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  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract Governments are known for procrastinating when it comes to resolving painful policy problems. Whatever the political motives for waiting to decide, procrastination distorts... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Oct 2018
  • Working Paper Summaries

Shipping Fees and Product Assortment in Online Retail

Keywords: by Chaoqun Chen and Donald Ngwe; Retail
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Publications - Faculty & Research

settings where output quantities and input prices are unobservable, and we use it to evaluate allocative efficiency in the market for science. Our model of researchers’ labor supply shows that their... View Details Citation Read Now... View Details
  • September 1976 (Revised March 1981)
  • Case

Minolta Camera Co. Ltd.

Management of one of the leading Japanese camera manufacturers is faced with the problem of unauthorized shipments from the low-price markets of Hong Kong and Japan to high-price markets of Europe and North America. Control of distribution, change of prices, model... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Distribution; Price; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Japan
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  • 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

2018 Innovation Policy and the Economy The Orphan Drug Act at 35: Observations and an Outlook for the Twenty-First Century By: Bagley, Nicholas, Benjamin Berger, Amitabh Chandra, Craig Garthwaite, and Ariel Dora Stern Abstract—On the 35th... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • September 1997 (Revised November 1997)
  • Case

Siam Cement Group,The: Corporate Philosophy (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Prompilai Khunaphante
In the face of Thailand's 1990 cement shortage, managers at Siam Cement Co., Thailand's largest cement provider, must decide how to allocate available supply and whether to attempt to uphold government-controlled prices among the company's agents. At issue is the... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Resource Allocation; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Policy; Construction Industry; Thailand
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Overview

By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details

  • 03 Dec 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?

for another ... we have no choice but to let things be as they will, no matter how ludicrous and painful, until the understanding becomes knowledge." Tom Dolembo put it this way: "Nudge this back? Never ... As dumb as we are, we the people have learned that... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • February 2015 (Revised December 2016)
  • Case

Poseidon Carlsbad: Desalination and the San Diego County Water Authority

By: John Macomber
Extreme drought conditions in California have significant impacts on the ability of the San Diego County Water Authority to provide adequate water for current users. Water shortfalls also could curtail the economic development of one of the fastest growing regions in... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Partners and Partnerships; Resource Allocation; Public Sector; Private Sector; Environmental Sustainability; Policy; Infrastructure; Green Technology Industry; Utilities Industry; California
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    American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition,' 1890-1940

    American Fair Trade explores the contested political and legal meanings of the term fair trade from the late nineteenth century through the New Deal era. This history of American capitalism argues that business associations partnered with... View Details

    • 2006
    • Working Paper

    The Value of a 'Free' Customer

    By: Sunil Gupta, Carl F. Mela and Jose M. Vidal-Sanz

    Central to a firm's growth and marketing policy is the revenus and profit potential of its customer assets. As a result, there has been a recent proliferation of work regarding customer lifetime value. However, extant research in this area is silent regarding how to... View Details

    Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Auctions; Network Effects; Business Strategy
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    • 14 Oct 2014
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    First Look: October 14

    behave like money. We first present a simple model where households demand money services, which are supplied by three types of claims: deposits, Treasury bills, and asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP). The model provides predictions for the View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2016
    • Chapter

    Trade Associations, State Building, and the Sherman Act: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1912–25

    By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
    From its founding in 1912 through the interwar years, the Chamber’s history shows a persistent preoccupation with progressive economics and policy making. Rather than flouting the new ideas of institutional economics, which favored federal regulators overseeing data... View Details
    Keywords: Competition; Fairness; Supply and Industry; Policy; Business and Government Relations; United States
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    Faculty & Advisors | MBA

    Faculty & Advisors MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Faculty Amitabh Chandra, Ph.D. Henry and Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration at HBS, Ethel Zimmerman Winer Professor of Public Policy and Director of Health View Details
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    Business Economics - Doctoral

    and Tarek Hassan Jeffrey Yang, 2025 University of California, Santa Barbara, Economics Department Advisors: Benjamin Enke (Chair), Tomasz Strzalecki , Joshua R. Schwartzstein , Matthew Rabin , and Joshua R. Schwartzstein Jiafeng (Kevin) Chen, 2024 Stanford Institute... View Details
    • 13 Sep 2013
    • HBS Seminar

    Nirupama Rao, NYC Wagner School of Public Service

    • 13 Sep 2013
    • HBS Seminar

    Nirupama Rao, NYU Wagner School of Public Service

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    Placement - Doctoral

    Dissertation: Essays in Financial and Labor Markets Advisors: Gabriel Chodorow-Reich , Jeremy Stein , Samuel G. Hanson , and Adi Sunderam Jiafeng (Kevin) Chen Business Economics, 2024 Placement: Stanford Institute for Economic Policy... View Details
    • January 1998 (Revised June 1999)
    • Case

    German Hyperinflation of 1923, The

    By: David A. Moss and Julio J. Rotemberg
    Presents a compilation of primary and secondary sources as well as a set of data exhibits on the German hyperinflation of 1923. The hyperinflation represented a defining moment in German history and certainly one of the two or three most important economic events of... View Details
    Keywords: History; Price; Production; Money; Inflation and Deflation; Policy; Economy; Government and Politics; Germany
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    • 26 Jul 2011
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    First Look: July 26

      PublicationsPolicy Bundling to Overcome Loss Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Mary Carol Mazza, Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay, and Max H. Bazerman Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne