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  • 26 Dec 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Reinforcing Regulatory Regimes: How States, Civil Society, and Codes of Conduct Promote Adherence to Global Labor Standards

Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel, Jodi L. Short & Melissa Ouellet
  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Tracking the Short-Run Price Impact of U.S. Tariffs

By: Alberto Cavallo, Paola Llamas and Franco Vazquez
This paper examines the short-run impact of the 2025 U.S. tariffs on consumer prices using a unique integration of high-frequency retail pricing data, product-level country-of-origin information, and detailed tariff classifications. By linking daily prices from major... View Details
Keywords: Tariffs; Trade; Price; Inflation and Deflation
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  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Discrimination, Rejection, and Job Search

By: Anne Boring, Katherine Coffman, Dylan Glover and María José González-Fuentes
We investigate how candidates’ willingness to apply responds to (potential) discrimination and rejection using a simulated labor market. Past work has shown that “blinding” job applications reduces discrimination and increases the rate at which women are hired. Our... View Details
Keywords: Job Search; Prejudice and Bias; Selection and Staffing; Demographics
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  • May 2023
  • Case

Natural Gas in New England

By: Robin Greenwood, Richard S. Ruback and Gil Highet
Participants in the New England power market are exploring several strategies to meet the region's renewable power goals while also providing its residents with inexpensive and reliable electricity and heating fuel. New England was a first-mover into natural gas power... View Details
Keywords: Natural Gas; Energy; Energy Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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  • 11 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

foundations of strategic costing systems. The breakthrough came by combining an idea I had while writing Cost & Effect with an innovation developed by Steve Anderson, an HBS MBA, who was a student in my second-year elective, Cost... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • May 1998
  • Article

Market Structure, Innovation and Vertical Product Differentiation

By: Shane Greenstein and Garey Ramey
We reassess Arrow's (1962) [Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention, in NBER, The Rate and Direction of Innovative Activity (Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ)] results concerning the effect of market structure on the returns from process... View Details
Keywords: Product; Market Design; Innovation and Invention; Monopoly; Competition
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    Robert S. Kaplan

    Robert S. Kaplan is Senior Fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He joined the HBS faculty in 1984 after spending 16 years on the faculty of the business school at Carnegie-Mellon University, where he... View Details

    Keywords: health care; nonprofit industry
    • Research Summary

    Managing the Manufacturer-Retailer Interface

    By: Janice H. Hammond
    Janice H. Hammond is studying the impact of coordination on the performance of manufacturing and retail channels. The focus of her research is on the supply "channel", the set of firms that undertakes the chain of activities that begins with acquisition of raw... View Details
    • November 2004 (Revised November 2005)
    • Case

    Kodak and The Digital Revolution (A)

    By: Giovanni M. Gavetti, Rebecca Henderson and Simona Giorgi
    The introduction of digital imaging in the late 1980s had a disruptive effect on Kodak's traditional business model. Examines Kodak's strategic efforts and challenges as the photography industry evolves. After discussing Kodak's history and its past strategic moves in... View Details
    Keywords: History; Information Technology; Business Model; Leadership; Disruption; Industry Growth; Business Strategy; Consumer Products Industry
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    • 21 Jun 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Information Technology and Boundary of the Firm: Evidence from Plant-Level Data

    Keywords: by Chris Forman & Kristina McElheran
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Priceless: How to Create, Trade, and Protect What Matters Most

    By: Debora L. Spar
    This article explores the concept of the "sacred economy," a realm of human interactions and exchanges that transcends traditional market dynamics. It illustrates the emotional and relational aspects of human connections that cannot be quantified or traded like... View Details
    Keywords: Valuation; Relationships; Human Needs; Goods and Commodities
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Investment Timing with Costly Search for Financing

    By: Samuel Antill
    I develop a dynamic model of investment timing in which firms must first choose when to search for external financing. Search is costly and the arrival of investors is uncertain, leading to delay in financing and investment. Depending on parameters, my model can... View Details
    Keywords: Real Options; Search And Bargaining; Time-varying Financial Conditions; Investment; Venture Capital; Mathematical Methods
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    • 14 Apr 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: April 14

    managers responsible for stewarding brands. Publisher's link: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138786837/ April 2015 Corporate Stewardship: Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness Corporate and Integrated Reporting: A... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Research Summary

    Innovations in Logistics: The Impact of Channel Coordination

    By: Janice H. Hammond
    Roy D. Shapiro (with Janice H. Hammond and Marshall L. Fisher) is studying innovative systems and management approaches that integrate and coordinate material and information flows through the supply chain so as to reduce or eliminate the redundant activities that tend... View Details
    • 13 Dec 2012
    • HBS Seminar

    Raffaella Sadun, Harvard Business School

    • 25 Jul 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: July 25, 2006

    bring a gentler capitalism to post-apartheid South Africa. Like her other colleagues on the Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Commission, Charnley believed that each black business executive had a responsibility to effect positive change... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • January–February 2022
    • Article

    Operational Disruptions, Firm Risk, and Control Systems

    By: William Schmidt and Ananth Raman
    Operational disruptions can impact a firm's risk, which manifests in a host of operational issues, including a higher holding cost for inventory, a higher financing cost for capacity expansion, and a higher perception of the firm's risk among its supply chain partners.... View Details
    Keywords: Operational Risk; Operational Disruptions; Information Asymmetry; Control Systems; Operations; Disruption; Risk Management
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    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Food Stamp Entrepreneurs

    By: Gareth Olds
    This paper explores how eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamps Program) affects firm formation. Using a variety of identification strategies, I show that expanded SNAP eligibility in the mid-2000s... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Welfare or Wellbeing
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    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    The Impact of Input Inaccuracy on Leveraging AI Tools: Evidence from Algorithmic Labor Scheduling

    By: Caleb Kwon, Antonio Moreno and Ananth Raman
    Problem Definition: Considerable academic and practitioner attention is placed on the value of ex-post interactions (i.e., overrides) in the human-AI interface. In contrast, relatively little attention has been paid to ex-ante human-AI interactions (e.g., the... View Details
    Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Employees; Performance Effectiveness
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    • 24 Sep 2019
    • Blog Post

    Launching a Career in Clean Energy

    Established in 2010, the HBS Business & Environment Initiative (BEI) works to deepen understanding of the environmental challenges facing business leaders and inspire new ideas and practical, effective solutions. BEI has established a... View Details