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- 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24
through signature—e.g., at the end of tax returns or insurance policy forms. Yet even when people care about morality and want to be seen as ethical by others, they sometimes transgress when beneficial to their own self-interest, at great cost to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
prompted renewed debate on the role of fiscal rules. Their optimality, however, remains unclear. We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules in a standard model of sovereign debt accumulation and default modified to incorporate quasi-hyperbolic preferences. For... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
products that make people’s lives easier, safer, and more enjoyable. In many capitalist economies in 2018, and especially in our own, innovation is unending, and its pace may even be accelerating. The creative destruction of capitalism... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007
avoid even the most modest of practices that they considered inappropriate. Explores the practices and methods that Infosys adopted instead, considers their costs, benefits, and generalizability, and contextualizes the problem within Indian View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
everything from cleaning to prescription pickup. But one of the biggest innovations was behind the scenes: Beck and Sapone eschewed the independent contract workers driving the on-demand economy in favor of hiring employees—full-time... View Details
- 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13
services is much more widespread than has hitherto been appreciated. Drawing on concepts from research on scale economies and transaction costs, we develop a set of hypotheses about differences in the expected depth of internalization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
Schenk, director of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative, asked some of our alumni how they view this moment and how they are looking to capitalize on it. Julia Trotman Brady (MBA 1997) Partner, Valo Ventures This is the most consequential policy for advancing... View Details
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
impacts on the working women of Canada: More women than men left careers as schools shut down to care for families. Twice as many women as men applied for Canada’s child care benefit. The country’s economy lost more than 800,000 jobs.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016
Conconi Abstract—In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016
modified to incorporate quasi-hyperbolic preferences. For reasons of political economy or aggregation of citizens’ preferences, government preferences are present biased, resulting in an over-accumulation of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009
from true private equity operations; the other is a government agency charged with creating a clean energy economy for the United States. Each opportunity will help Iris achieve her long-term goal of a career as a private equity investor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and the Demise of Boston's Walk Zones By: Dur, Umut, Scott Duke Kominers, Parag A. Pathak, and Tayfun Sönmez... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
cable franchises, media company managers could leverage their knowledge of local communities and their political processes. However, some companies avoided franchising: their executives worried that the need to influence city officials... View Details
- 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009
Mubadala's charge was to develop Abu Dhabi. According to some observers, ADIA was a "sovereign savings fund," while Mubadala was a government-owned investment firm. Mubadala is supposed to invest the wealth of the emirate in activities that would diversify... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
economies of scale Determine how platforms build trust into their systems Advise a startup platform, Picabuu, on how it can capture value and anticipate challenges Module 1 Capstone and Review 6 hrs Module 2 Scaling and Sustaining a... View Details
- 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11
complex political environment; and 3) Manage a team: Forge a high-performing "we" out of all the "I"s who report to you. Packed with compelling stories and practical guidance, Being the Boss is an indispensable guide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17
its own functionality with the target's in a multi-platform bundle that leverages shared user relationships. We build upon the traditional view of bundling for economies of scope and price discrimination and extend this view to include... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15
increase of 285% of a standard deviation in income. We also present different estimates of adaptation across subgroups. For example, we find that those on the right (left) of the political spectrum adapt to status (income) but not to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka
publicly funded. (Bloomberg/Getty Images) Japan’s demographic time bomb is a bittersweet result of its robust recovery after World War II. Within two generations, the country catapulted from a state of ruin to the second-strongest economy... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
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Art Nature Business
"the economy of the invisible," the ways in which immaterial and imaginary entities, fictions, and phantoms influence political and economic systems. As Kurant stated in a 2015 interview with... View Details