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  • August 2018
  • Article

Growth Through Heterogeneous Innovations

By: Ufuk Akcigit and William R. Kerr
We build a tractable growth model where multi-product incumbents invest in internal innovations to improve their existing products, while new entrants and incumbents invest in external innovations to acquire new product lines. External and internal innovations generate... View Details
Keywords: Endogenous Growth; Innovation; Citations; Scientists; Entrepreneurs; External; Internal; Patents; Innovation Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Economic Growth; Research and Development; Science
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    Ethan S. Bernstein

    Ethan Bernstein (@ethanbernstein) is an associate professor in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. He has spent his career researching novel talent management practices and their effect on employee behavior, collaboration, and performance.... View Details

    • January 2011
    • Article

    Building a Better America—One Wealth Quintile at a Time

    By: Michael I. Norton and Dan Ariely
    Disagreements about the optimal level of wealth inequality underlie policy debates ranging from taxation to welfare. We attempt to insert the desires of "regular" Americans into these debates, by asking a nationally representative online panel to estimate the current... View Details
    Keywords: Taxation; Policy; Perspective; Wealth; Equality and Inequality; Income; Demography; Debates; Welfare; Diversity; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; United States
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    • 28 Jan 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes

    Keywords: by William R. Kerr & Scott Duke Kominers; Technology
    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    The Impact of the General Data Protection Regulation on Internet Interconnection

    By: Ran Zhuo, Bradley Huffaker, KC Claffy and Shane Greenstein
    The Internet comprises thousands of independently operated networks, where bilaterally negotiated interconnection agreements determine the flow of data between networks. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) imposes strict restrictions on... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Data; Privacy Regulation; GDPR; Interconnection Agreements; Internet and the Web; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; European Union
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    • 23 Apr 2015
    • News

    How to Deal with Selfish Coworkers

    • 29 Nov 2017
    • News

    People Like People Who Ask Questions Listen

    • 12 Mar 2013
    • News

    Anthropology Inc.

    • 06 Sep 2012
    • News

    Why Boring Political Conventions Are Better

    • Article

    Causal Inference in Accounting Research

    By: Ian D. Gow, David F. Larcker and Peter C. Reiss
    This paper examines the approaches accounting researchers use to draw causal inferences using observational (or non-experimental) data. The vast majority of accounting research papers draws causal inferences notwithstanding the well-known difficulties in doing so with... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Research
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    • 05 May 2011
    • News

    What do bosses do all day?

    • 08 Oct 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Developing Theory Using Machine Learning Methods

    Keywords: by Prithwiraj Choudhury, Ryan Allen, and Michael G. Endres
    • March 2018 (Revised July 2018)
    • Case

    Whole Foods Under Amazon

    By: Dennis Campbell, Tatiana Sandino, James Barnett and Christine Snively
    In August 2017, Amazon acquired Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion. Whole Foods was struggling with high costs and faced growing competition from traditional supermarkets offering more organic products. Prior to the acquisition, Whole Foods began rolling out a new... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Efficiency; Performance Improvement; Employee Relationship Management; Acquisition; Change Management; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry
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    • Research Summary

    MBAX2

    Research in progress. A study of HBS's dual MBA couples and their family and work decisions. This research continues the observations about the critical dimensions of lasting success identified by Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson in their book, Just Enough: Tools for... View Details
    • 27 Jul 2021
    • News

    Chasing Election Integrity: Strict Voter ID Laws’ Impact on Turnout and Fraud

      Managing Your Team's "Dissensus"

      Have you ever been in a team meeting and wondered something like, "Why did the boss gave Jamie that assignment? I think Susan is a better match for the job." Or observed a colleague asking another for help and thought, "It never occurred to me to... View Details

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      Overview

      Observing how globalization and technological innovation are transforming economies, Professor Steinwender is motivated by understanding what drives these factors. She uses the careful empirical identification of causal effects—and often the lens of history—to examine... View Details
      Keywords: Economic History; Productivity; Innovation; Information Technology; Telegraph; Technological Change; Firm Behavior
      • 11 Nov 2010
      • News

      How best to ride the tiger

      • February 2010
      • Case

      Saginaw Parts Co. and the General Motors Corp. Credit Default Swap

      By: William E. Fruhan
      This two-page case demonstrates how to unbundle the cost of credit extensions from product prices by observing the price of a credit default swap. It also explores how credit default swaps work, and how trade creditors are treated under U.S. bankruptcy law. Finally it... View Details
      Keywords: Trade; Credit; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Laws and Statutes; Risk Management; Auto Industry; United States
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      • 28 Nov 2017
      • Video

      Blavatnik Fellow Creates Virtual Brain Biopsy Software