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Investigating the Economic Role of Mergers (with Erik Stafford)

What is the economic role of mergers? We investigate this issue by performing a comparative study of mergers and other forms of corporate investment, at the industry and firm levels. In our framework, merger activity is motivated by both firm- and industry-level... View Details
  • 10 Feb 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Hong Luo of Harvard Business School and Julie Mortimer of Boston College, Department of Economics

  • 2015
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Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr and William F. Lincoln
Firms play a central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data to better understand it have... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Human Capital; Immigration; Innovation and Invention; United States
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Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, and William F. Lincoln. "Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration." In Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 15, edited by William R. Kerr, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern, 115–152. University of Chicago Press, 2015.

    Economic Value of the Advertising-Supported Internet Ecosystem

    This 105 page report analyzes the structure and dynamics of the commercial internet by classifying individually the internet-dependent revenues and employment of the 412 largest firms that participate in the ecosystem, and rolling up smaller firms and individuals. The... View Details
    • 27 Mar 2018
    • HBS Seminar

    Jeffrey Clemens, University of San Diego, Economics

    • Article

    Beyond Beta-Delta: The Emerging Economics of Personal Plans

    By: John Beshears, Katherine L. Milkman and Joshua Schwartzstein
    People make personal plans regarding whether, when, where, and how to undertake certain actions. We discuss three questions related to personal plans. First, what are the effects of plans on behavior? Second, when are plans formed? Third, how do plans deviate from... View Details
    Keywords: Behavior; Planning
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    Beshears, John, Katherine L. Milkman, and Joshua Schwartzstein. "Beyond Beta-Delta: The Emerging Economics of Personal Plans." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 106, no. 5 (May 2016): 430–434.
    • 1999
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    Measuring The Microeconomic Foundations of Economic Development

    By: M. E. Porter
    Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Development Economics; Microeconomics
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    Porter, M. E. "Measuring The Microeconomic Foundations of Economic Development." In The Global Competitiveness Report. Geneva, Switzerland: World Economic Forum, 1999.
    • 13 Dec 2019
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    The AI Transparency Paradox

    • January 2024
    • Case

    The Financial Times (FT) and Generative AI

    By: Andrew Rashbass, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Jordan Mitchell
    In September 2023, John Ridding, CEO of the Financial Times, was considering the possible impact of Generative AI on the industry and his business. Having navigated successfully the seismic shift from print to digital, and reporting record results, the company... View Details
    Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Technology Adoption; Change Management; Journalism and News Industry
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    Rashbass, Andrew, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, and Jordan Mitchell. "The Financial Times (FT) and Generative AI." Harvard Business School Case 724-410, January 2024.
    • October, 2022
    • Article

    The Economic Dynamics of Competing Power Generation Sources

    By: Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein
    Competing power generation sources have experienced considerable shifts in both their revenue potential and their costs in recent years. Here we introduce the concept of Levelized Profit Margins (LPM) to capture the changing unit economics of both intermittent and... View Details
    Keywords: Renewable Energy; Intermittant; Cost Accounting; Profitability Analysis; Learning-by-doing; Cannibalization Effect; Energy; Environmental Management; Investment; Operations; Technological Innovation; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Europe; North America; South America; Africa; Asia
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    Glenk, Gunther, and Stefan Reichelstein. "The Economic Dynamics of Competing Power Generation Sources." Art. 112758. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 168 (October, 2022).
    • June 2025
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    AI Wars in 2025

    By: Andy Wu and Anna Yang
    In June 2025, Google leaders in Mountain View, CA convened after its parent company Alphabet shed a quarter-trillion in market capitalization in a matter of months. The immediate spark—the quiet revelation that Google searches had dipped for the first time in 20... View Details
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    Wu, Andy, and Anna Yang. "AI Wars in 2025." Harvard Business School Case 725-484, June 2025.
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    Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics

    By: Thomas Astebro, Holger Herz, Ramana Nanda and Roberto A. Weber
    There is a growing body of evidence that many entrepreneurs seem to enter and persist in entrepreneurship despite earning low risk-adjusted returns. This has lead to attempts to provide explanations—using both standard economic theory and behavioral economics—for why... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Personal Characteristics; Attitudes; Behavior
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    Astebro, Thomas, Holger Herz, Ramana Nanda, and Roberto A. Weber. "Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics." Journal of Economic Perspectives 28, no. 3 (Summer 2014): 49–70.
    • 30 May 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?

    commercially available version of GPT-3 to elicit thousands of simulated customer responses and found that AI can produce demand patterns that resemble those View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    The Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services: An Economic Analysis

    By: Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis and Alvin J. Silk
    We address a longstanding puzzle surrounding the unbundling of services occurring over several decades in the U.S. advertising agency industry: What accounts for the shift from bundling to unbundling of services and the slow pace of change? Using Evans and Salinger's... View Details
    Keywords: Advertising; Change; Forecasting and Prediction; Cost; Price; Analytics and Data Science; Surveys; Marketing Strategy; Media; Service Operations; Agency Theory; Mathematical Methods; Advertising Industry; United States
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    Arzaghi, Mohammad, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis, and Alvin J. Silk. "The Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services: An Economic Analysis." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-039, September 2010.
    • February 2007 (Revised November 2007)
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    Latvia: Economic Strategy after EU Accession

    By: Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels
    Describes the economic development of Latvia, a small eastern European country on the shores of the Baltic Sea, from regaining independence in 1991 to European Union (EU) accession in 2004 and is set on May 1st, 2004, the day Latvia became an EU member. Latvia had... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Policy; Business and Government Relations; European Union; Latvia
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    Porter, Michael E., and Christian H.M. Ketels. "Latvia: Economic Strategy after EU Accession." Harvard Business School Case 707-515, February 2007. (Revised November 2007.)
    • 2012
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    The Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services: An Economic Analysis

    By: Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis and Alvin J. Silk
    We address a puzzle surrounding the shift from bundling to unbundling of U.S. advertising agency services and the slow pace of change over several decades. We model an agency’s decision as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing a... View Details
    Keywords: Bundling; Unbundling; Advertising Agency Services; Fixed Cost; Higher Media Prices; Volume; Diversification; Advertising; Change; Advertising Industry; United States
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    Arzaghi, Mohammad, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis, and Alvin J. Silk. "The Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services: An Economic Analysis." Review of Marketing Science 10, no. 1 (2012).
    • 2001
    • Chapter

    Regions and the New Economics of Competition

    By: M. E. Porter
    Keywords: Globalized Economies and Regions; Trade; Competition
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    Porter, M. E. "Regions and the New Economics of Competition." In Global City-Regions, edited by A. J. Scott. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
    • 12 May 2017
    • Panel Discussion

    Impact of Economics of Mutuality on Corporate Governance and Values

    By: Lynn S. Paine
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    Paine, Lynn S. "Impact of Economics of Mutuality on Corporate Governance and Values." Responsible Business Forum, Saïd Business School, Oxford, England, May 12, 2017.
    • November 2022 (Revised December 2024)
    • Case

    Hugging Face (A): Serving AI on a Platform

    By: Shane Greenstein, Daniel Yue, Sarah Gulick and Kerry Herman
    It is fall 2022, and open-source AI model company Hugging Face is considering its three areas of priorities: platform development, supporting the open-source community, and pursuing cutting-edge scientific research. As it expands services for enterprise clients, which... View Details
    Keywords: Community; Open-source; AI and Machine Learning; Product Development; Networks; Service Delivery; Research; Governance; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Information Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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    Greenstein, Shane, Daniel Yue, Sarah Gulick, and Kerry Herman. "Hugging Face (A): Serving AI on a Platform." Harvard Business School Case 623-026, November 2022. (Revised December 2024.)
    • January 2025
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    Nvidia, Inc. in 2024 and the Future of AI

    By: David B. Yoffie
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 725-360. View Details
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    Yoffie, David B. "Nvidia, Inc. in 2024 and the Future of AI." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 725-427, January 2025.
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