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- 30 Jul 2014
- News
Were OkCupid’s and Facebook’s Experiments Unethical?
- 17 Sep 2019
- News
Trump's tariffs revive damaging prewar world of trade barriers
- 03 Sep 2013
- News
Jerry Remy’s businesses apt to weather murder case
- 05 Nov 2019
- News
Best Business Books 2019: Talent & leadership
- September 2012 (Revised July 2013)
- Case
Can the Eurozone Survive?
By: Dante Roscini and Jonathan Schlefer
The sovereign debt crisis that took Greece by storm in 2010 began to spread to other European markets. Within a few months Ireland and Portugal had also lost access to the sovereign debt markets and had to rely on supranational loans for their financing. The risk of...
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Keywords:
Sovereign Debt Crisis;
Currency Areas;
Financial Crisis;
Borrowing and Debt;
Currency Exchange Rate;
International Relations;
Banking Industry;
European Union;
Germany;
France;
Italy;
Spain;
Greece;
Portugal
Roscini, Dante, and Jonathan Schlefer. "Can the Eurozone Survive?" Harvard Business School Case 713-034, September 2012. (Revised July 2013.)
- March 2015
- Article
Vulnerable Banks
By: Robin Greenwood, Augustin Landier and David Thesmar
We present a model in which fire sales propagate shocks across bank balance sheets. When a bank experiences a negative shock to its equity, a natural way to return to target leverage is to sell assets. If potential buyers are limited, then asset sales depress prices,...
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Greenwood, Robin, Augustin Landier, and David Thesmar. "Vulnerable Banks." Journal of Financial Economics 115, no. 3 (March 2015): 471–485.
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
PublicationsHow Much Is Sweat Equity Worth? Authors:Marquis, Christopher, and Joshua D. Margolis Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 12 (December 2012) Abstract The article presents a case study of a business decision related to the valuing of sweat equity in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Winter 2022
- Article
Determinants of Small Business Reopening Decisions After COVID Restrictions Were Lifted
The COVID-19 pandemic led to dramatic economic disruptions, including government-imposed restrictions that temporarily shuttered millions of American businesses. We use a nation-wide survey of thousands of small business owners to establish three main facts about...
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Keywords:
COVID-19;
Demand Forecasting;
Reopening;
Health Pandemics;
Government Administration;
Small Business
Balla-Elliott, Dylan, Zoë B. Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca, and Christopher Stanton. "Determinants of Small Business Reopening Decisions After COVID Restrictions Were Lifted." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 41, no. 1 (Winter 2022): 278–317.
- November 2021
- Article
Ratings, Reviews, and the Marketing of New Products
By: Itay P. Fainmesser, Dominique Olié Lauga and Elie Ofek
We study how user-generated content (UGC) about new products impacts a firm's advertising and pricing decisions and the effect on profits and market dynamics. We construct a two-period model where consumers value quality and are heterogeneous in their taste for the new...
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Keywords:
Online Reviews;
Product Ratings;
Social Networks;
Word Of Mouth;
Pricing;
User-generated Content;
Advertising;
Product Marketing;
Price;
Consumer Behavior;
Product Positioning;
Social Media
Fainmesser, Itay P., Dominique Olié Lauga, and Elie Ofek. "Ratings, Reviews, and the Marketing of New Products." Management Science 67, no. 11 (November 2021): 7023–7045.
- 12 Sep 2023
- Book
Successful, But Still Feel Empty? A Happiness Scholar and Oprah Have Advice for You
spiritual connections. They’re oblivious to the power these pillars could bring to their mindset, the authors say. Big idea 1: Put your own oxygen mask on first for better relationships The authors zoom in on the emotional contagion...
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by Avery Forman
- Web
Student Research - Doctoral
Regulation Contagion By: Michael Pinus, Eran Halperin, Yajun Cao, Alin Coman, James Gross and Amit Goldenberg In intergroup conflicts, emotion regulation interventions can decrease negative intergroup emotions and increase support for...
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- 27 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
How One Late Employee Can Hurt Your Business: Data from 25 Million Timecards
Perhaps more important for retailers, though, the study suggested that lateness and absenteeism can become a contagion that weighs down the employees who have to pick up the slack. Those findings could be especially important if the...
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- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
witnessing firms developing and experimenting with much more radical risk-mitigating technologies. These include developing new products and processes that mitigate contagion risk. For example, in China, robots have been designed to...
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by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- Web
Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
and Vincent’s other research here. Related Themes: Global Crisis & Debt Data, Monetary Policy & Money Markets More Info Connectedness and Contagion By: Hal S. Scott MAY 2016 Systematic runs on financial institutions were the main culprits...
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- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
extrapolations of buying behavior in socially distanced contagion conditions. Second, the pandemic has accelerated trends that were in progress before, like omnichannel buying and multichannel selling. Third, the need to ramp-up virtual...
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by Kristen Senz
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Enron’s Lessons for Managers
Salter, was "emotional contagion and the normalization of deviancy." Among the lessons he highlighted for other managers still shaken by the Enron debacle were the importance of humility and accurate self-assessment. The Enron...
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by Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
proactively reduce the uncertainty for themselves and their ecosystems by preempting the effects of COVID-19 even before contagion arrived in their countries. Faced with the emergence of conflicting safety protocols across the regions...
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Best-selling and New Cases by Ben Esty
Best-Selling (MOST POPULAR) Cases:
1) Eaton: Portfolio Transformation & Cost of... View Details
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
developing on,” Wu says. Benefitting from complex contagion Hackathons permit what social scientists call complex contagion, in which exposure to a phenomenon from multiple sources helps speed adoption. Past research that looked at this...
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- 29 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
What Hath the United Kingdom Wrought?
conditions of this non-consensual separation, and even more complex and important, what status it will allow Britain to have going forward. It will have to tow a fine line between being too harsh--to defuse contagion in other EU countries...
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by Dante Roscini