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  • 06 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 6

workers, the middle class, and the nonpolitical rich, jeopardizing the nation's security in the process. The authors contend that this usurpation is the source of America's economic decline and fading international power and provide an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands

Are brand management issues faced by a powerful for-profit company such as Toyota the same as those navigated by an international non-government organization (NGO) such as the Red Cross? Yes and no. In their new book, The New Global... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Savings in Transnational Households: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador

By: Nava Ashraf, Diego Aycinena, Claudia Martinez A. and Dean Yang
While remittance flows to developing countries are very large, it is unknown whether migrants desire more control over how remittances are used. This research uses a randomized field experiment to investigate the importance of migrant control over the use of... View Details
Keywords: Migration; Remittances; Intrahousehold Allocation; Savings; Immigration; Diasporas; International Finance; El Salvador
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  • 23 Aug 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Why White-Collar Crime Spiked in America After 9/11

cutbacks Previous studies have delved into the fact that the threat of prison time and fines can deter white-collar criminals from committing crimes that can greatly harm corporations, investors, and consumers alike, not to mention financial View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • Web

Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

concept, there are many challenges and risks in execution for the service organization, government and investors. The VELUX FOUNDATIONS: Selecting Impact Funds (819021) by Vikram Gandhi , Caitlin Lindsay Reimers Brumme and Nathaniel Schwalb SEPTEMBER 2018 (REVISED JUNE... View Details
  • Web

Global Business Course | HBS Online

affect markets and businesses and the ways in which economics and political science can help us seize opportunities and avoid or manage risks." Dates & Eligibility No current course offerings for this selection. Starting Jul 30 4 Weeks... View Details
  • 16 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, first published in 1776, helped create the discipline of economics with its conjuring of the invisible hand, self-interest, and other explanations of market forces that have influenced academics,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

capital flows—both debt and equity—into public and private components and study their relationship with productivity growth. This exercise reveals that international capital flows are mainly shaped by government decisions and sovereign to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2022
  • Blog Post

From HBS to Cutting-Edge Tech

enough to join Ford as a Machine Learning Researcher. I wrote software, generated intellectual property, and talked about autonomous vehicles in international industry conferences. In late 2018, I realized that commercially launching... View Details
  • November 2024
  • Article

Preference Externality Estimators: A Comparison of Border Approaches and IVs

By: Xi Ling, Wesley R. Hartmann and Tomomichi Amano
This paper compares two estimators—the Border Approach and an Instrumental Variable (IV) estimator—using a unified framework where identifying variation arises from “preference externalities,” following the intuition in Waldfogel (2003). We highlight two dimensions in... View Details
Keywords: Econometrics; Casual Inference; Marketing; Economics; Advertising; Mathematical Methods
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  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

remains a significant amount of empirical evidence that trade remains much stronger within countries than across borders (Mayer/Zignago, 2005), even when traditional tariff and non-tariff-barriers have been removed like in the EU's View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
  • 22 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 22

and international markets like China. Each of these expansion paths provided unique opportunities as well as new challenges. In August 2010, Stephen Kaufer, CEO, was debating how to prioritize his growth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Bringing a Taste of Japan to the World - Global Activities 2020

student life was half academic, half ramen chef,” says Sasago, who interned at a popular Cambridge ramen eatery to fine-tune his cooking skills. Senior Lecturer Lena Goldberg’s elective course Challenges and Opportunities in the... View Details
  • 13 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

When Gender Changes the Negotiation

environments in which payoffs are determined by comparing relative performance. It's not that the pressure of competition causes women to stumble but, rather, that men step up their performance in competitive situations. Consider the highly competitive job View Details
Keywords: by Dina W. Pradel, Hannah Riley Bowles & Kathleen L. McGinn
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Events - Private Capital Project

Andrew Stern (President Emeritus, Service Employee International Union (SEIU), and Senior Fellow, Economic Security Project), Greg Jania (Global Co-head of Private Equity, APG Asset Management) and Peter Stavros (Co-Head of US Private... View Details
  • 26 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 26, 2007

center of business education and perhaps in management itself. Publisher's site: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8463.html Market Reactions to Export Subsidies Authors:Mihir A. Desai and James R. Hines Jr. Periodical:Journal of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

Marketing Input and Innovation Strategy Harvard Business School Note 508-090 This note develops a framework for considering the challenges of incorporating marketing input when setting innovation strategy.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Handicapping the Best Countries for Business

important and what are the keys to analyzing and understanding a country's near-term direction? A: Any business person is interested only in the future—in where markets and countries are heading. The only way to understand the near-term... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

A Historical Approach to Clustering in Emerging Economies

By: Valeria Giacomin
Clusters are defined as geographically concentrated agglomerations of specialized firms in a particular domain. The cluster concept in its broader meaning of industrial agglomeration has been the focus of longstanding debates in the social sciences. This working paper... View Details
Keywords: Industry Clusters; Research; Theory; Developing Countries and Economies; History; Analysis; Globalization
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  • 05 Jun 2009
  • What Do You Think?

What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?

modest increases in both productivity and jobs.) It also means, even without a change in tax rates, a larger tax base. This is important to the extent that it is a major component of a government's plan to manage its capital accounts, which in turn has important... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate