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  • 06 Jan 2021
  • Working Paper Summaries

Aggregate Advertising Expenditure in the US Economy: What's Up? Is It Real?

Keywords: by Alvin J. Silk and Ernst R. Berndt; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting
  • 24 Feb 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

use. Census II identifies the most commonly used FOSS components in production applications and begins to examine them for potential vulnerabilities, which can inform actions to sustain the long-term... View Details
Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer
  • 28 Sep 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Scale without Mass: Business Process Replication and Industry Dynamics

Keywords: by Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Michael Sorell & Feng Zhu; Technology
  • 09 Sep 2016
  • News

MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding

can see it-- if you look at the roots of technology, a lot of the commercial success and just waves of productivity that emerged from technology, all were centered around the formation of communities. View Details
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable

Entrepreneurs-in-Residence; fellowship programs; and a need-based loan reduction program for graduating students pursuing an entrepreneurial venture. The Harvard i-lab likewise offers skill-building workshops on everything from legal... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Opportunistic Returns and Dynamic Pricing: Empirical Evidence from Online Retailing in Emerging Markets

By: Chaithanya Bandi, Antonio Moreno, Donald Ngwe and Zhiji Xu
We investigate how dynamic pricing can lead to more product returns in the online retail industry. Using detailed sales data of more than two million transactions from the Indian online retail market, where price promotions are very common, we document two types of... View Details
Keywords: Cash On Delivery; Dynamic Pricing; Online Retail; Payment Methods; Strategic Customer Behavior; Opportunistic Returns; Price; Policy; Consumer Behavior; Emerging Markets; Retail Industry
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  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

Terrorism, Insurance, and Uncle Sam

"contrary to popular wisdom, government involvement with private-sector risks is nothing new." Moss noted that public-risk management goes back to the earliest days of the Republic and cited policies such as limited liability, federal... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
  • 06 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Winners and Losers at the Olympics

There's much more at stake in the Olympics than medals. Giant corporations are eager to tie huge marketing and advertising campaigns to the Olympic rings and ideals. NBC spent more than $600 million to win... View Details
Keywords: Re: Stephen A. Greyser; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance

By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen
We examine in this paper the differential response of establishments to the global financial crisis, with particular emphasis on the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in determining micro economic performance. Using a new worldwide dataset that reports the... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Local Range; Multinational Firms and Management; Production; Performance Evaluation; Networks
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  • March 2011 (Revised February 2012)
  • Case

Innovation and Growth at Actelion Ltd.

By: Gary P. Pisano, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Ruth Dittrich
In late 2010, Jean-Paul Clozel, CEO of the Swiss biotech pharmaceuticals firm Actelion, looks back on a successful decade. The small venture that he had started with a few of his scientist colleagues in the late 1990s to discover novel medicine in a research-driven... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Talent and Talent Management; Innovation and Management; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Organizational Culture; Research and Development; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Switzerland
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Capital Controls, Risk and Liberalization Cycles (joint with Fabio Kanczuk)

By: Laura Alfaro
We construct an Overlapping-Generations model where agents vote on whether to open or close the economy to international capital flows. Political decisions are shaped by the risk over capital and labor returns. In an open economy, the capitalists (old) completely hedge... View Details
  • 01 May 2019
  • News

Boeing and the Importance of Encouraging Employees to Speak Up

  • 14 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings

Probing the productivity and morale toll The anonymized nature of the data made it difficult to discern the quality of the meetings and email communication, View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • June 2024 (Revised November 2024)
  • Case

Dylan Mulvaney and Bud Light

By: Jill Avery and Celine Chammas
On April 1, 2023, social media content creator and influencer Dylan Mulvaney recorded a promotional post. It featured a video of herself drinking from a can of Bud Light beer, offering a virtual toast to her followers. Alongside the video, she posted a photograph of a... View Details
Keywords: Brand Crises; Brand Management; Influencer Marketing; Boycott; Marketing Strategy; Marketing Communications; Brands and Branding; Consumer Behavior; Social Media; Advertising; Social Issues; Public Opinion; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

assets, including customer relationships; innovative products and services; high-quality and responsive operating processes; skills and knowledge... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • Article

Gains from Foreign Direct Investment: Macro and Micro Approaches

By: Laura Alfaro
This paper discussed the importance of an “integrated approach” to the study of the effects of FDI on host countries. Macro-level work that examines countries at different stages of development and institutional capacity is needed to surface the role of local... View Details
Keywords: Spillovers; Complementarities; Mechanism; Foreign Direct Investment; Economic Growth
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  • 12 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Operations and the Competitive Edge

required to create and deliver a product or service, from procurement through conversion to distribution." In the following interview, Hayes explains why operations usually gets relegated to a support... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Human-Computer Interactions in Demand Forecasting and Labor Scheduling Decisions

By: Caleb Kwon, Ananth Raman and Jorge Tamayo
We investigate whether corporate officers should grant managers discretion to override AI-driven demand forecasts and labor scheduling tools. Analyzing five years of administrative data from a large grocery retailer using such an AI tool, encompassing over 500 stores,... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Forecasting and Prediction; Working Conditions; Performance Productivity
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  • December 2014
  • Other Article

Private Equity, Jobs, and Productivity—Online Appendix

By: Steven J. Davis, John Haltiwanger, Kyle Handley, Ron Jarmin, Josh Lerner and Javier Miranda
Private equity critics claim that leveraged buyouts bring huge job losses. To investigate this claim, we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target firms and their 150,000 establishments... View Details
Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Private Equity; Performance Productivity
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  • 01 May 2015
  • News

Celebrating and Supporting Leadership

societal progress by creating jobs, investing in communities, and bringing the world much-needed products and services. "In an era of budget austerity View Details
Keywords: Educational Services