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  • 24 Jul 2024
  • Video

Andy Hoffman: It’s time for business schools to respond to a changing world

    Strategies for Two-Sided Markets

    Many blockbuster products and services that have redefined the global business landscape are built around platforms that tie together two distinct groups of users in a network. Examples include credit cards that link consumers and merchants; operating systems that... View Details

    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Peronist Beliefs and Interventionist Policies

    By: Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra
    We study the logic of Peronist interventionist polices and the beliefs that support them. Instead of a comprehensive approach, we focus on three elements. First, we study beliefs and values about the economic system present in Peron's speeches during the period... View Details
    Keywords: History; Economic Systems; Values and Beliefs; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Argentina
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    • 26 Apr 2016
    • First Look

    April 26

    April 2016 Review of Economic Studies Landing the First Job: The Value of Intermediaries in Online Hiring By: Stanton, Christopher, and Catherine Thomas Abstract—Online markets for remote labor services allow workers and firms to contract with each other directly.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    The Business of K-12 Education in China

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Yuhai Wu
    This working paper examines the evolution of K-12 education in China, especially between 1985 and the present day, drawing extensive interviews with participants in the educational sector. China has been hugely successful in reaching almost 100 percent literacy,... View Details
    Keywords: K-12 Education; China; Real Estate; Early Childhood Education; Performance Evaluation; Teaching; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Personal Development and Career; Social Issues; Nonprofit Organizations; Private Sector; Education Industry; Real Estate Industry; China
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    • Web

    HBS - The year in Review

    of critical services to faculty, staff, and students including research and course support, information and data management services, and information products. They also manage contemporary and historical collections, the HBS Art Collection & Program, and a content... View Details
    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 7 The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 2: Technical and Strategic Bottlenecks as Guides for Action

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
    The purpose of this chapter is to present analytic tools based on functional maps that can be used to identify investment opportunities and to formulate strategy in large, evolving technical systems. I argue that the points of value creation and value capture in a... View Details
    Keywords: Bottlenecks; Information Technology; System; Investment; Opportunities; Strategy
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    • 03 Jan 2023
    • Book

    Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action

    we can together start dismantling these systemic inequities.” “I don't want to hear just a ‘pay equity plan,’” says Opie. “Who's responsible for providing data from each department? What's the budget? And what are the metrics to measure... View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
    • September 2001 (Revised October 2018)
    • Case

    DIENA

    By: Robert Simons and Indra Reinbergs
    Requires students to draw a new organization structure diagram for a rapidly evolving business. A/S DIENA is a newspaper publisher founded during Latvia's 1990/91 struggle for independence from the USSR with a clear social mission to support democracy. With the help of... View Details
    Keywords: Employee Ownership; Organizational Design; Marketing Strategy; Managerial Roles; Growth and Development; Economic Systems; Publishing Industry; Journalism and News Industry; Latvia
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    • Research Summary

    Optimal Contracting with Reciprocal Agents

    (with Florian Englmaier) (Job Market Paper)

     Abstract: Empirically, compensation systems often seem to generate substantial effort despite weak incentives. We consider reciprocal motivations as a source of incentives. We solve for the optimal... View Details

    • Research Summary

    Internet Auctions for Close Substitutes

    Economists agree that eBays auction design is sensible and potentially welfare-maximizing for the trade of collectibles, which are unique and idiosyncratic. For mainstream goods, which have close but imperfect substitutes (cars, cameras, computers, clothes), the... View Details

    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Tracking the Short-Run Price Impact of U.S. Tariffs

    By: Alberto Cavallo, Paola Llamas and Franco Vazquez
    This paper examines the short-run impact of the 2025 U.S. tariffs on consumer prices using a unique integration of high-frequency retail pricing data, product-level country-of-origin information, and detailed tariff classifications. By linking daily prices from major... View Details
    Keywords: Tariffs; Trade; Price; Inflation and Deflation
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    • June 2024
    • Supplement

    Zeswitz Music (B)

    By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
    Pre-Abstract: Instructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.
    Abstract: In July of 2013, Randy Shayler (HBS, 2012) acquired Zeswitz Music, a musical instrument rental company based in Reading,... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Customer Focus and Relationships; Business Strategy; Revenue; Marketing; Music Industry; Retail Industry
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    • May 2024 (Revised January 2025)
    • Technical Note

    Health Care Payment in the United States

    By: Robert S. Huckman, Jeff Charca and Craig Garthwaite
    This document provides an overview of how various actors (e.g., physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers) are paid in the United States health care system. It is particularly focused on features of the payment system that contribute to strategic decisions... View Details
    Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Health Industry
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    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 2 Transactions in a Task Network

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
    From the 1930s through today, many economists have conceived of large technical systems for the production of goods and services as a series of transactions. This point of view has led eminent economists to assert that transactions are the fundamental unit of analysis... View Details
    Keywords: Modularity; Information Technology; Organizations
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    Undermining Value-Based Purchasing — Lessons from the Pharmaceutical Industry

    By: Leemore S. Dafny, Christopher Ody and Matt Schmitt
    The analogy between value-based purchasing in pharmaceuticals and the new frontier of alternative payment models for health care providers is relatively straightforward. Insurers are increasingly demanding steep discounts from providers in exchange for inclusion in... View Details
    Keywords: Drug Copayment Coupons; Prescription Drug Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Cost; Policy; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • July 2014
    • Article

    Accounting for Crises

    By: Venky Nagar and Gwen Yu
    We provide among the first empirical evidence consistent with recent macro global-game crisis models, which show that the precision of public signals can coordinate crises (e.g., Angeletos and Werning, 2006; Morris and Shin, 2002, 2003). In these models,... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Mathematical Methods; Game Theory; Financial Markets; Forecasting and Prediction; Accounting; Financial Crisis
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    • Web

    Hidden Workers, Untapped Talent - Managing the Future of Work

    caregivers on the margins of the workforce and helps current employees succeed. Read the report Featured Articles Companies Need More Workers. Why Do They Reject Millions of Résumés? By: Kathryn Dill 4 SEP 2021 | The Wall Street Journal Automated-hiring View Details
    • 07 Mar 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

    badge of honor." Individual failures within a company can be an asset, too, in that they can prevent the whole system from failing—but only if the executives are willing to view failure as a potential for improvement. For instance,... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 25 Jan 2021
    • Book

    In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

    How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing