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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research

based on the psychology of selective memory. When a person thinks about an event, different experiences compete for retrieval, and retrieved experiences are used to simulate the event based on how similar... View Details
  • 23 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 23, 2008

correlated with less individualism. We provide three short models that help interpret this correlation. One implication of this finding is that societies that depend heavily on oil, and perhaps natural resources more generally, will View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

competitive Darwinian contest. Instead, a few investors make decisions that are impacted by incentive, agency, and coordination problems, often before a new idea even has a chance to compete in a market. We contend that costs and constraints on the ability to View Details
  • 15 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

trillion will flow directly to social enterprise organizations. Concurrently, a new generation of business leaders and philanthropists is experimenting with hybrid forms of social enterprises while demanding more transparency and... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
  • 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

growing public discourse cites the rising cost of education and student debt overhang as a contributor to slow economic growth. A parallel discussion explores the causes of the secular decline in business dynamism and entrepreneurship... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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HBS - The year in Review

of international travel for the MBA Program’s FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) course, an intensive, immersive experience that gives first-year students in the Required Curriculum the ability to integrate their learning in the RC through... View Details
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Europe - Global

Europe Paris HBS opened the Europe Research Center (ERC) in Paris in 2003, to help HBS develop and strengthen relationships with European business and academic leaders. The ERC enables HBS faculty to study more effectively one of the world’s most important View Details
  • 24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24

Michalopoulos Abstract—Is financial innovation necessary for sustaining economic growth? To address this question, we build a Schumpeterian model in which entrepreneurs earn profits by inventing better goods, and profit-maximizing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

foreign direct investment and for sustainable economic growth? These questions and more are explored in a forthcoming business case coauthored by Alfaro along with HBS professor Rafael M. Di Tella, Executive Director of the HBS Europe... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Summer Fellowships | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

arts and culture; business at the base of the pyramid; CSR; community and economic development; education; environment; human services; impact investing; international relief; nonprofit consulting; and philanthropy. Details for Students... View Details
  • March 2015
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Vulnerable Banks

By: Robin Greenwood, Augustin Landier and David Thesmar
We present a model in which fire sales propagate shocks across bank balance sheets. When a bank experiences a negative shock to its equity, a natural way to return to target leverage is to sell assets. If potential buyers are limited, then asset sales depress prices,... View Details
Keywords: Financial Liquidity; Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Europe
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Development Economics (33) Diasporas (3) Disruption (22) Disruptive Innovation (27) Distribution Channels (20) Distribution (45) Diversification (1) Diversity (248) Duopoly and Oligopoly (2) Early Childhood Education (2) Earnings... View Details
  • 23 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

Whatever the headlines predict these days, there may still be good news for entrepreneurs. Many successful products, services, and pivotal ideas have been launched during an economic lull, according to Bhaskar Chakravorti, a senior... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 2009
  • Other Unpublished Work

The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Corporate Hierarchies

By: Maria Guadalupe and Julie Wulf
This paper establishes a causal effect of product market competition on various characteristics of organizational design. Using a unique panel-dataset on firm hierarchies of large U.S. firms (1986-1999) and a quasi-natural experiment (trade liberalization), we find... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy
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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Altruistic Dynamic Pricing with Customer Regret

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
A model is considered where firms internalize the regret costs that consumers experience when they see an unexpected price change. Regret costs are assumed to be increasing in the size of price changes and this can explain why the size of price increases is less... View Details
Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Price; Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Mathematical Methods
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  • 16 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 16

economic theory of GAAP under the assumption that GAAP's objective is to facilitate efficient capital allocation within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP, as shaped by the economic forces of demand... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Aug 2022
  • Op-Ed

Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent

burnout started to percolate. "Generation X entered the workforce after the tumultuous economic recovery of the 1970s and enjoyed the roaring ‘90s, only to experience the dot.com bust, followed by the... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson
  • 2022
  • Book

Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World

By: Jeremy Friedman
A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing influence of socialist ideas worldwide.

In the first decades after World War II, many newly independent... View Details
Keywords: Socialism; Economic Systems; Globalization; Government and Politics; Developing Countries and Economies
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About - Business & Environment

maintenance, and data management. At HBS, Elise has experience managing MBA courses, coordinating faculty & doctoral recruiting, and overseeing events. Prior to working at HBS, she taught elementary school in underserved communities in... View Details
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Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

patient experiences in the course of their care. Since its introduction, TDABC has been tested in many delivery settings worldwide resulting in cost savings and efficiencies in many organizations and resulting increasing numbers of peer... View Details