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  • 19 Mar 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Carry Trade and Exchange-Rate Regimes

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Fabio Kanczuk
  • 17 Sep 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery

Keywords: by David M. Cutler, Robert S. Huckman & Jonathan T. Kolstad; Health
  • 09 Nov 2023
  • HBS Case

What Will It Take to Confront the Invisible Mental Health Crisis in Business?

As a finance specialist, Harvard Business School Professor Lauren Cohen works to understand the dynamics that make businesses thrive. In his recent research on family companies, he has found one common thread among successful firms: They actively support their... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Health

    The Academy of Fisticuffs

    The terms “capitalism” and “socialism” continue to haunt our political and economic imaginations, but we rarely consider their interconnected early history. Even the eighteenth century had its “socialists,” but unlike those of the nineteenth, they paradoxically... View Details

    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    The Empirical Economics of Online Attention

    By: Andre Boik, Shane Greenstein and Jeffrey Prince
    In several markets, firms compete not for consumer expenditure but instead for consumer attention. We model and characterize how households allocate their scarce attention in arguably the largest market for attention: the Internet. Our characterization of household... View Details
    Keywords: Internet and the Web; Competition; Behavior; Resource Allocation; Household; Cognition and Thinking
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    • Research Summary

    Governance and Accountability in Social Sector Organizations

    This research examines governance in two types of organizations: international NGOs and socioeconomic hybrids.

    First, over the past decade, many of the world's most prominent international nongovernmental organizations and networks (INGOs) ... View Details

    • Research Summary

    Social Networks and Unraveling in Labor Markets

    This paper develops a model of local unraveling (or early hiring) in entry-level labor markets. Information about workers' productivity is revealed over time and transmitted credibly via a two-sided network connecting firms and workers. While employment starts only... View Details
    • Web

    Placement - Doctoral

    Kerr , and Shane M. Greenstein Laura Katsnelson Strategy, 2024 Placement: Senior Regional Economist, Department of Economic Research, Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Dissertation: Essays on Stakeholder View Details
    • Article

    "Troll" Check? A Proposal for Administrative Review of Patent Litigation

    By: Lauren Cohen, John Golden, Umit Gurun and Scott Duke Kominers
    The patent system is commonly justified as a way to promote social welfare and, more specifically, technological progress. For years, however, there has been concern that patent litigation is undermining, rather than furthering, these goals. Particularly in the United... View Details
    Keywords: Patent Trolls; Patents; Lawsuits and Litigation
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    • 09 Nov 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Robert A. Miller, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

    • December 2021
    • Case

    Danish Crown: Feeding the Future

    By: David E. Bell, Damien P. McLoughlin, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej
    Danish Crown, one of the world’s largest exporters of pork meat and one of Europe’s top five producers of beef, faced increasing headwinds in 2021, making CEO Jais Valeur feel like the core of the meat business was under attack. As a cooperative and prominent player in... View Details
    Keywords: Agribusiness; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Food; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Nutrition; Cooperative Ownership; Change Management; Transition; Leadership; Leading Change; Marketing; Product Marketing; Corporate Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Europe; Denmark
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    • 03 Oct 2023
    • Research Event

    Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

    View Video “Are you happy?” asks Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg of happiness expert Arthur C. Brooks. “Next question,” Brooks jokes, before answering: “No one is. Happiness is not a destination. It’s a direction.” In this video, Brooks, a professor at Harvard... View Details
    Keywords: by HBS Staff
    • 03 Feb 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: February 3

    innovative product could both radically disrupt the existing beef production and supply chain and provide an animal welfare and environmentally friendly food that had far less of an environmental impact than traditional beef products.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 04 Oct 2019
    • HBS Seminar

    Annabelle Fowler (Harvard University), Harvard University

    • 2018
    • Book

    The Academy of Fisticuffs: Political Economy and Commercial Society in Enlightenment Italy

    By: Sophus A. Reinert
    The terms “capitalism” and “socialism” continue to haunt our political and economic imaginations, but we rarely consider their interconnected early history. Even the 18th century had its “socialists,” but unlike those of the 19th, they paradoxically sought to make the... View Details
    Keywords: Enlightenment; Political Economy; Italy; Commercial Society; Economic Systems; Trade; History; Markets; Society; Italy
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    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Securing Jobs or the New Protectionism?: Taxing the Overseas Activities of Multinational Firms

    By: Mihir A. Desai
    Tax policy toward American multinational firms would appear to be approaching a crossroads. The presumed linkages between domestic employment conditions and the growth of foreign operations by American firms have led to calls for increased taxation on foreign... View Details
    Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Policy; Taxation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; United States
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    • 20 Jun 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories

    numbers, but by natural language, by stories.” The human mind’s love of stories over statistics can have serious implications that go beyond the question of the best approach for leaders. The preference for anecdote over stats can fuel misinformation on issues ranging... View Details
    Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
    • 25 Sep 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Colocation and Scientific Collaboration: Evidence from a Field Experiment

    Keywords: by Kevin Boudreau, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva Guinan & Karim Lakhani; Health
    • 2022
    • Chapter

    Key Success Factors in Environmental Entrepreneurship: The case of Wilderness Safaris

    By: James E. Austin, Megan Epler Woods and Herman B. Leonard
    This chapter analyzes the entrepreneurial conception and evolution of the Wilderness Safaris (WS) ecotourism enterprise operating in eight African countries. It illuminates a series of factors that contribute to positive environmental impact as well as financial... View Details
    Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Entrepreneurship
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    • December 2009
    • Article

    Media Markets and Localism: Does Local News en Español Boost Hispanic Voter Turnout?

    By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Joel Waldfogel
    Since the dawn of broadcasting, and especially in the past decade, Americans have turned their attention from local to more distant sources of news and entertainment. While the integration of media markets will raise the private welfare of many consumers, critics of a... View Details
    Keywords: Voting; Ethnicity; Behavior; Local Range; Journalism and News Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
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