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  • 22 Jul 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Banks as Patient Fixed-Income Investors

Keywords: by Samuel G. Hanson, Andrei Shleifer, Jeremy C. Stein & Robert W. Vishny; Banking
  • 24 May 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Improving Store Liquidation

Keywords: by Nathan Craig & Ananth Raman; Retail
  • Web

Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship," "How Small Companies Should Deal with Advisers," and "Why Be Honest If Honesty Doesn't Pay" have appeared in Harvard Business Review. Other scholarly papers of his have appeared in Sloan... View Details
  • 2014
  • Article

Models of Caring, or Acting as if One Cared, About the Welfare of Others

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
This paper surveys the theoretical literature in which people are modeled as taking other people's payoffs into account either because this affects their utility directly or because they wish to impress others with their social-mindedness. Key experimental results that... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Studying the U.S.-Based Portfolio Companies of U.S. Impact Investors

By: M. Diane Burton, Gurveen Chadha, Shawn A. Cole, Abhishek Dev, Christina Jarymowycz, Leslie Jeng, Laura Kelley, Josh Lerner, Jaime R. Diaz Palacios, Yue (Cynthia) Xu and T. Robert Zochowski
Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the reliance on market-based solutions to social and environmental problems around the world (Barman 2016; Horvath and Powell 2020). The growth of impact investing is a vivid example of this trend and, although there have... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Impact Portfolio Companies; Investment; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Investment Portfolio; Business Ventures; Analytics and Data Science; Performance; United States
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

C. Edmondson : Awarded the 2024 Medal for Distinguished Service by the Teachers College at Columbia University. Kris Johnson Ferreira : "Warnings and Endorsements: Improving Human-AI Collaboration Under Covariate Shift" with Matthew... View Details
  • 30 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?

you they would pay more than they’re actually willing to pay. They say they would choose something that they don’t actually choose in practice,” says James Brand, an economist for Microsoft, who cowrote the working paper with Israeli... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • Web

About - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

stability? Working Papers BFFS releases regular working papers from its members. Data One of the primary outputs of the BFFS project is our ongoing real-time database of financial stability View Details
  • 07 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?

inventory management), production, and logistics. Many of these [academic] papers pursue an optimizing approach given the assumption of a completely rational decision maker. In a supply chain, however, these... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
  • Web

Women at HBS - Alumni

annual Women's Student Association Dynamic Women in Business Conference in February 2013 drew a sold-out audience for keynote speakers and panel discussions. HBS faculty and academic researchers from other... View Details
  • 02 Apr 2020
  • What Do You Think?

What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?

the expense of others.” Philippe Gouamba predicted that, “The leaders and organizations that do the right things by their employees will rise to the top.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb himself is reported by Mac to have tweeted a lesson right out... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 20 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms

real. “We hope our paper is an important first step in raising awareness that diversity of political perspectives in the boardroom is important,” she says. Second, companies looking to reduce ideological homogeneity might consider... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 01 May 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault

out that the sales and marketing folks were overtaxed, while the demands were too soft on software engineers. “The tool gave us insight for each job on how to improve it,” he says. Why that job is so hard Prior to developing the online... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Feb 2018
  • News

Economists cannot avoid making value judgments

    John A. Kimberly

    Kimberly built one of the largest manufacturers of pulp and paper products in the world. His company introduced two big sellers, which are widely sold today – a sanitary napkin... View Details
    Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry
    • 18 Aug 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: August 18

    Authors:Mihir Desai and Li Jin Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper employs heterogeneity in institutional shareholder tax characteristics to identify the relation... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 10 Jan 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Novelty Paradox & Bias for Normal Science: Evidence from Randomized Medical Grant Proposal Evaluations

    Keywords: by Kevin J. Boudreau, Eva C. Guinan, Karim R. Lakhani & Christoph Riedl; Health
    • 13 Sep 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

    million—more value to companies than patented inventions developed without citing scientific research, says a paper co-authored by Harvard Business School professor Joshua Lev Krieger, University of Munster professor Martin Watzinger,... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Public Sector SME Grading System in Emerging Markets: A Focus on Nigeria

    By: Saveshen Pillay, Anywhere Sikochi, Charles Odii, Zaakirah Ismail, Regina Bamaiyi and Denise Mubaiwa
    In this paper, we explore the impact of creating a public sector nano, micro, small and medium enterprise (nMSME) grading system in Nigeria. Using insights from work with the Nigerian government, the first country in Africa to attempt to establish a public sector SME... View Details
    Keywords: Small Business; Economic Growth; Emerging Markets; Economic Sectors; Africa; Nigeria
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    • 05 Jul 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: July 5

      Working PapersTo Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep Discounts Authors:Benjamin Edelman, Sonia Jaffe, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract We examine the profitability and implications of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne