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  • 2014
  • Chapter

The Intensive Margin of Technology Adoption

By: Diego A. Comin
We present a tractable model for analyzing the relationship between economic growth and the intensive and extensive margins of technology adoption. The "extensive" margin refers to the timing of a country's adoption of a new technology; the "intensive" margin refers to... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Microeconomics; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Analytics and Data Science; Growth and Development Strategy; Relationships; Technology Adoption
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    Eugene F. Soltes

    Eugene Soltes is a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School where his work focuses on corporate integrity and risk management. His research utilizes data analytics to identify organizational cultures and compliance systems that can effectively... View Details

    • 2010
    • Other Unpublished Work

    God, Government and Outsiders: The Influence of Religious Beliefs on Depositor Behavior in an Emerging Market.

    By: Ayesha K. Khan and Tarun Khanna
    This paper provides evidence that religious beliefs can have a significant impact on individual financial choices. Using proprietary panel data on the distribution of bank deposits across all commercial banks in Pakistan over a 33-month period, I find that Islamic... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Commercial Banking; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Consumer Behavior; Emerging Markets; Religion; Banking Industry; Pakistan
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    • January 2010
    • Article

    Clusters of Entrepreneurship

    By: Edward L. Glaeser, William R. Kerr and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
    Employment growth is strongly predicted by smaller average establishment size, both across cities and across industries within cities, but there is little consensus on why this relationship exists. Traditional economic explanations emphasize factors that reduce entry... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Growth; Entrepreneurship; Cost; Employment; Market Entry and Exit
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    • 14 Aug 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: August 14, 2007

    stimulates greater use for a given buyer). We find that higher prices screen out those who use the product less. The amount paid does not have a psychological effect on use, but there is some evidence that the act of paying increases use. We use our data to estimate an... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • March 2005 (Revised May 2011)
    • Course Overview Note

    Conceptual Overview of Real Property

    By: Arthur I Segel and Ann Winslow
    Real estate represents the largest asset class in the world. Businesses in the United States have over $8.6 trillion of real estate assets on their balance sheets. Excluding housing--worth $16 trillion in the United States--and corporate-owned real estate, there is... View Details
    Keywords: Property
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    • 09 Apr 2014
    • News

    A Playbook For Small-Business Job Creation

    • 17 Aug 2010
    • News

    HBS professor nabs lifetime achievement award from NVCA

    • 28 May 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time

    through HBS's Baker Library.) With 54 interviews banked, and more to come, Jones hopes the site will become a global resource to deepen understanding of today's emerging markets. "Many of these emerging economies that were once dismissed—such as Brazil—are now serious... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • 21 May 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year

    cycle right now? Rettl: In the Global North, it comes from the slowdown of economic growth and a sense that there is very little upward social mobility. It is related to the idea that we are basically not... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 14 Feb 2023
    • HBS Case

    Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis

    any other country in Europe. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development says the country is now home to 1.3 million foreign-born residents, 14 percent of the country’s total. Sweden has also opened its doors to more than... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert
    • April 2012 (Revised June 2012)
    • Case

    HP Labs in Singapore

    By: Willy Shih, Pankaj Agarwal and Christine Chi
    When HP established a branch of its corporate research lab in Singapore, the government played a key role through its Economic Development Board (EDB). Chris Whitney, the lab's director, sought to generate revenue from the lab's innovations, making it financially... View Details
    Keywords: Research and Development; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Development Economics; Government and Politics; Motivation and Incentives; Innovation and Invention; Revenue; Technology Industry; Singapore
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    • February 2014 (Revised August 2015)
    • Case

    The Estate Tax Debate

    By: Matthew Weinzierl, Katrina Flanagan and Valerie Galinskaya
    Per dollar of revenue, no tax policy generates more sound and fury than the taxation of estates. To supporters, the tax is a break on the concentration of wealth and power and an easy way to fund redistribution. To opponents, the tax is an unjust punishment of the... View Details
    Keywords: Atkinson-Stiglitz; Optimal Capital Taxation; Bequest Motives; Taxation; Family and Family Relationships; Property
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    • 20 Mar 2015
    • News

    50 Million Users: The Making of an ‘Angry Birds’ Internet Meme

    • 12 Jan 2014
    • News

    Better measuring a country

    • 13 Mar 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?

    In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often as high as 98... View Details
    Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Financial Services
    • July 2021
    • Case

    Bessemer Venture Partners: Century Fund

    By: Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo
    In July of 2021, Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) contemplated the future of its growth investing practice, known as “Century.” While still relatively new as a focused initiative, BVP’s growth investing already had significant momentum. The fund’s investment pace had... View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Financial Institutions; Growth and Development Strategy; Investment Banking; Competitive Strategy; Public Sector; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Acquisition
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    • Research Summary

    Making Markets Work: An Executive Education Program for Africa

    By: Debora L. Spar
    In the last decades of the 20th century economic growth was distributed unevenly across the world. While some countries experienced sustained and unprecedented prosperity, others fell further and further behind. This widening gap was particularly evident in Africa,... View Details
    • September 2006
    • Article

    Dynamic Scoring: A Back-of-the-Envelope Guide

    By: Matthew C. Weinzierl and N. Gregory Mankiw
    This paper uses the neoclassical growth model to examine the extent to which a tax cut pays for itself through higher economic growth. The model yields simple expressions for the steady-state feedback effect of a tax cut. The feedback is surprisingly large: for... View Details
    Keywords: Revenue Estimation; Taxation; Economic Growth
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    Male Circumcision and HIV/AIDS: The Macroeconomic Effects of a Health Crises (with Eric Werker and Brian Wendell)

    Theories abound on the possible impact of AIDS on economic growth and savings in Africa; yet there have been surprisingly few empirical studies to test the mixed theoretical predictions. In this paper, we examine the impact of the AIDS epidemic on African nations... View Details