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  • 04 Apr 2013
  • News

One Weird Trick to Save $345 Billion

  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Wesley Mitchell's Business Cycles after 100 Years

By: Walter A. Friedman
This article looks back at the publication and influence of Wesley Mitchell's Business Cycles, published in 1913. It surveys some of the key ideas in the book and explains the reasons why it resonated with a variety of people, including economists,... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Books
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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

The Insurance Industry in Brazil: A Long-term View

By: Marcelo de Paiva Abreu and Felipe Tamega Fernandes
This paper surveys the formation and development of insurance business in Brazil. It describes its origins, from the colonial times and imperial era to recent events. Particular attention is given to regulatory changes, showing how they evolved in response to... View Details
Keywords: History; Insurance; Insurance Industry; Brazil
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  • 05 Apr 2013
  • News

Men still more likely to work full-time, study finds

  • Article

Using Internet Data for Economic Research

By: Benjamin Edelman
The data used by economists can be broadly divided into two categories. First, structured datasets arise when a government agency, trade association, or company can justify the expense of assembling records. The Internet has transformed how economists interact with... View Details
Keywords: Data and Data Sets; Research; Internet; Cost Management; Information Management; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Reports; Archives; Surveys; Economics
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  • 09 Aug 2013
  • News

What is it about healthcare costs?

  • 09 Oct 2012
  • News

Michael E. Porter on Why Companies Must Address Social Issues

    Thomas R. Eisenmann

    Thomas R. Eisenmann is the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School; Peter O. Crisp Faculty Chair, Harvard Innovation Labs; and Unit Head of the HBS Entrepreneurial... View Details

    Keywords: advertising; broadcasting; communications; computer; e-commerce industry; electronic publishing; electronics; entertainment; fiber optics; high technology; home video games; information technology industry; infrastructure industry; internet; journalism; media; motion pictures; music; publishing industry; semiconductor; software; telecommunications; television; video games
    • 02 Aug 2017
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Machine Learning Methods for Strategy Research

    Keywords: by Mike Horia Teodorescu
    • Teaching Interest

    Empirical Research in Financial Reporting and Corporate Governance

    By: Suraj Srinivasan
    This course is a survey of financial accounting research intended for doctoral students. The primary purpose of the course is to introduce fundamental research themes and methodologies used in empirical financial accounting research. Participants will become... View Details
    • 17 Oct 2014
    • News

    Small, but fierce: How tiny firms can pack a big punch

    • 19 Aug 2021
    • Op-Ed

    Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control

    As organizations eagerly reopen their doors more than a year after the COVID-19 pandemic began, many will be surprised to watch their employees walk out—for good. Companies have been quick to set blanket policies that range from a full return to offices to fully remote... View Details
    Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
    • Article

    Spontaneous Deregulation: How to Compete with Platforms That Ignore the Rules

    By: Benjamin Edelman and Damien Geradin
    Many successful platform businesses—think Airbnb, Uber, and YouTube—ignore laws and regulations that appear to preclude their approach. The rule-flouting phenomenon is something we call "spontaneous private deregulation," and it is not new. Benign or otherwise,... View Details
    Keywords: Regulation; Deregulation; Innovation And Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Laws and Statutes; Transportation Industry; Accommodations Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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      NoamWasserman.com

      Noam's research focuses on the early, often difficult decisions founders face that can make or break their startups.  This site includes his long-time research blog, resources tied to his Founders' Dilemmas course and his book (The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating... View Details
      • July 2022
      • Article

      Private Equity and COVID-19

      By: Paul A. Gompers, Steven N. Kaplan and Vladimir Mukharlyamov
      We survey more than 200 private equity (PE) managers from firms with $1.9 trillion of assets under management (AUM) about their portfolio performance, decisionmaking and activities during the Covid-19 pandemic. Given that PE managers have significant incentives to... View Details
      Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Health Pandemics; Private Equity; Management; Investment Portfolio; Performance; Decision Making; Value Creation
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      • April 2014
      • Article

      Who Donates Their Bodies to Science? The Combined Role of Gender and Migration Status Among California Whole-body Donors

      By: Asad L. Asad, Michel Anteby and Filiz Garip
      The number of human cadavers available for medical research and training, as well as organ transplantation, is limited. Researchers disagree about how to increase the number of whole-body bequeathals, citing a shortage of donations from the one group perceived as most... View Details
      Keywords: Altruism; Donations; Body; Whole-body; Clinical Anatomy; Medical Specialties; California
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      • 25 May 2012
      • News

      A Harvard Professor Analyzes Why Start-Ups Fail

      • 31 Oct 2013
      • News

      What Board Directors Really Do in Their Free Time

      • 24 Sep 2013
      • News

      Half of all meetings are unproductive. Is there a fix?

      • 17 Aug 2010
      • News

      Economy Led to Cuts in Use of Health Care