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  • 07 Jun 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

attempt to squelch their demands for independence. Cover photo for Imperial Reckoning, Central Province, Kenya, c. 1954 (Photo credit: Popperfoto/Retrofile.com) The research became the basis for her 2005 book Imperial Reckoning, which won the 2006 Pulitzer View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men

competition results. The analysis showed a significant relationship between an entrepreneur's gender and whether a pitch had been successful. Male entrepreneurs were 60 percent likelier to receive a funding prize than were female... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 19 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

focus not just on financial rewards but on recognition as well. To that end, Lerner recommends that firms host innovation contests, wherein individuals or teams receive prizes for solving internal problems or creating new products—noting... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 19 May 2016
  • Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

Lakhani said the question comes down to this: Do we have the right labor force? His research team recently held a three-weeklong contest that looked to improve the accuracy and processing speed of an algorithm designed to analyze genomic data. With a View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Nov 2022
  • Cold Call Podcast

Marie Curie: A Case Study in Breaking Barriers

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
  • July 2021
  • Article

Discovering Auctions: Contributions of Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson

By: Alex Teytelboym, Shengwu Li, Scott Duke Kominers, Mohammad Akbarpour and Piotr Dworczak
The 2020 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded to Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson for “improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.” In this survey article, we review the contributions of the... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Auctions; Theory; Design
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Game Theory for Business Strategy

Game theory--the mathematical study of strategic interactions--came of age, in a sense, when three of the field's pioneers were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994. Yet despite the development of the theory and the widespread use of game-theoretic jargon in... View Details
  • 30 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 31, 2006

  Working PapersHow Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages Authors:Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek Abstract The empirical literature finds mixed evidence on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

2014 became the first woman to win the Fields Medal, which is equivalent to the Nobel Prize in mathematics. These superstar worries are real, and there are many more one-in-a-thousand talents that could be... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • July 2024
  • Module Note

The Scope of the Corporation

By: David J. Collis
Every company, regardless of size or configuration, has to make decisions about the appropriate scope of its operations. In fact, the issue is so fundamental that Ronald Coase won the Nobel Prize in Economics for merely asking the question, “what determines the scope... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Mission and Purpose
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  • 13 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/818089-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 919-401 The Reputation of the 'World's Most Prestigious Award': The Nobel Prize Nobel... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

  Working PapersOptimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However, given the sovereign's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence

By: William R. Kerr
High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of U.S. workers in these fields, and they have a similar contribution in terms of output measures like patents or firm starts. This... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Diaspora; Diasporas; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Immigration
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  • 2017
  • Chapter

U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence

By: William R. Kerr
High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of U.S. workers in these fields, and they have a similar contribution in terms of output measures like patents or firm starts. This... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Diaspora; Diasporas; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Immigration; United States
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  • March 2020
  • Article

A Revolution in Economics? It's Just Getting Started...

By: Shawn A. Cole, William Pariente and Anja Sautmann
We have each experienced thrills and pain while supporting the mission of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, which facilitated many of the experiments described in the 2019 Nobel Prize citation. J-PAL in many ways seeks to fulfill what Angrist and Pischke... View Details
Keywords: Randomized Control Trials; Economics; Research; Innovation and Invention
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  • September 2008 (Revised October 2008)
  • Case

Marc Abrahams: Annals of an Improbable Entrepreneur

By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
Marc Abrahams was a media entrepreneur who specialized in science humor. In 2008, he sought to boost the scale and monetization potential of his business. That business, called Improbable Research, encompassed a magazine (Annals of Improbable Research), a high-profile... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Selection and Staffing; Human Capital; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Personal Development and Career
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  • 19 Aug 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution

Keywords: by N. Gregory Mankiw & Matthew Weinzierl
  • 04 Jan 2017
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Bureaucracy is a Good Thing in Government and Business?

Bureaucracy doesn’t seem to have many advocates. But if we can extrapolate from the work of Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman and others on individual human behavior, we may obtain insights into situations... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
  • Fall 2020
  • Article

Christo and Jeanne‐Claude: The Negotiation of Art and Vice Versa

By: Michael A. Wheeler
Over the past two decades the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (PON) has named thirteen people as Great Negotiators. The project, directed by my colleague Jim Sebenius, has given us the opportunity to commend our honorees’ outstanding work and to learn from... View Details
Keywords: Art; Negotiation; Arts
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  • 28 Mar 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

for many years, warns that R&D and product development capabilities will be lost along with the loss of such jobs. While examining the closing gap between developed and developing economies, Nobel Prize... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

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