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- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: FangXiaNuo] Related Reading: Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed? The Secret Life of Supply Chains Can Paying Firms Quicker Affect Aggregate Employment? What do you think of this... View Details
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
data-driven personalization platform for fashion retailers, provided us with an aggregated dataset of online apparel sales from a variety of anonymized well-known fashion retailers in the United States and the United Kingdom in 2019 and... View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
financial crisis. Despite this offsetting expansion, the net effect of the contraction in credit was negative, with lower aggregate credit and deposits growth as well as lower entrepreneurial activity through 2015. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
58,294 face-to-face retail banking transactions, quantifying the relative importance of customer, employee, process, location, and market-level effects on customer satisfaction. In our models, which explain roughly a quarter of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
sciences organizations engaged in wet bench research. Your venture may not have raised in aggregate more than $1,500,000 for total capital raised/invested equity/debt If you would like to have a conversation to assess your eligibility for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
of the model reasonably matches the (i) sensitivity of the aggregate stock market to changes in the likelihood of a disaster and (ii) loss rates of disaster risky stocks during the 2008 financial crisis. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
entered the industry with health care dashboards that track and aggregate data from various health wearables, such as heart rate monitors and step counters. Apple is also partnering with several EMR companies to make medical records and... View Details
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
bribes paid, including the bribe amount, the name of the corrupt official, and services rendered. The ipaidabribe.com portal then aggregates these data to create maps and charts of corrupt activities across Indian cities. The theory is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
Publication:Harvard Business Review 86, no. 6 (June 2008) Abstract A multiunit enterprise is a geographically dispersed organization built from standard units (stores, restaurants, or branches) that are aggregated into larger geographic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
Hispanic Asian? Pacific Islander? Suddenly, I felt that my claim to own my identity was stripped away. Asian is not a monolithic racial entity, and we come from different geographies, languages, socio-cultural trends, beliefs, and lifestyles. We can be many things; we... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
over time, the relationship between firm size and corporate vulnerability is relatively time invariant. All else being equal, large firms in emerging markets are more financially vulnerable and also systemically important. Consistent with the granular origins of View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how aid is spent by tracking its short-run effect on aggregate demand, prices, the national accounts, savings, and the balance of payments. We find that aid is mostly consumed, primarily... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
And those mercurial capital flows, as welcome as they are when they’re inbound, can wreak havoc when they reverse, or as they attract undisciplined competitors and drive excess supply at the worst possible moments. Moreover, the aforementioned creative destruction may... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
losses. In 2014, the health insurance industry’s aggregate pre-tax margin in the individual market was –5.2 percent, amounting to an overall loss of $2.7 billion. A SHRINKING POOL OF PROVIDERS Though Aetna is currently enduring a healthy... View Details
- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
Casadesus-Masanell says. At the end of the week the teams make brief presentations, faculty present aggregate data, and students discuss what they learned. During last year’s simulation Casadesus-Masanell watched as teams, surrounded by a... View Details
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/13-039%20Nov%202012_612ce7e2-7f81-4eea-9126-3c0964f2be2f.pdf August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics Search-Based Peer Firms: Aggregating Investor Perceptions Through Internet Co-Searches... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
the aggregate global production-consumption gap. But any journey begins with one person or corporation taking the first step in the desired direction." Do you agree with White? What do you think? Original Article Inequality, an... View Details
- 09 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values
understanding that people are demanding a higher degree of specificity, and provide clear metrics by race and gender,” said Eliason. Avoid reporting numbers in aggregate though; “women and people of color” is too broad of a data point... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
Africa's aggregate wealth has been transferred to foreign bank accounts, according to the World Bank. In Africa and elsewhere, the movement of corrupt and tax-evading money drains hard currency reserves, reduces government revenues,... View Details
- 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008
that, at the aggregate level, is similar to the one sector neoclassical growth model, while, at the disaggregate level, has implications for the path of observable measures of technology adoption. We estimate our model using data on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace