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  • 23 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 23

customer vehicles at higher rates and are more likely to lose customers whom they fail, suggesting that competition intensifies pressure on facilities to provide illegal leniency. We also show that, at least in markets in which pricing is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2007

good. If the content provider sells its content outright and relinquishes control over its price, the content will tend to be exclusive unless there are sufficient market expansion effects. On the other hand, if the content provider... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

and Siddharth Shenai Abstract We study the impact of ethnic and religious fractionalization on the U.S. municipal debt market and find that issuers from more ethnically and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use an ethnic name procedure to identify ethnic Indian users of oDesk in other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

about government policies and consumer attitudes about the CEO’s company. We conclude by providing a roadmap for future research on this emerging phenomenon. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50763 Contextual Knowledge and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 May 2017
  • Sharpening Your Skills

10 Harvard Business School Research Stories That Will Make Your Mouth Water

Food used to be just sustenance, but now it's news. The president of the United States falls for McDonald's and KFC. In Portland, resentment is growing over white street vendors who sell ethnic foods. Ikea is starting a food incubator for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Food & Beverage
  • 01 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?

The debate has gotten to the point where neither side is willing to cede ground." The Supply Side Of Innovation Kerr's desire for a systematic study of the H-1B program resulted in the paper The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and US View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology
  • 16 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 16

recent empirical studies on the economic impacts of immigration. The survey first examines the magnitude of immigration as an economic phenomenon in various host countries. The second part deals with the assimilation of immigrant workers into host-country labor View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society

Customers value some of the most powerful brands in the world primarily for their "cultural value": They provide imaginative resources that people use to build their identities. These are what Harvard Business School professor Douglas Holt terms identity... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 21 Dec 2015
  • Op-Ed

Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google

out of keeping with the spirit of America and harmful in the long run. "Outsiders keep our commercial markets vital by offering perspectives that differ from the prevailing view" After all, what is the secret sauce of US... View Details
Keywords: by Shane Greenstein; Information Technology
  • 30 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 30

perturbation enables efficient exploration in the midst of intense exploitation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-011.pdf Understanding Inflation-Indexed Bond Markets Authors:John Y. Campbell, Robert J. Shiller, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 20

built brands that shaped perceptions of beauty and the business organizations needed to market them. They democratized access to beauty products, once the privilege of elites, but they also defined the gender and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

software, consumer electronics, and pharmaceuticals. Such companies hold many important patents and boast R&D labs that rival facilities at the best universities in the world. They are headquartered in countries with myriad institutions that support innovation:... View Details
Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari
  • 30 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 30

Stanton Abstract—This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2024
  • Case

Demond Martin and WellWithAll

By: Hise Gibson, Archie L. Jones and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
This case study chronicles the transformative entrepreneurial path of Demond Martin, co-founder and CEO of WellWithAll, a health and wellness startup. Motivated by a pivotal life experience and deep concern for racial health inequities, Martin transitions from a... View Details
Keywords: Customers; Diversity; Ethnicity; Race; Health; Recruitment; Leadership Style; Management Style; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Organizational Culture; Mission and Purpose; Relationships; Trust; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Investment; Business Startups; Transition; Entrepreneurship; Equality and Inequality; Consumer Products Industry; Retail Industry; Health Industry; United States; Chicago; Boston; Atlanta; North Carolina; District of Columbia
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  • 08 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

beneficial for society. This theme was later replaced by preference for disciplinary knowledge, and finally by a market logic that regards business education as a marketable commodity rather than a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Mortgage Prepayment, Race, and Monetary Policy

By: Kristopher Gerardi, Paul Willen and David Hao Zhang
Over the period 2005 to 2015, Black borrowers paid more than 40 basis points higher mortgage interest rates than Non-Hispanic white borrowers. We show that the main reason is that Non-Hispanic white borrowers are much more likely to exploit periods of falling interest... View Details
Keywords: Mortgages; Consumer Behavior; Race; Ethnicity; Equality and Inequality; Policy; United States
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  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

shareholder value. The door is more wide open for people of different ethnic and religious backgrounds from both genders. Koehn: I kept running into the issue of leadership as I delved into the lives of the six individuals in my book:... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 21 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 21

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52423 Category Kings and Commoners: How Market-Creation Efforts Can Undermine Firms' Standing in a New Market By: McDonald, Rory, and Kathleen Eisenhardt Abstract—New-industry pioneers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 11

our sample). August 2013 Marketing Letters To Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep Discounts By: Edelman, Benjamin, Sonia Jaffe, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We examine the profitability and implications of online... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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