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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

The Bloody Millennium: Internal Conflict in South Asia

By: Lakshmi Iyer
This paper documents the short-term and long-term trends in internal conflict in South Asian countries, using multiple data sources. I find that incidents of terrorism have been rising across South Asia over the past decade, and this increase has been concentrated in... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; International Relations; National Security; Conflict Management; Poverty; South Asia
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    Strength in Numbers: The Political Power of Weak Interests

    Many consumers feel powerless in the face of big industry’s interests. And the dominant view of economic regulators (influenced by Mancur Olson’s book The Logic of Collective Action, published in 1965) agrees with them. According to this... View Details

    • Research Summary

    Teaching and Research Interests

    Professor Morris is highly regarded for his research on social judgment, the study of how people make sense of events observed in their environment (both internal and external to their work settings). One of his main emphases is on the effects of cross-cultural... View Details
    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    Geography, Poverty and Conflict in Nepal

    By: Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer
    This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the geographic, economic and social factors that contributed to the spread of civil war in Nepal over the period 1996-2006. This within-country analysis complements existing cross-country studies on the same subject. Using a... View Details
    Keywords: Geographic Location; War; Poverty; Nepal
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    • 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 19 Sep 2017
    • Webinars: Career

    Navigate Conflict and Build Stronger Relationships at Work

    Every day at work we navigate competing interests, clashing personalities, and limited time and resources. The most effective leaders know how important it is to be able to navigate difficult conversations and work through conflict to improve our relationships. View Details
    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    Media versus Special Interests

    By: Alexander Dyck, David A. Moss and Luigi Zingales
    We argue that profit-maximizing media helps overcome the problem of "rational ignorance" highlighted by Downs (1957) and in so doing makes elected representatives more sensitive to the interests of general voters. By collecting news and combining it with entertainment,... View Details
    Keywords: Voting; Government Legislation; Media; Interests; Power and Influence; United States
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    • Article

    Market Interest in Nonfinancial Information

    By: R. G. Eccles, Michael P. Krzus and George Serafeim
    Market interest in nonfinancial (e.g., Environmental, Social, and Governance [ESG]) information, including data produced by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), is growing. Using data from Bloomberg we analyze this interest from a variety of different perspectives, and... View Details
    Keywords: Markets; Analytics and Data Science; Perspective; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Corporate Disclosure; Projects; Interests
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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    LASH Risk and Interest Rates

    By: Laura Alfaro, Saleem Bahaj, Robert Czech, Jonathan Hazell and Ioana Neamtu
    We introduce a framework to understand and quantify a form of liquidity risk that we dub Liquidity After Solvency Hedging or “LASH” risk. Financial institutions take LASH risk when they hedge against losses, using strategies that lead to liquidity needs when the value... View Details
    Keywords: Liquidity; Monetary Policy; Non-bank Intermediaries; Hedging; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment Funds; Financial Condition; Interest Rates
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    • Research Summary

    Research and Publication Interests

    Michelle Craig McDonald is currently writing a Harvard Business School case study on the impact of the International Coffee Act on small producers. She is interested in early American economic development, especially the role of foreign trade and re-exported... View Details
    • 2019
    • Article

    Industrie-Holding: Creating a Community of Interest among Swiss 'Multinationals'

    By: Sabine Pitteloud
    This article focuses on the genesis and evolution of Industrie-Holding, a federation of Swiss multinationals, from 1942 onwards. Thanks to recent donations from the Alusuisse and Hero archives, historians now have access to the minutes of the Industrie-Holding... View Details
    Keywords: Business ＆ Government Relations; Multinationals; Lobbying; Business and Government Relations; Multinational Firms and Management; Switzerland
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    • Awards

    American Marketing Association. Marketing Communications Special Interest Group Best Paper Award

    By: Sunil Gupta
    Winner of the 2003 Best Paper Award from the Marketing Communications Special Interest Group of the American Marketing Association for "Long Term Impact of Promotion and Advertising on Consumer Brand Choice" (with Carl Mela and Donald R. Lehmann, Journal of... View Details
    • 1995
    • Chapter

    Egocentric Interpretations of Fairness as an Obstacle to Just Resolution of Conflict

    By: K. A. Wade-Benzoni, A. E. Tenbrunsel and M. H. Bazerman
    Keywords: Fairness; Conflict and Resolution; Perspective; Prejudice and Bias
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    • Research Summary

    General research interests

    • Effects of marketing actions on food choices, energy intake, and obesity.
    • Psychophysics of package and portion size perception and preferences.
    • Mere-measurement and self-generated validity effects in survey research.
    • Attention and choice... View Details
    • December 10, 2012
    • Article

    Capping the Deductibility of Corporate Interest Expense

    By: Robert C. Pozen and Lucas W. Goodman
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    • October 1993 (Revised March 2023)
    • Case

    Conflict on a Trading Floor (A)

    By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Jerry Useem
    A junior salesperson on FirstAmerica Bank's trading floor is assisting a top salesperson, Linda, on a deal to finance the construction of a new cruise ship for Poseidon Cruise Lines. While the terms of the deal are being worked out, he realizes Linda has taken... View Details
    Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Profit; Knowledge Use and Leverage
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    • Research Summary

    Current Research Interests

  • Employment Contract, Collective Bargaining, and Human Capital Investment
  • American Welfare Capitalists, 1910-1940
  • Political Economy of New Deal Labor Legislation
  • A Comparative Historical Analysis of Wartime Labor Regulation during W.W.II in the U.S.... View Details
    • 2015
    • Article

    Aid and the Rise and Fall of Conflict in the Muslim World

    By: Faisal Z Ahmed and Eric D. Werker
    The conflict following the Arab Spring is not the first wave of civil war in the Muslim world in recent time. From the mid-1980s to the end of the century, an average of one in 10 predominantly Muslim countries experienced violent civil war in any given year. We... View Details
    Keywords: War; International Relations; Religion; Energy Sources
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    • 01 Dec 2009
    • News

    Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty

    responsibilities,” she explains. “So to say to students ‘We have a carbon crisis, what can managers do about it?’ will be interesting.” “I’m delighted to be at Harvard. There’s a great deal of interest in... View Details
    Keywords: Margie Kelley
    • Research Summary

    General research interests

    • Implications of information technology for strategy and operations
    • Organizational knowledge, learning, and information processing
    • Business growth and scalable organizational architectures
    • Japanese busines
    • High technology... View Details
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    New Interest in Incentive Financing

    By: Samuel Hayes
    The article presents the findings of a study on incentive financings as they apply to institutional investors, particularly life insurance company investors. The author made contact with investment officers in 29 insurance companies, and have collected a considerable... View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Financing and Loans; Institutional Investing
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