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- June 1993 (Revised October 1993)
- Supplement
McDonald's and the Environment (B)
McDonald's announces its decision to change from polystyrene "clamshells" for its sandwich packaging to a new paper wrap. View Details
Livesey, Sharon M. "McDonald's and the Environment (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 393-162, June 1993. (Revised October 1993.)
- September–October 2002
- Article
Market Power and Power Markets
By: Jurgen Weiss
The paper provides results of a serious of experiments with experienced subjects exploring the relationship between elements of electricity market design and competitive outcomes. The two primary variables examined are a) the price formation (nodal versus uniform with... View Details
Weiss, Jurgen. "Market Power and Power Markets." Interfaces 32, no. 5 (September–October 2002): 37–46.
No Taxation without Information
Tax evasion generates billions of dollars of losses in government revenue and creates large distortions, especially in developing countries. A growing, mostly theoretical literature argues that information flows are central to understanding effective taxation. This... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
Published Papers Do the Right Firms Survive Bankruptcy? Journal of Financial Economics Samuel Antill “In United States, Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, firms are either reorganized, acquired, or liquidated. I show that decisions to liquidate... View Details
- Working Paper Summaries
A Quantity-Driven Theory of Term Premia and Exchange Rates
- 17 Sep 2014
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpen Your Negotiation Skills
Knowledge for a decade-and-a-half. Here are a number of articles and working papers you might find beneficial in upping your negotiation game. Negotiators Should Remain Cool And Collected. Right? The Role of Emotions in Effective... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Pathways to Materiality: How Sustainability Issues Become Financially Material to Corporations and Their Investors
Keywords: by Jean Rogers and George Serafeim
- 17 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020
to owners on the brink of ruin. Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness The pandemic has challenged managers as never before, but one powerful leadership strategy is being overlooked, say Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson: Be kind. The 5 most-downloaded research View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- June 2004
- Case
Nehemiah Strategy, The: Bringing it to Boston
By: Diana Barrett and Arthur I Segel
In 2003, Lee Stuart was working with the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization to implement an affordable housing initiative in Boston. She and her colleagues faced a number of challenges in transferring the strategy, including whether the strategy was appropriate for... View Details
Barrett, Diana, and Arthur I Segel. "Nehemiah Strategy, The: Bringing it to Boston." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 304-082, June 2004.
- 2023
- Working Paper
How Private Investors Value 'Platformness': An Exploratory Study of Unicorns
By: David B. Yoffie, Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer, Sarah von Bargen and Kwesi Acquay
This paper explores the premium investors have been willing to pay for private companies (unicorns) that are digital platforms vs. traditional companies. View Details
- 26 Oct 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Applications of Fractional Response Model to the Study of Bounded Dependent Variables in Accounting Research
- 2024
- Working Paper
Using LLMs for Market Research
By: James Brand, Ayelet Israeli and Donald Ngwe
Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly gained popularity as labor-augmenting
tools for programming, writing, and many other processes that benefit from quick text
generation. In this paper we explore the uses and benefits of LLMs for researchers and
practitioners... View Details
Keywords: Large Language Model; Research; AI and Machine Learning; Analysis; Customers; Consumer Behavior; Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
Brand, James, Ayelet Israeli, and Donald Ngwe. "Using LLMs for Market Research." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-062, April 2023. (Revised July 2024.)
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
literacy stifle demand. A second view argues that demand is rationally low, because formal financial services are expensive and of relatively low value to the poor. This paper uses original surveys and a field experiment to distinguish... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2015
- Discussion Paper
The Roles of Import Competition and Export Opportunities for Technical Change
By: Claudia Steinwender
A variety of empirical and theoretical trade papers have suggested and documented a positive impact of trade on the productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While trade papers focus on access to export markets,... View Details
Steinwender, Claudia. "The Roles of Import Competition and Export Opportunities for Technical Change." CEP Discussion Paper, No. 1334, February 2015.
- 18 Apr 2017
- HBS Seminar
Jason Greenberg, NYU Stern School of Business
Overcoming Overconfidence: Teamwork and Self-Control
This paper analyzes interactions between agents who are overconfident regarding their own future self-control relative to others. The paper considers the problem of incentivizing several such agents, and compares two methods: assigning work individually to each... View Details