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- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
improvement. Through this collaborative process, the less experienced contributor gains a deeper understanding of the system’s structure and functions. Building on existing literature that has shown the...
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Product Positioning in a Two-Dimensional Vertical Differentiation Model: The Role of Quality Costs
By: Dominique Lauga and Elie Ofek
We study a duopoly model where consumers are heterogeneous with respect to their willingness to pay for two product characteristics and marginal costs are increasing with the quality level chosen on each attribute. We show that while firms seek to manage competition...
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Duopoly and Oligopoly;
Customers;
Quality;
Product Positioning;
Competition;
Management;
Cost;
Product
Lauga, Dominique, and Elie Ofek. "Product Positioning in a Two-Dimensional Vertical Differentiation Model: The Role of Quality Costs." Marketing Science 30, no. 5 (September–October 2011).
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
by national policy than they were by informal, local business deals. As Lurtz writes in her research summary, "Here coffee emerged in the hands of a diverse body of...
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- 09 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Solving the Complexities of the Biotechnology Industry
well-programmed and well-constructed. Despite vast knowledge we have accumulated in medicine and biotechnology, there is very little we know about this complex system. The exquisite design of human body is...
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Dissertation: "Essays in International Non-market Strategy and the Political Economy of Environmental Regulation"
My dissertation is part of a research agenda intended to advance our understanding of the interaction between companies and non-market actors (e.g. regulators) in an international context. The empirical setting of my analysis is the European Union Emissions Trading... View Details
- 2010
- Other Unpublished Work
Is High School the Right Time to Teach Self-control? The Effect of Financial Education and Mathematics Courses on Savings Behavior
By: Shawn A. Cole and Gauri Kartini Shastry
Household financial behavior affects household welfare and the economy at large. Yet our understanding of how to improve financial decisions is limited. Recent literature and policy attention have focused on financial education, for example, in high school. We use...
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Saving;
Financial Management;
Secondary Education;
Behavior;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Personal Finance;
Household
Cole, Shawn A., and Gauri Kartini Shastry. "Is High School the Right Time to Teach Self-control? The Effect of Financial Education and Mathematics Courses on Savings Behavior." June 2010.
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
You Make It Published: September 20, 2010 Nervous about an upcoming presentation or job interview? Holding one's body in "high-power" poses for short time periods can summon an extra surge of power...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
hard, we did well." Navigating Uncertainty In Turkey Güler Sabancı If the life experiences of Bajaj provide dramatic insights into the business environment in India, those of Güler Sabancı, the first woman...
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- 2012
- Working Paper
Risky Business: The Impact of Property Rights on Investment and Revenue in the Film Industry
By: Venkat Kuppuswamy and Carliss Y. Baldwin
Our paper tests a key prediction of property rights theory, specifically, that agents will respond to marginal incentives embedded in property rights when making non-contractible, revenue-enhancing investments (Grossman and Hart, 1986; Hart and Moore, 1990). Using rich...
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Property Rights;
Property;
Rights;
Investment;
Contracts;
Revenue;
Motivation and Incentives;
Motion Pictures and Video Industry;
United States
Kuppuswamy, Venkat, and Carliss Y. Baldwin. "Risky Business: The Impact of Property Rights on Investment and Revenue in the Film Industry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-007, July 2012. (Revised August 2012.)
- 11 Jun 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Gender in Job Negotiations: A Two-Level Game
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
for enforcement of employment law in the United States. But most of the companies at the cutting edge of using these tools are large companies, they’re global employers. And we...
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- 11 Jun 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs
- September–October 2023
- Article
A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: The Effects of Common Ownership on Corporate Social Responsibility
By: Mark R. DesJardine, Jody Grewal and Kala Viswanathan
Common owners face an incredible investment challenge: managing systematic risk. Because common owners hold shares in multiple firms across an industry, an action (or inaction) by one firm that affects industry peers is felt more severely by common owners than by...
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Common Ownership;
Environmental Sustainability;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Institutional Investing;
Corporate Governance;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Investment Return
DesJardine, Mark R., Jody Grewal, and Kala Viswanathan. "A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: The Effects of Common Ownership on Corporate Social Responsibility." Organization Science 34, no. 5 (September–October 2023): 1716–1735.
- Winter 2015
- Article
When One Size Doesn't Fit All: Evolving Directions in the Research and Practice of Enterprise Risk Management
By: Anette Mikes and Robert S. Kaplan
Enterprise risk management (ERM) has become a crucial component of contemporary corporate governance reforms, with an abundance of principles, guidelines, and standards. This paper portrays ERM as an evolving discipline and presents empirical findings on its current...
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Mikes, Anette, and Robert S. Kaplan. "When One Size Doesn't Fit All: Evolving Directions in the Research and Practice of Enterprise Risk Management." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 27, no. 1 (Winter 2015): 37–40.
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
terms of upward mobility and retention changes? Do you have some body of evidence—now that this is articulating itself—in metrics like that are so important to firm economics?...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
like Kelly might be in a position to do. Let’s talk about automation for a second, both in terms of vetting candidates, bring them on board, measuring their productivity, but also automation in the sense of...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
sometimes, to support that hard work. And so we find that a majority of our workforce, yes, is in fact mostly full-time employees, but we don’t lock ourselves into saying that there isn’t a body View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
you will, the credibility and the respect that would even earn that first enrolled student. It was Kerr: getting regulatory bodies and the accrediting boards and all that behind this very, very different model.Pulsipher: A very, very...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Defence, with the Home Office, with lots of other branches of government, Ministry of Justice. And in the U.S., we are approaching very similar public-sector View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day
women, are free to make decisions about our bodies and lives, we will be on the path to a more equal and free society. Until then, you can find us at a conference room, classroom, or boardroom near you... shoulders back and chin up. In...
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