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    William A. Sahlman

    William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

    Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business... View Details

    Keywords: airline; beverage; biotechnology; broadcasting; clothing; communications; computer; consumer products; e-commerce industry; education industry; electronics; energy; entertainment; fiber optics; financial services; food processing; furniture; grocery; health care; high technology; hotels ＆ motels; information; information technology industry; internet; investment banking industry; management consulting; manufacturing; marketing industry; medical supplies; motorcycles; nonprofit industry; pharmaceuticals; professional services; publishing industry; real estate; recreation; restaurant; retailing; semiconductor; service industry; soft drink; software; telecommunications; toy; transportation; travel; venture capital industry; video games
    • 2022
    • White Paper

    The American Opportunity Index: A Corporate Scorecard of Worker Advancement

    By: Matt Sigelman, Joseph Fuller, Nik Dawson and Gad Levanon
    The American Opportunity Index: A Corporate Scorecard of Worker Advancement is a new effort to give companies and other stakeholders a set of robust tools that measure how well major employers are doing in fostering economic mobility for workers and how they could do... View Details
    Keywords: Upward Mobility; Career Advancement; Personal Development and Career; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Wages; Human Capital; Recruitment
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      Elie Ofek

      Elie Ofek is a Professor in the Marketing unit at the Harvard Business School. Professor Ofek's research focuses on new product strategies in technology-driven business environments as well as in consumer-oriented companies in general. He explores interactions... View Details

      Keywords: internet; media; high technology; consumer products
      • August 5, 2016
      • Article

      A Definitive Guide to the Brexit Negotiations

      By: Deepak Malhotra
      In this article I offer an analysis of the negotiation landscape facing UK and EU negotiators, along with advice on how they might navigate the "Brexit" process more effectively. For the record, I have not (at the time of this writing) been asked by either side to... View Details
      Keywords: Negotiation; Economics; United Kingdom; European Union
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      • 2017
      • Working Paper

      Tort Reform and Innovation

      By: Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo
      Current academic and policy debates focus on the impact of tort reforms on physicians’ behavior and medical costs. This paper examines whether these reforms also affect incentives to develop new technologies. We develop a theoretical model which predicts that the... View Details
      Keywords: Lawsuits and Litigation; Laws and Statutes; Innovation and Invention; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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      Spatial Agglomeration and Superstar Firms

      By: Laura Alfaro
      We characterize the agglomeration patterns of industries and plants in Europe, distinguishing Eurozone countries and the United States. Using a micro-level index, we quantify the degree of geographic concentration in industrial activities and explore how firm... View Details
      • 2023
      • Working Paper

      No Mask, No Service: Customer Reaction to Walmart’s 2020 National Mask Mandate

      By: Innessa Colaiacovo
      Multi-location firms face a complex series of economic tradeoffs when deciding whether to implement standard processes or allow processes to vary across establishments. One element of this tradeoff is customer response. This paper explores customer reaction to a... View Details
      Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Geographic Location; Policy; Health Pandemics; Retail Industry; United States
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      • 2023
      • Article

      Exploiting Discovered Regression Discontinuities to Debias Conditioned-on-observable Estimators

      By: Benjamin Jakubowski, Siram Somanchi, Edward McFowland III and Daniel B. Neill
      Regression discontinuity (RD) designs are widely used to estimate causal effects in the absence of a randomized experiment. However, standard approaches to RD analysis face two significant limitations. First, they require a priori knowledge of discontinuities in... View Details
      Keywords: Regression Discontinuity Design; Analytics and Data Science; AI and Machine Learning
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      • April 2009 (Revised May 2010)
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      Partners In Health: HIV Care in Rwanda

      By: Michael E. Porter, Scott S. Lee, Joseph Rhatigan and Jim Yong Kim
      In 2005, Partners in Health (PIH) was invited by the Rwandan Ministry of Health to assume responsibility for the management of public health care in two rural districts in Eastern Rwanda and create an HIV treatment program at these sites. PIH successfully implemented a... View Details
      Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Medical Specialties; Service Delivery; Nonprofit Organizations; Expansion; Health Industry; Rwanda
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      Financial Incentives

      My research examines how the performance effects of internal governance and the design of compensation vary by managerial position. For example, I document links between innovation and stock options for corporate R&D heads;... View Details

        Roy D. Shapiro

        Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

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        Managing International Trade and Investment

        By: Dante Roscini
        Managing International Trade and Investment (MITI) is designed for students who expect to engage directly or indirectly in commerce and in strategic or financial investments across national borders. It covers concepts that are relevant to a number of operating and... View Details
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        The Five Forces - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

        Five Forces Threat of Substitute Products or Services Bargaining Power of Suppliers Bargaining Power of Buyers Threat of New Entrants Rivalry Among Existing Competitors The Five Forces is a framework for understanding the competitive forces at work in an industry, and... View Details

          Janice H. Hammond

          Janice H. Hammond is the Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing. She currently serves as coursehead for the new MBA required course, Data Science for Managers. She serves as program chair for the HBS Executive Education International Women’s Foundation and Women’s... View Details

          Keywords: apparel; distribution; e-commerce industry; manufacturing; retailing; textiles; transportation
          • 26 Mar 2009
          • Working Paper Summaries

          The Bloody Millennium: Internal Conflict in South Asia

          Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer
          • July 2010
          • Other Article

          Clusters and Entrepreneurship

          By: Mercedes Delgado, Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern
          This article examines the role of regional clusters in regional entrepreneurship. We focus on the distinct influences of convergence and agglomeration on growth in the number of start-up firms as well as in employment in these new firms in a given region-industry.... View Details
          Keywords: Economics
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          By: Marlous van Waijenburg

          Professor van Waijenburg’s research focuses on the historical roots of relative African poverty and state fragility. Where sufficiently reliable and comparable records exist, she creates new datasets from a range of qualitative and quantitative archival sources. The... View Details

          • 11 Sep 2009
          • Working Paper Summaries

          Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship

          Keywords: by William R. Kerr & Ramana Nanda
          • 2021
          • Article

          Everyday Illiberalism: How Hungarian Subnational Politics Propel Single-Party Dominance

          By: Laura Jakli and Matthew Stenberg
          While numerous studies consider the roles that media consolidation, court-packing, and economic crises have played in Hungary's democratic decline since 2010, none have considered the subnational mechanisms driving illiberalism. This study examines the types of... View Details
          Keywords: Democracy; Government and Politics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Hungary
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          Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization

          By: Shoshana Zuboff
          This article describes an emergent logic of accumulation in the networked sphere, 'surveillance capitalism,' and considers its implications for 'information civilization.' The institutionalizing practices and operational assumptions of Google Inc. are the... View Details
          Keywords: Surveillance Capitalism; Big Data; Google; Information Society; Privacy; Internet Of Everything; Rights; Economic Systems; Analytics and Data Science; Internet and the Web; Ethics
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