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- September 2024 (Revised March 2025)
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Burn the Gondolas? Venice, the Ghetto, and the Seasons of Capitalism
By: Sophus A. Reinert, Charlotte Robertson and Robert Fredona
This case uses the history of Venice—from the driving of the first pylons in the lagoon to the abdication of the city’s last doge, across the ages of Marco Polo and Vivaldi—to explore the invention and global diffusion of capitalism, as well as the cyclical rise and... View Details
Reinert, Sophus A., Charlotte Robertson, and Robert Fredona. "Burn the Gondolas? Venice, the Ghetto, and the Seasons of Capitalism." Harvard Business School Case 725-006, September 2024. (Revised March 2025.)
- 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2
legal change applied). These reductions in agency costs were followed by an increase in average leverage and a reduction in interest costs. Finally, we can estimate the welfare implications of agency costs, because firm values increased... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 2
Publications 2006 Nature Reviews Beyond Magic Bullets: True Innovation in Health Care By: Narayan, Vaibhav A., Marco Mohwinckel, Gary Pisano, Michael Yang, and Husseini Manji Abstract—The molecular medicine revolution-based on advances... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
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PublicationsHow Leaders Kill Meaning at Work Authors:Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer Publication:The McKinsey Quarterly, no. 1 (January 2012) Abstract Senior executives routinely undermine creativity, productivity, and commitment by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
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Publications - Faculty & Research
2025): 141–145. Article Faith and Assimilation: Italian Immigrants in the U.S. By: Stefano Gagliarducci and Marco Tabellini How do ethnic religious organizations influence immigrant assimilation? To answer... View Details
- 2024
- Working Paper
The Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act on the U.S. Economy
By: Joe Long, Carlo Medici, Nancy Qian and Marco Tabellini
This paper investigates the economic consequences of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned immigration from China. The Act reduced the number of Chinese workers of all skill levels living in the United States. It also reduced the labor supply and the quality of... View Details
Keywords: Growth; Productivity; Economic Development; Business History; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Business and Government Relations; Prejudice and Bias; Government Legislation; Immigration; United States
Long, Joe, Carlo Medici, Nancy Qian, and Marco Tabellini. "The Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act on the Economic Development of the Western U.S." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-008, August 2022. (Revised September 2024. Featured in Bloomberg, at Hoover Institute, VoxEU, NBER Digest, NPR, Forbes, The New Yorker, HBS Working Knowledge, Cato Institute, and America: A History (podcast), quoted here.)
Competing in the Age of AI
Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani show how reinventing the firm around data, analytics, and AI removes traditional constraints on scale, scope, and learning that have restricted business growth for hundreds of years. From... View Details
- 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3
http://hbr.org/2011/05/column-the-hollow-science/ar/1 Effective Managers Say the Same Thing Twice (or More) Authors:Tsedal Neeley and Paul Leonardi Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 5 (May 2011) Abstract How do effective managers get employees to act... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2014
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Abstract—Although documenting everyday activities may seem trivial, four studies reveal that creating records of the present generates unexpected benefits by allowing future rediscoveries. In Study 1, we use a "time capsule"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Faculty & Research
Business Owners in the COVID-19 Pandemic." Art. 104079. Journal of Financial Economics 170 (August 2025). Faith and Assimilation: Italian Immigrants in the U.S. By: Stefano Gagliarducci and Marco Tabellini... View Details
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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research
Business, Government & the International Economy Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students Article Faith and Assimilation: Italian Immigrants in the U.S. By: Stefano Gagliarducci and Marco View Details
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Technology & Operations Management - Doctoral
begin research in the summer preceding their first year by working with a TOM faculty member. Over the first two years in the program, students are encouraged to explore their research interests as they complete relevant coursework.... View Details
- 23 Jun 2009
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Working PapersCatering to Characteristics (revised) Authors:Greenwood, Robin, and Samuel Hanson Abstract When investors overvalue a particular firm characteristic, corporations endowed with that characteristic can absorb some of the demand View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2011
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tax policy. Teams and Team Effectiveness in Health Services Organizations Authors:Bruce J. Fried, Sharon Topping, and Amy C. Edmondson Publication:In Health Care Management: Organization Design and Behavior. 6th ed., edited by Lawton... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Business, Government & the International Economy Faculty - Faculty & Research
Business Administration Awa Ambra Seck Assistant Professor of Business Administration Marco E. Tabellini Assistant Professor of Business Administration Gunnar Trumbull Philip Caldwell Professor of Business... View Details
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Research - Global
the U.S. By: Stefano Gagliarducci and Marco Tabellini How do ethnic religious organizations influence immigrant assimilation? To answer this question, we assemble novel data from the Catholic directories to... View Details
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in the Feminine Care Market Re: Rembrand M. Koning 11 Jan 2021 Working Paper Summaries The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics? by Alberto Alesina and Marco View Details
- 12 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 12
choice, and consumers fight back by rooting out and disseminating pricing policies that seem unfair. The problem is that companies generally think of value as a pie that is rightfully theirs. But value is not fixed, and it neither... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- December 2018 (Revised April 2020)
- Case
Fluidity: The Tokenization of Real Estate Assets
By: Marco Di Maggio, David Lane and Susie Ma
In December 2018, the blockchain startup Fluidity was about to participate in its first tokenization deal, which would create digital access to property rights in a 12-unit Manhattan condominium complex. The deal was proof-of-concept for Fluidity, which hoped to... View Details
Keywords: Blockchain; Tokenization; Data Security; Revenue Model; Finance; Technological Innovation; Strategy
Di Maggio, Marco, David Lane, and Susie Ma. "Fluidity: The Tokenization of Real Estate Assets." Harvard Business School Case 219-057, December 2018. (Revised April 2020.)
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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
L. Robertson : Received the 2023 HBS Student Association Faculty Teaching Award for exceptional contributions to the experience of the graduating class. Marco E. Tabellini : Recipient of the 2023 Excellence... View Details