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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Noncompetes and Inventor Mobility: Specialists, Stars, and the Michigan Experiment

Several scholars have documented the positive consequences of job-hopping by inventors, including knowledge spillovers and agglomeration and the concentration of spinoffs. This work investigates a possible antecedent of inventor mobility: regional variation in the... View Details
Keywords: Contracts; Laws and Statutes; Intellectual Property; Innovation and Invention; Michigan
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Marx, Matt, Deborah Strumsky, and Lee Fleming. "Noncompetes and Inventor Mobility: Specialists, Stars, and the Michigan Experiment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-042, January 2007.
  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Executive Development Programs Enter the Digital Matrix: I. Disrupting the Demand Landscape

By: Das Narayandas and Mihnea C. Moldoveanu
Executive development programs have entered a period of disruption catalyzed by the digitalization of content, connectivity, and communication and are driven by renewed demand for high-level executive and managerial skills. Unlike other segments of higher education,... View Details
Keywords: Executive Education; Internet and the Web; Disruption; Management Skills; Leadership Development
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Narayandas, Das, and Mihnea C. Moldoveanu. "Executive Development Programs Enter the Digital Matrix: I. Disrupting the Demand Landscape." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-020, September 2016. (Revised June 2018.)
  • October 2000 (Revised May 2001)
  • Case

Editora Abril S.A.

By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Perry Fagan
Brazil's media conglomerate Editora Abril S.A. is Latin America's largest publishing and printing company; it publishes books, and comic books, videos, maps, travel guides, music, and textbooks. It also owns Brazil's largest database marketing company, its... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Communications; Market Design; Media; Service Delivery; Private Ownership; Expansion; Web Sites; Publishing Industry; Service Industry; Brazil
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Yoshino, Michael Y., and Perry Fagan. "Editora Abril S.A." Harvard Business School Case 301-062, October 2000. (Revised May 2001.)
  • 2010
  • Chapter

The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors

By: William R. Kerr
The ethnic composition of US inventors is undergoing a significant transformation - with deep impacts for the overall agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends with greater detail.... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Geographic Location; Patents; Ethnicity; City; Innovation and Invention; United States
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Kerr, William R. "The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors." In Agglomeration Economics, edited by Edward Glaeser, 237–276. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Measuring the Tolerance of the State: Theory and Application to Protest

By: Veli Andirin, Yusuf Neggers, Mehdi Shadmehr and Jesse M. Shapiro
We develop a measure of a regime's tolerance for an action by its citizens. We ground our measure in an economic model and apply it to the setting of political protest. In the model, a regime anticipating a protest can take a costly action to repress it. We define the... View Details
Keywords: Political Protests; Modeling And Analysis; Government and Politics; Conflict and Resolution
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Andirin, Veli, Yusuf Neggers, Mehdi Shadmehr, and Jesse M. Shapiro. "Measuring the Tolerance of the State: Theory and Application to Protest." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 30167, June 2022.
  • 2015
  • Case

Fine Harvest Restaurant Group (cases A and B)

By: Clara (Xiaoling) Chen, Kenneth A. Merchant, Tatiana Sandino and Wim A. Van der Stede
The Fine Harvest Restaurant Group cases A and B examine a company's design of a new system to evaluate the performance (and determine the bonuses) for its restaurant managers. Fine Harvest had traditionally evaluated restaurant managers based on store margins and had... View Details
Keywords: Incentive Systems; Relative Performance Evaluation; Restaurant Industry; Accounting; Economics; Human Resources; Measurement and Metrics; Labor; Performance; Salesforce Management; Retail Industry; North and Central America
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Chen, Clara (Xiaoling), Kenneth A. Merchant, Tatiana Sandino, and Wim A. Van der Stede. "Fine Harvest Restaurant Group (cases A and B)." University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business Case, 2015.

    What about the race between education and technology in the Global South? Comparing skill premiums in colonial Africa and Asia

    Historical research on the race between education and technology has focused on the West but barely touched upon ‘the rest’. A new occupational wage database for 50 African and... View Details

    • 26 Apr 2019
    • HBS Seminar

    Maryaline Catillon, Harvard University

    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    Information Provision and Innovation: Natural Experiment of Herbal Patent Prior Art Adoption at the United States and European Patent Offices

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna
    We exploit a natural experiment to study how codifying information about prior innovation affects subsequent innovation. A codified database of traditional Indian herbal formulations was adopted by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the U.S. Patent and Trademark... View Details
    Keywords: Patents; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Ethnicity; Health Care and Treatment; Pharmaceutical Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; China; India
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    Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Tarun Khanna. "Information Provision and Innovation: Natural Experiment of Herbal Patent Prior Art Adoption at the United States and European Patent Offices." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-079, February 2014. (Revised January 2018.)
    • January 1994
    • Article

    Foreign Multinationals in British Manufacturing, 1850-1962

    By: G. Jones and Frances Bostock
    This article draws on a new database to describe the dimensions and characteristics of 685 foreign companies which established British manufacturing subsidiaries between 1850 and 1962. The numbers of foreign companies grew from the 1890s, expanded rapidly in the... View Details
    Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Business Subsidiaries; Expansion; Chemicals; Metals and Minerals; Food; Mergers and Acquisitions; Market Entry and Exit; Research and Development; Trade; Investment; Production; United Kingdom; United States; Scotland; Wales
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    Jones, G., and Frances Bostock. "Foreign Multinationals in British Manufacturing, 1850-1962." Business History 36, no. 1 (January 1994): 89–126.
    • August 2008
    • Article

    Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion

    By: William R. Kerr
    This study explores the importance of knowledge transfer for international technology diffusion by examining ethnic scientific and entrepreneurial communities in the US and their ties to their home countries. US ethnic research communities are quantified by applying an... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Ethnicity; Production; Integration; Knowledge Sharing; Patents; Employment; Performance Productivity; Entrepreneurship; Change; Developing Countries and Economies; Immigration; China; United States
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    Kerr, William R. "Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion." Review of Economics and Statistics 90, no. 3 (August 2008): 518–537.
    • 05 Dec 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: December 5, 2006

      Working PapersThe Industry R&D Survey — Patent Database Link Project Authors:William R. Kerr and Shihe Fu Abstract This paper details the construction of a firm-year panel dataset combining the NBER Patent Dataset with the Industry... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • February 2000
    • Case

    E2M Health Services

    By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Naomi Atkins
    Outlines the growth of an innovative diabetes disease management organization from 1994-99. Having demonstrated the success of their model in managing diabetes populations in Texas and New York State, the CEO and president must decide the future strategy of the company... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Markets; Revenue; Innovation and Invention; Business or Company Management; Marketing Strategy; Internet; Health Industry
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    Bohmer, Richard M.J., and Naomi Atkins. "E2M Health Services." Harvard Business School Case 600-077, February 2000.
    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Private Equity and Workers: Modeling and Measuring Monopsony, Implicit Contracts, and Efficient Reallocation

    By: Kyle Herkenhoff, Josh Lerner, Gordon M. Phillips, Francisca Rebelo and Benjamin Sampson
    We measure the real effects of private equity buyouts on worker outcomes by building a new database that links transactions to matched employer-employee data in the United States. To guide our empirical analysis, we derive testable implications from three theories in... View Details
    Keywords: Monopsony; Market Power; Productivity; Private Equity; Employment; Wages; Employees
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    Herkenhoff, Kyle, Josh Lerner, Gordon M. Phillips, Francisca Rebelo, and Benjamin Sampson. "Private Equity and Workers: Modeling and Measuring Monopsony, Implicit Contracts, and Efficient Reallocation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-046, March 2025. (Revised June 2025.)
    • August 2020
    • Article

    A History of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs in the United States: Political Appeal and Public Health Efficacy

    By: A Jay Holmgren, Alyssa Botelho and Allan M Brandt
    Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) have become a widely embraced policy to address the US opioid crisis. Despite mixed scientific evidence on their effectiveness at improving health and reducing overdose deaths, 49 states and Washington, DC have adopted... View Details
    Keywords: Health Disorders; Information Technology; Programs; Technology Adoption; History; Government and Politics; Policy; United States
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    Holmgren, A Jay, Alyssa Botelho, and Allan M Brandt. "A History of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs in the United States: Political Appeal and Public Health Efficacy." American Journal of Public Health 110, no. 8 (August 2020).
    • 2003
    • Working Paper

    The Flattening Firm: Evidence from Panel Data on the Changing Nature of Corporate Hierarchies

    By: Raghuram G. Rajan and Julie Wulf
    Using a detailed database of managerial job descriptions, reporting relationships, and compensation structures in over 300 large U.S. firms, we find that firm hierarchies are becoming flatter. The number of positions reporting directly to the CEO has gone up... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Structure; Managerial Roles; Jobs and Positions; United States
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    Rajan, Raghuram G., and Julie Wulf. "The Flattening Firm: Evidence from Panel Data on the Changing Nature of Corporate Hierarchies." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 9633, April 2003. (Published in Review of Economics & Statistics 2006.)
    • November 2006
    • Article

    The Flattening Firm: Evidence from Panel Data on the Changing Nature of Corporate Hierarchies

    By: Raghuram G. Rajan and Julie Wulf
    Using a detailed database of managerial job descriptions, reporting relationships, and compensation structures in over 300 large U.S. firms, we find that firm hierarchies are becoming flatter. The number of positions reporting directly to the CEO has gone up... View Details
    Keywords: Geographic Location; Change; Business Ventures; Compensation and Benefits; Rank and Position; Wages; Motivation and Incentives; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Jobs and Positions; United States
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    Rajan, Raghuram G., and Julie Wulf. "The Flattening Firm: Evidence from Panel Data on the Changing Nature of Corporate Hierarchies." Review of Economics and Statistics 88, no. 4 (November 2006): 759–773.
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    Small Worlds and Regional Innovation

    Small-world networks have attracted much theoretical attention and are widely thought to enhance creativity. Yet empirical studies of their evolution and evidence of their benefits remain scarce. We develop and exploit a novel database on patent coauthorship to... View Details
    Keywords: Geographic Location; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Patents; Performance Productivity; Creativity; Social and Collaborative Networks
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    Fleming, Lee, Charles King III, and Adam Juda. "Small Worlds and Regional Innovation." Organization Science 18, no. 6 (November–December 2007).

      Trends and Predictors of Biomedical Research Quality, 1990-2015

      This work leverages the strengths of expert human assessments of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) included in Cochrane reviews with data science techniques to build a comprehensive database on biomedical research quality. The data links the full-text and... View Details

      • October 2021
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      Can European Electric Utilities Manage Asset Impairments Arising from Net Zero Targets?

      By: Conor Hickey, John O'Brien, Ben Caldecott, Celine McInerney and Brian O' Gallachoir
      This paper develops a framework to assess the ability of electric utilities to sustain the forced impairment of carbon emitting power plants and applies it to the European market. We present a new method to measure asset impairment, for both the company and the... View Details
      Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Environmental Regulation; Transition; Utilities Industry; Europe
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      Hickey, Conor, John O'Brien, Ben Caldecott, Celine McInerney, and Brian O' Gallachoir. "Can European Electric Utilities Manage Asset Impairments Arising from Net Zero Targets?" Art. 102075. Journal of Corporate Finance 70 (October 2021).
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