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- October 2019 (Revised February 2021)
- Case
Myanmar: Special Economic Zones
By: Willy Shih and Dawn Lau
This case examines four Special Economic Zones in Myanmar. While the country's development had been hobbled by a complex history of military rule, ethnic conflict, and international sanctions, as it pursued liberalization it sought avenues to developing its economy....
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Keywords:
Economic Development;
Emerging Economies;
Special Economic Zones (SEZs);
Development Economics;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Manufacturing Industry;
Energy Industry;
Southeast Asia;
Myanmar
Shih, Willy, and Dawn Lau. "Myanmar: Special Economic Zones." Harvard Business School Case 620-027, October 2019. (Revised February 2021.)
- 2022
- Article
Diffusing Management Practices within the Firm: The Role of Information Provision
By: Michael J. Lenox and Michael W. Toffel
Why are some firms more successful in adopting profitable environmental management practices than others? A key role of corporate managers is to encourage subsidiaries to adopt innovative practices. We examine the conditions under which corporate managers use...
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Keywords:
Environmental Strategy;
Information Provision;
Environmental Management;
Knowledge Dissemination
Lenox, Michael J., and Michael W. Toffel. "Diffusing Management Practices within the Firm: The Role of Information Provision." Art. 5911. Special Issue on Competitive Sustainability: The Intersection of Sustainability and Business Success. Sustainability 14, no. 10 (2022).
- 2024
- Working Paper
Economic Integration and the Transmission of Democracy
By: Marco Tabellini and Giacomo Magistretti
In this paper, we study the effects of economic integration with democratic partners
on democracy. We assemble a large country-level panel dataset from 1960 to 2015, and
exploit improvements in air, relative to sea, transportation to derive a time-varying
instrument...
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Keywords:
Democratization;
Institutional Development;
Economic Integration;
International Trade;
Democracy;
Political Preferences;
Institutions;
Trade;
Global Range;
Economics;
Government and Politics
Tabellini, Marco, and Giacomo Magistretti. "Economic Integration and the Transmission of Democracy." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-003, July 2018. (Revised March 2024. Available also from VOX, VOXEU, Atlantico, The Economist, Domani, and Ideas for India. Longer NBER working paper version available here. Conditionally accepted at the Review of Economic Studies.)
- February 2015 (Revised September 2016)
- Teaching Note
Making stickK Stick: The Business of Behavioral Economics
By: Leslie K. John and Michael Norton
Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.
This Teaching Note explains the theory of the case and teaching plan for the case: Making sticK Stick: The Business of Behavioral Economics (514019). The case focuses on a... View Details
This Teaching Note explains the theory of the case and teaching plan for the case: Making sticK Stick: The Business of Behavioral Economics (514019). The case focuses on a... View Details
Keywords:
Behavioral Economics;
Behavior Change;
B2B Vs. B2C;
Human Resource Management;
Marketing Of Innovations;
Health & Wellness;
Weight Loss;
Charitable Giving;
Marketing;
Consumer Behavior;
Entrepreneurship;
Internet and the Web;
Health;
Business Model;
Sales;
Human Resources;
Health Industry;
United States
John, Leslie K., and Michael Norton. "Making stickK Stick: The Business of Behavioral Economics." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 515-088, February 2015. (Revised September 2016.) (Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.)
- December 2014
- Article
Clusters, Convergence, and Economic Performance
By: Mercedes Delgado, Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern
This paper evaluates the role of regional cluster composition in regional industry performance. On the one hand, diminishing returns to specialization in a location can result in a convergence effect: the growth rate of an industry within a region may be declining in...
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Delgado, Mercedes, Michael E. Porter, and Scott Stern. "Clusters, Convergence, and Economic Performance." Research Policy 43, no. 10 (December 2014): 1785–1799.
- November 2018
- Article
Global Evidence on Economic Preferences
By: Armin Falk, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, Benjamin Enke, David Huffman and Uwe Sunde
This article studies the global variation in economic preferences. For this purpose, we present the Global Preference Survey (GPS), an experimentally validated survey data set of time preference, risk preference, positive and negative reciprocity, altruism, and trust...
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Keywords:
Economic Preferences;
Economics;
Behavior;
Surveys;
Analytics and Data Science;
Global Range
Falk, Armin, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, Benjamin Enke, David Huffman, and Uwe Sunde. "Global Evidence on Economic Preferences." Quarterly Journal of Economics 113, no. 4 (November 2018): 1645–1692.
- September 2014
- Article
Improving the Quality of Cancer Care in America Through Health Information Technology
By: Thomas W. Feeley, George W. Sledge, Laura Levit and Patricia A. Ganz
A recent report from the Institute of Medicine titled Delivering High-Quality Cancer Care: Charting a New Course for a System in Crisis, identifies improvement in information technology (IT) as essential to improving the quality of cancer care in America. The...
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Keywords:
Information Technology;
Information Technology Industry;
Cancer Care In The U.S.;
Health;
Technology;
Health Industry;
North and Central America
Feeley, Thomas W., George W. Sledge, Laura Levit, and Patricia A. Ganz. "Improving the Quality of Cancer Care in America Through Health Information Technology." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 21, no. 5 (September 2014): 772–775.
- 23 Oct 2013
2+2 Information Session: University of Pennsylvania
The information session is an opportunity for college and master degree students to learn more about the 2+2 application process to the MBA program and ask questions to an Admissions Board Member. The session will begin at 4:00 PM EST in Levine Hall Conference Room...
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- February 1991 (Revised April 1994)
- Background Note
Value of Information
By: David E. Bell
Gives some simple examples to illustrate the concept of the value of information in decision making. Both perfect and imperfect information are considered.
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Bell, David E. "Value of Information." Harvard Business School Background Note 191-138, February 1991. (Revised April 1994.)
- 2013
- Book
Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters
The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men...
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Keywords:
Forecasting And Prediction;
Economic History;
Economics;
History;
Risk and Uncertainty;
United States
Friedman, Walter A. Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters. Princeton University Press, 2013.
- January 2015
- Background Note
Note on Economic Inequality (2015)
By: Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia
For over half a century, most of the world's economies have enjoyed steady growth and prosperity. However, beginning in the 1980s, and continuing essentially unabated to the present, the gap between the "haves" and the "have-nots" in developed countries has widened,...
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Keywords:
Economic Inequalty;
Income Inequality;
Growth and Development;
Economics;
Equality and Inequality;
Society;
Problems and Challenges;
United States
Rose, Clayton S., and Aldo Sesia. "Note on Economic Inequality (2015)." Harvard Business School Background Note 315-050, January 2015.
- May 2014
- Article
Digital Dark Matter and the Economic Contribution of Apache
By: Shane Greenstein and Frank Nagle
Researchers have long hypothesized that research outputs from government, university, and private company R&D contribute to economic growth, but these contributions may be difficult to measure when they take a non-pecuniary form. The growth of networking devices and...
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Keywords:
Open Source;
Apache;
Economic Measurement;
Digital Economics;
Measurement and Metrics;
Open Source Distribution;
Internet and the Web;
Information Technology;
Applications and Software;
Economic Growth;
Research and Development;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
United States
Greenstein, Shane, and Frank Nagle. "Digital Dark Matter and the Economic Contribution of Apache." Research Policy 43, no. 4 (May 2014): 623–631. (Lead Article.)
- 2019
- Chapter
Behavioral Economics and Health-Care Markets
By: Amitabh Chandra, Benjamin Handel and Joshua Schwartzstein
This chapter summarizes research in behavioral health economics, focusing on insurance markets and product markets in health care. We argue that the prevalence of choice difficulties and biases leading to mistakes in these markets establish a special place for them in...
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Keywords:
Behavioral Economics;
Consumer Behavior;
Economics;
Health Care and Treatment;
Insurance;
Markets
Chandra, Amitabh, Benjamin Handel, and Joshua Schwartzstein. "Behavioral Economics and Health-Care Markets." Chap. 6 in Handbook of Behavioral Economics: Foundations and Applications 2, edited by B. Douglas Bernheim, Stefano DellaVigna, and David Laibson, 459–502. Amsterdam: Elsevier/North-Holland, 2019.
- March 2014
- Article
Information Environment and the Investment Decisions of Multinational Corporations
By: Nemit O. Shroff, Rodrigo S. Verdi and Gwen Yu
This paper examines how the external information environment in which foreign subsidiaries operate affects the investment decisions of multinational corporations (MNCs). We hypothesize and find that the investment decisions of foreign subsidiaries in country-industries...
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Keywords:
Capital Budgeting;
Multinational Firms;
Cross-border Frictions;
Agency Frictions;
Transparency;
Financial Reporting Quality;
Information Quality;
Information;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Investment
Shroff, Nemit O., Rodrigo S. Verdi, and Gwen Yu. "Information Environment and the Investment Decisions of Multinational Corporations." Accounting Review 89, no. 2 (March 2014): 759–790.
- July 2020
- Article
Higher Economic Inequality Intensifies the Financial Hardship of People Living in Poverty by Fraying the Community Buffer
By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Barnabas Szaszi, Marcel Lukas, David Smerdon, Jaideep Prabhu and Elke U. Weber
The current research investigates whether higher economic inequality disproportionately intensifies the financial hardship of low-income individuals. We propose that higher economic inequality increases financial hardship for low-income individuals by reducing their...
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Keywords:
Economic Inequalty;
Economy;
Income;
Equality and Inequality;
Poverty;
Civil Society or Community
Jachimowicz, Jon M., Barnabas Szaszi, Marcel Lukas, David Smerdon, Jaideep Prabhu, and Elke U. Weber. "Higher Economic Inequality Intensifies the Financial Hardship of People Living in Poverty by Fraying the Community Buffer." Special Issue on Racism in Action. Nature Human Behaviour 4, no. 7 (July 2020): 702–712.
- 02 Mar 2022
HBS College Programs Information Session at the London School of Economics
Do you know where an MBA can take you? HBS offers two programs for internationally-based college students that they can take advantage of - Peek, a virtual MBA preview experience, and 2+2 our deferred admissions process for college...
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- 2020
- Working Paper
EMEs and COVID-19: Shutting Down in a World of Informal and Tiny Firms
By: Laura Alfaro, Oscar Becerra and Marcela Eslava
Emerging economies are characterized by an extremely high prevalence of informality, small-firm employment and jobs not fit for working from home. These features factor into how the COVID-19 crisis has affected the economy. We develop a framework that, based on...
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Keywords:
COVID-19;
Emerging Economies;
Informality;
Firm-size Distribution;
Health Pandemics;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Economy;
System Shocks;
Latin America
Alfaro, Laura, Oscar Becerra, and Marcela Eslava. "EMEs and COVID-19: Shutting Down in a World of Informal and Tiny Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-125, June 2020. (See application of the methodology to Latin American Countries in the IMF Regional Economic Outlook: Western Hemisphere 2020, Chapter 3. https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/REO/WH/Issues/2020/10/13/regional-economic-outlook-western-hemisphere.)
- 1982
- Discussion Paper
The Current Status of the Interface Between Information Science and Economics
By: Jerry R. Green
Green, Jerry R. "The Current Status of the Interface Between Information Science and Economics." Discussion Paper, National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1982.
- November 2023
- Case
Gabon Special Economic Zone
By: John Macomber and Wale Lawal
Tropical rain forest covers about 80% of the West African nation of Gabon, part of the Congo Basin and the "lungs of the world." Gabon is one of the first nations to earn revenue from carbon sequestration...as long as the rain forest remains intact. There are...
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Keywords:
Africa;
Economic Development;
Forestry;
Wood;
Climate Change;
Carbon Credits;
Supply Chain;
Economic Growth;
Development Economics;
Forest Products Industry;
Africa;
Gabon
Macomber, John, and Wale Lawal. "Gabon Special Economic Zone." Harvard Business School Case 224-012, November 2023.
- Research Summary
The Economics of Search
Utilizing data on web searches, we characterize the economics of search and estimate the path of diffusion for information, allowing us to specify how choice sets are actually formed among consumers and examine the impact of cybergeography vs. spatial geography. Joint...
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