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  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

relationship between FDI and growth. We use 'quality' to mean the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However, this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and project characteristics which are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2021
  • Article

Nudging the Commute: Using Behaviorally-Informed Interventions to Promote Sustainable Transportation

By: Ashley Whillans, Joseph Sherlock, Jessica Roberts, Shibeal O'Flaherty, Lyndsay Gavin, Holly Dykstra and Michael Daly
Dramatic reductions in carbon emissions must take place immediately. A human-centric method of reducing environmental impacts is to “nudge” employees away from single-occupancy vehicles (SOVs) toward more sustainable commuting options. While an abundance of research... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Science; Transportation Demand Management; Commuting; Single-occupancy Vehicle Commutes; Transportation; Behavior; Change; Environmental Sustainability
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  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

Malloy, and Felicia Marston Abstract Comparing two snapshots of the historical I/B/E/S database of research analyst stock recommendations, taken in 2002 and 2004 but each covering the same time period 1993-2002, we identify 54,729 ex-post... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism

If capitalism was the most influential single economic and social force of the 20th century (and continuing today), there is no better guide to understanding its power and complexity than famed economist Joseph Schumpeter, says Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education
  • May 2022
  • Article

Strengthening Digital Infrastructure: A Policy Agenda for Free and Open Source Software

By: Frank Nagle
While there is little debate that digital forces are playing an increasingly crucial role in the economy, there is limited understanding of the importance of the digital infrastructure that underlies this role. Much of the discussion around digital infrastructure has... View Details
Keywords: Open Source; Applications and Software; Policy; Infrastructure; Open Source Distribution
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Antitrust & Competition Policy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

foundations of antitrust might be updated, based on a large body of theoretical and empirical research on company strategy, competition, and economic development. The aim is to outline a new direction for... View Details
  • 28 Mar 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

Summing Up: What Next, If Manufacturing Proves Not To Be A Creator Of Those Good "factory Jobs" Of The Past? Manufacturing is essential to the health of an economy. It both fuels and results from innovation. It is natural in the course of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing
  • 07 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

Center] Related Reading: The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting Nowcasting the Local Economy: Using Yelp Data to Measure Economic Activity at Scale RESEARCH PAPER:... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • Web

Cluster Studies - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Competitiveness & Economic Development CED Competitiveness & Economic Development Frameworks & Key Concepts Research & Applications View Details
  • Web

Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Competition provides a unique opportunity for students to put entrepreneurship principles into practice with an integrative learning experience. Students may participate in either the Business Track (for ventures whose economic returns... View Details
  • 09 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

Managers today have a problem. They know their companies must grow. But growth is hard, especially given today's economic environment where investment capital is difficult to come by and firms are reluctant to take risks. Managers know... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Non-Audit Services and Financial Reporting Quality: Evidence from 1978-1980

By: Kevin Koh, Shiva Rajgopal and Suraj Srinivasan
We provide evidence for the long-standing concern on auditor conflicts of interest from providing non-audit services (NAS) to audit clients by using rarely explored NAS fee data from 1978 to 1980. Using this earlier setting, we find cross-sectional evidence of improved... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Audits; Financial Reporting; Stocks; Price; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Service Delivery; Quality; Research
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  • 2014
  • Article

Time, Money, and Morality

By: F. Gino and C. Mogilner
Money, a resource that absorbs much daily attention, seems to be present in much unethical behavior thereby suggesting that money itself may corrupt. This research examines a way to offset such potentially deleterious effects—by focusing on time, a resource that tends... View Details
Keywords: Money; Ethics
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  • 28 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 28

"buy" cheaper attention and how to use it more effectively. Research in the emerging field of the Economics of Attention shows how this can be achieved. Here, I argue that, irrespective of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Oct 2020
  • Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

research shows that supervisors are actually more willing to grant extensions than employees realize; in fact, they tend to view those who request extra breathing room as highly motivated employees who are intent on producing better... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

of industries can't be managed as "silos," tucked away in corporate, university, or government research labs, in incubators, or within venture capital funded entrepreneurial start-ups. Access to the marketplace is needed to help... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016

forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research Incentives versus Reciprocity: Insights from a Field Experiment By: Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas Abstract—We conduct a field experiment in which we vary the sales force compensation scheme... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

public speaking. Many self-help books, a very popular book category in the United States, make use of sales techniques. Q: What are the latest research trends in this area? A: I think there are two trends. Some people are, as I mentioned,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • Web

Events - Creating Emerging Markets

conference, organized by Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna, focused on the intersection of oral history, business, and the Global South, offering a unique space for interdisciplinary discussions. Dec 15 15 DEC 2023 Zoom Using Oral History in View Details
  • 18 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 18

commercialization of technologies. This evidence also points to an important mechanism relating financial market development to technology diffusion and economic growth. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne