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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Finding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya

By: Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine and Dean Karlan
In much of the developing world, many farmers grow crops for local or personal consumption despite export options which appear to be more profitable. Thus many conjecture that one or several markets are missing. We report here on a randomized controlled trial conducted... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Developing Countries and Economies; Trade; Profit; Product Marketing; Standards; Failure; Risk and Uncertainty; Non-Governmental Organizations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Service Industry; Kenya; Europe
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  • 31 Jan 2023
  • Op-Ed

Can Insurance Technology Solve the Uninsured Driver Problem?

designed to be big enough that forgoing the bulk purchase to buy a smaller number of days implied a cost of credit at least as high as a typical payday loan. Seeing a lot of drivers who prefer to buy smaller bundles would imply they might... View Details
Keywords: by Ray Kluender; Insurance
  • 18 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

preferences. Finally, we find no evidence that CEO activists using economic language are more persuasive in their appeals. The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market By: Di Maggio, Marco, Francesco... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, first published in 1776, helped create the discipline of economics with its conjuring of the invisible hand, self-interest, and other explanations of market forces that have influenced academics,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 19 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 19

owned. This book explores the political logic of reforms to land ownership and control, accounting for how land development and real estate have become synonymous with economic growth and prosperity in China. Drawing on extensive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?

reviews. “Restaurants are a classic example in economics where the consumer has to make a decision based on very little information” Most would agree these sites do influence consumers' decisions. In the paper Reviews, Reputation, and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
  • Web

Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

Leader as Beacon: Understanding and Setting Direction Leader as Beacon: Communicating Direction Leader as Architect: Designing to Deliver Value Project Week Leader as Catalyst of Change Leader as Catalyst of Innovation Leading Self at... View Details
  • Web

Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Apply frameworks, tools, and goal-setting and tracking exercises to your own strategic initiatives Evaluate and elevate your team’s management of the core tensions of strategy execution, including how to balance growth, profit, and... View Details
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 2

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-062.pdf September 2014 Managing Consumer Services: Factory or Theater Customer Experience and Service Design By: Karmarkar, Uday, and Uma R. Karmarkar Abstract—While services already... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Business History, the Great Divergence and the Great Convergence

By: Geoffrey Jones
This working paper provides a business history perspective on debates about the Great Divergence, the rise of the income gap between the West and the Rest, and the more recent Great Convergence, which has seen a narrowing of that gap. The literature on the timing and... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Economics; History; Wealth and Poverty; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth
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  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Show or Tell? Improving Agent Decision Making in a Tanzanian Mobile Money Field Experiment

By: Jason Acimovic, Chris Parker, David F. Drake and Karthik Balasubramanian
When workers make operational decisions, the firm's global knowledge and the workers’ domain-specific knowledge complement each other. Oftentimes workers have the final decision-making power. Two key decisions a firm makes when designing systems to support these... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Decision Making; Training; Performance Improvement; Money; Mobile Technology; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Services Industry
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  • 08 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

3) there may be no trade-off between value creation and value capture when comparing business models with different degrees of openness. Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search? Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Publication:RAND Journal of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Dillon House | About

Dillon House C. Douglas Dillon Dillon House was made possible through a gift from Clarence Dillon (Harvard 1905), and honored his son, C. Douglas Dillon (Harvard 1931), a US treasury secretary. Home to the MBA Admissions Office, Dillon House was View Details
  • 15 Dec 2023
  • News

Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 07 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

distancing. New patterns of consumer and worker behavior and expectations have emerged during the first weeks of the crisis. COVID-19 represents a tremendous economic shock and burden. In recent weeks, the focus has begun to shift towards... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
  • 29 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)

in Winter 2019 I joined Deloitte’s Risk Advisory practice in Atlanta shortly after graduating from Emory with the goal of deepening my accounting expertise. At Deloitte, I designed and tested risk controls for leading Enterprise... View Details
  • 03 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 3

study extends previous research on firm entry into new domains by examining heterogeneity in firms' feature-level entry choices. In addition, we contribute to work on dominant designs, going beyond characterizing a dominant design as a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated

study by Michael Luca, Harvard Business School’s Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration, in collaboration with Susan Athey, the economics of technology professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business;... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Health; Technology
  • 11 Jul 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Deconstructing 'Customer Experience'

when you don’t. A Good Place to Start Terror at the TajUnder terrorist attack, employees of the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower bravely stayed at their posts to help guests. A multimedia case study looks at the hotel's customer-centered culture and value system. How to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Service
  • 08 Jul 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Adaptation vs. Coordination in I.T. Purchasing Authority

Keywords: by Kristina McElheran