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Recent Strategies in the U.S. Grocery Industry

By: Rajiv Lal
Rajiv Lal's work comparing the benefits of EDLP and Hi-Lo strategies in the grocery industry indicates that while EDLP grocery retailers may not be able to benefit from traditional costs savings associated with this strategy, these retailers still benefit from the use... View Details
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The Institutional Sources of Economic Transformation: Explaining Variation in Energy Transitions

By: Jared Finnegan, Phillip Lipscy, Jonas Meckling and Florence Metz
Why are some governments more effective in promoting economic change than others? We develop a theory of the institutional sources of economic transformation. Institutions can facilitate transformation through two central mechanisms: insulation and compensation.... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Business and Government Relations; Supply and Industry; Demand and Consumers; Transformation; Economic Systems; Climate Change
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Finnegan, Jared, Phillip Lipscy, Jonas Meckling, and Florence Metz. "The Institutional Sources of Economic Transformation: Explaining Variation in Energy Transitions." Journal of Politics (forthcoming).
  • 2022
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Banking on Transparency for the Poor: Experimental Evidence from India

By: Erica M. Field, Natalia Rigol, Charity M. Troyer Moore, Rohini Pande and Simone G. Schaner
Do information frictions limit the benefits of financial inclusion drives for the rural poor? We evaluate an experimental intervention among recently banked poor Indian women receiving government cash transfers via direct deposit. Treated women were provided automated... View Details
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Field, Erica M., Natalia Rigol, Charity M. Troyer Moore, Rohini Pande, and Simone G. Schaner. "Banking on Transparency for the Poor: Experimental Evidence from India." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 30289, July 2022.
  • April 2011
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Institutional Tax Clienteles and Payout Policy

By: Mihir Desai and Li Jin
This paper employs heterogeneity in institutional shareholder tax characteristics to identify the relation between firm payout policy and tax incentives. Analysis of a panel of firms matched with the tax characteristics of the clients of their institutional... View Details
Keywords: Institutional Investors; Clienteles; Payout Policy; Private Equity; Investment; Taxation; Ownership Stake; Business and Shareholder Relations
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Desai, Mihir, and Li Jin. "Institutional Tax Clienteles and Payout Policy." Journal of Financial Economics 100, no. 1 (April 2011): 68–84.
  • 25 Jul 2019
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Advancing a More Sustainable World with an MBA/MPA-ID

economics at Cornell. My undergraduate experience quickly brought home the fact that when it comes to grassroots impact, it is imperative to use what motivates people to drive change in behavior. For example, shaping an effective... View Details
  • 13 Apr 2011
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The ‘IKEA Effect’: When Labor Leads to Love

Keywords: by Michael I. Norton, Daniel Mochon & Dan Ariely; Consumer Products
  • 18 Mar 2001
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The Essentials for Enlightened Experimentation

experiments are most effective when time matters most, cost is not an overriding factor, and developers expect to learn little that would guide them in planning the next round of experiments. Fail Early And... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke
  • 20 Nov 2012
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Pay Harmony: Peer Comparison and Executive Compensation

Keywords: by Claudine Gartenberg & Julie Wulf

    Michael E. Porter

    Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; internet; nonprofit industry; service industry; state government
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    Consumer Decision Making and Behavioral Research

    By: John T. Gourville

    John Gourville’s research focuses on consumer behavior, especially in the areas of pricing and consumer decision making. In the area of pricing, for instance, he has looked at the role of time on how consumers interpret and react to product costs and prices.... View Details

    • 16 Oct 2010
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    A Comparative-Advantage Approach to Government Debt Maturity

    Keywords: by Robin Greenwood, Samuel G. Hanson & Jeremy C. Stein
    • March 2018
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    Polluted Morality: Air Pollution Predicts Criminal Activity and Unethical Behavior

    By: Jackson G. Lu, Julia J. Lee, F. Gino and Adam D. Galinsky
    Air pollution is a serious problem that influences billions of people globally. Although the health and environmental costs of air pollution are well known, the present research investigates its ethical costs. We propose that air pollution can increase criminal and... View Details
    Keywords: Pollutants; Behavior; Moral Sensibility; Crime and Corruption
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    Lu, Jackson G., Julia J. Lee, F. Gino, and Adam D. Galinsky. "Polluted Morality: Air Pollution Predicts Criminal Activity and Unethical Behavior." Psychological Science 29, no. 3 (March 2018): 340–355.
    • November 2000 (Revised December 2000)
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    Online Content Providers

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Alastair Brown
    Describes the business model for online content providers, companies that distribute copyright content via the Internet. Focuses on their revenue and cost drivers and on the ways that online content providers create value for consumers. Also investigates the benefits... View Details
    Keywords: Internet and the Web; Customers; Value Creation; Business Model; Internet and the Web; Cash Flow; Risk and Uncertainty; Growth and Development Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Decision Making; Profit; Information Industry
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    Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Alastair Brown. "Online Content Providers." Harvard Business School Background Note 801-261, November 2000. (Revised December 2000.)
    • January–February 2019
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    Why Some Platforms Thrive and Others Don't

    By: Feng Zhu and Marco Iansiti
    In the digital economy, scale is no guarantee of continued success. After all, the same factors that help an online platform expand quickly—such as the low cost of adding new customers—work for challengers too. What, then, allows platforms to fight off rivals and grow... View Details
    Keywords: Digital Platforms; Competition; Network Effects; Competitive Strategy
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    Zhu, Feng, and Marco Iansiti. "Why Some Platforms Thrive and Others Don't." Harvard Business Review 97, no. 1 (January–February 2019): 118–125.
    • 12 Feb 2009
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    Platform Competition, Compatibility, and Social Efficiency

    Keywords: by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell & Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda; Computer
    • May 2009 (Revised October 2009)
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    Newton-Wellesley Hospital

    By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Natalie Kindred
    How will Newton-Wellesley Hospital (NWH) preserve its private practice tradition while remaining effective and competitive in a healthcare industry demanding increasing integration between physicians and hospitals? This is the decision facing Newton-Wellesley Hospital... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Profit; Health Care and Treatment; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Integration; Health Industry; Massachusetts
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    Bohmer, Richard M.J., and Natalie Kindred. "Newton-Wellesley Hospital." Harvard Business School Case 609-088, May 2009. (Revised October 2009.)
    • 2024
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    Voting Rules, Turnout, and Economic Policies

    By: Enrico Cantoni, Vincent Pons and Jérôme Schäfer
    In recent years, voter ID laws and convenience voting have generated heated partisan debates. To shed light on these policy issues, we survey the recent evidence on the institutional determinants and effects of voter turnout and broaden the perspective beyond the most... View Details
    Keywords: Voting; Political Elections; Policy
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    Cantoni, Enrico, Vincent Pons, and Jérôme Schäfer. "Voting Rules, Turnout, and Economic Policies." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 32941, September 2024.
    • July 2021
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    Information Transparency, Multihoming, and Platform Competition: A Natural Experiment in the Daily Deals Market

    By: Hui Li and Feng Zhu
    Platform competition is shaped by the likelihood of multi-homing (i.e., complementors or consumers adopt more than one platform). To take advantage of multi-homing, platform firms often attempt to motivate their rivals’ high-performing complementors to adopt their own... View Details
    Keywords: Platform Competition; Multi-homing; Information Transparency; Daily Deals; Groupon; LivingSocial; Digital Platforms; Information; Competition
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    Li, Hui, and Feng Zhu. "Information Transparency, Multihoming, and Platform Competition: A Natural Experiment in the Daily Deals Market." Management Science 67, no. 7 (July 2021): 4384–4407.
    • 2010
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    Cheaper by the Dozen: Using Sibling Discounts at Catholic Schools to Estimate the Price Elasticity of Private School Attendance

    By: Susan Dynarski, Jonathan Gruber and Danielle Li
    The effect of vouchers on sorting between private and public schools depends upon the price elasticity of demand for private schooling. Estimating this elasticity is empirically challenging because prices and quantities are jointly determined in the market for private... View Details
    Keywords: Price; Religion; Entrepreneurship; Education
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    Dynarski, Susan, Jonathan Gruber, and Danielle Li. "Cheaper by the Dozen: Using Sibling Discounts at Catholic Schools to Estimate the Price Elasticity of Private School Attendance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-054, October 2015.
    • 29 Apr 2019
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    Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?

    Zhang, assistant professor at Harvard Business School; and Michael I. Norton, HBS research director and Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration, conducted a series of seven studies involving more than 2,000 participants. The experiments sought to... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
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