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  • 05 Sep 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Optimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Fabio Kanczuk
  • October 2009
  • Article

Influence and Inefficiency in the Internal Capital Market

By: Julie Wulf
I model inefficient resource allocations in M-form organizations due to influence activities by division managers that skew capital budgets in their favor. Corporate headquarters receives two types of signals about investment opportunities: private signals that can be... View Details
Keywords: Capital Markets; Resource Allocation; Business Processes; Capital Budgeting; Business Headquarters; Investment; Opportunities; Cost; Value; Motivation and Incentives; Equity
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  • January–February 2025
  • Article

Location-Specificity and Relocation Incentive Programs for Remote Workers

By: Thomaz Teodorovicz, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Evan Starr
The precipitous growth of remote work has given rise to a new phenomenon: the emergence of relocation incentive programs that localities use to compete for the physical presence of remote workers. Remote workers with high general human capital may create value for... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Motivation and Incentives; Geographic Location; Talent and Talent Management; Human Capital; Tulsa
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  • 23 Jul 2015
  • News

Work Schedules: The False Tradeoff Between Fair and Productive

  • 24 Jun 2024
  • Video

Can unions and businesses collaborate for mutual success?

  • 16 Dec 2021
  • HBS Seminar

John Kim, HBS and Deborah Bial, The Posse Foundation

  • 02 Aug 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

Financial Regulation in a Quantitative Model of the Modern Banking System

Keywords: by Juliane Begenau and Tim Landvoigt; Banking; Financial Services
  • July 2012 (Revised July 2014)
  • Case

Warby Parker: Vision of a 'Good' Fashion Brand

By: Christopher Marquis and Laura Velez Villa
In its third year of existence and poised to double its workforce, Warby Parker attributed its success to an innovative approach in the eyewear industry and to the company culture that supported it. With a mission combining social and business goals, the company had... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Business And Society; Social Responsiblity; Organizational Behavior; Social Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Brands and Branding; Organizational Culture; Marketing Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States
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  • September 2020
  • Teaching Plan

Harlem Capital: Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship

By: George Serafeim
Jarrid Tingle and Henri Pierre-Jacques had spent the summer between their first and second years of their MBA program fund raising for their start-up venture capital (VC) firm, Harlem Capital Partners. Harlem Capital was founded upon the principle that addressing the... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital Firm Compensation; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurial Financing; Black Entrepreneurs; Black Leadership; Black Inventors; Inclusion; Minority-owned Businesses; Race And Ethnicity; Race Characteristics; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Diversity; Race; Gender; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    Fiscal Risk and the Portfolio of Government Programs

    This paper proposes a new approach to social cost-benefit analysis using a model in which a benevolent government chooses risky projects in the presence of market failures and tax distortions.  The government internalizes market failures and therefore perceives project... View Details
    • Article

    Early Withdrawal of Pandemic Unemployment Insurance: Effects on Earnings, Employment and Consumption

    By: Kyle Coombs, Arindrajit Dube, Calvin Jahnke, Raymond Kluender, Suresh Naidu and Michael Stepner
    In June 2021, 22 states ended all supplemental pandemic unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, eliminating benefits entirely for over 2 million workers and reducing benefits by $300 per week for over 1 million workers. Using anonymous bank transaction data and a... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Unemployment Insurance; Health Pandemics; Insurance; Employment; Financial Condition; Spending; Government Administration
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    • August 2023
    • Article

    Formal Employment and Organized Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Colombia

    By: Gaurav Khanna, Carlos Medina, Anant Nyshadham, Jorge Tamayo and Nicolas Torres
    Safety net programs, common in settings with high informality like Latin America, often use a means test to establish eligibility. We ask: in settings in which organised crime provides lucrative opportunities in the informal market, will discouraging formal employment... View Details
    Keywords: Gangs; Informality; Crime and Corruption; Job Search; Recruitment; Colombia
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    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Patent Publication and the Market for Ideas

    By: Deepak Hegde and Hong Luo
    In this paper, we study the effect of invention disclosure through patent publication on the market for ideas. We do so by analyzing the effects of the American Inventor's Protection Act of 1999 (AIPA)—which required US patent applications to be published 18 months... View Details
    Keywords: Patents; Biotechnology Industry
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    • 14 Jul 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?

    Meet Cheryl Andrus: Manager. Survivor. A vice president responsible for corporate and product marketing at FranklinCovey in Salt Lake City, Andrus was asked in August 2002 to also take charge of one of the company's business lines. Along... View Details
    Keywords: by Paul Michelman
    • 09 May 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

    Keywords: by Aaron Chatterji, Edward Glaeser & William Kerr
    • September 2012 (Revised December 2013)
    • Case

    Intel: Strategic Decisions in Locating a New Assembly and Test Plant (A)

    By: Juan Alcacer and Kerry Herman
    In mid-2005, Intel is examining its options for where to locate its next assembly and test plant. On its short list of potential sites include locations in China, India, Thailand, and Vietnam. Each country has its own unique benefits and risks related to... View Details
    Keywords: Strategic Positioning; Location Choices; Location Strategies; Technology; Geographic Location; Global Strategy; Information Technology; Strategy; Technology Industry; United States; China; India; Thailand; Viet Nam
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    • June 2014
    • Supplement

    Chung and Dasgupta: Supplemental Information on Jordan Ramirez and Casey Clark

    By: Ian Larkin and Karen Huang
    The "Promotion Process at Chung and Dasgupta, LLP" set of cases explores the roles of general and firm-specific human capital in employee performance measurement, feedback, and promotion/compensation decisions. In the cases, a leading law firm must decide whether to... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Appraisal; Performance Measurement; Employee Feedback; Motivation; Promotions; Human Capital; Performance Evaluation; Management Systems; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Legal Services Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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    • March 2010 (Revised February 2014)
    • Case

    Community Health Workers in Zambia: Incentive Design and Management

    By: Nava Ashraf and Natalie Kindred
    This case examines the various considerations relevant to selecting and compensating workers in a context where their work involves a pro-social component. This is relevant to not only health care in Zambia, but to NGO and public sector workers who are both motivated... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Training; Health Care and Treatment; Compensation and Benefits; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Mission and Purpose; Non-Governmental Organizations; Motivation and Incentives; Health Industry; Zambia
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    • 24 Feb 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Integrated Reporting and Investor Clientele

    Keywords: by George Serafeim; Accounting
    • 01 Jun 2024
    • News

    Alumni and Faculty Books

    Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers constantly tempted to behave... View Details