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  • September 2009
  • Article

Finance and Politics: A Review Essay Based on Kenneth Dam's Analysis of Legal Traditions in The Law-Growth Nexus

By: Mark J. Roe and Jordan I. Siegel
Strong financial markets are widely thought to propel economic development, with many in finance seeing legal tradition as fundamental to protecting investors sufficiently for finance to flourish. Kenneth Dam finds that the legal tradition view inaccurately portrays... View Details
Keywords: Financial Development; Economic Development; Kenneth Dam; Finance; Government and Politics; Information; Law
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    Airbnb in Amsterdam

    In February 2014, Amsterdam became the first city to issue new regulations specifically to allow home-sharing. Airbnb's Molly Turner, Global Head of Civic Partnerships; her colleagues at the San Francisco based home-sharing platform; and her counterparts in... View Details
    • March 2020
    • Article

    Explaining the Persistence of Gender Inequality: The Work-family Narrative as a Social Defense Against 24/7 Work Culture

    By: Irene Padavic, Robin J. Ely and Erin M. Reid
    It is widely accepted that the conflict between women’s family obligations and professional jobs’ long hours lies at the heart of their stalled advancement. Yet research suggests that this “work-family narrative” is incomplete: men also experience it and nevertheless... View Details
    Keywords: 24/7 Work Culture; Hegemonic Narrative; Social Defense; Work-family Conflict; Systems-psychodynamic Theory; Work-Life Balance; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Organizational Culture
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    • 17 Dec 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: December 17

    http://www.amazon.com/Can-China-Lead-Reaching-Limits/dp/1422144151 August 2013 Princeton University Press The Empire Trap: The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893-2013 By: Maurer, Noel... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • Research Summary

    1. When Does Industrial Policy Work? Evidence from the Brazilian Ethanol Fuel Industry

    Joint work with Tarun Khanna (Strategy Unit, Harvard Business School).

    Abstract: What is the impact of a state-led industrial policy program on entrepreneurial activity, industry... View Details

    • October 2016 (Revised March 2017)
    • Case

    Airbnb in Amsterdam (A)

    By: Mitchell Weiss, Emer Moloney and Vincent Dessain
    In February 2014, Amsterdam became the first city to issue new regulations specifically to allow home sharing. Airbnb's Molly Turner, global head of civic partnerships; her colleagues at the San Francisco–based home sharing platform; and her counterparts in Amsterdam's... View Details
    Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Sharing Economy; Amsterdam; Airbnb; Molly Turner; Regulation; Homesharing; Tourism; Business And Government; Public-private Partnership; Entrepreneurship; Business and Government Relations; Government Administration; Public Sector; City; Tourism Industry; Public Administration Industry; Travel Industry; Netherlands; Europe
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    • 30 Jan 2018
    • First Look

    January 30, 2018

    practice related to AI in developing countries. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52296 December 2017 Journal of Advertising Research Rethinking the Profession Formerly Known as Advertising: How Data... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 28 Apr 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    Earth Day Reflections

    water consumption in the firm's factories. The juxtaposition of information on both operations and CSR symbolizes the company's commitment to more than just the bottom line and its belief that both sets of data have a significant impact... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • 04 Jan 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: January 4

    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... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • Web

    Faculty & Research

    Article | Harvard Business Review Joy, along with achievement and meaningfulness, is one of the three keys to a satisfying life. Yet it’s the missing piece for many ambitious individuals, the authors found after examining data on how... View Details
    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    EMEs and COVID-19: Shutting Down in a World of Informal and Tiny Firms

    By: Laura Alfaro, Oscar Becerra and Marcela Eslava
    Emerging economies are characterized by an extremely high prevalence of informality, small-firm employment and jobs not fit for working from home. These features factor into how the COVID-19 crisis has affected the economy. We develop a framework that, based on... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Emerging Economies; Informality; Firm-size Distribution; Health Pandemics; Developing Countries and Economies; Economy; System Shocks; Latin America
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    • 05 Sep 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: September 5, 2006

    (August 2006): 595-623 Abstract There is a widespread belief that increases in the cross-border integration of markets are associated with increases in global concentration along various dimensions. This article reviews the available evidence and presents new View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 25 Jul 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

    Using data from Boston, we show that reserve and precedence adjustments have similar quantitative effects. Our results illustrate that policies about precedence, heretofore underexplored, are inseparable from other aspects of admissions... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 09 Feb 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Do Corporate Social Responsibility Ratings Predict Corporate Social Performance?

    Keywords: by Aaron K. Chatterji, David I. Levine & Michael W. Toffel
    • 13 Feb 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: February 13, 2007

      Working PapersAdding Bricks to Clicks: The Effects of Store Openings on Sales through Direct Channels Authors:Jill Avery, Mary Caravella, John Deighton, and Thomas Steenburgh Abstract We assess the effect of opening physical retail stores on direct channel sales. Our... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 17 Apr 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Poverty and Crime: Evidence from Rainfall and Trade Shocks in India

    Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer & Petia Topalova
    • 02 Oct 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: October 2, 2007

    anticipated that digital media using rich profiling data would intrude marketing messaging more deeply and more precisely into consumer lives than broadcast media had been able to do. But the technology that threatened intrusion is... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 31 Mar 2022
    • Blog Post

    Setting Interns Up for Success at Your Startup

    At a young, growing company, there is always more work to be done. There are strategies to build, projects to complete, partnerships to forge, data to crunch, employees to develop – the list goes on. That’s why bringing on an intern to... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship
    • 08 Sep 2015
    • First Look

    September 8, 2015

    the need for increased upfront financing, but this protection lowers the real option value of the new venture. In equilibrium, financing risk disproportionately impacts innovative ventures with the greatest real option value. We propose... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 26 Sep 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

    data for themselves and look forward to the new questions they can tackle with it. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53265 forthcoming Boston University Law Review Troll Check? A Proposal for Administrative... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne