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Finance - Faculty & Research
fourth-generation (G4) member of his family’s heavy manufacturing business, found himself reflecting on how the firm would navigate a deepening shareholder conflict. While the second generation (G2) had managed the business in harmony, View Details
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Clusters - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
clusters can enhance competitiveness in today’s increasingly complex, knowledge-based, and dynamic economy. As part of its long-running Cluster Mapping Project, the Institute is building a registry of U.S. cluster initiatives. A similar... View Details
- 2025
- Working Paper
Data-driven Technologies and Local Information Advantages in Small Business Lending
By: Wilbur Chen, Jung Koo Kang and Aditya Mohan
We investigate whether banks' adoption of data-driven technologies influences competitive dynamics in local small business lending by diminishing the information advantages traditionally held by local banks. Using local newspaper closures as an adverse shock to the... View Details
Keywords: Data-driven Technologies; Local Information Advantages; Local Banks; Relationship Lending; Small Business Loans; Small Business; Local Range; Financing and Loans; Banks and Banking; Analytics and Data Science; Banking Industry
Chen, Wilbur, Jung Koo Kang, and Aditya Mohan. "Data-driven Technologies and Local Information Advantages in Small Business Lending." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-057, May 2025.
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Research - Global
Transmission of Democracy By: Marco Tabellini and Giacomo Magistretti In this paper, we study the effects of economic integration with democratic partners on democracy. We assemble a large country-level panel dataset from 1960 to 2015,... View Details
- 07 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success
value. One participant in China described how "twenty-somethings" joined C-suite meetings to share their perspectives on the opportunities and challenges of various digital projects under consideration. 4. Manage the power dynamics that... View Details
- 06 Nov 2023
The Value of an MBA in Manufacturing, Consumer Products, and Retail
Do you currently work in manufacturing, consumer products, or retail? Or, do you aspire to work in these dynamic sectors in the future? If you find yourself in either of these categories, we invite you to join a View Details
- August 2019
- Article
When and How to Diversify—A Multicategory Utility Model for Personalized Content Recommendation
By: Yicheng Song, Nachiketa Sahoo and Elie Ofek
Sometimes we desire change, a break from the same or an opportunity to fulfill different aspects of our needs. Noting that consumers seek variety, several approaches have been developed to diversify items recommended by personalized recommender systems. However,... View Details
Keywords: Recommender Systems; Personalization; Recommendation Diversity; Variety Seeking; Collaborative Filtering; Consumer Utility Models; Digital Media; Clickstream Analysis; Learning-to-rank; Consumer Behavior; Media; Customization and Personalization; Strategy; Mathematical Methods
Song, Yicheng, Nachiketa Sahoo, and Elie Ofek. "When and How to Diversify—A Multicategory Utility Model for Personalized Content Recommendation." Management Science 65, no. 8 (August 2019): 3737–3757.
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Podcast - Business & Environment
Bellwether at X, The Moonshot Factory at Alphabet (formerly Google X). Sarah shares how geospatial data and artificial intelligence can help communities and businesses anticipate and respond to climate risks. Sarah shares insights from... View Details
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
May 2016 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings International Data on Measuring Management Practices By: Bloom, Nicholas, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur, and John Van Reenen Abstract—We examine methods used to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
for idiosyncratic products that features the optimal stopping structure and a seller that learns about item-specific demand through the selling process. The model is estimated using novel panel data of a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Sep 2013
- HBS Seminar
Nirupama Rao, NYC Wagner School of Public Service
- 13 Sep 2013
- HBS Seminar
Nirupama Rao, NYU Wagner School of Public Service
- 06 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business
wave” of immigration from Vietnam that the AHA triggered, the researchers discovered a fortunate coincidence: This particular group of people migrated just as the US Census created its in-depth Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Nov 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Long Does It Take to Improve an Organization’s Culture?
Phillip Mathew kicked things off by stating that “Selection recommendations must undergo rigorous independent review the selection criteria and process of gathering and presenting the judgment data needs to be robust, efficient, and the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-063.pdf Do Bonuses Enhance Sales Productivity? A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans Authors:Doug J. Chung, Thomas Steenburgh, and K. Sudhir Abstract We estimate a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults
Institute added a second international data set to their study. To make sure their findings could be replicated across both time and geographic distance, they compared two cross-national social surveys, the “Family and Changing Gender... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Moral-Benito MAR 2022 There are four main types of commercial credit: asset-based loans, cash flow loans, trade finance and leasing. The authors show that credit growth dynamics and bank lending channels vary across these loan types using... View Details
- 10 Oct 2023
- Research & Ideas
In Empowering Black Voters, Did a Landmark Law Stir White Angst?
As another election season approaches, American politics feels more polarized than ever, with racial tensions flaring in an uncertain economy. And a recent study parsing newly available data shows how a landmark Civil Rights-era law may... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 16 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 16, 2008
challenge of upward voice. We first undertook in-depth exploratory research in a knowledge-intensive multinational corporation in which employee input was considered crucial. Qualitative data collected in 190 interviews with employees... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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I have spent my career studying novel talent management practices and their effect on collaboration and performance. My core research focuses on two interrelated organizational trends that have become salient in the 21st century: workplace transparency (who gets to... View Details
Keywords: Privacy; Transparency; Productivity; Field Experiments; Communication; Design; Human Resources; Leadership; Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Performance; Groups and Teams; Networks; Behavior; Social and Collaborative Networks; Satisfaction; North America; Europe; Asia; China; Japan; Latin America