Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (1,528) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (1,528) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 36 of 1,528 Results →
  • 26 Jul 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Burgers with Bugs? What Happens When Restaurants Ignore Online Reviews

eases but labor shortages persist, these sites offer another way for consumers to navigate a bumpy return to normalcy, particularly in the service industry. Consumer Reviews and Regulation: Evidence from NYC Restaurants, a recent working paper for the National Bureau... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Retail
  • May 2018 (Revised October 2018)
  • Case

Argentina Power—Don't Cry for Me Argentina

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
In 2016, Bruce Wayne, Managing Director of Energy Finance Corporation (“EFC”), was refining the Investment/Credit Committee materials for the development of up to 10 power generating plants in Argentina. As a subsidiary of the much larger International Conglomerate... View Details
Keywords: Cross Border; Energy Markets; Infrastructure Finance; Infrastructure Development; Business Subsidiaries; Business Cycles; Macroeconomics; Energy Generation; International Finance; Project Finance; Government and Politics; Demand and Consumers; Infrastructure; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Argentina; Latin America
Related
  • 29 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 29

the level of new investment. But, in the case of investment centers, Economic Value Added, or EVA, is likely to be the most effective single-period measure because it is designed to encourage only value-increasing investment decisions.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Aug 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines

Keywords: by Edward L. Glaeser, Sari Pekkala Kerr & William R. Kerr; Manufacturing
  • 21 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

such as performance-based promotion. Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China Authors:Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger, and Se Yan Publication:Explorations in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Regulating for Legitimacy: Consumer Credit Access in France and America

By: J. Gunnar Trumbull
Theories of legitimate regulation have emphasized the role of governments either in fixing market failures to promote greater efficiency or in restricting the efficient functioning of markets in order to pursue public welfare goals. In either case, features of markets... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Financial Markets; Personal Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Welfare; France; United States
Related
  • Web

Business in Global Society - Alumni

economic system faces huge threats from global crises and asks students to reimagine the role of the corporation and of capital in society. How You can Help The easiest way for donors to ensure that the School can advance business as a... View Details
  • Profile

Drew Keller

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? We’re at an interesting time in history where the role of business in society is being challenged and the assumptions on which we have built our economic... View Details
  • 08 Jan 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Leading Amidst Competing Technical and Institutional Demands: Revisiting Selznick’s Conception of Leadership

Keywords: by Marya L. Besharov & Rakesh Khurana
  • Summer 2011
  • Article

Context, Agency, and Identity: The Indian Fashion Industry and Traditional Indian Crafts

By: Mukti Khaire
Identity is an important resource for firms, since it is a critical precursor of an important strategic resource-legitimacy. However, identities of new firms in new industries are typically inchoate, since they cannot be classified within pre-existing cognitive... View Details
Keywords: History; Decision Making; Identity; Entrepreneurship; Outcome or Result; Fashion Industry; France; Italy; United Kingdom; India
Related
  • Web

Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit in Pre-Industrial Society

economics of lending and borrowing, but with its moral dimensions. 2 Usury—or lending on interest—was condemned by nearly every ancient authority from Plato onward. Medieval theologians followed their lead, placing avarice at the head of... View Details
  • 16 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

constant link to the Web that will place today's 56k modem in the history books next to the UNIVAC—promises to transform the advertising industry. Currently only about 1.4 million U.S. households have a high-speed Internet hookup, but... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • 22 Apr 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance

National Bureau of Economic Research. The paper was written by Cullen, Will Dobbie of Harvard Kennedy School, and Mitchell Hoffman of the University of Toronto. “There are a lot of companies willing to give workers with criminal pasts a... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

shareholders. He believed this required good corporate governance and effective oversight by the board of directors. The case explores the history of AFSCME's shareholder activism on this front and particularly its use of shareholder... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55749 forthcoming Review of Economics and Statistics Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare By: Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, Renata Lemos, and John Van... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • October 2018 (Revised January 2019)
  • Case

The Financial Crisis: Hank Paulson in 2008

By: Adi Sunderam, Robin Greenwood, Sam Hanson and David Scharfstein
On the afternoon of Monday October 13, 2008, Hank Paulson Jr., the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, walked into the large conference room across the hall from his office in the Treasury Department. Joining him were Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke,... View Details
Keywords: Bailout; Regulation; Financial Crisis; History; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Decision Making; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Real Estate Industry; United States
Related
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

central path to job creation, economic growth, and prosperity. In the earliest stages of start-up business creation, the matching of entrepreneurial ventures to investors is critically important. The entrepreneur's business proposition... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

public school teachers (CalSTRS) was mandated by his board to “prioritize engagement with makers and retailers of firearms in California” following a series of gun-related tragedies in schools. While CalSTRS had a long history of... View Details
  • 24 Jan 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

What Do Development Banks Do? Evidence from Brazil, 2002-2009

Keywords: by Sergio G. Lazzarini, Aldo Musacchio, Rodrigo Bandeira-de-Mello & Rosilene Marcon; Banking
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Explaining the Vertical-to-Horizontal Transition in the Computer Industry

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
This paper seeks to explain the technological forces that led to the rise of vertically integrated corporations in the late 19th century and the opposing forces that led to a vertical-to-horizontal transition in the computer industry 100 years later. I first model the... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Business History; Vertical Integration; Horizontal Integration; Digital Platforms; Computer Industry
Related