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- January 2022
- Article
The Private Impact of Public Data: Landsat Satellite Maps Increased Gold Discoveries and Encouraged Entry
By: Abhishek Nagaraj
How does public data shape the relative performance of incumbents and entrants in the private sector? Using a simple theoretical framework, I argue that public data reduces investment uncertainty, facilitates the discovery of new market opportunities and increases the...
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Keywords:
Public Data;
Maps;
Gold;
Microeconomic Behavior;
Economics;
Data and Data Sets;
Private Sector;
Market Entry and Exit;
Mining
Nagaraj, Abhishek. "The Private Impact of Public Data: Landsat Satellite Maps Increased Gold Discoveries and Encouraged Entry." Management Science 68, no. 1 (January 2022): 564–582.
- February 2014
- Article
Gender Differences in Willingness to Guess
We present the results of an experiment that explores whether women are less willing than men to guess on multiple-choice tests. Our test consists of practice questions from SAT II subject tests; we vary whether a penalty is imposed for a wrong answer and the salience...
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Keywords:
Behavioral Decision Making;
Microeconomic Behavior;
Education Systems;
Behavior;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Gender;
Economics
Coffman, Katherine Baldiga. "Gender Differences in Willingness to Guess." Management Science 60, no. 2 (February 2014): 434–448.
- Teaching
Overview
Teaching Assistant, Intermediate Microeconomics (Professor Marc Melitz, Harvard College)
Teaching Assistant, Intermediate Microeconomics (Professors Lalith Munasinghe, Kristin Mammen, Barnard College)
Teaching Assistant, Contract Law (Professor Oren... View Details
Teaching Assistant, Intermediate Microeconomics (Professors Lalith Munasinghe, Kristin Mammen, Barnard College)
Teaching Assistant, Contract Law (Professor Oren... View Details
- December 12, 2009
- Other Article
The Transformation of India: Incumbent Control, Reforms, and Newcomers
By: Laura Alfaro and Anusha Chari
What microeconomic forces drove the structural transformation of India's economy in recent decades? This column studies firm-level data and portrays a dynamic economy driven by the growth of private and foreign firms. But the Indian economy did not go through an...
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Alfaro, Laura, and Anusha Chari. "The Transformation of India: Incumbent Control, Reforms, and Newcomers." Vox, CEPR Policy Portal (December 12, 2009).
- February 1997 (Revised March 1999)
- Background Note
Transition to a Market Economy: The Components of Reform
Makes a positive case for three broad categories of economic reform--macroeconomic stabilization, microeconomic liberalization, and institutional reform.
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Kennedy, Robert E., and Amy L Sandler. "Transition to a Market Economy: The Components of Reform." Harvard Business School Background Note 797-080, February 1997. (Revised March 1999.)
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
U.S. Tops Business Competitiveness Index 2006
Microeconomic activity such as the sophistication of company operations account for 80 percent of the variation in GDP per capita across countries, according to the report. Macroeconomic factors create a favorable business environment...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2016
- Video
Paul Kagame responds to MOC class discussion in 2016
- 25 Oct 2023
- News
Behind the Research: Tomomichi Amano
- 25 Aug 2016
- Video
Arturo Galvan responds to MOC class discussion in 2016
- 25 Aug 2016
- Video
Dirk Hogervorst responds to MOC class discussion in 2016
- Research Summary
The Competitive Advantage of Nations and Regions
Michael E. Porter continues to extend his study first reported in The Competitive Advantage of Nations. Porter has published books and studies of other countries, states, and cities, including Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,...
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- 25 Sep 2001
- Other Presentation
The Baltic Rim Regional Agenda
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press,
1990), "The Microeconomic Foundations of Economic Development," in The Global Competitiveness Report 1998,...
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Porter, Michael E. "The Baltic Rim Regional Agenda." Baltic Development Forum Summit, St. Petersburg, Russia, September 25, 2001.
- February 1998
- Case
AT&T WorldNet (A)
The issue of how to price access to the Internet is addressed. To provide a basis for discussion of the effects of pricing that is not sensitive to volume, network externalities, and the strategic issues surrounding price wars in a short course on microeconomics
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Austin, Robert D., and Thomas Rodd. "AT&T WorldNet (A)." Harvard Business School Case 198-021, February 1998.
- 25 Aug 2016
- Video
Arantxa Tapia responds to MOC class discussion in 2015
- 25 Aug 2016
- Video
Jose Figueres responds to MOC class discussion in 2016
- 25 Aug 2016
- Video
Seth Pinsky responds to MOC class discussion in 2016
- August 2000 (Revised July 2002)
- Background Note
Economic Evidence on the Globalization of Markets
Presents the systematic evidence in the context of the microeconomic model of market integration. Market integration is just one (economic) aspect of globalization; this is one of the particular interests to business managers.
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Keywords:
Globalized Markets and Industries
Ghemawat, Pankaj. "Economic Evidence on the Globalization of Markets." Harvard Business School Background Note 701-015, August 2000. (Revised July 2002.)
- Teaching
Overview
Andrea has worked as a teaching assistant in the following courses
-Advanced Microeconomics (Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies)
-Advanced Macroeconomics (Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies)
-Global Strategic Management...
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- 2017
- Working Paper
Structural Transformation: A Competitiveness-based View
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
Competitiveness research aims to enhance our understanding of the drivers of prosperity differences across locations and of policies that can sustainably raise a location’s prosperity level. The paper outlines key elements of the competitiveness framework and discusses...
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Keywords:
Competitiveness;
Cluster;
Development;
Growth;
Economic Policy;
Competition;
Development Economics;
Economic Growth;
Policy
Ketels, Christian H.M. "Structural Transformation: A Competitiveness-based View." African Development Bank Group Working Paper, No. 258, May 2017.