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  • 05 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

subnational regions have gained increasing attention both as a level of analysis and as a level for policy making. This chapter aims to explore what this new context implies for the role of regional governments. It is motivated by a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 1

powerful instruments a manager can use to influence the take-up of her product, especially in a subsidized and noncompetitive market as is common for global health products. However, the question of whether and how to price has been the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

unexpected. Beyond supply and demand, the theme that emerges most clearly from our histories is the important role that public policy has played in fostering vigorous competition and "markets for technology" in each industry. Furthermore... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Ask the Expert: A Fair Share

learn how to support these sorts of shared business models? If you were the CEO of an insurance company, how would you address the conflicts between this model (splitting ownership and usage) and the traditional, well understood, and easily View Details
  • 31 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

David Blumenthal, professor at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital; Michael Newman, a senior research manager at Harris Interactive; Kinga Zapert, vice president for... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • Web

Alumni in Climate Networking Series: San Francisco - Addressing Extreme Weather, Climate Risk, and Resilience - Blog - Business & Environment

insurance pricing models, referencing recent pilot programs and policy efforts in California and beyond. Joining him was Kayla Calkins (MPA ’24) , a recent graduate of Harvard Kennedy School and Program... View Details
  • 21 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

the incentives of brokers, and brokers price discriminate based on a consumer's level of sophistication. The model estimates indicate that costly search is a key friction in retail financial markets, but the effects of search costs are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 17, 2008

lending depends critically on the nature of the competitive environment in which banks are located. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-101.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsFinansbank 2006 Harvard Business School Case 208-108 How do financial View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 20, 2015

integration. The reason is that at low prices, increases in revenue resulting from enhanced productivity are too small to justify the cost, whereas at high prices, the revenue benefit exceeds the cost. Trade policy provides a source of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Daniel Vasella

years” in a Financial Times poll of 4,000 executives. He recently spoke about the public policy and business challenges ahead. U.S. consumers complain loudly that prescription drugs cost too much. What’s your response? We have a... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; multinational pharmaceutical company; prescription drugs; vaccines; Medicare; generics business; Health, Social Assistance
  • 24 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 24

http://www.people.hbs.edu/ffoley/PIMAp.pdf August 2013 American Economic Journal: Microeconomics Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Michael Schwarz Abstract—We consider market rules for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 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
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
  • 17 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 17

decomposed welfare effects of multinational production. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-111.pdf Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration? Evidence from Trade Policy Authors:Laura... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-005.pdf Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The controversy over whether and how much to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

on those less familiar with the reporting standards. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1430589   Working Papers Monetary Policy Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks By: Campbell, John Y., Carolin E.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions

and environmental policy—were to their choice. Meanwhile, people who had voted for Hillary Clinton were asked how important they thought these policy issues were to “an average Trump voter.” As it turns out, Clinton voters largely... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

Viceira: I think that the best example to understand this is to look at U.S. Treasury bonds. Over short horizons, bond prices fluctuate as interest rates change. Increases in interest rates cause bond prices... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 20 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

  Working PapersIncorporating Price and Inventory Endogeneity in Firm-Level Sales Forecasting Authors:Saravanan Kesavan, Vishal Gaur, and Ananth Raman Abstract As numerous papers have argued, sales, inventory, and gross margin for a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt

corporations back off and issue short-term instead. We called this "gap-filling," in the sense that firms fill in the gaps created by government financing policy. In that paper, we had thought about government maturity policy as... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Financial Services
  • Fast Answer

India - Industry specific research

Family Welfare Good source for information on healthcare policy and efforts of the national government to improve access to healthcare. View Details