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  • 01 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 1

stimulate private-sector demand for similar products and the supply of complementary inputs. Specifically, we measure the impact of municipal policies requiring governments to construct green buildings on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2011
  • News

Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS

shared mobile-based longitudinal Electronic Health Records via mobile phone. AVA is an invitation-only shopping platform. The company addresses the gap between the growing market demand for fashion and the lack of availability of branded... View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
  • 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10

engineer scarcity by limiting supply when secondary markets thicken to separate primary and secondary markets. We find support for these hypotheses in the U.S. concert ticket industry. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7

drilling industry slumps in 2009. Lower oil prices lead oil companies to reduce drilling budgets, and rig utilization falls from essentially 100% to 70% in some markets. Day rates—the prices paid for a rig's services—fall by as much as 68%. The case illustrates how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

One-on-One with Carter Roberts

protect and secure their supply chain. A second is to gain competitive advantage relative to other people in their industry. Another is to appeal to their customers, who are demanding more and more that... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
  • 22 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs

immigration research focused on studying immigration through shifts in the supply of workers to a particular labor market. But Kerr and his fellow researchers took a rare route by looking at skilled immigration through the lens of the US... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Computer; Financial Services
  • 31 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

companies today, capital is not the resource that constrains growth. Global capital markets have opened up the supply side, while widespread excess industry capacity has reduced the demand side. The recent... View Details
Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal
  • 19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008

Author:Noel Watson Abstract In this paper we propose a perceptions framework for categorizing a range of inventory decision making that can be employed in a single-stage supply chain. We take the existence of a wide range of inventory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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 experience a heavier View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

long-term innovation output rather than for private benefits. Code Contingencies: Designing Monitoring Regimes to Promote Improvement in Supply Chain Working Conditions By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

more sustainability into their core products. We help their procurement departments and suppliers integrate our certified materials with cost-efficiency and minimal supply chain interruptions. This allows companies to utilize a high... View Details
  • 19 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature

Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By... View Details
Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Manufacturing
  • 09 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: JSW Steel

energy intensity required to produce steel. In the case of steel, there is a transition challenge because it is such an established industry with known processes. However, it is also a massive area of opportunity, because the demand for... View Details
  • 04 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 4

allocation within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus, as shaped by the demand for and supply of financial information, is on the use of the income statement and balance sheet for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January 8, 2010
  • Other Article

Multinational Firms, Agglomeration, and Global Networks

By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen
Agglomeration effects are important but difficult to measure. This column uses a new database with precise geographical information to investigate the locational interdependence of multinational firms. Knowledge spillovers and capital- and labour-market externalities... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Business Subsidiaries; Industry Clusters; Multinational Firms and Management; Network Effects
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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Anger and Regulation

By: Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra
We propose a model where voters experience an emotional cost when they observe a firm that has displayed insufficient concern for other people's welfare (altruism) in the process of making high profits. Even with few truly altruistic firms, an equilibrium may emerge... View Details
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Consumer Behavior; Monopoly; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Emotions; Welfare
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  • 26 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 26

rates to monetary shocks appears to reflect changes in term premia. One mechanism that may generate such variation in term premia is based on demand effects due to the existence of what we call "yield-oriented" investors. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 13, 2010

http://hbr.org/2010/10/the-power-of-alumni-networks/ar/1 Prices or Knowledge? What Drives Demand for Financial Services in Emerging Markets? Authors:Shawn A.Cole, Thomas Sampson, and Bilal Zia Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Quantity vs. Quality: Exclusion by Platforms with Network Effects

By: Andrei Hagiu
This paper provides a simple model of platforms with direct network effects, in which users value not just the quantity (i.e., number) of other users who join, but also their average quality in some dimension. A monopoly platform is more likely to exclude low-quality... View Details
Keywords: Multi-sided Platforms; Exclusion; Quality And Quantity; Cost; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Network Effects; Market Participation; Digital Platforms; Monopoly; Quality; Motivation and Incentives; Strategy
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  • 24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24

March 2015 American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics A Behavioral Model of the Popularity and Regulation of Demandable Liabilities By: Rotemberg, Julio J. Abstract—Overoptimism regarding one's ability to arrive early in a queue is shown... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne