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  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Black Out-Migration and Southern Political Realignment

By: Leah Boustan and Marco Tabellini
Can emigration from less democratic and economically less developed areas induce political and economic change? We study this question in the context of the second Great Migration of African Americans (1940–1970), when more than 4 million blacks left the U.S. South and... View Details
Keywords: Great Migration; Immigration; Race; Government and Politics; Economics; United States
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    Carolyn J. Fu

    Carolyn Fu is an assistant professor of business administration in the Strategy Unit. She studies innovation strategy in the context of high degrees of social construction – where the value of an innovation is continuously redefined between firms and their... View Details

    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    Evidence from Goodwill Non-impairments on the Effects of Unverifiable Fair-Value Accounting

    By: Karthik Ramanna and Ross L. Watts
    SFAS 142 requires firms to use unverifiable fair-value estimates to determine goodwill impairments. Standard setters suggest managers will use the discretion given by such estimates to convey private information on future cash flows, while agency theory predicts... View Details
    Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Goodwill Accounting; Standards; Agency Theory
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    • 07 Apr 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Location Strategies for Agglomeration Economies

    Keywords: by Juan Alcácer & Wilbur Chung; Technology
    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    Service Quality, Inventory and Competition: An Empirical Analysis of Mobile Money Agents in Africa

    By: Karthik Balasubramanian and David F. Drake
    The use of electronic money transfer through cellular networks ("mobile money") is rapidly increasing in the developing world. The resulting electronic currency ecosystem could improve the lives of the estimated 2 billion people who live on less than $2 a day by... View Details
    Keywords: Operations Strategy; Base Of The Pyramid; Mobile Money; Inventory Management; Competition; Currency; Service Operations; Mobile and Wireless Technology
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    • 2004
    • Book

    Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital

    By: Amar Bhidé
    Academics and practitioners readily admit the importance of entrepreneurs for the wealth of nations. However, the relationship between the economic and social environment, entrepreneurship and value creation is not yet well understood. Moreover, at the micro-level, the... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneur; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Corporate Finance
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    • January 2019 (Revised February 2019)
    • Supplement

    The a2 Milk Company

    By: Benjamin C. Esty, Daniel Fisher and Greg Saldutte
    The a2 Milk Company (a2MC) became the most valuable company listed on the New Zealand stock exchange in 2018 by capitalizing on a biochemical discovery related to the protein composition of cow's milk. Because many people find the A1 protein difficult to digest, and... View Details
    Keywords: Judo Economics; Market Entry; Innovation; Barriers To Response; Industry Attractiveness; Advantage Horizon; Sustainability; First-mover Advantage; Scope; Strategy Execution; Strategic Evolution; Biochemistry; Genetics; Branding; Commodity; Milk; Dairy; Infant Formula; Farming; Porter's Five Forces; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Value Creation; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Disruption; Innovation and Invention; Five Forces Framework; Consumer Products Industry; New Zealand; Australia; China
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    • 2009
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Danatbank

    By: David Moss, Cole Bolton and Andrew Novo
    In the summer of 1931, Germany was struggling with a deepening economic crisis. Production had fallen, unemployment was high, and bank deposits and gold were being withdrawn from the country at a rapid pace, threatening the value of the German mark. The country's third... View Details
    Keywords: Financial History; Economy; Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Banking Industry; Germany
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    • Research Summary

    Overview

    By: Shunyuan Zhang
    Professor Zhang uses machine learning to address marketing problems that have arisen within the nascent sharing economy. She conducts rigorous analyses of structured and unstructured data generated by new sharing economy platforms to address important issues emerging... View Details
    • March–April 2019
    • Article

    The Dual-Purpose Playbook

    By: Julie Battilana, Anne-Claire Pache, Metin Sengul and Marissa Kimsey
    Corporations are being pushed to dial down their single-minded pursuit of financial gain and pay closer attention to their impact on employees, customers, communities, and the environment. But changing an organization’s DNA may require upending the existing business... View Details
    Keywords: Hybrid Organizing; Business And Society; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Model; Goals and Objectives; Organizational Structure; Leadership
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    • 19 Sep 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

    often a disconnect between practitioners and academics,” he says. Source: CMO Council Neale-May illustrates a pervasive paradox in academia: Research conducted at business schools often offers no obvious value to people who actually work... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education
    • January 2010 (Revised October 2011)
    • Case

    The Congressional Oversight Panel's Valuation of the TARP Warrants (A)

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
    The Congressional Oversight Panel wants to value the warrants issued to the government in connection with the TARP investments of 2008, in order to increase the transparency of options repurchases. The case describes the methodology used to value the warrants. Students... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Asset Pricing; Financial Instruments; Investment; Business and Government Relations; Mathematical Methods; Valuation; Banking Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States
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    • September 21, 2013
    • Other Article

    Redefining Global Health-care Delivery

    By: Jim Yong Kim, Paul E. Farmer and Michael E. Porter
    Initiatives to address the unmet needs of those facing both poverty and serious illness have expanded significantly over the past decade. But many of them are designed in an ad-hoc manner to address one health problem among many; they are too rarely assessed; best... View Details
    Keywords: Health
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    • 20 Oct 2015
    • HBS Seminar

    Elizabeth Pontikes, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

    • 25 Jul 2023
    • Blog Post

    Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow

    business that is creating economic opportunity for marginalized communities in the United States. McClain, who also completed a master’s in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, will serve as chief of staff at BrightUp, a... View Details
    • 16 Mar 2015
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Higher-Ambition CEOs Need Higher-Ambition Boards

    Keywords: by Edward J. Ludwig, Anna Elise Walton & Michael Beer
    • TeachingInterests

    Senior Executive Leadership Program—Middle East

    By: Andy Wu

    Change is everywhere in the Middle East today, as many countries seek to diversify their economies and encourage new industries. The region's complex business environment includes distinct political and economic conditions in each country—and... View Details

    • September 1999
    • Case

    Project Dreamcast: Serious Play at Sega Enterprises Ltd. (A)

    By: Stefan H. Thomke and Andrew Robertson
    Focuses on the ongoing competitive battles in the global home video game market that is estimated to exceed $15 billion by 1999 in the United States and Japan alone. Describes how Sega Enterprises has redesigned its development processes to create a revolutionary... View Details
    Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Competitive Strategy; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Product Development; Business Growth and Maturation; Market Entry and Exit; Sales; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Computer Industry
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    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Working (From Home) During a Crisis: Online Social Contributions by Workers During the Coronavirus Shock

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Wesley W. Koo and Xina Li
    Prior research has documented that during mortality-related crises workers face psychic costs and are motivated to make social contributions. In addition, management practices that encourage workers to make social contributions during a crisis create value for firms.... View Details
    Keywords: Crisis; Social Contributions; Work From Home (WFH); Cannot Work From Home (CWFH); Social Distancing; Online Communities; Coronavirus; COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Employees; Working Conditions; Internet and the Web; Crisis Management
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    • Teaching Interest

    Large-Scale Investment (LSI, MBA Elective Curriculum)

    By: Benjamin C. Esty
    Large-Scale Investment (LSI) is a case-based course about project finance that is designed for second-year MBA students. Project finance involves the creation of a legally independent project company financed with nonrecourse debt for the purpose of investing in a... View Details
    Keywords: Project Finance; Corporate Finance; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Capital Budgeting