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  • May 2021
  • Article

Ideology and Composition Among an Online Crowd: Evidence From Wikipedians

By: Shane Greenstein, Grace Gu and Feng Zhu
Online communities bring together participants from diverse backgrounds and often face challenges in aggregating their opinions. We infer lessons from the experience of individual contributors to Wikipedia articles about U.S. politics. We identify two factors that... View Details
Keywords: User Segregation; Online Community; Contested Knowledge; Collective Intelligence; Ideology; Bias; Wikipedia; Knowledge Sharing; Perspective; Government and Politics
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  • March 2006 (Revised November 2006)
  • Case

China: To Float or Not To Float? (D)- Bank of America's Strategic Investment in China Construction Bank

By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
With its $3 billion investment in Chinese state bank China Construction Bank, Bank of America--the second U.S. bank behind Citigroup in terms of assets and market capitalization--was one of several foreign banks directly participating in China's banking sector reform.... View Details
Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Banks and Banking; Foreign Direct Investment; International Relations; Banking Industry; China; United States
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  • 19 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 19

fundamentals are significantly lower only in low precision countries. Publisher's link: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1160416   Working Papers Path-Breakers: How Does Women's Political Participation Respond to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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HBS Book Negotiation: The Game Has Changed By: Max Bazerman The world has changed dramatically in just the past few years—and so has the game of negotiation. COVID-19, Zoom, political polarization, the online economy, increasing economic... View Details
  • 04 Jun 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Coming Clean and Cleaning Up: Is Voluntary Disclosure a Signal of Effective Self-Policing?

Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel & Jodi L. Short

    Strict ID Laws Don't Stop Voters: Evidence form a U.S. Nationwide Panel, 2008-2018

    U.S. states increasingly require identification to vote—an ostensible attempt to deter fraud that prompts complaints of selective disenfranchisement. Using a difference-in-differences design on a panel data set with 1.6 billion observations, 2008–2018, we find that... View Details

      Clayton S. Rose

      Clayton Rose is Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice. He currently teaches the course Accountability in the Advanced Management Program. His research is focused on the how leaders can manage the challenges created by the intense, varied and often... View Details

      Keywords: financial services
      • 18 Nov 2011
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying

      Keywords: by William R. Kerr, William Lincoln & Prachi Mishra
      • 16 Mar 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: March 16

      despite having institutions that limited political participation for the masses (Lindert, 2004; Engerman, Mariscal, and Sokoloff, 2009) and having one of the worst colonial institutional legacies of the... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • Program

      Senior Executive Program—Africa

      Summary African countries face a distinct set of social, economic, and political conditions that create unique business challenges—along with exciting opportunities. To gain a competitive advantage, businesses across the continent need... View Details
      • 17 Jan 2013
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size: Evidence from India

      Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Anusha Chari
      • 06 Feb 2014
      • HBS Seminar

      Karthik Ramanna, Harvard Business School

      • 01 Jan 2015
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Lobbying Behavior of Governmental Entities: Evidence from Public Pension Accounting Rules

      Keywords: by Abigail M. Allen & Reining Petacchi
      • February 2016 (Revised May 2016)
      • Case

      Blue Origin, NASA, and New Space (A)

      By: Matthew Weinzierl and Angela Acocella
      Jeff Bezos, six years after starting a revolution in retailing with Amazon.com, turned his life-long passion for space into a start-up, Blue Origin. Blue (as it was called) was a part of the New Space industry, a collection of startup aerospace engineering companies... View Details
      Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Partners and Partnerships; Transportation; Business Startups; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations; Aerospace Industry
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      Senior Executive Leadership Program—Middle East

      Summary Change is everywhere in the Middle East today, as many countries seek to diversify their economies and encourage new industries. The region's complex business environment includes distinct political and economic conditions in each... View Details
      • 10 Apr 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: April 10

      justify the actions of this individual and to behave more selfishly and less ethically themselves. We also establish the mechanism explaining this effect: when participants felt psychologically close to someone who had behaved selfishly,... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • 19 Mar 2013
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Carry Trade and Exchange-Rate Regimes

      Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Fabio Kanczuk
      • 2024
      • Working Paper

      Do Information Frictions and Corruption Perceptions Kill Competition? A Field Experiment on Public Procurement in Uganda

      By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Francesco Loiacono, Edwin Muhumuza and Edoardo Teso
      We study whether information frictions and corruption perceptions deter firms from doing business with the government. We conduct two nationwide randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in collaboration with the national public procurement supervisory and anti-corruption... View Details
      Keywords: Knowledge Use and Leverage; Government and Politics; Crime and Corruption; Trust; Perception; Business and Government Relations
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      • 27 Jan 2015
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      First Look: January 27

      Abstract—The current research demonstrates that authenticity is directly linked to morality. Across five experiments, we found that experiencing inauthenticity consistently led participants to feel more immoral and impure. This... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • March 2005
      • Case

      Tribune Company: The PHONES Proposal

      The Tribune Co. is considering issuing a structured note to monetize its investment in another company, America Online (AOL). Tribune originally invested in AOL in 1991 and currently has approximately 10 million shares left of that investment. However, these shares are... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Instruments; Taxation; Investment; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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