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  • 15 May 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

How is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Compelling Natural Experiment

Keywords: by Eric Werker, Faisal Z. Ahmed & Charles Cohen
  • January 2000 (Revised April 2000)
  • Case

StarMedia: Launching a Latin American Revolution

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Jon K Rust
By the fall of 1999, StarMedia had sprinted to a sizable lead in the race to acquire Latin American Internet users. Its pan-regional, horizontal portal was the first to target Spanish- and Portuguese-language speakers on the Internet, registering 1.2 billion page views... View Details
Keywords: Private Ownership; History; Risk Management; Business Cycles; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Infrastructure; Media; Emerging Markets; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Web; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry
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  • 08 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 8

partly a result of poor corporate governance. We also provide evidence of a channel through which the benefits of ownership concentration outweigh its costs. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-100.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsBank of America:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • June 2023
  • Case

The Business of Campaigns

By: Vincent Pons and Mel Martin
In 2022, the U.S. Congress examined the Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections (DISCLOSE) Act, the latest in a long series of campaign finance reforms. According to its authors, the law would be the “most consequential overhaul of federal... View Details
Keywords: Political Elections; Government Legislation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; United States
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  • 17 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 17, 2006

Course. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307011 iPod vs. Cell Phone: A Mobile Music Revolution? Harvard Business School Case 707-419 In 2006, a nascent market for music-enabled View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Aug 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Exclusivity and Control

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Robin S. Lee; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 2022
  • Article

Alleviating Time Poverty Among the Working Poor: A Pre-Registered Longitudinal Field Experiment

By: A.V. Whillans and Colin West
Poverty entails more than a scarcity of material resources—it also involves a shortage of time. To examine the causal benefits of reducing time poverty, we conducted a longitudinal feld experiment over six consecutive weeks in an urban slum in Kenya with a sample of... View Details
Keywords: Time; Subjective Well Being; Administrative Costs; Friction; Poverty; Well-being; Money; Perception; Kenya
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  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

Publication:Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization (forthcoming) Abstract We discuss the birth of a new economy in a society that has only recently emerged from a 22-year-long civil war. The pace of growth so far has been fast but uneven. We find that aid... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

these conglomerates shed their non-core assets—which left them cash-rich. What resulted remained fairly concentrated industries, but the companies weren't necessarily the inefficient companies that had characterized the apartheid era. So South African firms had View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 26 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 26, 2008

information provision strategies to encourage knowledge transfer within the organization. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-085.pdf Board of Directors' Responsiveness to Shareholders: Evidence from Shareholder... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

10 Trends to Watch in 2024

The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 26 Apr 2024
  • HBS Case

Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

of rule changes that allowed players to make money from sponsorships and transfer to other schools more easily. The changes threw college football into flux and favored programs that could draw big media... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports
  • 03 Apr 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

Reminders of Future Busyness Encourage Consumers to Buy Time By: Whillans, A.V., Elizabeth W. Dunn, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Spending money on time-saving purchases improves happiness. Yet, people often fail to spend their View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

sufficient capital the opportunity to open a bank and issue bank notes (a widely accepted form of paper money at the time). The bill also required that every note issued by a New York bank be fully backed by bonds or mortgages. If... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing Authors:Romana L. Autrey and Francesco Bova Abstract Gray markets arise when a manufacturer's products are sold outside of its authorized channels; for instance, when goods designated for a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Africa - Global

organization that used direct cash transfers—giving people cash via mobile money—to combat poverty worldwide. By August 2024, the organization had transferred over $800 million to poor people in targeted... View Details
  • Web

Latin America - Global

Direct Cash Transfers End Extreme Poverty? By: Natalia Rigol , Benjamin N. Roth , Sarah Mehta and John Schultz Founded in 2008, GiveDirectly was a nonprofit organization that used direct cash transfers—giving people cash via View Details
  • Web

Ways to Give Today - Alumni

means that basically half of the contribution is “paid” by the tax authorities. Class Crediting Contributions from HBS alumni will receive class credit. How to Make a Gift Money transfers may be made to:... View Details
  • 11 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains

money for my family for 10 years. I'm going to send a lot of money back home in the form of remittances. I'm going to live very frugally. And then, someday, I'm going to plan to go back home.” Refugees often... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Fatima Albassam

effects, and learn about different business models: what’s successful and what’s not.” Eventually, Fatima would like to return to Saudi Arabia, “to develop the social sector. Today it’s underdeveloped and not outcome-based; money is not... View Details