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- 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016
quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant research effort has gone into understanding the economic impact of immigration into the United States,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
the broader messages they send to the world Ukraine Crisis: Analysis by HBS Professor Deepak Malhotra and Jonathan Powell At an event held on March 2, 2022, Prof. Deepak Malhotra and Jonathan Powell provide a strategic View Details
- 17 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 17
Publication:Quantitative Marketing and Economics 7, no. 3 (September 2009): 237-266 Abstract This study presents a signaling model of advertising for horizontally differentiated products. The central ingredients of the model are two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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The Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration: 1956 - 1962 | Baker Library
full-year courses in marketing, control (accounting and statistics), production, human problems in administration, finance, and economics. (2) The well-known Written Analysis of Cases course was also added. The HRPBA curriculum had many... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
particular people: Do the descendants of those who died or lost property deserve reparations? The relative recency of the Tulsa Massacre and the economic loss—estimated at $26.1 million in today’s dollars—accompanying the tremendous human... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
socially responsible development projects in economically challenged communities. Students come from 48 countries, predominately in Latin America and Africa. The admissions team and faculty personally conduct up to 1,000 interviews in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
they may turn off your best employees altogether. Most Popular Faculty Working Papers from 2015 Are “Better” Ideas More Likely to Succeed? An Empirical Analysis of Startup Evaluation (547 visits) Pian Shu and colleagues examines whether... View Details
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
October working paper The Air War versus The Ground Game: An Analysis of Multi-Channel Marketing in US Presidential Elections, was cowritten with HBS doctoral student Lingling Zhang. Chung and Zhang pored over 18,650 observations on... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
examine early sales data to estimate future demand for various products. They conduct this analysis for every product at predetermined periods in its sales cycle. And the merchants follow through, immediately reordering items that look as... View Details
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
own profits when one side is subsidized in equilibrium. By contrast, if platforms make positive margins on both sides, the same investment has the regular, expected effects. Our analysis implies that the strategy space and the logic of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog
architecture. Scaling a business, particularly into new geographical markets or product categories, involves addressing cultural, administrative, and economic tradeoffs. Successful leadership in these scenarios requires managers who are... View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
that captures all users and earns more than under compatibility. Our model allows a detailed analysis of social efficiency, and we show that entry by developers is socially excessive (insufficient) if competing platforms are compatible... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2016
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August 9, 2016
economic activity? This paper exploits the federal preemption of national banks in 2004 from local laws against predatory lending to gauge the effect of the supply of credit on the real economy. Specifically, we exploit the heterogeneity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008
from economics and sociology on intra-household bargaining elucidates how negotiations over the allocation of domestic labor at Level 2 influence labor force participation at Level 1. In conclusion, we integrate practical implications... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 10 May 2011
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First Look: May 10
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-109.pdf When Smaller Menus Are Better: Variability in Menu-Setting Ability Authors:David Goldreich and Hanna Hałaburda Abstract The economics literature on choice focuses on individuals' decisions when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 14
because external capital markets became more costly, but also because the efficiency of internal capital allocation increased significantly during the crisis. Our analysis provides new evidence on how the diversification discount and its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
The analysis finds no impact of financial incentives on learning but significant effects of both goal setting and counseling on real financial outcomes. These results identify important complements to financial education that can bridge... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
considered a reason for sorrow or joy, market dynamics around whole-body donations operate in the United States. It remains crucial to understand how and why these dynamics develop. Scholars, particularly economic sociologists engaging in... View Details
- 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009
reforming countries are directed towards other reforming countries. Analysis of firm-level responses to the creation of the ASEAN free trade agreement yields results that are consistent with these predictions. Download the paper from SSRN... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace