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  • 07 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 7

We find similar evidence of backlash following (mostly male) Muslim candidates winning and argue that this bolsters the evidence of institutionalized demand-side barriers to entry and undermines supply-side gender-specific preferences and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2025
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Borders and the Self By Chinwe Ajena-Sagna (MBA 2003) Masobe Books “Who are you?” Every border tells a story. Every story has its origins. Tracing a cultural lineage from the beginnings of Igbo history in the ninth century by delineating... View Details
  • 08 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

Abstract We use oil price fluctuations to construct a new instrument to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

as: Why are Indians getting more religious but also more consumption-driven? How did a Chennai-based department store start the New Year’s sale phenomenon? Are Muslims more open-minded shoppers? Why do people who have no interest in using... View Details
  • 20 Sep 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Consumers Value Global Brands

consumers in Indonesia, Turkey, and Egypt the most. In those predominantly Muslim nations, we could survey only people who worked in the organized economy and belonged to the top 50 percent of the population in socioeconomic terms. Such... View Details
Keywords: by Douglas B. Holt, John A. Quelch & Earl L. Taylor
  • 10 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective

Palestinians, Bosnian Muslims and the Serbs, or Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland. Partisan perceptions can easily become self-fulfilling prophecies. Experiments testing the effects of teachers' expectations of students,... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

September 11: A Community Reflects

also one of fear that the Western world may at any point associate these acts with the Arab or Muslim culture. Those who acted so cowardly have nothing to do with our culture. The overwhelming majority of the Arab and View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
  • 08 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

Z. Ahmed, and Charles Cohen Abstract We use yearly variations in the price of oil to construct a powerful new instrument to test the impact of an important but often-overlooked foreign aid channel: money given by wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 5

conservative religious observance and policy from the Muslim "ulema." His domestic economic policy, which entailed diversification, infrastructure construction, education and a move towards a "knowledge economy,"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

use oil price fluctuations to construct a new instrument to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Aug 2002
  • Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

economic growth has stagnated, and poverty is on the rise. Most people in Latin America, the Middle East, and Central Asia are poorer today than they were ten years ago, and most Africans were better off forty years ago. The average per capita income of View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
  • 21 May 2019
  • Blog Post

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS

culture. That’s where I grew up for the first 18 years of my life, before coming to the US for college. I was not an immigrant growing up. As an ethnic Punjabi in Punjab, a Pakistani citizen in Pakistan and a Muslim in a majority-Muslim... View Details
  • 26 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 26, 2016

women candidates. This decline is most pronounced in states with entrenched gender bias and in male-headed parties, suggesting an intensification of barriers against women in these areas. Similar results for (mostly male) Muslim... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

autobiographical one-woman show, BurqOff! , has sold out in New York, LA, San Francisco, London, Toronto, and Seoul. She is the creator of Shugs & Fats , a Gotham Award winning web series that spotlights the Muslim American experience... View Details
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

government is run by a small number of people calling all the shots. I think his hard-charging tone, coupled with his willingness to single out certain groups — from the media to Muslims to women to Hispanics — as responsible for many of... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese