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  • June 2014
  • Article

Pitfalls and Fraud in Online Advertising Metrics: What Makes Advertisers Vulnerable to Cheaters, and How They Can Protect Themselves

By: Benjamin Edelman
How does online advertising become less effective than advertisers expect and less effective than measurements indicate? The current research explores problems that result, in part, from malfeasance by outside perpetrators who overstate their efforts to increase their... View Details
Keywords: Online Advertising; Measurement; Mismeasurement; Fraud; Invisible; Digital Marketing; Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising; Marketing Strategy
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  • 12 Oct 2020
  • News

Making Auctions Work in Practice Is Worth a Nobel

  • Awards

PSP Annual Book Award for Excellence in Business, Management, and Accounting Category

Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries, co-authored with David S. Evans and Richard Schmalensee (MIT Press, 2006), won the 2006 Annual Book Award for Excellence in Business, Management, and Accounting from the... View Details
  • 30 Aug 2006
  • Op-Ed

The Compensation Game

executive pay. The idea that CEO compensation is driven by the invisible hand of market forces is a myth from which chief executives have long benefited. In setting executive pay, directors have not been guided solely by the interests of... View Details
Keywords: by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana
  • 14 Oct 2013
  • News

Booked: The Good Struggle

  • 19 Dec 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Political Economy of Capitalism

Keywords: by Bruce R. Scott
  • 07 Oct 2019
  • News

When We’re Willing to Wait

  • 11 Dec 2012
  • News

It's Not Your Typical Job

  • Spring 2020
  • Article

The Basic Economics of Internet Infrastructure

By: Shane Greenstein
The internet's structure and operations remain invisible to most economists. What determines the economic value of internet infrastructure and the incentives to improve it? What are the open research questions for the most salient policy issues? This article reviews... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Infrastructure; Operations; Economics; Value
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  • 2012
  • Working Paper

FollowMe.IntDev.Com: International Development in the Blogosphere

By: Ryann Manning
This article explores online blogs as a new forum for discussing ideas and practices in international development. Based on a qualitative study of conversations that take place across multiple blogs, I conclude that the blogosphere combines features of a public sphere,... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Interpersonal Communication; Knowledge Acquisition; Experience and Expertise; Globalization; Blogs
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  • 2013
  • Chapter

FollowMe.IntDev.Com: International Development in the Blogosphere

By: Ryann Manning
This chapter explores online blogs as a new forum for discussing ideas and practices in international development. Based on a qualitative study of conversations that take place across multiple blogs, I conclude that the blogosphere combines features of a public sphere,... View Details
Keywords: International Development; Blogging; Social Media; Public Sphere; Blogs; Equality and Inequality; Globalization; Social and Collaborative Networks; Developing Countries and Economies
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  • March 2018
  • Article

Financing the African Colonial State: The Revenue Imperative and Forced Labor

By: Marlous van Waijenburg
Although recent studies on African colonial tax systems have deepened our understanding of early fiscal capacity building efforts in the region, they have largely ignored the contributions from a widely used but invisible source of state revenue: that of labor... View Details
Keywords: Colonial Institutions; Labor Coercion; Taxation; Africa
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  • Research Summary

Business Leaders and the Social Sector

By: James E. Austin
This research involed a multifaceted, multi-year study of corporate and business leader involvement in the social sector. This examined: the extent and nature of, and motivation for, Harvard Business School graduates' involvement with nonprofit and social-sector ... View Details
  • 2018
  • Interviews

Adia Harvey Wingfield illuminates the complexities of the 21st century color line at the 2018 Gender & Work Symposium

  • April 2021 (Revised May 2021)
  • Case

Kitopi: The Brave New World of Cloud Kitchens

By: Antonio Moreno and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in February 2021 as Mohamad Ballout, co-founder and CEO of Kitopi, a Dubai-based managed cloud kitchen platform, is looking over the company’s 2020 results. Propelled by the COVID-19 pandemic, delivery orders had been on the rise globally and dine-in... View Details
Keywords: Cloud Kitchens; Food; Operations; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Food and Beverage Industry; Middle East; North Africa
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  • 2018
  • Race & 21st century economy: Access, investments and institution-building

The Persistent Problem of the Color Line: Researching Race in the 21st Century

    Measuring Impact, Report of the Impact Measurement Working Group, Social Impact Investing Task Force established by the G8

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    • 25 Sep 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business

    platforms, but new industries are also springing up around them; witness the multibillion-dollar ringtone business. To record the impact of software platforms on the economy and look to their future impact, David S. Evans, Andrei Hagiu, and Richard Schmalensee... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

      Michael Y. Yoshino

      Professor Yoshino holds the Herman C. Krannert Chair in Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and is a Director of Research. He specializes in global strategy and management, competitive strategy, and general management. A founding member of the... View Details

      • 2011
      • Book

      Capitalism: Its Origins and Evolution as a System of Governance

      By: Bruce R. Scott
      Capitalism, as defined in this book, is an indirect, three-level system of governance for economic relationships (i.e., economic, administrative, and political). Whereas economic markets can coordinate supply and demand within an existing system thanks to the invisible... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Systems; Price; Governance; Government and Politics; Books; Markets; Relationships; System
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