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  • March 2015 (Revised January 2020)
  • Case

Behavioural Insights Team (A)

By: Michael Luca and Patrick Rooney
The Behavioural Insights Team case introduces students to the concept of choice architecture and the value of experimental methods (sometimes called A/B testing) within organizational contexts. The exercise provides an opportunity for students to apply these principles... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Economics; Experiments; Choice Architecture; Public Entrepreneurship; Decision Choices and Conditions; Consumer Behavior; Taxation; Economics; Public Administration Industry; United Kingdom
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  • January 2022 (Revised February 2022)
  • Case

Envision Group

By: Gunnar Trumbull, Bonnie Yining Cao and Dawn H. Lau
Based in China, Envision was one of the world’s leading Greentech companies. Chief Executive Officer Lei Zhang had set the goal of achieving carbon neutrality across the company’s global operations and supply chain by 2022 and 2028 respectively. As part of its... View Details
Keywords: Green Technology; Climate Change; Emerging Markets; Information Technology; Strategy; Management; Renewable Energy; Energy Policy; Environmental Sustainability; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Green Technology Industry; Battery Industry; China; United States; Japan; United Kingdom; France
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  • 30 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

Psychology and Financial Fragility By: Gennaioli, Nicola, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 caught markets and regulators by surprise. Although the government rushed to rescue other financial... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

adjust products to highly protected markets or respond to limited local competition. In the contemporary global economy, political risks partially declined with the spread of liberalization and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

talk less about how we can encourage positive spillovers." Creating virtuous cycles like FOSS involves rewiring existing market inefficiencies, which produce too many negative side effects and too few positive ones, Nagle says. It’s an... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 23 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

such a product exactly as it exists in other countries, you would likely be in violation of both state lottery laws and federal banking regulations. Fortunately, one can test the structure under sweepstakes laws. Preliminary results for the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 30 May 2023
  • News

Finding PRIDE

political climate at the time was very much: “Keep your homosexuality to yourself.” Fortunately, I made friends with the half-dozen club members as well as off-campus friends who were accepting. They were my salvation. I was just so happy... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • Web

Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education

facilities. Frederick William Martin HBS MBA 1924 Yazoo City, MS Talladega College, 1921 Fred W. Martin earned his MBA in 1924 and entered the fields of politics and journalism. Martin founded Jersey City's first Black newspaper, the New... View Details
  • 08 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 8

industry to measure to what extent waiting-time performance impacts different firms' market shares and price decisions. We report on a large-scale empirical industrial organization study in which the demand equations for fast-food... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

and displacement effects of immigrants on female employment—and provide evidence that none of them can account for a quantitatively relevant fraction of our results. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54796 Platform Competition:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Singing to the Corn

Corn likes people. It benefits from human contact, when it’s thinned out and hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997). Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother’s Omaha... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture
  • Article

Strategic Management of Product Recovery

By: Michael W. Toffel
Manufacturers of an expanding range of durable products are facing regulatory and market pressures to manage the products they manufactured upon their end of life (EOL). In part, this attention is motivated by a growing number of countries—especially across Europe and... View Details
Keywords: Product; Environmental Sustainability; Cost Management; Government Legislation; Logistics; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategy; Europe; Asia; United States
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  • 29 Jan 2021
  • Op-Ed

How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics

political leaders, along with reputable mega-influencers, such as celebrities with similar backgrounds and interests, to put members of this segment at ease. Two common tactics: Sizing up the alternatives. Influencers can highlight the... View Details
Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

My First Job

project, I was issued badge number #A001 and tasked with figuring out which markets would be best to enter and at what size to build the first manufacturing line and facility. What was my mistake? While I was willing to take a bet with... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 13 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 13

voluntary disclosure and marketing decisions. Publisher's link: http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/StrategicDisclosure.pdf January 2015 Innovation Policy and the Economy Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration By: Pekkala Kerr, Sari,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

profit from their private information relating to a specific financial reporting element, goodwill impairments, prior to its incorporation by the equity market or recognition by the firm's accounting system. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • May 2022
  • Article

Coins for Bombs: The Predictive Ability of On-Chain Transfers for Terrorist Attacks

By: Dan Amiram, Evgeny Lyandres and Daniel Rabetti
This study examines whether we can learn from the behavior of blockchain-based transfers to predict the financing of terrorist attacks. We exploit blockchain transaction transparency to map millions of transfers for hundreds of large on-chain service providers. The... View Details
Keywords: Blockchain; Bitcoin; Accounting; AI and Machine Learning; National Security; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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  • 02 May 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?

cases everywhere. There is an old saying at the School that so-and-so is so good at teaching that he or she could teach the newspaper. In fact, the late professor Theodore Levitt of the marketing faculty was known for occasionally walking... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • January 2014 (Revised February 2014)
  • Case

Japan: Betting on Inflation?

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
The case focuses on the challenges still confronting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the end of 2013, a year after he has been in office. It also gives an overview of Japan's earlier economic performance, focusing primarily on the period after it suffered a stock market... View Details
Keywords: Quantitative Easing; Debt Sustainability; International Relations; Borrowing and Debt
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  • 14 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 14

Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-124.pdf First-Party Content, Commitment and Coordination in Two-Sided Markets Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Daniel Spulber Abstract We study the effect of two-sided platforms' ability to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne