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  • 19 May 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective

Keywords: by Peter A. Coles, John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth & John J. Siegfried
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Applications or Approvals: What Drives Racial Disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program?

By: Sergey Chernenko, Nathan Kaplan, Asani Sarkar and David S. Scharfstein
We use the 2020 Small Business Credit Survey to study the sources of racial disparities in use of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). Black-owned firms are 8.9 percentage points less likely than observably similar white-owned firms to receive PPP loans. About 55% of... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Small Business; Race; Financing and Loans
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  • March 2021 (Revised December 2021)
  • Case

Cedar Environmental: Innovation vs. Corruption in Lebanon?

By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Youssef Abdel Aal
The case follows Ziad Abi Chaker, founder and CEO of Cedar Environmental, as he weighs options for how to grow the company in the face of growing economic and political instability in Lebanon in 2019.

Founded after the Lebanese civil war, Cedar... View Details
Keywords: Waste Management; Recycling; Corruption; Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Business And Government; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Pollution; Entrepreneurship; Business and Government Relations; Crime and Corruption; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Expansion; Corporate Accountability; Green Technology Industry; Middle East; Lebanon
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On the Causality and Cause of Returns to Organizational Status: Evidence from the Grands Crus Classés of the Médoc

By: Daniel Malter
This paper identifies the causal symbolic effect of status on the prices organizations charge for their products. I exploit the classification of the châteaux of the Médoc, which sorted 61 wine producers into five growth classes in 1855, as a fixed hierarchical symbol... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Status; Quality Signals; Conspicuous Consumption; Wine Classification Of 1855; Grand Cru; Status and Position; Quality; Reputation; Price; France
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    Applications or Approvals: What Drives Racial Disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program?

    We use the 2020 Small Business Credit Survey to study the sources of racial disparities in use of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). Black-owned firms are 8.9 percentage points less likely to receive PPP loans than observably similar white-owned firms. About... View Details
    • December 2017 (Revised March 2018)
    • Case

    Kellogg Company/eighteen94 capital

    By: David Bell, Damien McLoughlin and Natalie Kindred
    With 33,000 employees and revenues of $13 billion in 2016, Kellogg Company was the world’s largest producer of branded packaged cereal and a leader in branded convenience foods. Founded in 1906 and based in Michigan, the company had a proud history of product and... View Details
    Keywords: CPG; Consumer Packaged Goods; Cereal; Battle Creek; Michigan; Breakfast; Snack; Agribusiness; Change Management; Growth Strategy; Corporate Venture Capital; Innovation; Startup; Brand; Brand ＆ Product Management; Advertising; Demand and Consumers; Innovation and Invention; Venture Capital; Food; Brands and Branding; Marketing; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; Michigan; North America
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    • 17 Jul 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Money Isn’t Everything: The Dos and Don’ts of Motivating Employees

    wouldn’t otherwise do, and good incentive systems create a market of sorts inside companies with a series of pressure points, Hall says. Whether it’s raising your hand for extra work, prioritizing innovative projects, or staying with a... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 02 Jan 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    10 Trends to Watch in 2024

    The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 14 Dec 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Regulating for Legitimacy: Consumer Credit Access in France and America

    Keywords: by Gunnar Trumbull
    • Research Summary

    The Appropriability of Reputation in Franchises Selling Brands

    We develop a multi-market model in which there are two kinds of firms: brands and small firms (or agents). Firms interact with short lived clients in the market for goods (or services) and with each other in the market for franchises. The model is one of adverse... View Details
    • 05 Jul 2023
    • HBS Case

    What Kind of Leader Are You? How Three Action Orientations Can Help You Meet the Moment

    the same sorts of results.” Given his prior success in reading the market, Johnson relied on a contextual orientation to develop various plans to reinvent the JCPenney way, including new concepts in retailing and new compensation plans... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • 07 Jul 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: July 7, 2015

      Publications June 2015 Science Financing Experiments By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49313 July-August 2015 Harvard Business Review Engineering Reverse... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Fall 2018
    • Article

    What Problems Will You Solve with Blockchain?: Before Jumping on the Bandwagon, Companies Need to Carefully Consider how Ledger Technologies Fit into their Overall Strategy

    By: Teppo Felin and Karim R. Lakhani
    Distributed ledger technologies — collectively known as blockchain — have burst onto the business scene, accompanied by a significant amount of hype.They are widely expected to disrupt existing industries and lead to the creation of new types of companies. Some of the... View Details
    Keywords: Blockchain; Technology Adoption; Strategy; Business Processes; Innovation Strategy
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    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Cheaper by the Dozen: Using Sibling Discounts at Catholic Schools to Estimate the Price Elasticity of Private School Attendance

    By: Susan Dynarski, Jonathan Gruber and Danielle Li
    The effect of vouchers on sorting between private and public schools depends upon the price elasticity of demand for private schooling. Estimating this elasticity is empirically challenging because prices and quantities are jointly determined in the market for private... View Details
    Keywords: Price; Religion; Entrepreneurship; Education
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    • 23 Jan 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Cost of Capital Dynamics Implied by Firm Fundamentals

    Keywords: by Matthew Lyle & Charles C.Y. Wang
    • 2017
    • Chapter

    Corporate Moral Agency, Positive Duties, and Purpose

    By: Nien-hê Hsieh
    A long-standing question in business ethics is whether business enterprises are themselves moral agents with distinct moral responsibilities. To date, the debate about corporate moral agency has focused on responsibility for past wrongdoing that involves violating... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Moral Sensibility; Mission and Purpose
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    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    Waste, Recycling and Entrepreneurship in Central and Northern Europe, 1870–1940

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Andrew Spadafora
    This working paper examines the role of entrepreneurs in the municipal solid waste industry in industrialized central and northern Europe from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s. It explores the emergence of numerous German, Danish, and other European... View Details
    Keywords: Environmental Entrepreneurship; Business History; Entrepreneurship; Health; History; Green Technology Industry; Germany; Denmark; Hungary; United Kingdom
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    • February 1985 (Revised January 2024)
    • Case

    Health Stop (A): What Type of Innovation Is It? And Six Factors Alignment

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Joyce Lallman, Nancy Kane, Jefferson C. Grahling and James Wallace
    How can we evaluate if innovative health care ventures can do good—benefit society—and do well—become financially viable? This question is the topic of the first module in the Innovating In Health Care course book. This note and case series enables readers to conduct... View Details
    Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Strategy; Valuation; Health Industry; Retail Industry
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    • 22 Jul 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Banks as Patient Fixed-Income Investors

    Keywords: by Samuel G. Hanson, Andrei Shleifer, Jeremy C. Stein & Robert W. Vishny; Banking
    • 15 Mar 2024
    • HBS Case

    Let's Talk: Why It's Time to Stop Avoiding Taboo Topics at Work

    opportunities with all employees, not just those of a certain age, Wing says. It should be part of each annual review, and every employee should be included in the planning of their own succession to make room for new talent and move them along to a new challenge. If... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman