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  • 10 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook

with the control group answers generally falling in the middle. From a logical Internet privacy viewpoint, the results don't make sense. After all, an amateur website of unknown origins is likely far less... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Regulatory Incentives for Innovation: The FDA's Breakthrough Therapy Designation

By: Amitabh Chandra, Jennifer Kao, Kathleen L. Miller and Ariel Dora Stern
Regulators of new products confront a tradeoff between speeding a product to market and collecting additional product quality information. The FDA's Breakthrough Therapy Designation (BTD) provides an opportunity to understand if regulators can use new policy to... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Administration; Research and Development; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 11 Jan 2000
  • Lessons from the Classroom

New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World

rethink their business models and radically transform their organizational capabilities. The implications for organizations and management are profound. Let's take one example. At the heart of most modern corporations are information,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 15 Nov 2024
  • News

Driving Change

vision for what you want for humanity. Are we up to the task? I say a resounding, unqualified, categorical yes.” Drawing alumni from 30 countries and spanning six decades of experience, the two-day summit... View Details
  • 15 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

Implications for Non-communicable Disease Control Strategies By: Balsari, S., P. Vemulapalli, M. Gofine, K. Oswal, R. Merchant, S. Saunik, G. Greenough, and T. Khanna Abstract—Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 10

without controversy, to be a tool for empowering women. Here, using a randomized controlled trial, we examine whether access to and marketing of an individually held commitment savings product lead to an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2022
  • Case

The Battle Among Channels for Marketing Pharmaceuticals: UpScript, Pharmacy Benefit Managers, and Direct-to-Consumer Sales

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Tiffany Farrell
Can an online, direct-to-consumer pharmacy both improve the quality and speed of care for patients who need branded drugs and stabilize profits for pharmaceutical manufacturers? UpScript, after years spent achieving legal and regulatory compliance and simultaneous... View Details
Keywords: DTC; Internet and the Web; Marketing Channels; Customer Value and Value Chain; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competitive Strategy; Service Delivery; Growth and Development Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; Retail Industry
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  • September 2010 (Revised January 2012)
  • Case

BP's Macondo: Spill and Response

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
This case starts by reporting various factors that may have contributed to the massive Macondo oil spill, noting that BP, its partners and the government all made decisions that helped cause the accident. It then discusses the response to this spill by BP and the... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Metals and Minerals; Crisis Management; Infrastructure; Trade; Pollutants; Risk and Uncertainty; Business and Government Relations; Finance; Multinational Firms and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Technology Adoption; Energy Industry; Mining Industry; United Kingdom; United States
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  • Profile

Ruzwana Bashir

add an extra dimension of stress and a need for extraordinary levels of persistence. However it is pretty amazing to create something from scratch and control your own destiny,... View Details
  • 13 Jan 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

Forward Guidance in the Yield Curve: Short Rates versus Bond Supply

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood, Samuel G. Hanson, and Dimitri Vayanos; Financial Services
  • 23 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

welfare. Yet, our understanding of this decision is limited. Using an instrumental variables strategy and dataset new to this literature, we provide the first precise, causal estimates of the effects View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jul 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?

long-term effect because they are so complex, a manager's information so incomplete, the competitive environment so complicated, analytic techniques so inadequate, and the number of things over which a manager has View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 12 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 12, 2008

Working Papers Direct versus Indirect Colonial Rule in India: Long-term Consequences (revised) Author: Lakshmi Iyer Abstract This paper compares economic outcomes across areas in India which were under direct British colonial rule with areas which were under indirect... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 25

Brigham and Women's Physician's Organization (BWPO) and its corporate parent disagree over who has jurisdiction over significant legacy funds. Are they controlled by the BWPO or do they belong to BWPO's corporate parent? The BWPO and its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 11

company's desire to preserve its partner's control over decision rights. Why did Hong Kong deny Alibaba's requests to list dual-class shares or to allow its partners to nominate a majority of the board View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

generate a control group of non-herbal patents that have similar medicinal purposes as our herbal patents through textual matching. Using this framework, we estimate a triple differences equation and find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2025 (Revised June 2025)
  • Background Note

Social Enterprise in Latin America

By: Brian L. Trelstad and Karina Souza
This research note provides an overview of the social enterprise ecosystem in Latin America, exploring current dynamics across key markets, including country-specific insights on Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, and Central America. In a region characterized... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Entrepreneurship; Emerging Markets; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Ownership; Social Enterprise; Business Strategy; Equality and Inequality; Microfinance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Information Technology Industry; Latin America; Brazil; Mexico; Argentina; Colombia; Chile; Guatemala; Central America; Peru; Uruguay
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  • 26 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

controlling for financial performance. The likelihood of demotion in this organization is also sensitive to nonfinancial performance on the dimension of service quality, while... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Sep 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?

peterhowell Summing Up: Is the Current US Economic Expansion Primarily in the Hands of the Fed? New applications of technology and the expansion of the service economy may... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Service
  • 17 Aug 2021
  • Blog Post

Applying the MBA Skillset to Global Health Challenges: Summer Fellow Vasilis Theodorou (MBA 2022)

management diagnostic, an assessment tool designed to help national malaria control programs and ministries of health assess their managerial challenges in a more systematic way. I am also supporting the... View Details