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- 2017
- Working Paper
Knowledge Flows within Multinationals—Estimating Relative Influence of Headquarters and Host Context Using a Gravity Model
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Mike Horia Teodorescu and Tarun Khanna
From the perspective of a multinational subsidiary, we employ the classic gravity equation in economics to model and compare knowledge flows to the subsidiary from the MNC headquarters and from the host country context. We also generalize traditional economics gravity... View Details
- Research Summary
Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach
This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details
- 29 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines
- 02 Feb 2017
- News
Growing and Competing at the Local Level
helps small businesses in his state contribute to America’s competitiveness and economic health. “In running manufacturing facilities, I’ve been an operations turnaround person for my entire career—except... View Details
- 16 May 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal?
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Andrew Charlton
- Article
Thin Political Markets: The Soft Underbelly of Capitalism
By: Karthik Ramanna
"Thin political markets" are the processes through which some of the most complex and critical institutions of our capitalist system are determined—e.g., our accounting-standards infrastructure. In thin political markets, corporate managers are largely... View Details
Keywords: Business And Society; Lobbying; Sustainability; Leadership; Economic Systems; Accounting; Business and Community Relations; Financial Institutions; Business and Government Relations
Ramanna, Karthik. "Thin Political Markets: The Soft Underbelly of Capitalism." California Management Review 57, no. 2 (Winter 2015): 5–19.
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
strategies for the social media age, and launching a startup for a targeted audience. Students learn to analyze macro and micro economic data of an industry, synthesize... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Research Summary
The Value Profit Chain: Treat Employees Like Customers and Customers Like Employees
By: W. Earl Sasser
W. Earl Sasser, Jr., Leonard A. Schlesinger, and James L. Heskett complted a multi-firm study that provides further empirical verification of relationships established in their earlier examinations of 'breakthrough' service and the service profit chain.... View Details
- 20 Apr 2021
- Working Paper Summaries
The Emergence of Mafia-like Business Systems in China
Keywords: by Meg Rithmire and Hao Chen
- 16 Jul 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Selection, Reallocation, and Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Gains from Multinational Production
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie X. Chen
- 27 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?
steps toward addressing institutional racism Companies have long used competition to motivate employees to think creatively and push themselves. Law firms, consultancies, and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- February 2004
- Case
Czech Mate: CME and Vladimir Zelezny (D)-Resolution
By: Mihir A. Desai, Alberto Moel and Kathleen Luchs
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Fairness; Financial Institutions; Corporate Governance; Rights; Ownership Stake
Desai, Mihir A., Alberto Moel, and Kathleen Luchs. "Czech Mate: CME and Vladimir Zelezny (D)-Resolution." Harvard Business School Case 204-129, February 2004.
- 1978
- Chapter
Conflict Between the Political and Private Sectors
By: Michael Jensen and William H. Meckling
- 2004
- Chapter
The City and the Countryside: Economy, State and Socialist Legacies in the Vietnamese Labor Market
Abrami, Regina M., and Nolwen Henaff. "The City and the Countryside: Economy, State and Socialist Legacies in the Vietnamese Labor Market." In Reaching for the Dream: Challenges of Sustainable Development in Vietnam, edited by Melanie Beresford and Angie Tran. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004.
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
Cristina Kirchner, Néstor Kirchner’s wife and successor. Then in 2009, in a call for “democratizing” the media, Cristina Kirchner introduced a media reform law that would significantly limit Grupo Clarín’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2005
- Casebook
Institutions, Macroeconomics and the Global Economy
By: Rafael Di Tella, Huw Pill and Ingrid Vogel
Di Tella, Rafael, Huw Pill, and Ingrid Vogel. Institutions, Macroeconomics and the Global Economy. World Scientific Publishing, 2005.
- 2011
- Working Paper
'Last-place Aversion': Evidence and Redistributive Implications
By: Ilyana Kuziemko, Ryan W. Buell, Taly Reich and Michael I. Norton
Why do low-income individuals often oppose redistribution? We hypothesize that an aversion to being in "last place" undercuts support for redistribution, with low-income individuals punishing those slightly below themselves to keep someone "beneath" them. In laboratory... View Details
Keywords: Wages; Surveys; Wealth and Poverty; Behavior; Income; Research; Rank and Position; Attitudes; Personal Characteristics; Economics
Kuziemko, Ilyana, Ryan W. Buell, Taly Reich, and Michael I. Norton. "'Last-place Aversion': Evidence and Redistributive Implications." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 17234, August 2011.
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
society. These are not new concerns. Scholars, educators, and political and economic elites in China and India have been pondering them for... View Details
- 2021
- Working Paper
COVID-19, Government Performance, and Democracy: Survey Experimental Evidence from 12 Countries
By: Michael Becher, Nicholas Longuet Marx, Vincent Pons, Sylvain Brouard, Martial Foucault, Vincenzo Galasso, Eric Kerrouche, Sandra León Alfonso and Daniel Stegmueller
Beyond its immediate impact on public health and the economy, the COVID-19 pandemic has put democracy under stress. While a common view is that people should blame the government rather than the political system for bad crisis management, an opposing view is that... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Government Performance; Democracy; Health Pandemics; Government and Politics; Crisis Management; Public Opinion
Becher, Michael, Nicholas Longuet Marx, Vincent Pons, Sylvain Brouard, Martial Foucault, Vincenzo Galasso, Eric Kerrouche, Sandra León Alfonso, and Daniel Stegmueller. "COVID-19, Government Performance, and Democracy: Survey Experimental Evidence from 12 Countries." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 29514, November 2021. (Revise and resubmit requested, The Journal of Politics.)
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
whereas the contemporaneous marginal effect is higher for generalists. The paper also provides a key methodological insight to the marketing and economics literature. In the Nerlove-Arrow framework, moment... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman