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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

What Is Newsworthy? Theory and Evidence

By: Luis Armona, Matthew Gentzkow, Emir Kamenica and Jesse M. Shapiro
We study newsworthiness in theory and practice. We focus on situations in which a news outlet observes the realization of a state of the world and must decide whether to report the realization to a consumer who pays an opportunity cost to consume the report. The... View Details
Keywords: News; Mathematical Methods; Prejudice and Bias; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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  • August 2023
  • Article

Formal Employment and Organized Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Colombia

By: Gaurav Khanna, Carlos Medina, Anant Nyshadham, Jorge Tamayo and Nicolas Torres
Safety net programs, common in settings with high informality like Latin America, often use a means test to establish eligibility. We ask: in settings in which organised crime provides lucrative opportunities in the informal market, will discouraging formal employment... View Details
Keywords: Gangs; Informality; Crime and Corruption; Job Search; Recruitment; Colombia
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

The Origins of CE Marking: Standards, Business, and the European Market in the 1980s–1990s

By: Grace Ballor
Many products—from consumer electronics to machinery to children’s toys—bear the CE Mark, the symbol of conformity to the ‘essential requirements’ of European standards governed by the process of CE Marking. This working paper traces the development of the system of... View Details
Keywords: Business And Government; Market Liberalization; Standards; Markets; Trade; Integration; Business History; Globalization; Business and Government Relations; Europe; European Union
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  • Summer 2021
  • Article

Platform Leadership and Supply Chains: Intel, Centrino, and the Restructuring of Wi-Fi Supply

By: Roberto Fontana and Shane Greenstein
In this paper we examine Intel’s launch of Centrino and interpret it as platform leaders attempt to restructure a supply chain. We provide a narrative of key actions and how they coordinated changes and offer a framework of the predictable consequences for... View Details
Keywords: Mobile and Wireless Technology; Product Launch; Supply Chain; Restructuring; Framework
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Costly External Financing and Monetary Policy Transmission: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

By: Emily Williams
I provide new evidence that large and small banks have different external financing costs, which generates cross sectional variation in a deposits market pricing power channel of monetary policy transmission. I do so by exploiting a natural experiment using anti-trust... View Details
Keywords: External Financing; Monetary Policy Transmission; Experiment; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Interest Rates
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  • September 2009
  • Article

Structural Homophily or Social Asymmetry? The Formation of Alliances by Poorly Embedded Firms

By: Gautam Ahuja, Francisco Polidoro Jr. and Will Mitchell
Recent research shows that preexisting network structure constrains the formation of new interorganizational alliances. Firms that are poorly embedded in a network structure are less likely than richly embedded firms to form alliances, because they lack informational... View Details
Keywords: Interorganizational Networks; Interfirm Collaboration; Embeddedness; Networks; Joint Ventures; Alliances
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  • 10 May 2016
  • News

The Unbelievable Reality of the Impossible Hyperloop

  • 30 Mar 2017
  • HBS Seminar

David McKenzie, World Bank

    Case: The Weir Group: Reforming Executive Pay (A)

    In February 2018, the Remuneration Committee together with the full Board of Directors of the Scotland-based engineering company The Weir Group had to decide whether to seek a shareholder vote at the upcoming Annual General Meeting in April on a proposal to... View Details
    • Web

    Courses - Entrepreneurship

    estate developers to inventors. TEM will give students the opportunity to hone their skills in identifying and testing business opportunities, decomposing complex business problems, determining what decisions the responsible business... View Details

      Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

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      • 22 Aug 2012
      • Working Paper Summaries

      A Randomized Field Study of a Leadership WalkRounds™-Based Intervention

      Background: Leadership WalkRounds have been widely adopted as a technique for improving patient safety and safety climate. WalkRounds involve senior managers directly observing frontline work and soliciting employees' ideas about improvement opportunities. However, the... View Details
      Keywords: by Anita L. Tucker & Sara J. Singer; Health
      • Web

      Program Requirements - Doctoral

      by completing a teaching fellow or instructor assignment at a Harvard University. Qualifying Exams Health Policy General Exam: This exam tests candidate’s general knowledge of health policy topics. At the conclusion of the second year of... View Details
      • 02 Feb 2007
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States

      Keywords: by David H. Autor, William R. Kerr & Adriana D. Kugler
      • January 2019
      • Article

      Wage Elasticities in Working and Volunteering: The Role of Reference Points in a Laboratory Study

      By: Christine L. Exley and Stephen J. Terry
      We experimentally test how effort responds to wages—randomly assigned to accrue to individuals or to a charity—in the presence of expectations-based reference points or targets. When individuals earn money for themselves, higher wages lead to higher effort with... View Details
      Keywords: Reference Points; Wage Elasticities; Labor Supply; Effor; Volunteering; Prosocial Behavior; Wages; Motivation and Incentives; Nonprofit Organizations; Behavior
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      • July 2016 (Revised June 2019)
      • Case

      Hamilton: An American Musical

      By: Anita Elberse and Jennifer Schoppe
      In July 2013, composer, writer, actor and rapper Lin-Manuel Miranda, director Tommy Kail, and producer Jeffrey Seller met to discuss how to launch Hamilton, a new musical based on the life of the first Treasury Secretary of the United States, Alexander Hamilton.... View Details
      Keywords: Entertainment; Creative Industries; Performing Arts; (General) Management; Blockbusters; Non-profit; Theater Entertainment; Strategy; Risk Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Arts; Creativity; Product Launch; Product Development; Marketing; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
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      • January 2010
      • Article

      Does Public Ownership of Equity Improve Earnings Quality?

      We compare the quality of accounting numbers produced by two types of public firms-those with publicly traded equity and those with privately held equity that are nonetheless considered public by virtue of having publicly traded debt. We develop and test two... View Details
      Keywords: Private Equity; Business Earnings; Public Equity
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      • 19 Feb 2020
      • News

      Breaking the Salary Sharing Taboo

        Accounting for Crises

        While neoclassical models suggest that improving the quality of financial information tightens the link between the realization of the information and the underlying fundamentals, models of recent crises suggest that higher information quality can generate... View Details
        • 07 Jul 2022
        • HBS Case

        How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)

        flourishes in Brooklyn In summer 2010, Smith and Cuscuna got serious about selling their homemade ice cream. They opened a pushcart during a neighborhood arts festival, where they could test flavors with the public—a smart move, says... View Details
        Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds