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Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.?
By: Diego A. Comin, Bill Easterly and Erick Gong
We assemble a dataset on technology adoption in 1000 B.C., 0 A.D., and 1500 A.D. for the predecessors to today's nation states. We find that this very old history of technology adoption is surprisingly significant for today's national development outcomes. Our strong...
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Cost Accounting;
Information Technology;
Technology Adoption;
Growth and Development;
Adoption;
Business Strategy;
Cost;
Cost Management;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Culture;
Technology Industry
Comin, Diego A., Bill Easterly, and Erick Gong. "Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.?" American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 2, no. 3 (July 2010): 65–97.
- April 2003
- Case
Energis (A)
By: John R. Wells
Describes the history of Energis, one of the United Kingdom's major alternative telecommunications network service providers (altnets). Tracks the company from its birth as a diversification move by the National Grid, the U.K.'s leading electricity distributor, through...
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History;
Change Management;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Organizational Structure;
Industry Structures;
Telecommunications Industry;
United Kingdom
Wells, John R. "Energis (A)." Harvard Business School Case 703-505, April 2003.
- 29 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines
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Medium-term Business Cycles
By: Diego Comin and Mark Gertler
Over the postwar period, many industrialized countries have experienced significant medium-frequency oscillations between periods of robust growth versus relative stagnation. Conventional business cycle filters, however, tend to sweep these oscillations into the trend....
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Keywords:
Business Cycles;
Fluctuation;
Information Technology;
Research and Development;
Resource Allocation;
Framework;
Trends;
Performance Efficiency;
Performance Productivity
Comin, Diego, and Mark Gertler. "Medium-term Business Cycles." American Economic Review 96, no. 3 (June 2006).
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Transition to Clean Technology
By: Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley and William R. Kerr
We develop a microeconomic model of endogenous growth where clean and dirty technologies compete in production and innovation, in the sense that research can be directed to either clean or dirty technologies. If dirty technologies are more advanced to start with, the...
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Keywords:
Technological Innovation;
Entrepreneurship;
Environmental Sustainability;
Green Technology Industry
Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley, and William R. Kerr. "Transition to Clean Technology." Special Issue on Climate Change and the Economy. Journal of Political Economy 124, no. 2 (February 2016): 52–104.
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On the Causality and Cause of Returns to Organizational Status: Evidence from the Grands Crus Classés of the Médoc
By: Daniel Malter
This paper identifies the causal symbolic effect of status on the prices organizations charge for their products. I exploit the classification of the châteaux of the Médoc, which sorted 61 wine producers into five growth classes in 1855, as a fixed hierarchical symbol...
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Keywords:
Organizational Status;
Quality Signals;
Conspicuous Consumption;
Wine Classification Of 1855;
Grand Cru;
Status and Position;
Quality;
Reputation;
Price;
France
Malter, Daniel. "On the Causality and Cause of Returns to Organizational Status: Evidence from the Grands Crus Classés of the Médoc." Administrative Science Quarterly 59, no. 2 (June 2014): 271–300.
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
versus exploitation innovations impact economic growth through a tractable endogenous growth framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
production workers) are associated with more autonomy and a wider span of control. By contrast, communication technologies (like data networks) decrease autonomy for both workers and plant managers. Treating technology as endogenous using...
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
Responsible Investments That Make Firms More Profitable By: George Serafeim Article Transition to Clean Technology By: Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley and William R. Kerr We develop a microeconomic model of endogenous View Details
- 02 Nov 2016
- HBS Seminar
Gillian Hadfield, University of California, Gould School of Law
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
to isolate exogenous shocks to local ethnic populations, and identify a causal link between local networks and firm trade links. Firms that exploit their local networks (strategic traders) see significant increases in future sales growth...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
Diversion, Rent Extraction and Competition Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Abstract This paper studies search diversion by competing intermediaries connecting consumers with third-party stores. First, we show that endogenizing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
commercialization and adoption. Emerging opportunities must be nurtured, and the transition to high growth must be managed. Once breakthrough innovations catch hold, growth must be funded and managed to...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
response to unexpected endogenous or exogenous threats to meeting work goals. Managers employed two distinct forms of redundant communication to mobilize team members toward mitigating potentially threatening discrepant events—unforeseen...
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- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
change in directions that favor new sets of interests (for a review, see Battilana, 2010). A second factor that contributes to institutional change is determining whether the processes are endogenous to the everyday functioning of...
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- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
makes up 33% of Lan's overall revenues (markedly different from many U.S. legacy carriers that derive 3% to 4% of revenues from cargo). Since a change of ownership in 1994, Lan has grown steadily and quickly at a compound annual growth...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
markets place on the pinnacle of quality, the enduring nature of reputation, and the effect of endogenous quality choices on status effect estimates. August 2013 American Psychologist J. Richard Hackman (1940-2013) By: Wageman, Ruth, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
forthcoming American Economic Review Innovation, Reallocation and Growth By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp, Nicholas Bloom, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth, and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
different ownership structure and managers with different risk aversion and talent match endogenously through incentive contracts. The model predicts and the data support that, compared to widely held firms, family firms use contracts...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
find that diversified firms increased in value relative to single-segment firms during the crisis, a result that is not driven by the endogeneity of either financing constraints or firms' diversification choices. We also find that the...
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Martha Lagace