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    Consumers, Corporations and Public Health (Oxford University Press, 2016)

    The public health footprint associated with corporate behavior has come under increased scrutiny in the last decade, with an increased expectation that private profit not come at the expense of consumer welfare.

    Consumers, Corporations, and Public... View Details
    • October 2023
    • Article

    Product Variety, the Cost of Living, and Welfare Across Countries

    By: Alberto Cavallo, Robert C. Feenstra and Robert Inklaar
    We use the structure of the Melitz (2003) model to compute the cost of living and welfare across 47 countries, and compare these to conventional measures of prices and real consumption from the International Comparisons Project (ICP). The cost of living is inferred... View Details
    Keywords: Macroeconomics; Trade
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    • May 2018
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    Using Online Prices for Measuring Real Consumption Across Countries

    By: Alberto Cavallo, Erwin Diewert, Robert C. Feenstra, Robert Inklaar and Marcel P. Timmer
    We show that online prices can be used to construct quarterly purchasing power parities (PPPs) with a closely matched set of goods and identical methodologies in a variety of developed and developing countries. Our results are close to those reported by the... View Details
    Keywords: Purchasing Power Parity; International Economy; Online Prices; Billion Prices Project; Economics; Macroeconomics; Price; Internet and the Web; Spending; Economy; Global Range; Measurement and Metrics
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    Emodiversity and the Emotional Ecosystem

    By: Jordi Quoidbach, June Gruber, Moira Mikolajczak, Alexsandr Kogan, Ilios Kotsou and Michael I. Norton
    Bridging psychological research exploring emotional complexity and research in the natural sciences on the measurement of biodiversity, we introduce—and demonstrate the benefits of—emodiversity: the variety and relative abundance of the emotions that humans experience.... View Details
    Keywords: Health; Diversity; Emotions
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    • February 2000 (Revised March 2000)
    • Case

    National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy

    The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy was founded in 1995 to bring together a variety of efforts to reduce teen pregnancy in the United States. Over the last four years the campaign has recruited a prestigious board, developed effective programs for... View Details
    Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues; Business Strategy; United States
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      Geoffrey G. Jones

      Geoffrey Jones is the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and Faculty Chair of the School's Business History Initiative. He holds degrees of BA, MA and PhD from Cambridge University, UK. He has an honorary Doctorate in Economics and Business Administration... View Details

      Keywords: banking; beauty products; construction; consumer products; energy; entertainment; fashion; financial services; food; food processing; green technology; petroleum; service industry
      • September 2016
      • Article

      Whitened Résumés: Race and Self-Presentation in the Labor Market

      By: Sonia K. Kang, K. A. DeCelles, András Tilcsik and Sora Jun
      Using interviews, a laboratory experiment, and a résumé audit study, we examine racial minorities’ attempts to avoid anticipated discrimination in labor markets by concealing or downplaying racial cues in job applications, a practice known as "résumé whitening."... View Details
      Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Selection and Staffing; Job Search; Race
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      • March 2018 (Revised June 2018)
      • Case

      City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and James Weber
      In 2018, City Year was a 30-year-old nonprofit that recruited and organized teams of young-adult “volunteers” (corps teams) to provide a year of citizen service. It had 3,100 corps members serving in 327 schools located in 28 U.S. cities. In its early decades, City... View Details
      Keywords: Education; Service Operations; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Resource Allocation; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Human Capital; Growth Management; Service Delivery; Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Poverty; United States
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      • August 2019 (Revised November 2019)
      • Case

      Sustainable Investing at J.P. Morgan Private Bank

      By: Sara Fleiss and Luis Viceira
      This case features Monica Issar, then Global Head of J.P. Morgan Endowments & Foundations Group in the Private Bank. In just five years, she and J.P. Morgan have grown the Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) business from $5 billion in AUM from primarily family... View Details
      Keywords: Sustainability; Investment; Management; Strategy; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Banking Industry
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      • March 2016
      • Article

      The Cost of Friendship

      By: Paul A. Gompers, Vladimir Mukharlyamov and Yuhai Xuan
      We investigate how personal characteristics affect people's desire to collaborate and whether this attraction enhances or detracts from performance in venture capital. We find that venture capitalists who share the same ethnic, educational, or career background are... View Details
      Keywords: Venture Capital; Partners and Partnerships; Entrepreneurship; Personal Characteristics
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      • 2010
      • Working Paper

      Crashes and Collateralized Lending

      By: Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford
      This paper develops a parsimonious static model for characterizing financing terms in collateralized lending markets. We characterize the systematic risk exposures for a variety of securities and develop a simple indifference-pricing framework to value the systematic... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Cost of Capital; Credit; Financing and Loans; Interest Rates; Investment; Framework; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry
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      • March 1991 (Revised December 1994)
      • Case

      Steve Mariotti and NFTE

      Less than three years ago, Steve Mariotti created NFTE, a nonprofit organization for teaching entrepreneurship to disadvantaged youths. The organization has gained national recognition, and offers a variety of programs on a budget of nearly half a million dollars. It... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Teaching; Business Startups
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      • March 2020
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      Estimating the Value of Electricity Storage in PJM: Arbitrage and Some Welfare Effects

      By: Ramteen Sioshansi, Paul Denholm, Thomas Jenkin and Jurgen Weiss
      Significant increases in prices and price volatility of natural gas and electricity have raised interest in the potential economic opportunities for electricity storage. The paper analyzes the arbitrage value of a price-taking storage device in PJM during the six-year... View Details
      Keywords: Energy Storage; Arbitrage; Energy; Energy Industry
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      "Modeling B2B Exchanges" (with Gabor Fath)

      B2B exchanges are revolutionizing the way businesses will buy and sell a variety of intermediary products and services. It is estimated that most of the roughly $7 trillion worth of business transactions are likely to go through these new institutions within the next... View Details
      • February 2017
      • Case

      BlaBlaCar: The Road Ahead...

      By: Karim R. Lakhani, Arun Sundararajan, Emilie Billaud and Caroline Caltagirone
      In 2017, the co-founders of BlaBlaCar—the world’s largest long-distance carpooling company—reflected on the evolution of their venture and the way forward. BlaBlaCar had reached critical mass and size; yet staying still was not going to be enough to be relevant and... View Details
      Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Transformation; Decision Making; Values and Beliefs; Growth and Development Strategy; Digital Platforms; Network Effects; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Internet and the Web; Transportation Networks; Transportation Industry; Web Services Industry; France; Europe
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      • November 2016
      • Case

      But, It's For a Good Cause

      By: Elizabeth Keenan and John Gourville
      Companies have long tried to enhance consumers’ perceptions of their firms and the products they sell in a variety of ways. Such efforts include the development of a brand image that the public views favorably, as in the case of Apple. It extends to the development of... View Details
      Keywords: Social Change; Marketing And Society; Social Marketing; Brands and Branding; Customers; Perception; Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Partners and Partnerships; Trends; Environmental Sustainability
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      New Interest in Incentive Financing

      By: Samuel Hayes
      The article presents the findings of a study on incentive financings as they apply to institutional investors, particularly life insurance company investors. The author made contact with investment officers in 29 insurance companies, and have collected a considerable... View Details
      Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Financing and Loans; Institutional Investing
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      • 2011
      • Book

      Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors

      By: Rebecca Henderson and Richard G. Newell
      Accelerating energy innovation could be an important part of an effective response to the threat of climate change. Written by a stellar group of experts in the field, this book complements existing research on the subject with an exploration of the role that public... View Details
      Keywords: Energy Sources; Innovation and Invention; Climate Change; Policy; Competition; Demand and Consumers; Finance; Energy Industry
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      • December 2003 (Revised April 2005)
      • Course Overview Note

      Corporate Strategy: Course Note for Instructors

      By: Bharat N. Anand
      Introduces students to the concerns that impact a firm's choice of strategy, scope, and organization and assists in three central tasks that comprise the typical decision problem: diagnosing the sources of corporate advantage, evaluating the limits to such advantage,... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Strategy
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      • March 2015
      • Module Note

      Power and Influence in Society

      By: Julie Battilana
      This module aims to help students understand how power and influence are employed, both to reproduce the status quo and to effect change in society. It first helps them to understand why, more often than not, power is used to reproduce the existing way individuals and... View Details
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