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How to Launch Your Digital Platform: A Playbook for Strategists

By: Benjamin Edelman
The ubiquity of Internet access has caused a sharp rise in the number of businesses offering platforms that connect users for communication or commerce. Entrepreneurs are particularly drawn to these platforms because they create significant value and have modest... View Details
Keywords: Platforms; Launch; Mobilization Strategy; Two-Sided Platforms; Network Effects; Adoption; Entrepreneurship; Information Technology Industry; Advertising Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Transportation Industry; Financial Services Industry
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    Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Can Make You Sick - Or Keep You Well

    For too long we’ve designed buildings that haven’t focused on the people inside—their health, their ability to work effectively, and what that means for the bottom line. An authoritative introduction to a movement whose vital importance is now all too... View Details

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    Faculty & Advisors | MBA

    and a B.S. with honors in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Shalini Sharp MBA ’01, Harvard University; AB, English and American Literature, Harvard University Shalini has more than 25 years of financial and... View Details
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Distributionally Robust Causal Inference with Observational Data

    By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Kosuke Imai and Michael Lingzhi Li
    We consider the estimation of average treatment effects in observational studies and propose a new framework of robust causal inference with unobserved confounders. Our approach is based on distributionally robust optimization and proceeds in two steps. We first... View Details
    Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Mathematical Methods
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    • Research Summary

    Firm and aggregate volatility

    US publicly traded companies have become more volatile over the postwar period. This trend has been the result of increased competition in product markets through deregulation, through more intensive innovation activity, and through easier access to capital markets.... View Details

    • 2022
    • Book

    Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Can Make You Sick—or Keep You Well

    By: Joseph G. Allen and John D. Macomber
    For too long we’ve designed buildings that haven’t focused on the people inside—their health, their ability to work effectively, and what that means for the bottom line. An authoritative introduction to a movement whose vital importance is now all too clear, Healthy... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Buildings and Facilities; Health; Health Pandemics; Safety
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    • Article

    Currency Unions, Product Introductions, and the Real Exchange Rate

    By: Alberto Cavallo, Brent Neiman and Roberto Rigobon
    We use a novel dataset of online prices of identical goods sold by four large global retailers in dozens of countries to study good-level real exchange rates and their aggregated behavior. First, in contrast to the prior literature, we demonstrate that the law of one... View Details
    Keywords: Currency Union; Law Of One Price; International Prices; Global Firm; Currency Exchange Rate; Price; International Finance
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    • April 2002 (Revised February 2003)
    • Module Note

    Teaching Project Finance: An Overview of the Large-Scale Investment Course

    By: Benjamin C. Esty
    Large-Scale Investment is a case-based course about project finance for second-year MBA students. Project finance involves the creation of a legally independent project company financed with nonrecourse debt for the purpose of investing in a single-purpose industrial... View Details
    Keywords: Projects; Financing and Loans
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    • 14 Sep 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Ethnic Innovation and US Multinational Firm Activity

    Keywords: by C. Fritz Foley & William R. Kerr
    • Teaching Interest

    Large-Scale Investment (LSI, MBA Elective Curriculum)

    By: Benjamin C. Esty
    Large-Scale Investment (LSI) is a case-based course about project finance that is designed for second-year MBA students. Project finance involves the creation of a legally independent project company financed with nonrecourse debt for the purpose of investing in a... View Details
    Keywords: Project Finance; Corporate Finance; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Capital Budgeting
    • June 2021
    • Article

    Deals in the Time of Pandemic

    By: Guhan Subramanian and Caley Petrucci
    The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new attention to the period between signing and closing in M&A transactions. Transactional planners heavily negotiate the provisions that govern the behavior of the parties during this window, not only to allocate risk between the... View Details
    Keywords: Takeovers; COVID-19; Material Adverse Effect; Mergers and Acquisitions; Health Pandemics
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    • 02 Jan 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    10 Trends to Watch in 2024

    The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    No-fault Default, Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, and Financial Institutions

    By: Robert C. Merton and Richard T. Thakor
    This paper analyzes the costs and benefits of a no-fault-default debt structure as an alternative to the typical bankruptcy process. We show that the deadweight costs of bankruptcy can be avoided or substantially reduced through no-fault-default debt, which permits a... View Details
    Keywords: No-fault Default; Chapter 11; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Borrowing and Debt; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Institutions; Contracts
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    • June 2018 (Revised July 2023)
    • Case

    John Chambers, Cisco, and China: Upgrading a Golden Shield

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Emily Grandjean
    This case examines the role of Cisco led by John Chambers in facilitating web filtering in China. It begins by tracing the origins of Cisco as a pioneer of networking equipment. John Chambers, who had worked as a sales manager at IBM and Wang Laboratories, joined Cisco... View Details
    Keywords: Cisco; Internet and the Web; Governance Controls; Ethics; Rights; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Technology Industry; China
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    • 2018
    • Chapter

    The United States in Contemporary Perspectives: Evolving Forms, Strategy, and Performance

    By: David J. Collis, Bharat Anand and J. Yo-Jud Cheng
    BOOK ABSTRACT: In spite of surging interest in the business group organization among business scholars, economists, and historians in recent years, academic research on business groups has, to date, remained within the boundary of emerging markets. The major aim of... View Details
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    • 23 Aug 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: August 23

    measured by the maximum Sharpe ratio achievable. We propose a model in which menu setters differ in their ability to preselect the menu. We show that when the cost of increasing the menu size is sufficiently small, a lower-ability menu... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Do Lenders Still Discriminate? A Robust Approach for Assessing Differences in Menus

    By: David Hao Zhang and Paul Willen
    We use a new methodology to assess mortgage pricing discrimination by race. We make four main contributions. First, we show that existing estimates of mortgage pricing differences by race can be confounded by a "menu problem," which is the problem associated with... View Details
    Keywords: Mortgages; Financing and Loans; Prejudice and Bias; Race; Measurement and Metrics; Banking Industry; United States
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      Real Growth in Space Manufacturing Output Substantially Exceeds Growth in the Overall Space Economy

      Accurately measuring real economic output in the space economy is made difficult by the rapid increase in capabilities and decrease in prices of launch and satellite technologies achieved over the past two decades. Nominal measures of output in space will tend to... View Details
      • 09 Sep 2013
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Disintermediation of Financial Markets: Direct Investing in Private Equity

      Keywords: by Lily Fang, Victoria Ivashina & Josh Lerner
      • 04 Dec 2018
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

      forthcoming Entrepreneurship and Collaboration Inter-Organizational Collaboration and Start-Up Innovation By: Aggarwal, Vikas A., and Andy Wu Abstract—This chapter presents an overview of the literature on collaborative relationships between start-ups and incumbent... View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman