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  • April 2014 (Revised February 2015)
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Saudi Arabia: Finding Stability after the Arab Spring

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Hilary White
In 2015, King Salman of Saudi Arabia was juggling several balls as the kingdom's new monarch. At home, there were pressures for liberalization, from women and youth, and pressures for more conservative religious observance and policy from the Muslim "ulema." His... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Policy; Balance and Stability; Change; Saudi Arabia
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Vietor, Richard H.K., and Hilary White. "Saudi Arabia: Finding Stability after the Arab Spring." Harvard Business School Case 714-053, April 2014. (Revised February 2015.)
  • December 2012
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Inducement Prizes and Innovation

By: Liam Brunt, Josh Lerner and Tom Nicholas
We examine the effect of prizes on innovation using data on awards for technological development offered by the Royal Agricultural Society of England at annual competitions between 1839 and 1939. We find that the effects of prizes on competitive entry are large, and we... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Patents; Innovation and Invention; Information Technology; Growth and Development; England
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Brunt, Liam, Josh Lerner, and Tom Nicholas. "Inducement Prizes and Innovation." Journal of Industrial Economics 60, no. 4 (December 2012): 657–696.
  • June 2011
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Fighting a Dangerous Financial Fire: The Federal Response to the Crisis of 2007-2009

By: David Moss and Cole Bolton
By the summer of 2009, many observers concluded that a catastrophic financial collapse- which seemed all but imminent the previous fall and winter - had been averted. Although the recession had still yet to be declared over and the economy's footing remained far from... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Financial Crisis; Financial Institutions; Financial Markets; Financial Strategy; Policy; Knowledge Acquisition
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Moss, David, and Cole Bolton. "Fighting a Dangerous Financial Fire: The Federal Response to the Crisis of 2007-2009." Harvard Business School Case 711-104, June 2011.
  • April 2008 (Revised July 2011)
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Strategic Decline

By: David J. Collis and Jan W. Rivkin
This note first documents the facts around the sustainability of competitive advantage. It then observes that the demise of a previously successful strategy, in the first instance, often comes from some change in the external environment. It, therefore, characterizes... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Strategy; Situation or Environment; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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Collis, David J., and Jan W. Rivkin. "Strategic Decline." Harvard Business School Background Note 708-497, April 2008. (Revised July 2011.)
  • July 2008
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Harnessing Our Inner Angels and Demons: What We Have Learned About Want/Should Conflicts and How That Knowledge Can Help Us Reduce Short-Sighted Decision Making

By: Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers and Max Bazerman
Although observers of human behavior have long been aware that people regularly struggle with internal conflict when deciding whether to behave responsibly or indulge in impulsivity, psychologists and economists did not begin to empirically investigate this type of... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Ethics; Policy; Behavior; Conflict and Resolution
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Milkman, Katherine L., Todd Rogers, and Max Bazerman. "Harnessing Our Inner Angels and Demons: What We Have Learned About Want/Should Conflicts and How That Knowledge Can Help Us Reduce Short-Sighted Decision Making." Perspectives on Psychological Science 3, no. 4 (July 2008).
  • 2007
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Harnessing Our Inner Angels and Demons: What We Have Learned About Want/Should Conflicts and How That Knowledge Can Help Us Reduce Short-Sighted Decision Making

By: Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers and Max H. Bazerman
Although observers of human behavior have long been aware that people regularly struggle with internal conflict when deciding whether to behave responsibly or indulge in impulsivity, psychologists and economists did not begin to empirically investigate this type of... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Ethics; Policy; Behavior; Conflict and Resolution
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Milkman, Katherine L., Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman. "Harnessing Our Inner Angels and Demons: What We Have Learned About Want/Should Conflicts and How That Knowledge Can Help Us Reduce Short-Sighted Decision Making." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-020, September 2007.
  • 2022
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Which Corporate ESG News Does the Market React To?

By: George Serafeim and Aaron Yoon
Using a dataset that classifies firm-level ESG news as positive and negative, we examine how stock prices react to different types of ESG news. We analyze 111,020 firm-day observations for 3,126 companies and find that prices react only to issues identified as... View Details
Keywords: ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Ratings; Social Capital; Environment; Sustainability; CSR; Stock Price; Stock Market Expectations; Materiality; Market Reaction; Environmental Sustainability; Governance; Social Issues; Performance; News
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Serafeim, George, and Aaron Yoon. "Which Corporate ESG News Does the Market React To?" Financial Analysts Journal 78, no. 1 (2022): 59–78.

    Learning to Successfully Hire in Online Labor Markets

    Hiring in online labor markets involves considerable uncertainty: which hiring choices are more likely to yield successful outcomes and how do employers adjust their hiring behaviors to make such choices? We argue that employers will initially explore the value... View Details
    • January 2010
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    The Role of Experience in the Gambler's Fallacy

    By: Greg Barron and Stephen Leider
    Recent papers have demonstrated that the way people acquire information about a decision problem, by experience or by abstract description, can affect their behavior. We examined the role of experience over time in the emergence of the Gambler's Fallacy in binary... View Details
    Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Decision Making; Forecasting and Prediction; Knowledge Acquisition; Outcome or Result; Game Theory; Prejudice and Bias
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    Barron, Greg, and Stephen Leider. "The Role of Experience in the Gambler's Fallacy." Special Issue on Decisions from Experience. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 23, no. 1 (January 2010).
    • September 2020 (Revised May 2024)
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    Hot Wheels: Launching The Mixed Play Experience

    By: Elie Ofek, Andres Terech and Nicole Tempest Keller
    Chris Down, Global Brand General Manager for Hot Wheels, and his team from the Advanced Play Group within Mattel, Inc., had developed an entirely new “mixed play” product experience that blended familiar Hot Wheels play in the physical world with breakthrough play in... View Details
    Keywords: Toys; Go-to-market Strategy; Product Development; Technological Innovation; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Decision Making; Marketing; Strategy; Los Angeles
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    Ofek, Elie, Andres Terech, and Nicole Tempest Keller. "Hot Wheels: Launching The Mixed Play Experience." Harvard Business School Case 521-017, September 2020. (Revised May 2024.)
    • March 2016 (Revised January 2023)
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    Carla Ann Harris at Morgan Stanley

    By: Lakshmi Ramarajan
    This case follows Carla Ann Harris, an African-American executive on Wall Street, from her childhood to the eve of her 20th year at Morgan Stanley. In addition to her professional identity as an investment banker, Harris is also an accomplished gospel singer, an... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Identity; Personal Development and Career; Success; Values and Beliefs; Social Entrepreneurship; Financial Services Industry
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    Ramarajan, Lakshmi. "Carla Ann Harris at Morgan Stanley." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 416-040, March 2016. (Revised January 2023.)
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    Corporate Culture and Analyst Catering

    By: Joseph Pacelli
    This study examines the relation between financial institutions’ corporate culture and the quality of analysts’ research services. Using data collected from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, I measure the weakness of financial institutions’ corporate culture... View Details
    Keywords: Analysts; Corporate Culture; Global Settlement; Financial Institutions; Organizational Culture; Conflict of Interests; Performance; Quality
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    Pacelli, Joseph. "Corporate Culture and Analyst Catering." Journal of Accounting & Economics 67, no. 1 (February 2019): 120–143.
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    Beyond Statistics: The Economic Content of Risk Scores

    By: Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, Raymond Kluender and Paul Schrimpf
    "Big data" and statistical techniques to score potential transactions have transformed insurance and credit markets. In this paper, we observe that these widely-used statistical scores summarize a much richer heterogeneity, and may be endogenous to the context in which... View Details
    Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Risk and Uncertainty; Insurance Industry
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    Einav, Liran, Amy Finkelstein, Raymond Kluender, and Paul Schrimpf. "Beyond Statistics: The Economic Content of Risk Scores." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 8, no. 2 (April 2016): 195–224.
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    Earnings Dynamics and Measurement Error in Matched Survey and Administrative Data

    By: Dean Hyslop and Wilbur Townsend
    This article analyzes earnings dynamics and measurement error using a matched longitudinal sample of individuals’ survey and administrative earnings. In line with previous literature, the reported differences are characterized by both persistent and transitory factors.... View Details
    Keywords: Earnings Dynamics; Measurement Error; Panel Data; Validation Study; Business Earnings; Measurement and Metrics; Forecasting and Prediction
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    Hyslop, Dean, and Wilbur Townsend. "Earnings Dynamics and Measurement Error in Matched Survey and Administrative Data." Journal of Business & Economic Statistics 38, no. 2 (2020).
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    The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions

    By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian and Katherine L. Milkman
    Using a field experiment in a 401(k) plan, we measure the effect of disseminating information about peer behavior on savings. Low-saving employees received simplified plan enrollment or contribution increase forms. A randomized subset of forms stated the fraction of... View Details
    Keywords: Saving; Decision Choices and Conditions; Retirement
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    Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Katherine L. Milkman. "The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions." Journal of Finance 70, no. 3 (June 2015): 1161–1201.
    • October 2021
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    Overcoming the Cold Start Problem of CRM Using a Probabilistic Machine Learning Approach

    By: Nicolas Padilla and Eva Ascarza
    The success of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) programs ultimately depends on the firm's ability to understand consumers' preferences and precisely capture how these preferences may differ across customers. Only by understanding customer heterogeneity, firms can... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Management; Targeting; Deep Exponential Families; Probabilistic Machine Learning; Cold Start Problem; Customer Relationship Management; Programs; Consumer Behavior; Analysis
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    Padilla, Nicolas, and Eva Ascarza. "Overcoming the Cold Start Problem of CRM Using a Probabilistic Machine Learning Approach." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 58, no. 5 (October 2021): 981–1006.
    • September 2017 (Revised December 2017)
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    Hulu: Redefining the Way People Experience TV

    By: Henry W. McGee and Christine Snively
    In May 2017, Hulu CEO Mike Hopkins announced the launch of Hulu Live TV, a new offering that would "change the way people experience TV." The new service would allow consumers to bypass traditional cable and satellite delivery and use the Internet to access live... View Details
    Keywords: Television Industry; Internet; Television Entertainment; Internet and the Web; Disruptive Innovation; Competitive Strategy; Price; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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    McGee, Henry W., and Christine Snively. "Hulu: Redefining the Way People Experience TV." Harvard Business School Case 318-002, September 2017. (Revised December 2017.)
    • April 2020
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    Designs for Estimating the Treatment Effect in Networks with Interference

    By: Ravi Jagadeesan, Natesh S. Pillai and Alexander Volfovsky
    In this paper, we introduce new, easily implementable designs for drawing causal inference from randomized experiments on networks with interference. Inspired by the idea of matching in observational studies, we introduce the notion of considering a treatment... View Details
    Keywords: Experimental Design; Network Inference; Neyman Estimator; Symmetric Interference Model; Homophily
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    Jagadeesan, Ravi, Natesh S. Pillai, and Alexander Volfovsky. "Designs for Estimating the Treatment Effect in Networks with Interference." Annals of Statistics 48, no. 2 (April 2020): 679–712.
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    Pre-colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development

    By: Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou
    We investigate the role of deeply rooted pre-colonial ethnic institutions in shaping comparative regional development within African countries. We combine information on the spatial distribution of ethnicities before colonization with regional variation in contemporary... View Details
    Keywords: Ethnicity; Development Economics; Local Range; Government and Politics; Africa
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    Michalopoulos, Stelios, and Elias Papaioannou. "Pre-colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development." Econometrica 81, no. 1 (January 2013): 113–152.
    • 2008
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    Welfare Payments and Crime

    By: C. Fritz Foley
    This paper tests the hypothesis that the timing of welfare payments affects criminal activity. Analysis of daily reported incidents of major crimes in twelve U.S. cities reveals an increase in crime over the course of monthly welfare payment cycles. This increase... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Motivation and Incentives; Welfare; United States
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    Foley, C. Fritz. "Welfare Payments and Crime." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 14074, June 2008.
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