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  • 17 May 2019
  • News

How Asking Multiple People for Advice Can Backfire

  • 02 Feb 2017
  • HBS Seminar

Lamar Pierce, Washington University in St Louis

    How Quantitative Easing Works: Evidence on the Refinancing Channel

    When LSAPs are needed the most, simply bending the yield curve through purchasing government debt is not effective for stimulating the mortgage market (a key sector of the economy for the transmission of monetary policy). Purchasing mortgage-backed... View Details

    • 12 May 2021
    • Book

    The Hard Truth About Being a CEO

    critically important only up to a point [to employees], but the real motivation comes from an emotional connection that you feel—either that you are more highly valued than someone else because of the natural competitiveness of human... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    The Market for Healthcare in Low Income Countries

    By: Abhijit Banerjee, Abhijit Chowdhury, Jishnu Das, Jeffrey Hammer, Reshmaan Hussam and Aakash Mohpal
    Patient trust is an important driver of the demand for healthcare. But it may also impact supply: doctors who realize that patients may not trust them may adjust their behavior in response. We assemble a large dataset that assesses clinical performance using... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Quality; Developing Countries and Economies; Trust
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    • 11 Dec 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits

    receive from institutions and organizations about which jobs are deemed moral, how they navigate moral quandaries as they advance in their careers, and how they marry moral aims with their other personal aims remain important and pressing... View Details
    Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
    • Research Summary

    Overview

    By: Brian L. Trelstad
    The focus of my research is on the systems of social innovation. How small groups of individuals come up with new products and services targeting important problems; how they finance these initial efforts, and convert prototypes into viable organizational strategies;... View Details
    Keywords: (General) Management; Social Business; Non-profit Management; Entrepreneur; Entrepreneurial Ecosystems; Entrepreneurial Finance; System Dynamics; Non-profit; Evaluation; Impact Investing; Venture Philanthropy; Social Enterprise Initiative; Advanced Leadership Initiative; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Organizations; Social Enterprise; Civil Society or Community; System; Financial Services Industry; Green Technology Industry; Health Industry; Energy Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Public Administration Industry; Service Industry
    • January 1993 (Revised July 2003)
    • Case

    Texas High-Speed Rail Corporation

    By: Timothy A. Luehrman
    The finance director of the Texas High-Speed Rail Corp. (THSRC) is considering modifications to the financing program designed to support the development, construction, and operations of THSRC's planned high-speed rail system. The current plan achieves many objectives,... View Details
    Keywords: Private Sector; Financial Strategy; Financing and Loans; Taxation; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Strategic Planning; Valuation; Rail Industry; Texas
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    • November 2024
    • Case

    Cheerful Music

    By: Shunyuan Zhang, Feng Zhu and Nancy Hua Dai
    Established by Snow Jiang in 2019 in Shenzhen, China, Cheerful Music was a record label company that had created many hit songs in China. “Yi Xiao Jiang Hu,” its most famous hit song, gained 50 billion views on TikTok as the background music for the Subject Three... View Details
    Keywords: Music Entertainment; Global Strategy; Generative Ai; China; UK
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    • December 13, 2022
    • Article

    What Elon Musk Can Learn from Steve Jobs’s Return to Apple

    By: Andy Wu and Goran Calic
    Changing the strategic direction of an existing company is among the hardest management challenges out there. Most attempts fail. In trying to remake Twitter, Elon Musk has a daunting task ahead of him. There’s precedent, however, for dramatically reimagining a major... View Details
    Keywords: Business or Company Management; Corporate Strategy; Change Management; Transformation
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    • May 2, 2024
    • Article

    Require Hospitals to Disclose Their Pandemic Plans Now

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Richard J. Boxer and Ben Creo
    The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that U.S. hospital and health care systems were ill-prepared for the surge of patients who overwhelmed available health care resources. An overlooked resource deserves more attention: the availability of intensive care unit (ICU)... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Crisis Management; Knowledge Sharing; Governance Compliance; Planning; Health Industry; United States
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    • October 2020
    • Article

    Patronage and Selection in Public Sector Organizations

    By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Mounu Prem and Edoardo Teso
    In all modern bureaucracies, politicians retain some discretion in public employment decisions, which may lead to frictions in the selection process if political connections substitute for individual competence. Relying on detailed matched employer-employee data on the... View Details
    Keywords: Employees; Selection and Staffing; Political Elections; Public Sector; Brazil
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    • Forthcoming
    • Article

    The Anatomy of a Hospital System Merger: The Patient Did Not Respond Well to Treatment

    By: Raffaella Sadun, Martin Gaynor, Adam Sacarny, Chad Syverson and Shruthi Venkatesh
    Despite the continuing US hospital merger wave, it remains unclear how mergers change, or fail to change, hospital behavior and performance. We open the “black box” of hospital practices through a mega-merger between two for-profit chains. Benchmarking the merger's... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Improvement; Mergers and Acquisitions; Health Industry
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    • Article

    Undisclosed Debt Sustainability

    By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
    Over the past decade, non-Paris Club creditors, notably China, have become an important source of financing for low- and middle-income countries. In contrast with typical sovereign debt, these lending arrangements are not public, and other creditors have no information... View Details
    Keywords: Paris Club; Transparency; Sovereign Finance; Borrowing and Debt; International Finance
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    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Contract Duration and the Costs of Market Transactions

    By: Alexander MacKay
    The optimal duration of a supply contract balances the costs of reselecting a supplier against the costs of being matched to an inefficient supplier when the contract lasts too long. I develop a structural model of contract duration that captures this tradeoff and... View Details
    Keywords: Vertical Relationships; Transaction Costs; Contract Duration; Identification; Supply Chain; Cost; Contracts; Auctions; Mathematical Methods
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    The Effects of Media Slant on Firm Behavior

    By: Vishal P. Baloria and Jonas Heese
    The media can impose reputational costs on firms because of its important role as an information intermediary and its ability to negatively slant coverage. We exploit a quasi-natural experiment that holds constant the information event across firms, but varies the... View Details
    Keywords: Media Slant; Reputational Capital; Strategic Corporate Decisions
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    • April 2017
    • Article

    Prizes, Patents and the Search for Longitude

    By: M. Diane Burton and Tom Nicholas
    The 1714 Longitude Act created the Board of Longitude to administer a large monetary prize and progress payments for the precise determination of a ship’s longitude. However, the prize did not prohibit patenting. We use a new dataset of marine chronometer inventors to... View Details
    Keywords: Prizes; Innovation; Patents; Innovation and Invention; Motivation and Incentives
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    • February 2018
    • Article

    Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

    By: William R. Kerr
    This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has three comparative advantages: including emerging and advanced economies, isolating panel variation regarding the link between productivity and... View Details
    Keywords: Exports; Comparative Advantage; Technological Transfer; Innovation; Networks; Patents; Residency; Technology Adoption; Trade; Research and Development; Immigration; United States
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    • March 2015
    • Case

    West Coast Chill

    By: William A. Sahlman, Robert F. White and Stephanie Puzio
    The fall of 2010 marked the 20th year that Mitchell Joseph, a fourth generation beverage executive, serial entrepreneur, and the founder of the Joseph Company (the "Company"), had been working on developing the technology for a self-chilling can. Mitchell was at an... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

    By: William R. Kerr
    This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has three comparative advantages: including emerging and advanced economies, isolating panel variation regarding the link between productivity and... View Details
    Keywords: Exports; Comparative Advantage; Technological Transfer; Innovation; Networks; Patents; Residency; Technology Adoption; Trade; Research and Development; Immigration; United States
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