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- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
using data from the recent redesign of the NYC High School match, which places approximately 90,000 students per year, we document that the extent of potential efficiency loss is substantial. Over 6,800 student applicants in the main... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
survey data from India and Indonesia, we first show that financial literacy is a powerful predictor of demand for financial services. To test the relative importance of literacy and price, we implement a field experiment, offering... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant research effort has gone into understanding the economic impact of immigration into the United States, comprehensive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
the depth and breadth of the challenges they face. “We’re one of very few nonprofits actually founded during COVID,” said Collenette, a longtime champion of women and childcare reform in Canada, who has served in both government and the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
grassroots community organizations; the increasing tendency of businesses, large and small, to identify the inner city as an untapped market; a drop in urban crime rates; and the "unshackling" of inner cities from the entrenched and outmoded bureaucracies that have... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
access the debt markets. However, fundamental differences in governance and project co-insurance between the two types of acquirer interact with debt misvaluation, resulting in variation in how assets are owned that depends on debt market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
and patenting data for 1,315 employees at the Indian R&D center of a Fortune 500 technology firm, I exploit a natural experiment where the assignment of managers for newly hired college graduates is mandated by rigid HR rules and is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17
Publications September 2013 Management Science Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India By: Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton Abstract—This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
many "multicultural marketing" efforts are both limited and limiting, and how firms can go beyond demographic data to craft effective strategies for selling to ethnic markets within the U.S. Read the Paper: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
in addition to the already competitive mobile communication segment where the company's once dominant market share was heavily eroded. Mao had to decide on the pricing strategies for the company's various product lines, including fixed line, mobile services, as well as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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with the Agreements and all applicable local, state, national and international laws, rules and regulations, including privacy and copyright laws, any laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from your country of... View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
analyses of data covering 69 two-digit SIC industries at two points in time, 1991 and 1999. Across industries, we find that the likelihood of internalization of advertising services decreases as the size of advertising outlays increase... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
countries, WWF works with governments, businesses, other NGOs, and communities to set up conservation programs to preserve natural habitat. In contrast, Greenpeace works to campaign for environmental change against governments and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
capacity to pay. We use a newly created database with state-level fiscal and risk premium data for Brazil states between 1891 and 1930 to show that in Brazilian states that exported commodities that were in high in demand (e.g., rubber... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
part of their research, they have interviewed more than fifty people in two cities and collected data on some 1,000 communities since the late 1980s. They observe that organizations in different cities seem to have different foci when it... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4
how and why diversifiable risk should be priced in VC deals even though investors are fully diversified. We then take our theory to a unique data set and show that while investors do earn zero alpha on average there is a strong... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
multi-year strategy to expand next-generation care management/care delivery model nationally. Prior to joining CareMore, Dr. Jain was Chief Medical Information and Innovation Officer at Merck & Co, where he developed global partnerships to leverage health View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
dropping as fuel costs were rising, pulling down SUV sales. Korean automakers were taking more and more market share, buoyed by government investment. Structural costs—US labor high among them—remained a drag on domestic production. “It’s... View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
justifying the indulgent purchase and reducing indulgence guilt. We demonstrate that consumers tend to inflate the value, and usage frequency, of utilitarian features when they are attached to hedonic luxuries. Using a mixed-method approach, combining archival View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Faculty & Advisors | MBA
Aileen has an MBA from Harvard Business School and is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. Jessica Lin AB ‘09, Government & Secondary, African Studies, Harvard University Jessica is co-founder and VC at Work-Bench, an... View Details