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- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
award prizes as part of the savings product's return. Rotating Savings and Credit Associations, known as ROSCAs, draw impetus from the spirit of communities and social networks. The varied solutions that... View Details
- 14 Sep 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises
An abstract is unavailable at this time. View Details
Keywords: by Robert Gibbons & Rebecca Henderson
- 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
- 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
- 07 Sep 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Diversification of Chinese Companies: An International Comparison
Innovations in Governance
In this paper we explore the innovations in governance that have promoted investment and growth. Some policymakers have tinkered with their country's institutions, some have undertaken wholesale changes, while others have attempted to influence the rules in other... View Details
The Psychosocial Value of Employment
In settings where employment opportunities are scarce, the inability to work may generate psychosocial harm. This paper presents a causal estimate of the psychosocial value of employment in the Rohingya refugee camps of Bangladesh. We engage 745 individuals in a field... View Details
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Courses - Private Capital Project
tasked with developing and outlining a comprehensive investment strategy. This process culminates in the production of a detailed paper and investment proposal, which are... View Details
- 2009
- Working Paper
Principles that Matter: Sustaining Software Innovation from the Client to the Web
By: Marco Iansiti
Economic analysis often reviews the role of principles—such as respect for intellectual property rights—in driving innovation. Given the interdependent nature of innovation in information technology, three core principles have emerged that work together to ensure that... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Technological Innovation; Intellectual Property; Partners and Partnerships; Competition; Information Technology; Internet and the Web
Iansiti, Marco. "Principles that Matter: Sustaining Software Innovation from the Client to the Web." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-142, June 2009.
- 24 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 24
an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers Authors:Shawn Cole, Martin Kanz, and Leora Klapper Abstract This paper uses a series of experiments with commercial bank loan officers to test the effect of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
Economics Prizes, Publicity, and Patents: Non-Monetary Awards as a Mechanism to Encourage Innovation By: Moser, Petra, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—This paper exploits the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Consumer Demand for Prize-Linked Savings: A Preliminary Analysis
- 23 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.
Consumer bankruptcies usually climb alongside unemployment rates as filers seek to discharge debt and get a fresh start, write the authors of the new working paper Bankruptcy View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 12 Jul 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Negotiation Processes As Sources of (And Solutions To) Interorganizational Conflict
- 2010
- Working Paper
Does Product Market Competition Lead Firms To Decentralize?
By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
There is a widespread sense that over the last two decades firms have been decentralizing decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy. Economists have developed a range of theories to account for delegation, but there is less empirical evidence,... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Employees; Managerial Roles; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Asia; Europe; North America
Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Does Product Market Competition Lead Firms To Decentralize?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-052, January 2010. (forthcoming in: American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings.)
- 2015
- Working Paper
Financial Patent Quality: Finance Patents After State Street
By: Josh Lerner, Andrew Speen, Mark Baker and Ann Leamon
In the past two decades, patents of inventions related to financial services ("finance patents"), as well as litigation around these patents, have surged. One of the repeated concerns voiced by academics and practitioners alike has been about the quality of these... View Details
Lerner, Josh, Andrew Speen, Mark Baker, and Ann Leamon. "Financial Patent Quality: Finance Patents After State Street." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-068, December 2015.
- 2022
- Working Paper
The Need for Speed: The Impact of Capital Constraints on Strategic Misconduct
By: F. Christopher Eaglin
Under what conditions do firms engage in strategic misconduct? Why do they undertake actions that increase profitability yet break laws or violate strong norms often with costly consequences for public welfare? The strategic management literature offers two external... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Misconduct; Capital Constraints; Organizations; Crime and Corruption; Behavior; Situation or Environment; Capital
Eaglin, F. Christopher. "The Need for Speed: The Impact of Capital Constraints on Strategic Misconduct." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-056, February 2022.
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
associate Arthur McCaffrey. It's also one they are passionate about and determined to solve. As they write in a new working paper that they're preparing for an academic journal, there are more than three... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
Canary Categories—Journal of Marketing Research
Typically, past spending in a category is a positive indicator of future purchasing. In this we show that there exist categories (which we name "canary categories") in which the reverse is true -
When customers purchase... View Details
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campus plan. Much of the interior of the U-shaped, brick, Georgian Revival-style structure was renovated in 2008 to upgrade safety systems, lighting, and finishes while meeting sustainability goals and... View Details