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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Going Out or Opting Out? Capital, Political Vulnerability, and the State in China's Outward Investment

By: Meg Rithmire
How do state-business relations interact with outward investment in authoritarian regimes? This paper examines this question in the context of China’s rapid transformation into major capital exporter. While most political economy scholarship focuses on firms’ economic... View Details
Keywords: Outward Investment; Capital Controls; Investment; Global Range; Capital; Globalization; Policy; Government and Politics; China
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

To Infinity and Beyond: Scaling Economic Theories via Logical Compactness

By: Yannai A. Gonczarowski, Scott Duke Kominers and Ran I. Shorrer
Many economic-theoretic models incorporate finiteness assumptions that, while introduced for simplicity, play a real role in the analysis. Such assumptions introduce a conceptual problem, as results that rely on finiteness are often implicitly nonrobust; for example,... View Details
Keywords: Markets; Analysis; Game Theory
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  • Blog

Inside the Learning: Boston By the Season

skies, a gentle breeze, and a lot of people enjoying the outdoors. Choose between gelato and cannoli in the North End. Boston's traditional Italian neighborhood is fun any time of year, but there's something special about enjoying a pasta... View Details
  • March 2019
  • Case

HOPI: Turkey's Shopping Companion

By: Sunil Gupta, Donald Ngwe and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in 2017 as Onur Erbay, CEO of HOPI, a multi-vendor loyalty platform, is contemplating a critical decision. The case chronicles the origins of Boyner Group, the parent company of HOPI and a major retailer in Turkey, and development of retail and customer... View Details
Keywords: Loyalty Programs; Multi-vendor Platform; Retail; Big Data; Customer Relationship Management; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Business Model; Analytics and Data Science; Competitive Strategy; Decision Making; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Turkey
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  • 31 Jan 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Observation Bias: The Impact of Demand Censoring on Newsvendor Level and Adjustment Behavior

Keywords: by David F. Drake
  • December 2012
  • Case

Delwarca Software Remote Support Unit

By: Roy D. Shapiro and Paul E. Morrison
Delwarca Software provides business software to large corporate clients around the world. The firm serves customers who prefer to assemble corporate solutions using a combination of software programs from various suppliers rather than implementing a single enterprise... View Details
Keywords: Service Operations; Service Delivery; Mathematical Methods; Applications and Software; Problems and Challenges; Customer Satisfaction; Information Technology Industry
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  • May 2006
  • Article

Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

By: Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan and Wesley Yin
We designed a commitment savings product for a Philippine bank and implemented it using a randomized control methodology. The savings product was intended for individuals who want to commit now to restrict access to their savings, and who were sophisticated enough to... View Details
Keywords: Information; Product; Philippines
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  • 17 Dec 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

life and health that one is dealing with. And the prospect of entrusting health care to a developing country had a pedagogical "shock value," too. “A lot of entrusting medical care to different locations is about a psychological fear of the unknown.” For a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 2010
  • Book

Wealth and Justice: The Morality of Democratic Capitalism

By: Peter Wehner and Arthur C. Brooks
Popular opinion would have us believe that America's free market system is driven by greed and materialism, resulting in gross inequalities of wealth, destruction of the environment, and other social ills. Even proponents of capitalism often refer to the free market as... View Details
Keywords: Capitalism; Economic Systems; Ethics; Moral Sensibility
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    Transforming Customer Engagement

    Against a backdrop of intensifying competition, rising labor costs, and ascending customer expectations, companies are actively seeking ways to do more with less – for example, compelling customers to take on new roles in the value creation process. And, when... View Details

    • September 2006
    • Supplement

    Medco Energi Internasional (CW)

    In late 2004, Hilmi Panigoro, CEO of the publicly traded Indonesian oil company Medco Energi Internasional, is striving to regain majority control of the company his brother Arifin founded in 1980. The Asian financial crisis of 1999 led to a major restructuring that... View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Restructuring; Family Business; Financing and Loans; Ownership Stake; Business and Shareholder Relations; Energy Industry; Indonesia; Singapore
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    • 03 Mar 2022
    • HBS Seminar

    Daniela Saban, Stanford

    • 15 May 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: May 15, 2007

      Working PapersI'll Have the Ice Cream Soon and the Vegetables Later: Decreasing Impatience over Time in Online Grocery Orders Authors:Todd Rogers, Katherine L. Milkman, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract How do decisions for the near future... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 24 May 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets

    Keywords: by Alvin Roth
    • August 2006 (Revised February 2009)
    • Case

    Medco Energi Internasional

    In late 2004, Hilmi Panigoro, CEO of the publicly traded Indonesian oil company Medco Energi Internasional, is striving to regain majority control of the company his brother Arifin founded in 1980. The Asian financial crisis of 1999 led to a major restructuring that... View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Family Business; Restructuring; Financing and Loans; Ownership Stake; Business and Shareholder Relations; Indonesia; Singapore
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    • 2006
    • Article

    Capital Budgeting: The Role of Cost Allocations

    By: Ian D. Gow and Stefan Reichelstein
    A common issue for firms is how to allocate capital resources to various investment alternatives. An extensive and long-standing literature in finance has examined various aspects of capital budgeting, including capital constraints, the determination of discount rates,... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Resource Allocation; Performance Evaluation; Cost Management; Research; Investment; Cash Flow; Risk Management; Performance Capacity
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    • 30 Mar 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Professional Networks in China and America

    highly intertwined in China, and it means that it will generally take much longer to build trusting business relationships in China than in the United States. Businesspeople must be willing to invest substantive time and effort... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 2006
    • Working Paper

    On the Origin of Shared Beliefs (and Corporate Culture)

    By: Eric J. Van den Steen

    This paper shows why members of an organization often share similar beliefs. I argue that there are two mechanisms. First, when performance depends on making correct decisions, people prefer to work with others who share their beliefs and assumptions, since such... View Details

    Keywords: Organizational Culture; Employees; Values and Beliefs; Mathematical Methods
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    • 03 Apr 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: April 3

    approaches. Here we speculate on one possible explanation for this organizational heterogeneity: it may reflect inherent heterogeneity of the software workforce, in terms of which kinds of organizations individual workers prefer to work... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 05 Jul 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: July 5, 2006

      Working PapersThe Framing Effect of Price Format Marco Bertini and Luc Wathieu Existing evidence suggests that preferences are affected by whether a price is presented as one all-inclusive expense or partitioned into a series of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne