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    Responses to Entry in Multi-Sided Markets: The Impact of Craigslist on Local Newspapers

    How do firms respond to entry in multi-sided markets? We address this question by studying the impact of Craigslist, a website providing classified-advertising services, on local U.S. newspapers. We exploit temporal and geographical variation in Craigslist's... View Details
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    The Career Effects of Scandal: Evidence from Scientific Retractions

    By: Pierre Azoulay, Alessandro Bonatti and Joshua Lev Krieger
    We investigate how the scientific community's perception of a scientist's prior work changes when one of his articles is retracted. Relative to non-retracted control authors, faculty members who experience a retraction see the citation rate to their earlier,... View Details
    Keywords: Reputation; Perception; Status and Position; Outcome or Result
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    • Fall 2013
    • Article

    Shifts in U.S. Federal Reserve Goals and Tactics for Monetary Policy: A Role for Penitence?

    By: Julio J. Rotemberg
    This paper considers some of the large changes in the Federal Reserve's approach to monetary policy. It shows that, in some important cases, critics who were successful in arguing that past Fed approaches were responsible for mistakes that caused harm succeeded in... View Details
    Keywords: Central Banking; Policy; United States
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    • March 2011
    • Article

    To Join or Not to Join: Examining Patent Pool Participation and Rent Sharing Rules

    By: Josh Lerner and Anne Layne-Farrar
    In recognition that participation in modern patent pools is voluntary, we present empirical evidence on participation rates and the factors that drive the decision to join a pool, including the profit sharing rules adopted by the pool's founders. In most participation... View Details
    Keywords: Patents; Alliances; Vertical Integration; Standards
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    • December 2011
    • Article

    Economics Education and Greed

    By: Long Wang, Deepak Malhotra and J. Keith Murnighan
    The recent financial crisis, and repeated corporate scandals, raise serious questions about whether a business school education contributes to what some have described as a culture of greed. The dominance of economic-related courses in MBA curricula led us to assess... View Details
    Keywords: Behavior; Ethics; Attitudes; Business Education; Economics; Education
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    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    Optimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt

    By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
    Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However, given the sovereign's willingness-to-pay incentive problems, reserve accumulation may reduce sustainable debt levels. In addition, assuming... View Details
    Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Liquidity; International Finance; Emerging Markets; Mathematical Methods
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    • 27 Feb 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Companies Should Share Their DEI Data (Even When It’s Unflattering)

    and a company’s decision to participate and the approach the company used to present employee demographic data. The researchers found that participants rated the company most favorably when it aggregated employee data across disparate... View Details
    Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
    • 03 May 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    How Much Does Proximity Influence Startup Innovation? 20 Meters' Worth to Be Exact

    altogether,” Roche writes. Knowledge sharing between neighbors is highest when the two companies fundamentally differ along product market and socio-demographic features. The study found that the rate of peer technology adoption increased... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • 2019
    • White Paper

    Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: The Missing Piece for an Impact Economy

    By: George Serafeim, T. Robert Zochowski and Jennifer Downing
    Reimagining capitalism is an imperative. We need to create a more inclusive and sustainable form of capitalism that works for every person and the planet. Massive environmental damage, growing income and wealth disparity, stress, and depression within developed... View Details
    Keywords: Impact-Weighted Accounts; IWAI; Background; Economic Systems; Economy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Measurement and Metrics; Financial Statements
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    By: Ethan C. Rouen
    Relying on empirical archival methodologies—as well as techniques in data science—to develop and structure new sources of data by which to approach questions of looming disclosure changes, Professor Rouen has focused on one of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s... View Details
    • 07 Aug 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Financial vs. Strategic Buyers

    Keywords: by Marc Martos-Vila, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf & Jarrad Harford
    • 20 Aug 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: August 20

    Publications August 2013 Marketing Science Do Bonuses Enhance Sales Productivity? A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans By: Chung, Doug J., Thomas Steenburgh, and K. Sudhir Abstract—We estimate a dynamic structural model of sales force... View Details
    Keywords: Anna Secino
    • 02 Feb 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States

    Keywords: by David H. Autor, William R. Kerr & Adriana D. Kugler
    • February 2021
    • Case

    New England Baptist Hospital: Getting Paid for Value

    By: Robert S. Kaplan, Mary Witkowski, Toby E. Emanuel and Syed S. Shehab
    New England Baptist Hospital (NEBH), a national leader in adult orthopedic care, has the lowest rate of complications and 30-day readmissions in New England, but gets paid 30% less for its surgeries than nearby institutions. NEBH introduces, with several large... View Details
    Keywords: Healthcare; Healthcare Spending; Healthcare Innovation; Healthcare Industry; Health Care Outcomes; Health Care Delivery; Health Care Reform; Bundled Payments; Health Care and Treatment; Spending; Innovation and Invention; Value Creation; Strategy; Health Industry; North America
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    • July–August 2021
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    Lowering the Bar? External Conditions, Opportunity Costs, and High-Tech Startup Outcomes

    By: Annamaria Conti and Maria P. Roche
    We assess the heterogeneous impact of economic downturns on individuals’ decisions to bring high-technology ideas to the market in the form of new ventures. We thereby examine how worsening labor market conditions influence individuals’ opportunity costs of starting... View Details
    Keywords: Necessity Entrepreneurship; Economic Conditions; Recessions; High-tech Startups; Opportunity Costs; Entrepreneurship; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Business Startups; Information Technology; Performance; Labor
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    • March 2020
    • Article

    Voluntary, Self-Regulatory, and Mandatory Disclosure of Oil and Gas Company Payments to Foreign Governments

    By: Paul M. Healy and George Serafeim
    Concerns about high rates of government corruption in resource-rich countries have led transparency advocates to urge oil and gas firms to disclose payments to host governments for natural resources. Transparency, they argue, can increase government accountability and... View Details
    Keywords: Oil ＆ Gas; Corruption; Transparency; Self-regulation; Industry Self-regulation; Regulation; Disclosure; Disclosure Regulation; Energy Sources; Crime and Corruption; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Energy Industry
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    • March 2018
    • Teaching Note

    Mavi: Fashioning a Path to Brand Growth

    By: Jill Avery and Gamze Yucaoglu
    Mavi, a leading Turkish apparel retailer, had sales of $419 million in 2015, up 20%. Growth rates like these were becoming routine at Mavi. But, its path to growth was getting more challenging, and Turkven, Mavi’s private equity partner, was planning its exit options... View Details
    Keywords: Retailing; Fashion; Brand; Brand Management; Brand Extension; Brand Equity; Private Equity; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Brands and Branding; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; Turkey; Europe
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    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Varied Experience, Team Familiarity, and Learning: The Mediating Role of Psychological Safety

    By: Bradley R. Staats, Francesca Gino and Gary P. Pisano
    Prior work examining the relationship of varied experience (i.e., the concurrent completion of multiple tasks) and learning by groups finds inconsistent results. We hypothesize that team familiarity, i.e, individuals' prior shared work experience, may help explain this... View Details
    Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Learning; Performance Effectiveness; Groups and Teams; Social Psychology; Familiarity
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    • 17 Oct 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University

    • 01 Jun 2023
    • HBS Case

    A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

    prior to incarceration, and when they did have jobs, their median earnings were a mere $6,250 per year. In addition, one in 10 boys born to families in the bottom 10 percent income bracket were incarcerated by the age of 30—a rate 20... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories