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  • 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

how these Americans spend their income tax refunds, using transaction-level data from a stored-value card product. Card-holders may choose among several tax settlement and loan options, effectively receiving cash as much as 90 days... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jun 2020
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020

International Development Harvard Business Review Press The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism’s future is far from assured. Pandemics, income inequality, resource depletion, mass... View Details
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

coverage of the government's corruption scandals by 0.23 of a front page per month, or 18% of a standard deviation in coverage. The results are robust to the inclusion of newspaper, month, newspaper president, and individual-corruption scandal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism

If capitalism was a stock, the market would appear rather bearish on its future. Bank failures, economic crises, and middle-class riots across the globe appear symptomatic of large systemic weaknesses in the market system, highlighted by the 2008 global financial... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

including voter, state, and election fixed effects, and allowing movers’ behavior to be arbitrarily different, both in levels and average trend, from non-movers’. We find that state characteristics explain about 52% of the observed... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

brand: What are people thinking? And you’d expect a much lower sensitivity to administration, to structure, to organizational dynamics, to long-term view, and to capital spending. The incoming president has a really good sense for what... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

can we assure ethical principles are salient when employees and managers are at greatest ethics risk in the course of their work? What are effective fixes to our moral bugs? I hope that both leading researchers and young scholars will... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 8, 2010

contract from a fixed menu. Then, agents "choose to work" for a principal by selecting one of the available contracts. We find that i) (heterogeneous) social preferences are significant determinants of choices, ii) for both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

at the individual level. We discuss the implications of our results for the study of learning as well as for providers and consumers of outsourced services. Preference Heterogeneity and Optimal Capital Income Taxation Authors:Golosov,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

coefficients aggregate discrete choice model-which accommodates heterogeneity in preferences for school quality and athletic success-and an extensive set of school fixed effects to control for unobserved quality in athletics and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor

for someone to get off the ground: enough to buy inventory, rent space, and begin to generate an income in order to feed, clothe, and shelter a family. A legal loan of that amount from a real bank is also the difference between paying... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 30 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Driving Social Impact Through Consumer Behavior: Nonprofit to Finance to Retail with Nicole Krantz (MBA 2022)

close the finance gap, Krantz dove directly into the industry instead of learning it from the outside. She spent three years in fixed income sales and trading learning new things every day and getting a... View Details
Keywords: Retail
  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

Redefining Health Care

grow, and the inefficient or poor-quality players fix their problems or go out of business. So finally, we understood that the right question was: Why is competition failing? And that question led us to the distinction between zero-sum... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 18 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Ideas, April 18

by Metro do Porto in 2007. It represents an opportunity to study fixed income derivative instruments, such as plain-vanilla swaps and structured swaps, as well as understand the opportunities and challenges... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

Faculty Books Published in 2020

fixing market capitalism? Business—not government alone. The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. Pandemics, income... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

management practices such as performance-based promotion. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-052.pdf Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials Author:William R. Kerr... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

at risk? Alvarez: In the worst shape are the stores that said: I can fix that. Maybe it's not fixable—maybe 80 percent of your products are now going to be sold online or in a digital format, like books. Barnes & Noble and Staples are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009

ice cream), controlling for customer fixed effects. These findings are all consistent with theories suggesting that people's "should" selves exert more influence over their choices the further in the future outcomes will be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

least a quarter of per capita income differences. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-093.pdf Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? Authors:Diego A. Comin, Bill Easterly, and Erick Gong Publication:American... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

Promise & Perils

reforms that began in 1978 have stoked annual growth in excess of 9 percent, three times that of the United States. Per capita income among the nation’s 1.3 billion inhabitants has more than quadrupled, surpassing $1,000 last year.... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services