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- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
Case 209-097 Perry Capital owns shares in King and, to facilitate approval of the merger, buys shares in Mylan, whilst hedging out its economic exposure to Mylan's share price using derivatives. The price at which Mylan proposes to merge... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
heart of good and wise leadership. In the following excerpt, Lawrence describes how various forms of globalization—classic trading, international sales, and transnational outsourcing—reveal examples of good, bad, and misguided leadership View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
Convergence, and Economic Performance By: Delgado, Mercedes, Michael E. Porter, and Scott Stern Abstract—This paper evaluates the role of regional cluster composition in regional industry performance. On the one hand, diminishing returns... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
D. KC, and F. Gino Abstract—Many models in operations management involve dynamic decision making that assumes optimal updating in response to information revelation. However, behavioral theory suggests that rather than updating their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- December 2010
- Case
Oral Rehydration Therapy
By: Nava Ashraf and Claire Qureshi
This case highlights the puzzlingly high rate of diarrhea-related child mortality in developing countries despite the existence of a simple, effective treatment: oral rehydration therapy (ORT). ORT treated extreme dehydration caused by diarrhea, which was a leading... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Developing Countries and Economies; Technological Innovation; Distribution Channels; Emerging Markets; Consumer Behavior; Performance Consistency; Performance Evaluation; Health Industry; Africa; Asia
Ashraf, Nava, and Claire Qureshi. "Oral Rehydration Therapy." Harvard Business School Case 911-035, December 2010. (Request a courtesy copy.)
- 2011
- Chapter
How Does Simplified Disclosure Affect Individuals' Mutual Fund Choices?
By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
We use an experiment to estimate the effect of the SEC's Summary Prospectus, which simplifies mutual fund disclosure. Our subjects chose an equity portfolio and a bond portfolio. Subjects received either statutory prospectuses or Summary Prospectuses. We find no... View Details
Keywords: Information; Corporate Disclosure; Decision Choices and Conditions; Consumer Behavior; Retirement; Personal Finance; Investment Funds; Microeconomics
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "How Does Simplified Disclosure Affect Individuals' Mutual Fund Choices?" In Explorations in the Economics of Aging, edited by David A. Wise, 75–96. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
potential payoffs of e-commerce investments. Measuring returns on e-commerce projects can be a daunting challenge. Predicting customer behavior is difficult, because using the Web to do business is still relatively new to many businesses... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
continued and expanded, with further empirical exploration of a distributed model of innovation that includes communities and platforms in a variety of contexts and with the development of theory to explain the economic underpinnings of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
integration affects prices, this paper provides evidence that prices can affect integration. Many theories in organizational economics and industrial organization posit that integration, while costly, increases productivity. It follows... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
PublicationsBarriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India Authors:Shawn A. Cole, Xavier Giné, Jeremy Tobacman, Petia Topalova, Robert M. Townsend, and James Vickery Publication:American Economic Journal: Applied View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
Brian Kenny: What motivated you to write the case? Why were you interested in it? Thales Teixeira: Some of my research is on the economics of attention and online reviews have amassed a vast amount of attention nowadays. People have... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
Authors:David Goldreich and Hanna Halaburda Abstract The economic literature on choice focuses on individuals' decisions when faced with a given menu. However, the menu itself is often the result of preselection by a menu setter. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 8, no. 1 (July 2008) Abstract We test the robustness of behavior in dictator games by offering allocators the choice to play an unattractive lottery. With this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
all it provides. Second, we redistribute to a large degree through the tax system, and that's a really important set of social decisions. Finally, we create a set of incentives for behavior and that's incredibly important. The other way... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
negative causal impact on FDI flows. This effect is robust to a broad set of competing accounts, including the effects of other cultural dimensions, various features of the prevailing legal and regulatory regimes, other features of the institutional environment, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
Publications January 2015 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Prosocial Norms in the Classroom: The Role of Self-regulation in Following Norms of Giving By: Blake, P.R., M. Piovesan, N.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
paper called, "Asset Allocation and Asset Location: Household Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances," published by the Journal of Public Economics in August, 2004. Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF),... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
and politicians on its most popular shows. Fox News Channel had spread rapidly by the 2000 presidential election, its expansion fueled by the wealth accrued by Murdoch and his wildly successful media empire. The speed and breadth of this growth provided View Details
- March – April 2010
- Article
The Need for Ideological Consciousness
By: George C. Lodge
Every so often in American history a crisis comes along that requires Americans to inspect cherished assumptions and to act in a way that many find ideologically repulsive. Although our leaders insist that such actions are pragmatic-the only sensible way to deal with... View Details
Keywords: History; Leadership; Competition; Framework; Consumer Behavior; Business and Community Relations; Government and Politics; Financial Crisis; Planning; United States
Lodge, George C. "The Need for Ideological Consciousness." Challenge 53, no. 2 (March–April 2010): 76–89.
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
world. Among economic scholars, field research often takes place within the walls of corporations, non-profits, small businesses, or government entities. Ideally, these organizations eventually can apply the findings of the research to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel