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Affiliated Organizations & Institutions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Affiliated Organizations... Affiliated Organizations &... View Details
  • May 2021
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The Firm Next Door: Using Satellite Images to Study Local Information Advantage

By: Jung Koo Kang, Lorien Stice-Lawrence and Forester Wong
We use novel satellite data that track the number of cars in the parking lots of 92,668 stores for 71 publicly listed U.S. retailers to study the local information advantage of institutional investors. We establish car counts as a timely measure of store-level... View Details
Keywords: Satellite Images; Store-level Performance; Institutional Investors; Local Advantage; Overweighting; Processing Costs; Alternative Data; Big Data; Emerging Technologies; Information; Quality; Institutional Investing; Decision Making; Behavioral Finance; Analytics and Data Science
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Institutional influences on the firm: cross-country comparisons

A third stream of work examines the influence of country institutions on firms in a cross-country comparative context.  In a paper co-authored with Jordan Siegel (published in Management Science in 2009), we employed a quasi-natural experiment:  a... View Details
  • March 2006
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Finance in Weak Institutional Environments

By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs
Describes the sixth module in the International Finance course at Harvard Business School. The module explores the issues confronting firms that operate in weak institutional environments. The cases examine situations where investor protections are limited and how... View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Curriculum and Courses; Business Ventures; Framework; Organizational Design; Outcome or Result; Education Industry
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  • 19 Jun 2013
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Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

The academic study of institutions provides important insights into topics such as job design and health-care reform. But the field is a complex one, and it's not always obvious to outsiders how the intellectual tools of the trade are... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino

    Pre-colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development

    We investigate the role of deeply-rooted pre-colonial ethnic institutions in shaping comparative regional development within African countries. We combine information on the spatial distribution of ethnicities before colonization with regional variation in... View Details

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    Pre-colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development

    By: Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou
    We investigate the role of deeply rooted pre-colonial ethnic institutions in shaping comparative regional development within African countries. We combine information on the spatial distribution of ethnicities before colonization with regional variation in contemporary... View Details
    Keywords: Ethnicity; Development Economics; Local Range; Government and Politics; Africa
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    • 12 Feb 2015
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    Stayin’ Alive: Technology and the End of Institutions

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    Institutional Voice | About

    Institutional Voice Context In April 2024, Harvard President Alan Garber formed the Institutional Voice Working Group to consider whether and when Harvard and its leaders should issue official statements on... View Details
    • 01 Dec 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Erik Snowberg, California Institute of Technology

    • 2008
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    Agency and Institutions: A Review of Institutional Entrepreneurship

    By: Julie Battilana, Bernard Leca and Eva Boxenbaum
    This paper analyzes the literature that has been published on institutional entrepreneurship since Paul DiMaggio introduced the notion in 1988. Based on a systematic selection and analysis of articles, the paper outlines an emerging consensus on the definition and... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Body of Literature; Research
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    • December 2011
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    Egalitarianism and International Investment

    By: Jordan I. Siegel, Amir N. Licht and Shalom H. Schwartz
    This study identifies the effect of a key cultural dimension—egalitarianism—on a set of international investment outcomes. Egalitarianism expresses a society's cultural orientation with respect to intolerance for abuses of market and political power. We show... View Details
    Keywords: Egalitarianism; International Investment; Culture; Cultural Distance; Foreign Direct Investment; Informal Institutions; Social Institutions; Cross-listing; Investment; Equality and Inequality; Mergers and Acquisitions
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    Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Biography Biography Career Timeline Biography Michael... View Details
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    Understanding and Managing Information Intermediaries

    Brian Bushee is investigating whether information intermediaries such as institutional investors and financial analysts are sophisticated and efficient users of accounting information and whether these intermediaries' decisions influence the choices made by... View Details

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    The Design of Mechanisms and Institutions

    Professor Coughlan's research also investigates the design of public policy and collective choice institutions. His research publications have applied game theory, mechanism design, and laboratory experiments to explore incentives and outcomes under alternative legal,... View Details
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    Institutional Review Board-approved study, the... 1 JUN 2020 Presentation Are Cost Advantages from a Modern Indian Hospital Transferable to the United States? Are Cost Advantages from a Modern Indian Hospital Transferable to the United... View Details
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    Milstein, MD, MPH Rationale and Objectives: To quantify the costs and work of diagnostic radiology (DR) residents using the radiology key performance indicator turn-around time (TAT) as the outcome measure. Materials and Methods: In an View Details
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    Information Intermediation

    Christopher F. Noe's research involves examining a variety of issues relating to the process through which firms communicate with external parties. He has shown that trading by corporate officials in their own firms shares of common stock increases in the period... View Details

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    Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient Aligning Reimbursement with Value Systems Integration Geography of Care Information Technology Key Concepts Value-based health care is one of the most important topics in health care... View Details
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    The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building

    The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details