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  • 27 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

Abstract—Current academic and policy debates focus on the impact of tort reforms on physicians’ behavior and medical costs. This paper examines whether these reforms also affect incentives to develop new technologies. We develop a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

  Publications August 2013 The Industrial Policy Revolution I: The Role of Government Beyond Ideology Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal By: Alfaro, Laura, and Andrew Charlton Abstract—In this paper we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016

competition law and, where appropriate, suggest remedies to right the violations we uncover. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51875 2016 Transformational Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Management: Guidelines for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

inferences are formed as a function of what is chosen. Specifically, when observers encounter someone else's choice (e.g., of political candidate), they use the chosen option's attribute values (e.g., a candidate's specific stance on a View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

Mead Treadwell

sciences, climate, biology, and human development. While we focus on research goals, our advice is tied to major policy issues as well. For example, the commission advocates ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Transportation
  • 19 Aug 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future

reaching an agreement to connect to the local electric grid. “And that’s before the 1-2 years needed for construction of large-scale projects.” Diana believes transmission infrastructure is in the national interest, particularly in the face of climate change, and hopes... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Maintaining a Resilient Democracy

Selected as a 2018 “new leader to watch” by the Leadership Now Project, cofounded by Daniella Ballou-Aares (MBA 2001, MPA 2002), Harder sees Washington’s hyperpartisanship as a roadblock to legislative progress. In his 10th Congressional District, a politically purple... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
  • 20 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

techniques for changing individual behavior in pursuit of policy objectives. The types of “nudge” interventions that governments are now adopting alter people’s decisions without coercion or significant changes to economic incentives. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014

Elevate The book explains the fault lines that have often plagued U.S. efforts to protect its national interests in the region and how these ongoing faults have led to a precipitous decline in American influence. The author makes some... View Details
Keywords: faculty research; Alumni Research
  • 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

alternative measures of trade costs, address potential reverse causality, and explore regional patterns. CEO Personality and Firm Policies By: Gow, Ian D., Steven N. Kaplan, David F. Larcker, and Anastasia... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55409 Harvard Business School Case 119-023 Chateau Winery (A): Unsupervised Learning This case follows Bill Booth, marketing manager of a regional wine distributor, as he applies... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51759 forthcoming American Economic Journal: Economic Policy When Discounts Raise Costs: The Effect of Copay Coupons on Generic Utilization By: Dafny, Leemore S., Christopher Ody, and Matt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

competition. The study focuses on algorithms that are predicated on rival pricing and does not examine those that target pricing for specific regions or consumer groups. Online retail pricing algorithms, whether developed in-house or... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Hong Kong Club Thrives, Plans Next Global Alumni Conference

attending the quarterly event. “We try to do it without the press,” he explains. “That's how we preserve the frankness and fluidity of the symposium.” Recent forums featured Lau Siu-kai, head of the Central Policy Unit of the Hong Kong... View Details
  • January 2005 (Revised October 2005)
  • Case

Private Capital and Public Policy: Standard & Poor's Sovereign Credit Ratings

By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Christopher Bruner
Describes Standard & Poor's sovereign credit ratings business. Provides background on the history of credit ratings agencies, the meaning of credit ratings, the expansion of the sovereign ratings business over recent decades, and the market for credit ratings. Also,... View Details
Keywords: Sovereign Finance; History; Policy; Business and Government Relations; International Finance; Country; Globalized Economies and Regions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Capital Markets; Debates; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 01 Mar 2015
  • News

Case Study: The Speed of Light

states across the country and in some cases abroad (Canada, the Caribbean, Europe). Expansion to markets like California—which has five times the solar capacity of New Jersey—is potentially very lucrative. But we’ve been hesitant to take on opportunities outside our... View Details
Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • 20 Apr 2021
  • Blog Post

Leadership In Challenging Times: Thierry Ibri (MBA 1997)

rescue, transportation – as ‘feeding the line’ because it’s meeting acute hunger needs across our 59-county region in Minnesota and western Wisconsin. We also work to ‘shorten the line’ (prevent need for emergency hunger services) through... View Details
  • 23 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 23, 2008

this is one aspect that the good design of policies on the extraction of oil and mineral resources should take into account. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-035.pdf   PublicationsEntrepreneurial Ventures and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Nov 2016
  • News

Wired for Innovation

another Midwest wind developer as much as it needed someone who could figure out the transmission problem.” The scope of the challenge becomes clear in Skelly’s description of Clean Line’s $2.5 billion Plains & Eastern Project, which will carry wind energy from the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • 07 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 7

by maintaining a relatively large balance sheet, even when policy rates have moved well away from the zero lower bound (ZLB). In so doing, it can help ensure that there is an ample supply of government-provided safe short-term... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne