and AIDS: The Macroeconomic Impact of a Health Crisis

By: Amrita Ahuja, Brian Wendell and Eric D. Werker
Theories abound on the potential macroeconomic impact of AIDS in Africa, yet there have been surprisingly few empirical studies to test the mixed theoretical predictions. In this paper, we examine the impact of the AIDS epidemic on African nations through 2005 using... View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Health Disorders; Welfare or Wellbeing; Poverty; Research; Education; Nutrition; Risk Management; Africa
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  • 30 Aug 2021
  • News

One and the Same

that and, of course, all your ideas end up on the whiteboard, along with everyone else’s,” she told the Sydney Morning Herald. “You become the person facilitating the conversation, and you are the one taking the notes in terms of the... View Details
Keywords: wage gap; COVID; women; equality; leadership
  • January 2022
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Pushed into a Crowd: Repositioning Costs, Resources, and Competition in the RTE Cereal Industry

By: Young Hou and Dennis Yao
This paper exploits a natural experiment involving self-regulation in the ready-to-eat (RTE) breakfast cereal industry to evaluate the performance impact of product repositioning. It then examines how a product's brand equity value declines with repositioning distance... View Details
Keywords: Positioning; Resources; Brand Equity; Competitive Dynamics; Non-market Strategy; Regulation; Repositioning; Product Positioning; Performance Evaluation; Brands and Branding; Competitive Strategy; Consumer Products Industry
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Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness

By: Michael J Kearns, Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth and Zhiwei Steven Wu
The most prevalent notions of fairness in machine learning are statistical definitions: they fix a small collection of pre-defined groups, and then ask for parity of some statistic of the classifier (like classification rate or false positive rate) across these groups.... View Details
Keywords: Machine Learning; Algorithms; Fairness; Mathematical Methods
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  • 20 Feb 2020
  • Blog Post

Black Visionary Leadership and Redefining What's Possible

entrepreneurs get VC funding, and of that .0006 percent goes to black women entrepreneurs. This is not because there is a lack of innovative ideas and lucrative ventures from black founders. There are a... View Details
  • 21 Jul 2016
  • News

Women More Likely Than Men To Lead In Times Of Crisis

  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Bio-Piracy or Prospering Together? Fuzzy Set and Qualitative Analysis of Herbal Patenting by Firms

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna
Since the 1990s, several Western firms have filed patents based on medicinal herbs from emerging markets, evoking protests from local stakeholders against 'bio-piracy'. We explore conditions under which firms and local stakeholders share rents from such patents. Our... View Details
Keywords: Rents From New Technology; Local Stakeholders; Herbal Patents; QCA; Fuzzy Set Analysis; Qualitative Case Studies; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Patents; Emerging Markets; Health Care and Treatment; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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    Market Power in Mortgage Lending and the Transmission of Monetary Policy

    We present evidence that high concentration in mortgage lending reduces the sensitivity of mortgage rates and refinancing activity to mortgage-backed security (MBS) yields. We isolate the direct effect of concentration and rule out alternative explanations in two ways.... View Details
    • 01 Dec 2019
    • News

    Developing Leaders Who Bridge Business and Engineering

    degree—conferring an MBA from HBS and a Master of Science (MS) in Engineering Sciences from SEAS—fuses the strengths from management and technology programs to produce the next... View Details
    • 13 Aug 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software Industry

    Keywords: by Ramana Nanda & Tarun Khanna; Video Game; Web Services
    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Turning Away from the State: Trade Shocks and Informal Insurance in Brazil

    By: Paula Rettl
    How does economic globalization affect vote choices? Conventional wisdom holds that voters who lose from economic integration support parties that propose expanding the welfare state. However, in the Global South, where the state is frequently weak or under-resourced,... View Details
    Keywords: Global Strategy; Globalized Economies and Regions; Governance; Government Administration; Political Elections; Voting; Latin America; Brazil; South America
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    • September 2022
    • Article

    Human Versus Machine: A Comparison of Robo-Analyst and Traditional Research Analyst Investment Recommendations

    By: Braiden Coleman, Kenneth J. Merkley and Joseph Pacelli
    We provide the first comprehensive analysis of the properties of investment recommendations generated by “Robo-Analysts,” which are human analyst-assisted computer programs conducting automated research analysis. Our results indicate that Robo-Analyst recommendations... View Details
    Keywords: Fintech; Analysts; Robo-analysts; Investment Recommendations; Investment; Information Technology; Performance
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    • May 2018
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    Effects of an Information Sharing System on Employee Creativity, Engagement, and Performance

    By: Shelley Xin Li and Tatiana Sandino
    Many service organizations rely on information sharing systems to boost employee creativity to meet customer needs. We conducted a field experiment in a retail chain, based on a registered report accepted by Journal of Accounting Research, to test whether an... View Details
    Keywords: Information; Knowledge Sharing; Employees; Creativity; Performance
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    • September 2023 (Revised September 2024)
    • Technical Note

    Measuring and Managing Social Impact

    By: Brian Trelstad, Gerald Chertavian and Susan Pinckney
    A brief overview of how to measure social impact at nonprofits, social organizations, and impact investments. View Details
    Keywords: Analysis; Change; Transformation; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Public Sector; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Entrepreneurial Finance; Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Policy; Innovation and Management; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Practices and Processes; Resource Allocation; Measurement and Metrics; Standards; Strength and Weakness; Mission and Purpose; Success; Performance; Performance Evaluation; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Strategic Planning; Programs; Risk and Uncertainty; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Social Issues; United States
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    • January 2018 (Revised March 2019)
    • Teaching Note

    Jumia Nigeria: from Retail to Marketplace (A) and (B)

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman
    Founded in 2012, Jumia Nigeria, a startup effort by Germany-based Rocket Internet, aimed to become an African Amazon. The company entered the nascent market and immediately enjoyed an uptick in consumer spending fueled by the strength of Nigeria’s oil-based economy. By... View Details
    Keywords: Retail; Marketplace; Inventory; Ecommerce; Funding; Business Ecosystems; Competition; Business Model; Globalization; Emerging Markets; Expansion; Logistics; E-commerce; Retail Industry; India; Nigeria; Africa
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    Data - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    performance of more than 150 nations across 46 clusters of goods and services export activity. This powerful approach reveals emerging patterns and strengths in a nation's... View Details

      An Economy Doing Half Its Job

      This report presents the findings of HBS' 2013-14 survey on U.S. competitiveness. While HBS alumni saw strengths in elements of the business environment that influence firms' success, the weaknesses in elements that drive prosperity for the average American indicate... View Details
      • 2013
      • Working Paper

      Clusters and the New Growth Path for Europe

      By: Christian Ketels and Sergiy Protsiv
      This paper outlines elements of a conceptual framework that clarifies the role that clusters play relative to government policies and actions of individual companies in supporting the emergence of "High Road" strategies that lead to better New Growth Path–related... View Details
      Keywords: Technological Innovation; Competition; Industry Clusters; Globalization; Economic Growth; Europe
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      Stages of Development - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

      this stage, the national business environment is characterized by strengths in all areas of the diamond together with the presence of deep clusters. Clusters become critical motors, not only in generating productivity, but also... View Details