Economies Of Scope - Publications - Faculty & Research

2003
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A Review of Commitment Savings Products in Developing Countries

By: Nava Ashraf, Nathalie Gons, Dean Karlan and Wesley Yin

Keywords: Saving; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Instruments

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30 Sep 2013
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Mice, leaks, holes: 40% of metro homes have hazards

December 2011
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Platform Envelopment

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker and Marshall Van Alstyne

Due to network effects and switching costs in platform markets, entrants generally must offer revolutionary functionality. We explore a second entry path that does not rely upon Schumpeterian innovation: platform envelopment. Through envelopment, a provider in one... View Details

Keywords: Digital Platforms; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Economic Systems; Development Economics; Business or Company Management; Business Strategy; Network Effects; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry

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13 Feb 2017
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A guide for CEOs in the age of Trump

2004
Other Unpublished Work

Just Jobs? China and the Geopolitics of Virtuous Production

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Production; Globalized Economies and Regions; International Relations; Trade; China

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12 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions

interview. "The start of properly regulating the economy is to understand how regulation is made, and this means forgetting what we thought we knew about the weakness of... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

19 Mar 2018
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The Unintended Consequences Of Starting A Trade War With Mexico

19 Jan 2021
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Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

Joseph R. Biden Jr. becomes the 46th president of the United States at a time when the nation is grappling with several sober realities at once: a deadly pandemic that is claiming the lives of thousands... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

October 2016
Supplement

Airbnb in Amsterdam (B)

By: Mitchell Weiss, Emer Moloney and Vincent Dessain

In December 2014, Amsterdam and Airbnb announced an MOU to promote responsible home sharing and to simplify the payment of tourist tax for hosts in the city. It was the most comprehensive agreement that Airbnb had with any city in the world. Its final provision read,... View Details

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May 2018
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A Cross-Country Comparison of Dynamics in the Large Firm Wage Premium

By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Joacim Tag, Michael Webb and Stefanie Wolter

We provide stylized facts on the existence and dynamics over time of the large firm wage premium for four countries. We examine matched employer-employee micro-data from Brazil, Germany, Sweden, and the UK, and find that the large firm premium exists in all these... View Details

Keywords: Large Firms; Wages; Global Range; Sweden; United Kingdom; Brazil; Germany

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01 Apr 1997
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Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT

framework for IT baselining and planning, is examining how the new information economy is transforming the traditional management principles of the industrial economy. Nolan is studying, for example, how IT... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb

2004
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The Globalization of Markets' Revisited: Japan After Twenty Years

By: Hirotaka Takeuchi

Keywords: History; Globalized Economies and Regions; Globalized Markets and Industries; Japan

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29 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?

Several factors are generating a tailwind for the recovery, although it varies from market to market. In large measure it has to do with improvement in the economy as a whole, household formation (that is, children moving out View Details

Keywords: Construction; Real Estate

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Credential of Digital Innovation and Strategy | HBS Online

Exercises Advise a startup platform, Picabuu, on how it can capture value, anticipate challenges, acquire new customers, and scale Define the most important characteristics of economies View Details

2024
Book

Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How Technology Is Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity

By: Karen G. Mills

The second edition of Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream, builds on the groundbreaking 2019 book with new insights on how technology and artificial intelligence are transforming small business lending. This ambitious view covers the significance of... View Details

Keywords: Fintech; AI; AI and Machine Learning; Small Business; Economy; Technology Adoption; Credit; Financing and Loans; Analytics and Data Science

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28 Jan 2016
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What Flint's Water Crisis Means For The Future of U.S. Cities

24 Mar 2015
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Paid Parental Leave, Olympics Reversal & Anniversary Of Back Bay Fire

21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

Harvard Gazette How invasion may hit U.S., global economies [Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard] Kenneth Rogoff sees possible... View Details