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  • 07 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity

entrepreneurial venture. The paper, which offers a rare glimpse into an area where little consolidated data is available, is forthcoming in the journal Social Science & Medicine. "This study happens to focus on cadavers, but it raises more general questions... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
  • September 2014
  • Article

Metropolitan Blueprints of Colonial Taxation? Lessons from Fiscal Capacity Building in British and French Africa, 1880-1940

By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
The historical and social science literature is divided about the importance of metropolitan blueprints of colonial rule for the development of colonial states. We exploit historical records of colonial state finances to explore the importance of metropolitan identity... View Details
Keywords: Colonial Administration; Quantitative Sources; Governance; Money; Taxation; Trade; History; Africa
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Frankema, Ewout, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "Metropolitan Blueprints of Colonial Taxation? Lessons from Fiscal Capacity Building in British and French Africa, 1880-1940." Journal of African History 55, no. 3 (September 2014): 371–400.
  • April 2008
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The Survey of Industrial R&D—Patent Database Link Project

By: William R. Kerr and Shihe Fu
This paper details the construction of a firm-year panel dataset combining the NBER Patent Dataset with the Survey of Industrial R&D conducted by the Census Bureau and National Science Foundation. The dataset constitutes a platform that offers an unprecedented view of... View Details
Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Patents; Surveys; Research and Development; Innovation and Invention; Performance Productivity; Projects; Management Practices and Processes; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
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Kerr, William R., and Shihe Fu. "The Survey of Industrial R&D—Patent Database Link Project." Journal of Technology Transfer 33, no. 2 (April 2008): 173–186.

    California Fair Trade: Antitrust and the Politics of 'Fairness' in U.S. Competition Policy

    In the decades before World War II, U.S. antitrust law was anything but settled. Considerable pressure for antitrust revision came from the states. A perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California's retail pharmacists and coordinated trade networks to... View Details

      Clear and Present Danger: Planning and New Venture Survival amid Political and Civil Violence

      Although entrepreneurs constitute a key economic driving force for many countries, they often face unstable environments due to violence and civil unrest. Yet, we know very little about how environments characterized by high levels of political and civil violence... View Details

      • December 2020
      • Supplement

      France Télécom (B): A Wave of Staff Suicides

      By: Cynthia A. Montgomery and Ashley V. Whillans
      In the B case we learn that at least 19 France Telecom employees took their own lives between 2006 and 2009, 12 others attempted suicide, and eight suffered from serious depression for reasons reportedly related to work. Some of these deaths occurred in public places,... View Details
      Keywords: Mental Health; Change; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Health; Human Capital; Human Resources; Labor and Management Relations; Labor Unions; Law; Social Psychology; Strategy; Leadership Style; Organizations; Problems and Challenges; Relationships; Crisis Management; Employees; Well-being; Telecommunications Industry; Europe; European Union
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      Montgomery, Cynthia A., and Ashley V. Whillans. "France Télécom (B): A Wave of Staff Suicides." Harvard Business School Supplement 721-421, December 2020.
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      Doing More with Less: the Justice and Development Party (AKP), Turkish Elections, and the Uncertain Future of Turkish Politics

      By: Kristin Fabbe
      The outcome of Turkey's June 2011 elections temporarily quelled—though by no means entirely put to rest—growing concern over the creeping autocratic tendencies of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). To ensure that democracy remains durable, the AKP must now... View Details
      Keywords: Government and Politics; Turkey
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      Fabbe, Kristin. "Doing More with Less: the Justice and Development Party (AKP), Turkish Elections, and the Uncertain Future of Turkish Politics." Nationalities Papers 39, no. 5 (September 2011): 657–666.
      • May 2014
      • Article

      Clear and Present Danger: Planning and New Venture Survival amid Political and Civil Violence

      By: Shon R. Hiatt and Wesley Sine
      Although entrepreneurs constitute a key economic driving force for many countries, they often face unstable environments due to violence and civil unrest. Yet, we know very little about how environments characterized by high levels of political and civil violence... View Details
      Keywords: Conflict; Violence; Political Turmoil; Civil Unrest; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Government and Politics; Balance and Stability; Crime and Corruption; Business Strategy; Planning; Colombia
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      Hiatt, Shon R., and Wesley Sine. "Clear and Present Danger: Planning and New Venture Survival amid Political and Civil Violence." Strategic Management Journal 35, no. 5 (May 2014): 773–785.
      • 2011
      • Other Unpublished Work

      Height Taken but Worth Unknown: Valuation as an Institutional Process

      By: R. Daniel Wadhwani and Mukti Khaire
      Drawing on research from organizational studies, sociology, history, and anthropology, we develop a framework for understanding valuation as an institutional process in markets. We posit that three institutional elements—categories, criteria, and standards—are integral... View Details
      Keywords: Interactive Communication; Markets; Standards; Situation or Environment; Perception; Valuation
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      Wadhwani, R. Daniel, and Mukti Khaire. "Height Taken but Worth Unknown: Valuation as an Institutional Process." 2011.
      • 2007
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      Bandwidth Allocation in Peer-to-Peer Filesharing Networks

      By: Albert Creus-Mir, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane
      We present a model of bandwidth allocation in a stylized peer-to-peer file sharing network with s peers (sharers) who share files and download from each other and f peers (freeriders) who download from sharers but do not contribute files. Assuming that upload bandwidth... View Details
      Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Resource Allocation
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      Creus-Mir, Albert, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, and Andres Hervas-Drane. "Bandwidth Allocation in Peer-to-Peer Filesharing Networks." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-068, April 2007.
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      United States in the World 39 - History of American Democracy

      By: David A. Moss

      For Harvard College undergraduates and MBA students

      Today we often hear that American democracy is broken - but what does a healthy democracy look like? How has American democratic governance functioned in the past, and how has it changed... View Details

        Financing the African Colonial State: The Revenue Imperative and Forced Labor

        Although recent studies on African colonial tax systems have deepened our understanding of early fiscal capacity building efforts in the region, they have largely... View Details

        • April 2007 (Revised March 2008)
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        Dr. Iqbal Survé at Sekunjalo Investment Group (A)

        By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Stecker
        Dr. Iqbal Surve, a self-described "medical doctor, philanthropist, and social entrepreneur," was born in 1963 and grew up in poverty, like virtually all non-white South Africans during apartheid. During the 1970s and 1980s, he served in leadership positions in the ANC,... View Details
        Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Social Entrepreneurship; Investment; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Partners and Partnerships; South Africa
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        Hill, Linda A., and Emily Stecker. "Dr. Iqbal Survé at Sekunjalo Investment Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 407-019, April 2007. (Revised March 2008.)
        • 11 May 2012
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Creating an R&D Strategy

        Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano
        • 2013
        • Book

        Democracy and Its Elected Enemies: American Political Capture and Economic Decline

        By: Steven Rosefielde and Daniel Quinn Mills
        Democracy and Its Elected Enemies reveals that American politicians have usurped their constitutional authority, substituting their economic and political sovereignty for the people's. This has been accomplished by creating an enormous public service sector... View Details
        Keywords: Ethics; Government and Politics; Macroeconomics; Public Administration Industry; United States
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        Rosefielde, Steven, and Daniel Quinn Mills. Democracy and Its Elected Enemies: American Political Capture and Economic Decline. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
        • July 2012
        • Class Lecture

        The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work

        By: Teresa M. Amabile
        What really makes people happy, motivated, productive, and creative at work? Professor Amabile's research, based on analyzing nearly 12,000 daily diaries of team members working on collaborative projects, reveals some surprising answers. Inner work life—a person's... View Details
        Keywords: Employee Motivation; Fostering Performance; Improving Creativity; The Importance Of Progress; Employee Attitude; Enhancing Work Life; Improving Productivity; Inner Work Life; Motivation and Incentives; Working Conditions; Creativity; Performance Productivity; Attitudes; Employees
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        Amabile, Teresa M. "The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work." Harvard Business School Class Lecture 813-701, July 2012.
        • 01 Nov 2019
        • News

        What Does It Mean to Lead?

        • Forthcoming
        • Article

        Asymmetric Mass Mobilization and the Vincibility of Democracy in Hungary

        By: Laura Jakli, Béla Greskovits and Jason Wittenberg
        Using an original dataset of partisan protest events in Hungary (n = 4836) spanning 1989 to 2011, we argue that left-liberal parties’ neglect in cultivating civil society during the post-communist period had deleterious downstream effects on Hungarian liberal... View Details
        Keywords: Voting; Political Elections; Civil Society or Community; Government Administration; Hungary
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        Jakli, Laura, Béla Greskovits, and Jason Wittenberg. "Asymmetric Mass Mobilization and the Vincibility of Democracy in Hungary." Comparative Political Studies (forthcoming). (Pre-published online January 10, 2025.)
        • March 2018
        • Article

        Financing the African Colonial State: The Revenue Imperative and Forced Labor

        By: Marlous van Waijenburg
        Although recent studies on African colonial tax systems have deepened our understanding of early fiscal capacity building efforts in the region, they have largely ignored the contributions from a widely used but invisible source of state revenue: that of labor... View Details
        Keywords: Colonial Institutions; Labor Coercion; Taxation; Africa
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        van Waijenburg, Marlous. "Financing the African Colonial State: The Revenue Imperative and Forced Labor." Journal of Economic History 78, no. 1 (March 2018): 40–80.
        • 2020
        • Working Paper

        Team Learning and Superior Firm Performance: A Meso-Level Perspective on Dynamic Capabilities

        By: Jean-François Harvey, Henrik Bresman, Amy C. Edmondson and Gary P. Pisano
        This paper proposes a team-based, meso-level perspective on dynamic capabilities. We argue that team-learning routines constitute a critical link between managerial cognition and organization-level processes of sensing, seizing, and reconfiguring. We draw from the... View Details
        Keywords: Dynamic Capabilities; Innovation; Strategic Change; Teams; Team Learning; Groups and Teams; Learning; Innovation and Invention; Change; Performance
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        Harvey, Jean-François, Henrik Bresman, Amy C. Edmondson, and Gary P. Pisano. "Team Learning and Superior Firm Performance: A Meso-Level Perspective on Dynamic Capabilities." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-059, December 2018. (Revised January 2020.)
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