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- 25 Apr 2023
- Op-Ed
How SHEIN and Temu Conquered Fast Fashion—and Forged a New Business Model
information technology to directly match consumer demand to dispersed production by a collection of factories in China. This method of reaching customers should inspire any business that provides products or...
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- 23 Sep 2014
- HBS Seminar
Mariano Tappata, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
- 17 Apr 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Diffusing Management Practices within the Firm: The Role of Information Provision
- 2023
- Working Paper
Geographies of Discontent: Public Service Deprivation and the Rise of the Far Right in Italy
By: Simone Cremaschi, Paula Rettl, Marco Cappelluti and Catherine E. De Vries
Electoral support for far-right parties is often linked to geographies of discontent.
We argue that public service deprivation, defined as reduced access to public services
at the local level, plays an important role in explaining these patterns. By exploiting
an...
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Keywords:
Election Outcomes;
Electoral Behavior;
Political Affiliation;
Political Culture;
Public Service;
Political Elections;
Policy;
Government and Politics;
Surveys;
Geographic Location;
Immigration;
Europe;
Italy
Cremaschi, Simone, Paula Rettl, Marco Cappelluti, and Catherine E. De Vries. "Geographies of Discontent: Public Service Deprivation and the Rise of the Far Right in Italy." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-024, November 2023.
- August 29, 2017
- Article
How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures
By: Tsedal Neeley
According to a recent McKinsey Global Institute report, the number of people in the global labor force will reach 3.5 billion by 2030. Among the enormous changes this will demand are new skills, attitudes, and behaviors. A five-year study of the global workforce at...
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Neeley, Tsedal. "How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures." Harvard Business Review (website) (August 29, 2017).
- March 2010
- Article
The Role of Independent Invention in U.S. Technological Development, 1880-1930
By: Tom Nicholas
Why did independent inventors account for over half of US patents by 1930 and more than three times the number granted to R&D firms? Using new data on patents and historical patent citations, I show that independents supplied high quality innovations to a...
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Keywords:
History;
Technological Innovation;
Patents;
Urban Scope;
Independent Innovation and Invention;
Research and Development;
United States
Nicholas, Tom. "The Role of Independent Invention in U.S. Technological Development, 1880-1930." Journal of Economic History 70, no. 1 (March 2010).
- 18 Feb 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions
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by Lyra Colfer & Carliss Y. Baldwin
- 24 Oct 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Tech Platforms Identify Black-Owned Businesses, White Customers Buy
white, Democratic-leaning districts of the seven metropolitan areas of the US they examined: San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Chicago, and Houston. Using geographic variations in implicit bias surveys from...
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- 18 Sep 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
What Do We Know About Corporate Headquarters? A Review, Integration, and Research Agenda
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
Shareholders Using a Geographic Instrument Authors:Bo Becker, Henrik Cronqvist, and Rüdiger Fahlenbrach Abstract Large shareholders may play an important role for firm performance and policies, but identifying this empirically presents a...
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Martha Lagace
- June 2008
- Article
The Multiunit Enterprise
By: David A. Garvin and Lynne C. Levesque
A multiunit enterprise is a geographically dispersed organization built from standard units (stores, restaurants, or branches) that are aggregated into larger geographic groupings (districts, regions, and divisions). Although this organizational structure has become...
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Keywords:
Globalized Firms and Management;
Organizational Structure;
Global Range;
Research;
Business Ventures;
Problems and Challenges;
Business or Company Management;
Business Headquarters;
Organizational Design;
Talent and Talent Management;
Goals and Objectives
Garvin, David A., and Lynne C. Levesque. "The Multiunit Enterprise." Harvard Business Review 86, no. 6 (June 2008).
- 2022
- Working Paper
Where the Cloud Rests: The Location Strategies of Data Centers
By: Shane Greenstein and Tommy Pan Fang
This study provides an analysis of the entry strategies of third-party data centers in the United States. We examine the market before the pandemic in 2018 and 2019, when supply and demand for data services were geographically stable. We compare with the entry...
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Greenstein, Shane, and Tommy Pan Fang. "Where the Cloud Rests: The Location Strategies of Data Centers." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-042, September 2020. (Revised June 2022.)
- 2008
- Working Paper
Consequences of Voluntary and Mandatory Fair Value Accounting: Evidence Surrounding IFRS Adoption in the EU Real Estate Industry
By: Karl A Muller III, Edward J. Riedl and Thorsten Sellhorn
We examine the causes and consequences of European real estate firms' decisions to provide investment property fair values prior to the required disclosure of this information under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). We find evidence that investor...
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Keywords:
Fair Value Accounting;
Financial Reporting;
International Accounting;
Corporate Disclosure;
Standards;
Real Estate Industry;
European Union
Muller, Karl A., III, Edward J. Riedl, and Thorsten Sellhorn. "Consequences of Voluntary and Mandatory Fair Value Accounting: Evidence Surrounding IFRS Adoption in the EU Real Estate Industry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-033, September 2008.
- 2019
- Working Paper
Second Chance: Life with Less Student Debt
By: Marco Di Maggio, Ankit Kalda and Vincent Yao
Rising student debt is considered one of the creeping threats of our time. This paper examines the effect of student debt relief on individual credit and labor market outcomes. We exploit the plausibly random debt discharge due to the inability of National Collegiate,...
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Keywords:
Student Debt;
Private Student Loans;
Legal Settlement;
Mobility;
Debt Collection;
Debt Relief;
Borrowing and Debt;
Personal Finance;
Outcome or Result;
United States
Di Maggio, Marco, Ankit Kalda, and Vincent Yao. "Second Chance: Life with Less Student Debt." Working Paper, May 2019. (Forthcoming in The Journal of Finance.)
- Article
Moment-to-moment Optimal Branding in TV Commercials: Preventing Avoidance by Pulsing
By: Thales S. Teixeira, Michel Wedel and Rik Pieters
We develop a conceptual framework for understanding the impact that branding activity (the audio-visual representation of brands) and consumers' dispersion of attention have on their moment-to-moment avoidance decisions during television advertising. It formalizes this...
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Keywords:
Advertising;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Television Entertainment;
Brands and Branding;
Consumer Behavior;
Mathematical Methods
Teixeira, Thales S., Michel Wedel, and Rik Pieters. "Moment-to-moment Optimal Branding in TV Commercials: Preventing Avoidance by Pulsing." Marketing Science 29, no. 5 (September–October 2010): 783–804. (Lead Article.)
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
relationship between the diffusion of advanced internet technology and the geographic concentration of invention, as measured by patents. First, we show that patenting became more concentrated from the early 1990s to the early 2000s and,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- October 2015
- Article
Global Teams That Work
By: Tsedal Neeley
Many companies today rely on employees around the world, leveraging their diversity and local expertise to gain a competitive edge. However, geographically dispersed teams face a big challenge: physical separation and cultural differences can create social distance, or...
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Keywords:
Globalized Firms and Management;
Groups and Teams;
Performance;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
Neeley, Tsedal. "Global Teams That Work." Harvard Business Review 93, no. 10 (October 2015): 74–81.
Second Chance: Life Without Student Debt
Rising student debt is considered one of the creeping threats of our time. This paper examines the effect of student debt relief on individual credit and labor View Details
- July 2018
- Teaching Note
Cumplo.com
Teaching Note for HBS No. 818-039. Teaching Note for HBS No. 818-039. Cumplo is a Chilean-based fin-tech startup that provides investors and small businesses with opportunities to access loans and investments in ways distinct from traditional financial institutions in...
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- 2010
- Working Paper
Cheaper by the Dozen: Using Sibling Discounts at Catholic Schools to Estimate the Price Elasticity of Private School Attendance
By: Susan Dynarski, Jonathan Gruber and Danielle Li
The effect of vouchers on sorting between private and public schools depends upon the price elasticity of demand for private schooling. Estimating this elasticity is empirically challenging because prices and quantities are jointly determined in the market for private...
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Dynarski, Susan, Jonathan Gruber, and Danielle Li. "Cheaper by the Dozen: Using Sibling Discounts at Catholic Schools to Estimate the Price Elasticity of Private School Attendance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-054, October 2015.