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    Lauren H. Cohen

    Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government
    • July 2008
    • Article

    Crime and Punishment in the 'American Dream'

    By: Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra
    We observe that countries where belief in the "American dream" (i.e., effort pays) prevails also set harsher punishment for criminals. We know that beliefs are also correlated with several features of the economic system (taxation, social insurance, etc). Our objective... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Economic Systems; Values and Beliefs; Law Enforcement; Mathematical Methods; Personal Characteristics; United States
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    • September 2024
    • Supplement

    Anker Innovations (B)

    By: Feng Zhu, Jiangyong Lu and Nancy Hua Dai
    An Amazon-native brand, Anker is the world’s No. 1 mobile charging brand and a leading consumer electronics company. Over the years, Anker developed an effective model of proving new products online first by leveraging customer insights from its proprietary Voice of... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Product; Distribution; Product Launch; Business Model; Electronics Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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    • March 18, 2009
    • Article

    Regulate, Baby, Regulate

    The U.S. today faces its biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression. That is why Barack Obama and his team have been looking to Franklin Delano Roosevelt for help. The stimulus measure passed by Congress in February that includes money for building... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Management Teams; Infrastructure; Insurance; Negotiation Deal; Government and Politics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Credit; Banks and Banking; Debt Securities; United States
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    • 15 Oct 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: October 15

    Talent Recruitment at frog design Shanghai (B) Supplements 411-040. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/414024-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-404 New York City: Bloomberg's Strategy for View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    A Cognitive Theory of Reasoning and Choice

    By: Pedro Bordalo, Nicola Gennaioli, Giacomo Lanzani and Andrei Shleifer
    We present a theory of decisions in which attention to the features of choice options is determined by the decision maker's categorization of the current choice problem in a set of problems she solved in the past. Categorization depends on goal-relevant as well as... View Details
    Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Perception; Decision Choices and Conditions
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    • February 2009 (Revised June 2019)
    • Case

    Cleveland Clinic: Transformation and Growth 2015

    By: Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth O. Teisberg
    The Cleveland Clinic's health care services are internationally renowned for quality. In 2008, The Clinic began to restructure the organization into teams defined around patient needs, rather than traditional medical specialties. "Patients First!" takes shape as the... View Details
    Keywords: Health; Health Care Operations; Health Care Quality; Health Care; Strategy And Leadership; Strategy Development; Health Care and Treatment; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Measurement and Metrics; Service Delivery; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Outcome or Result; Health Industry; Cleveland
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    • November 2023
    • Case

    Axie Infinity: Video Game Meets Blockchain

    By: Marco Di Maggio and Wenyao Sha
    The narrative unfolds from the perspective of Sky Mavis's leadership team, facing a high-stakes, rapidly evolving digital frontier. They navigate the exhilarating yet tumultuous journey of Axie Infinity, balancing innovation with sustainability. It explores the game's... View Details
    Keywords: Blockchain; Business Model; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Currency; Innovation and Management; Business Strategy; Video Game Industry
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    • Article

    Third-party Punishment as a Costly Signal of Trustworthiness

    By: Jillian J. Jordan, Moshe Hoffman, Paul Bloom and David G. Rand
    Third-party punishment (TPP), in which unaffected observers punish selfishness, promotes cooperation by deterring defection. But why should individuals choose to bear the costs of punishing? We present a game theoretic model of TPP as a costly signal of... View Details
    Keywords: Third-party Punishment; Trustworthiness; Behavior; Trust; Game Theory
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    • 29 Sep 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Medium Term Business Cycles in Developing Countries

    Keywords: by Diego Comin, Norman Loayza, Farooq Pasha & Luis Serven
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Refugee Resettlement

    By: David Delacretaz, Scott Duke Kominers and Alexander Teytelboym
    Over 100,000 refugees are permanently resettled from refugee camps to hosting countries every year. Nevertheless, refugee resettlement processes in most countries are ad hoc, accounting for neither the priorities of hosting communities nor the preferences of refugees... View Details
    Keywords: Refugees; Marketplace Matching; Mathematical Methods
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    • October 2017
    • Case

    Shift Technologies, Inc.

    By: Thomas Eisenmann and Nicole Tempest Keller
    In 2017, management at Shift, an online marketplace that uses a “high touch,” concierge approach to buy and sell used cars, was formulating plans for the San Francisco–based startup’s next phase of expansion. One option was to preserve Shift’s current business model... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Market Design; Multi-Sided Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Auto Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    If Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why Has Income Diverged?

    By: Diego A. Comin and Marti Mestieri Ferrer
    We study the lags with which new technologies are adopted across countries, and their long-run penetration rates once they are adopted. Using data from the last two centuries, we document two new facts: there has been convergence in adoption lags between rich and poor... View Details
    Keywords: Income Characteristics; Technology Adoption; Globalization
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    • March 2009 (Revised October 2010)
    • Case

    Tokyo AFM

    By: Francois Brochet
    This case was written as the financial accounting portion of the final exam for a first-year MBA course at Harvard Business School. The goal was to test students' ability to apply major concepts taught during the course to an industry which they had not covered, but... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Decision Choices and Conditions; Economics; Insurance; Insurance Industry; Japan
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    • February 2003 (Revised June 2003)
    • Case

    Interface's Evergreen Services Agreement

    In an attempt to reduce its ecological footprint, Interface Americas, a leading manufacturer of commercial carpet tile, has launched the Evergreen Services Agreement (ESA)--a lease agreement that provides would-be carpet purchasers with comprehensive floor-covering... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Product; Environmental Sustainability; Innovation and Invention; Leasing; Consumer Products Industry; Houston
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    • April 2016 (Revised May 2016)
    • Case

    Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais, Partners In Health in Haiti

    By: Robert S. Kaplan, Bipin Mistry and Karla Bertrand
    The case describes the application of Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) at a new tertiary hospital, operated by Partners in Health in Mirebelais, Haiti. A project team mapped the clinical processes for use in estimating the direct costs of personnel,... View Details
    Keywords: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Activity Based Costing and Management; Cost Accounting; Developing Countries and Economies; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Haiti
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    • October 2008 (Revised August 2010)
    • Background Note

    Understanding the Credit Crisis of 2007 to 2008

    By: Arthur I Segel and Ben Creo
    This note details the background of the credit crisis, discusses potential causes of it, and considers its ramifications. The exhibits contain a variety of pertinent data regarding the rise of securitization, debt levels, and typical aspects of financial crises. A new... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Financial Instruments; Financial Management; Financial Markets
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    • May 1997
    • Case

    Center for Women & Enterprise: Looking for a Director of Development with "The Scrappiness Factor"

    By: Thomas J. Kosnik and Natalie Zakarian
    Andrea Silbert is founder of the Center for Women & Enterprise, a nonprofit with a mission to empower women to become economically self-sufficient and prosperous through entrepreneurship. She must select a new senior sales executive, decide how to share... View Details
    Keywords: Decisions; Selection and Staffing; Entrepreneurship
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    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Polarizing Corporations: Does Talent Flow to "Good" Firms?

    By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Tim McQuade, Gabriel Ramos, Thomas Rauter and Olivia Xiong
    We conduct a field experiment in partnership with the largest job platform in Brazil to study how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices of firms affect talent allocation. We find both an average job-seeker’s preference for ESG and a large degree of... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Job Search; Talent and Talent Management; Wages; Attitudes
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    • 04 Jun 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    The Business of Life

    of our lives, we just deprive ourselves of a very important input." Christensen explores the synergies between economic logic and personal conviction in his new book, How Will You Measure Your Life?... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel