by Diego Comin - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Jan 2014
News

Mapping Patterns of technological Adoption Across Countries

10 May 2013
News

Technology as a Driver of Growth (or Not)

10 Feb 2012
News

Why New Technologies Do Not Make Poor Countries Rich

30 Jul 2012
News

How technology adoption affects global economies

15 Apr 2008
First Look

decentralizing operations from headquarters to their stores, and, to a weaker extent, by providing higher variable pay to their store managers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-091.pdf An Exploration of Technology... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Oct 2017
Working Paper Summaries

Crime and Violence: Desensitization in Victims to Watching Criminal Events

Keywords: by Rafael Di Tella, Lucia Freira, Ramiro H. Gálvez, Ernesto Schargrodsky, Diego Shalom, and Mariano Sigman

14 Nov 2023
Research & Ideas

The Network Effect: Why Companies Should Care About Employees’ LinkedIn Connections

assistant professor at the University of Southern California, and Aner Zhou, an assistant professor at San Diego State University. Mapping employee connections through LinkedIn The team obtained data with the cooperation of LinkedIn and... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

18 Apr 2019
News

Mauricio Macri freezes prices

19 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers

the corners" in baseball parlance—and more likely to throw it straight over the plate where it is easier to hit. In other words, the pitchers seemed to compensate for discrimination by throwing the ball in areas where the outcome was... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Information; Publishing

01 Dec 2023
News

Wide Horizon

IP rights for suramin, a century-old drug historically used to treat African sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease, and later tested as a treatment for metastatic cancer. N of One had supported a trial by researchers at the University of... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson

11 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups

School, who coauthored the study. “[It] means not only that the pool of potential human capital for startup companies began declining when COVID started, but also that the quality of the pool has deteriorated,” he says. “The incumbent [companies], just View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

14 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off

Ideal Laboratory In the early 90s, Hewlett-Packard seemed a perfect setting for innovations in pay. A so-called "built-to-last" company, it was highly decentralized and enjoyed a sense of mutual trust, high commitment, and wide use of management View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 6

influential, and industry less influential, than we commonly assume. How Early Adoption Has Increased Wealth—Until Now Authors:Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012) Abstract Societies that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2009
Working Paper

The CHAT Dataset

By: Diego A. Comin and Bart Hobijn

This note accompanies the Cross‐country Historical Adoption of Technology (CHAT) dataset. CHAT is an unbalanced panel dataset with information on the adoption of over 100 technologies in more than 150 countries since 1800. The data is available for download at:... View Details

Keywords: Geographic Location; History; Technology Adoption

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15 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 15

performance to provide quantitative insight into the link between a firm's business model choices and its profit consequences. The method is applied to Walmart by building a qualitative representation of its business model and mapping... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

30 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

audits yield fewer violations when the audit team had been at that particular supplier before, when audit teams are less experienced or less trained, when audit teams are all male, and when the audits were paid for by the supplier instead... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology

money by becoming the supermarket for all your travel needs. That has not been the case in the travel industry. Kost: Why is that? Teixeira: Hotels focus on customers from the time they enter their doors to when they leave. Airlines focus... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Travel; Tourism

25 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out

Anaheim Angels starting pitcher John Lackey, signed in December 2009 to a five-year $85 million deal; San Diego Padres first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, lured in 2011 by a seven-year deal at $154 million; and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Banking

02 Oct 2000
What Do You Think?

What Lies Beyond NAFTA?

economies. The conclusion is that it has created jobs on both sides of the border while sharpening the ability of Mexican companies to compete. The Mexican business community is learning to cope not only with foreign competitors, but also with rising labor costs caused... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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