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- 2013
- Dissertation
Designing Freemium: A Model of Consumer Usage, Upgrade, and Referral Dynamics
By: Clarence Lee, Vineet Kumar and Sunil Gupta
Abstract. Over the past decade "freemium" (free + premium) has become the dominant business model among internet start-ups for its ability to acquire and monetize a large install-base with limited marketing resources. Freemium is a hybrid strategy where a firm offers... View Details
- 2012
- Report
Sweden's Position in the Global Economy
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
In the spring of 2012, the Swedish economy is, as many of its peers, facing a difficult and uncertain economic environment. While these challenges are real, the Swedish economy looks much better prepared to deal with them than many of its peers. Following its own... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Financial Crisis; Government and Politics; Policy; Globalization; Competitive Advantage; Sweden
Ketels, Christian H.M. "Sweden's Position in the Global Economy." Globaliseringsforum Rapport, Entreprenörskapsforum, Stockholm, Sweden, 2012.
- 2010
- Working Paper
Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector
This paper describes how the gaming of society's rules by corporations contributes to the problem of institutional corruption in the world of business. "Gaming" in its various forms involves the use of technically legal means to subvert the intent of society's rules in... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Civil Society or Community; Competitive Advantage; Earnings Management; Trust; Law; Performance; Investment Funds; Private Sector; Behavior; Relationships; Goals and Objectives
Salter, Malcolm S. "Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-060, December 2010.
- 2008
- Working Paper
An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions
By: Craig James Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh
Prior research hypothesizes managers use "real actions," including the reduction of discretionary expenditures, to manage earnings to meet or beat key benchmarks. This paper examines this hypothesis by testing how different types of marketing expenditures are used... View Details
Keywords: Performance Expectations; Earnings Management; Marketing Strategy; Financial Reporting; Brands and Branding; Food and Beverage Industry
Chapman, Craig James, and Thomas J. Steenburgh. "An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-073, February 2008. (Revised February 2009, December 2009, June 2010, July 2010.)
- 29 Jan 2019
- HBS Seminar
Bryan Bollinger, Fuqua School of Business at Duke University
- 04 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Real Cost of Bribery
payment, how it was detected, and the way the firm responded to the bribe after it was uncovered. To test the hypothesis, Serafeim evaluated data from the forensic services practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers, which provides global... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
other common myth that even if the world isn't quite flat today, it will be tomorrow. The data clearly indicate that national borders still matter. I group the differences that they demarcate into 4 areas: those related to cultural... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
tuition and fee revenue from the MBA program decreased 17 percent to $113 million from $136 million in fiscal 2020, as a number of students chose to take advantage of the School's deferral and leave policies during the pandemic. To put the View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Action Plan: To the Letter
fidelity, and consistency?’” Know what message you are sending. Typefaces elicit emotions, Chacko says, and there’s data to help understand how consumers respond. “There is a big difference, for instance, in how consumers rate typefaces... View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
directions of change on processing times. Using data from 283 hospitals, we find (1) high congestion increases a patient's hospital stay up to 28%, indicating inefficiencies from overloaded resources; (2) a patient stays up to 11.7%... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Teaching Quantitative Material - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
awareness: What data would help us solve this problem? How would you analyze it? What would you expect to find? What analysis did you run—why? What assumptions did you make? How did you set up the calculation? How did you account for x... View Details
- 14 Nov 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
What Shapes the Gatekeepers? Evidence from Global Supply Chain Auditors
- Forthcoming
- Article
Engaging Customers with AI in Online Chats: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
By: Shunyuan Zhang and Das Narayandas
We examine how artificial intelligence (AI) affected the productivity of customer service agents and customer sentiment in online interactions. Collaborating with a meal delivery company, we conducted a randomized field experiment that exploited exogenous variation in... View Details
- Article
Riding the Passion Wave or Fighting to Stay Afloat? A Theory of Differentiated Passion Contagion
By: Emma Frank, Kai Krautter, Wen Wu and Jon M. Jachimowicz
Prior research suggests that employees benefit from highly passionate teammates because passion spreads easily from one employee to the next. We develop theory to propose that life in high-passion teams may not be as uniformly advantageous as previously assumed. We... View Details
Keywords: Passion; Emotional Contagion; Emotions; Groups and Teams; Employees; Power and Influence; Performance Improvement
Frank, Emma, Kai Krautter, Wen Wu, and Jon M. Jachimowicz. "Riding the Passion Wave or Fighting to Stay Afloat? A Theory of Differentiated Passion Contagion." Administrative Science Quarterly (in press).
- 2021
- Article
To Thine Own Self Be True? Incentive Problems in Personalized Law
By: Jordan M. Barry, John William Hatfield and Scott Duke Kominers
Recent years have seen an explosion of scholarship on “personalized law.” Commentators foresee a world in which regulators armed with big data and machine learning techniques determine the optimal legal rule for every regulated party, then instantaneously disseminate... View Details
Keywords: Personalized Law; Regulation; Regulatory Avoidance; Regulatory Arbitrage; Law And Economics; Law And Technology; Law And Artificial Intelligence; Futurism; Moral Hazard; Elicitation; Signaling; Privacy; Law; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Information Technology; AI and Machine Learning
Barry, Jordan M., John William Hatfield, and Scott Duke Kominers. "To Thine Own Self Be True? Incentive Problems in Personalized Law." Art. 2. William & Mary Law Review 62, no. 3 (2021).
- 2014
- Article
In Search of the Self at Work: Young Adults' Experiences of a Dual Identity Organization
By: Michel Anteby and Amy Wrzesniewski
Purpose: Multiple forces that shape the identities of adolescents and young adults also influence their subsequent career choices. Early work experiences are key among these forces. Recognizing this, youth service programs have emerged worldwide with the hope of... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Identity; Socialization; Youth; Youth Service Programs; Identity; Mission and Purpose; Age; Personal Development and Career; Service Industry; Europe
Anteby, Michel, and Amy Wrzesniewski. "In Search of the Self at Work: Young Adults' Experiences of a Dual Identity Organization." Research in the Sociology of Work 25 (2014): 13–50.
- June 2010 (Revised September 2011)
- Background Note
An Overview of Project Finance and Infrastructure Finance--2009 Update
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia
Provides an introduction to the fields of project finance and infrastructure finance and gives a statistical overview of project-financed investments over the years from 2005 to 2009. Examples of project-financed investments include the $1.4 billion Mozal aluminum... View Details
Esty, Benjamin C., and Aldo Sesia. "An Overview of Project Finance and Infrastructure Finance--2009 Update." Harvard Business School Background Note 210-061, June 2010. (Revised September 2011.)
- 2008
- Working Paper
I Am Not on the Market, I Am Here with Friends: Using On-Line Social Networks to Find a Job or a Spouse
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
Sociologists have extensively documented that networks influence market exchange through improved matching and vouching. In this paper, I propose that networks can also blunt the signal of market participation, as actors who are on the market surrounded by their... View Details
- 26 Jan 2023
- HBS Seminar
Song-Hee Kim, Seoul National University
- 08 Dec 2016
- HBS Seminar