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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Cleaning House: The Impact of Information Technology on Employee Corruption and Performance

By: Lamar Pierce, Daniel Snow and Andrew McAfee
This paper examines how firm investments in technology-based employee monitoring impact both misconduct and productivity. We use unique and detailed theft and sales data from 392 restaurant locations from five firms that adopt a theft monitoring information technology... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Information Technology; Ethics; Performance Productivity; Employees
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  • Person Page

Rebecca Henderson Videos

By: Rebecca M. Henderson

"Reimagining Capitalism" USM Foundation 2018

"Rebecca Henderson: Professor, Harvard University" The Innovation Centre 2017

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  • Web

Admissions & Financial Support - Doctoral

Harvard Business School Statement of Purpose Recommendation Letters Standardized Tests Research Community Anil Doshi Technology & Operations Management Filippo Mezzanotti Business Economics Sarah Wolfolds Strategy Anastassia Fedyk... View Details
  • 2018
  • Chapter

The United States in Contemporary Perspectives: Evolving Forms, Strategy, and Performance

By: David J. Collis, Bharat Anand and J. Yo-Jud Cheng
BOOK ABSTRACT: In spite of surging interest in the business group organization among business scholars, economists, and historians in recent years, academic research on business groups has, to date, remained within the boundary of emerging markets. The major aim of... View Details
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  • July 2016
  • Article

Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration?

By: Laura Alfaro, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger and Andrew F. Newman
What is the relationship between product prices and vertical integration? While the literature has focused on how integration affects prices, this paper provides evidence that prices can affect integration. Many theories in organizational economics and industrial... View Details
Keywords: Price; Vertical Integration; Product
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  • October 1995 (Revised January 1998)
  • Case

Cybersmith

Cybersmith is a new company that has created a new retailing concept. This particular store has been reported in over 250 newspapers, and by every major American television network. Some would classify it as an on-line cafe, but management has positioned the store as... View Details
Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Joint Ventures; Consumer Behavior; Product Marketing; Innovation and Invention; Retail Industry; Cambridge
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Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration?*

By: Laura Alfaro
What is the relationship between product prices and vertical integration? While the literature has focused on how integration affects prices, this paper provides evidence that prices can affect integration. Many theories in organizational economics and industrial... View Details
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market

By: Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina
Reaching-for-yield—the propensity to buy riskier assets in order to achieve higher yields—is believed to be an important factor contributing to the credit cycle. This paper analyses this phenomenon in the corporate bond market. Specifically, we show evidence for... View Details
Keywords: Fixed Income; Reaching For Yield; Financial Intermediation; Insurance Companies; Insurance; Bonds; Assets; Risk Management; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Insurance Industry
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    Deborah M. Winshel

    Deborah Winshel is a Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit of Harvard Business School.  She teaches several MBA required courses: Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD), Leadership and Corporate Accountability and the Field Immersion course (2025 in... View Details

    • 02 Nov 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Gillian Hadfield, University of California, Gould School of Law

    • October 1990
    • Case

    Beauregard Textile Co.

    By: Francis Aguilar
    The sales manager and controller have to decide on a price for a textile that lost significant market share as a result of a recent price increase. Information on manufacturing costs and on the pricing behavior of Beauregard and its only competitor are available for... View Details
    Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Cost Accounting; Cost Management; Price; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Inflation and Deflation; Consumer Behavior; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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    • 02 Oct 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: October 2

    information that impacts the formation of scientific collaborations. Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=42946 Technology, Innovation and Economic Growth in Britain Since 1870 Author: Tom Nicholas Abstract This chapter... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Publications - Faculty & Research

    Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Smallholder Farms in India." Journal of Development Economics 176 (September 2025). July–August 2025 Article Case Study: Do We Reskill or Replace Our Workforce? By: William Kerr To remain... View Details
    • September 2006
    • Article

    The Speed of Learning in Noisy Games: Partial Reinforcement and the Sustainability of Cooperation

    By: Yoella Bereby-Meyer and Alvin E. Roth
    In an experiment, players ability to learn to cooperate in the repeated prisoners dilemma was substantially diminished when the payoffs were noisy, even though players could monitor one anothers past actions perfectly. In contrast, in one-time play against a succession... View Details
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    • April 2009
    • Article

    How to Market in a Downturn

    By: John A. Quelch and Katherine Jocz
    This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Because no two recessions are exactly alike, marketers find themselves in poorly... View Details
    Keywords: Customers; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Spending; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Segmentation
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    • 24 May 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets

    Keywords: by Alvin Roth
    • 22 Apr 2015
    • Op-Ed

    Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

    recession are not part of an optimal economic policy, this view is deeply naïve because it ignores the political realities of Greece. The track record of Greek politicians is one of populism, corruption, and fiscal irresponsibility. (See... View Details
    Keywords: by George Serafeim

      Bharat N. Anand

      Bharat N. Anand is the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning at Harvard University, and the Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

      Professor Anand is an expert in digital strategy, media and... View Details

      Keywords: broadcasting; entertainment; information; media; motion pictures; music; publishing industry; sports; television
      • Research Summary

      Financial reporting quality and its consequences

      Does reporting quality have real economic consequences? Professor Yu addresses this question in her research, which examines the channels through which reporting quality affects the behavior of economic agents, namely managers and investors. Her particular focus is... View Details

      • 05 Dec 2005
      • What Do You Think?

      Is Growth Good?

      actually enable the kind of economic growth that we generally measure and read about. It's reasonably obvious, for example, that growth in such things as the rule of law, so-called transparency, and ethical View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett