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      • January 2021
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      Biobot Analytics

      By: Raymond Kluender, Joshua Krieger and Mitchell Weiss
      In 2017, Newsha Ghaeli and Mariana Matus were deciding whether to leave their labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, put other job opportunities aside, and dive full-time into founding a wastewater analysis start-up, Biobot. Ghaeli, an architect, and Matus,...  View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology; City; Data And Data Sets; Personal Development And Career; Technology Industry; Utilities Industry; Health Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States; Kuwait; Korean Peninsula
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      Kluender, Raymond, Joshua Krieger, and Mitchell Weiss. "Biobot Analytics." Harvard Business School Case 821-045, January 2021.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Open Source Software and Global Entrepreneurship

      By: Nataliya Langburd Wright, Frank Nagle and Shane Greenstein
      Does more activity in open source lead to more entrepreneurial activity and, if so, how much, and in what direction? This study measures how participation on the GitHub open source platform affects the founding of new ventures globally. We estimate these effects using...  View Details
      Keywords: Open Source Software; Github; Software; Entrepreneurship; Global Range; Development Economics
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      Wright, Nataliya Langburd, Frank Nagle, and Shane Greenstein. "Open Source Software and Global Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-139, June 2020. (Revised July 2020.)
      • 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...  View Details
      Keywords: Covid-19; Emerging Economies; Informality; Firm-size Distribution; Health Pandemics; Developing countries And Economies; Economy; System Shocks; Latin America
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      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.)
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States

      By: Paola Giuliano and Marco Tabellini
      We test the relationship between historical immigration to the U.S. and political ideology today. We hypothesize that European immigrants brought with them their preferences for the welfare state, and that this had a long-lasting effect on the political ideology of...  View Details
      Keywords: Political Ideology; Immigration; History; Values And Beliefs; Welfare; United States
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      Giuliano, Paola, and Marco Tabellini. "The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-118, May 2020. (Revised November 2020. Available also from VOX, UCLA Anderson Review, Weekendavisen and in Cato Institute.)
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Sticky Capital Controls

      By: Miguel Acosta-Henao, Laura Alfaro and Andres Fernandez
      There is much ongoing debate on the merits of capital controls as effective policy instruments. The differing perspectives are due in part to a lack of empirical studies that look at the intensive margin of controls, which in turn has prevented a quantitative...  View Details
      Keywords: Capital Controls; Macroprudential Policies; Stickiness; Intensive; (s, S) Costs; Capital; Management; Macroeconomics
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      Acosta-Henao, Miguel, Laura Alfaro, and Andres Fernandez. "Sticky Capital Controls." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 26997, April 2020.
      • 2019
      • White Paper

      Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: The Missing Piece for an Impact Economy

      By: George Serafeim, T. Robert Zochowski and Jennifer Downing
      Reimagining capitalism is an imperative. We need to create a more inclusive and sustainable form of capitalism that works for every person and the planet. Massive environmental damage, growing income and wealth disparity, stress, and depression within developed...  View Details
      Keywords: Impact-weighted Accounts; Iwai; Background; Economic Systems; Economy; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Measurement And Metrics; Financial Statements
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      Serafeim, George, T. Robert Zochowski, and Jennifer Downing. "Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: The Missing Piece for an Impact Economy." White Paper, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, September 2019.
      • 2019
      • Chapter

      Spatial Agglomeration and Superstar Firms: Firm-level Patterns from Europe and U.S.

      By: Laura Alfaro, Maggie X. Chen and Harald Fadinger
      We characterize the agglomeration patterns of industries and plants in Europe, distinguishing Eurozone countries and the United States. Using a micro-level index, we quantify the degree of geographic concentration in industrial activities and explore how firm...  View Details
      Keywords: Agglomeration; Patterns; Industry Clusters; Europe; United States
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      Alfaro, Laura, Maggie X. Chen, and Harald Fadinger. "Spatial Agglomeration and Superstar Firms: Firm-level Patterns from Europe and U.S." In ECB Forum on Central Banking, 17-19 June 2019, Sintra, Portugal: 20 years of European Economic and Monetary Union: Conference Proceedings. Frankfurt: European Central Bank, 2019.
      • 2019
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      Characterizing the Drug Development Pipeline for Precision Medicines

      By: Amitabh Chandra, Craig Garthwaite and Ariel Dora Stern
      BOOK ABSTRACT: Personalized and precision medicine (PPM)—the targeting of therapies according to an individual’s genetic, environmental, or lifestyle characteristics—is becoming an increasingly important approach in health care treatment and prevention. The advancement...  View Details
      Keywords: Healthcare; Precision Medicine
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      Chandra, Amitabh, Craig Garthwaite, and Ariel Dora Stern. "Characterizing the Drug Development Pipeline for Precision Medicines." Chap. 5 in Economic Dimensions of Personalized and Precision Medicine, edited by Ernest R. Berndt, Dana P. Goldman, and John W. Rowe, 115–158. University of Chicago Press, 2019.
      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      Government Technology Policy, Social Value, and National Competitiveness

      By: Frank Nagle
      This study seeks to better understand the impact that government technology procurement regulations have on social value and national competitiveness. To do this, it examines the impact of a change in France’s technology procurement policy that required government...  View Details
      Keywords: Social Value; Competitiveness; Government Administration; Technology; Acquisition; Policy; Value
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      Nagle, Frank. "Government Technology Policy, Social Value, and National Competitiveness." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-103, March 2019.
      • 2018
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      Foreign and Domestic Trade Costs, Product Variety, and the Standard of Living Across Countries

      By: Alberto Cavallo, Robert C. Feenstra and Robert Inklaar
      We extend the analysis of Arkolakis, Costinot and Rodríguez-Clare (AER, 2012) to allow for differences in domestic trade costs in addition to foreign trade costs. The domestic trade costs are measured by local transportation charges and wholesaling and retailing...  View Details
      Keywords: Economics; Trade; Cost
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      Cavallo, Alberto, Robert C. Feenstra, and Robert Inklaar. "Foreign and Domestic Trade Costs, Product Variety, and the Standard of Living Across Countries." 2018. Mimeo.
      • August 2018 (Revised April 2019)
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      Chateau Winery (A): Unsupervised Learning

      By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
      This case follows Bill Booth, marketing manager of a regional wine distributor, as he applies unsupervised learning on data about his customers’ purchases to better understand their preferences. Specifically, he uses the K-means clustering technique to identify groups...  View Details
      Keywords: Clustering; Data Science; Data And Data Sets; Customers; Marketing; analysis
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      Datar, Srikant M., and Caitlin N. Bowler. "Chateau Winery (A): Unsupervised Learning." Harvard Business School Case 119-023, August 2018. (Revised April 2019.)
      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      Economic Integration and Democracy: An Empirical Investigation

      By: Giacomo Magistretti and Marco Tabellini
      We study whether economic integration fosters the process of democratization and the channels through which this might happen. Our analysis is based on a large panel dataset of countries between 1950 and 2014. We instrument actual trade with predicted trade constructed...  View Details
      Keywords: Democratization; Institutional Development; Economic Integration; International Trade; Trade; Global Range; Economics; Government And Politics
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      Magistretti, Giacomo, and Marco Tabellini. "Economic Integration and Democracy: An Empirical Investigation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-003, July 2018. (Revised January 2019. Available also from VOX.)
      • February 2018
      • Article

      Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

      By: William R. Kerr
      This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has three comparative advantages: including emerging and advanced economies, isolating panel variation regarding the link between productivity and...  View Details
      Keywords: Exports; Comparative Advantage; Technological Transfer; Innovation; Networks; Patents; Residency; Technology Adoption; Trade; Research And Development; Immigration; United States
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      Kerr, William R. "Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns." World Bank Economic Review 32, no. 1 (February 2018): 163–182.
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      Capturing Value from Intellectual Property (IP) in a Global Environment

      By: Juan Alcácer, Karin Beukel and Bruno Cassiman
      Globalization should provide firms with an opportunity to leverage their know-how and reputation across countries to create value. However, it remains challenging for them to actually capture that value using traditional Intellectual Property (IP) tools. In this paper,...  View Details
      Keywords: Appropriation Strategy; Counterfeit; Intellectual Property Rights; Litigation; Value Capturing; Intellectual Property; Rights; Value; Lawsuits And Litigation; Global Range; Situation Or Environment
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      Alcácer, Juan, Karin Beukel, and Bruno Cassiman. "Capturing Value from Intellectual Property (IP) in a Global Environment." Special Issue on Geography, Location, and Strategy. Advances in Strategic Management 36 (2017): 163–228.
      • December 2016
      • Article

      Social Network Utilization and the Impact of Academic Research in Marketing

      By: Stav Rosenzweig, Amir Grinstein and Elie Ofek
      The forces that drive the impact of academic research articles in the marketing discipline are of great interests to authors, editors, and the discipline’s policy makers. A key understudied driver is social network utilization by academic researchers. In this paper, we...  View Details
      Keywords: Social Networks; Academic Reserach; Human Capital; Country Of Origin; Scientometrics; Social And Collaborative Networks; Research; Marketing; Gender; Human Resources
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      Rosenzweig, Stav, Amir Grinstein, and Elie Ofek. "Social Network Utilization and the Impact of Academic Research in Marketing." International Journal of Research in Marketing 33, no. 4 (December 2016): 818–839.
      • March 2016
      • Article

      An Analysis of Firms' Self-reported Anticorruption Efforts

      By: Paul M. Healy and George Serafeim
      We use Transparency International's ratings of self-reported anticorruption efforts for 480 corporations to analyze factors underlying the ratings. Our tests examine whether these forms of disclosure reflect firms' real efforts to combat corruption or are cheap talk....  View Details
      Keywords: Corruption; Performance; Corporate Performance; Growth; Sales; Disclosure; Disclosure Strategy; Sustainability; Crime And Corruption; Corporate Disclosure; Performance; Sales
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      Healy, Paul M., and George Serafeim. "An Analysis of Firms' Self-reported Anticorruption Efforts." Accounting Review 91, no. 2 (March 2016): 489–511.
      • August 2015
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      Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices

      By: Pol Antràs and C. Fritz Foley
      This paper analyzes the financing terms that support international trade and sheds light on how these terms shape the impact of economic shocks on trade. Analysis of transaction-level data from a U.S.-based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily...  View Details
      Keywords: Risk And Uncertainty; International Finance; Financing And Loans; Trade
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      Antràs, Pol, and C. Fritz Foley. "Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices." Journal of Political Economy 123, no. 4 (August 2015): 853–901. (Revised May 2014. Online Appendix.)
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      A Case for Contextual Intelligence

      By: Tarun Khanna
      In this perspective, I make a case for entrepreneurs and academics alike to focus on what I have referred to elsewhere as Contextual Intelligence, the ability to understand the limits of our knowledge, and to adapt that knowledge to a context different from the one in...  View Details
      Keywords: Contextual Intelligence; Institutional Voids; Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets; Knowledge Use And Leverage; Situation Or Environment; Developing countries And Economies; Entrepreneurship
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      Khanna, Tarun. "A Case for Contextual Intelligence." Special Issue on Leveraging India: Strategies for Global Competitiveness. Management International Review 55, no. 2 (April 2015): 181–190.
      • November 2014
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      The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms

      By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Xiaoyang Chen
      The explosion of multinational activities in recent decades is rapidly transforming the global landscape of industrial production. But are the emerging clusters of multinational production the rule or the exception? What drives the offshore agglomeration of...  View Details
      Keywords: Agglomeration; Agglomeration Economies; Multinational Firms And Management; Manufacturing Industry
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      Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Xiaoyang Chen. "The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms." Journal of International Economics 94, no. 2 (November 2014): 263–276. (Revised April 2014. Also NBER Working Paper Series, No. 15576. See Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-043 for longer version.)
      • July 2014
      • Case

      Paramount Equipment, Inc.

      By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Wei Wang
      Paramount Equipment, Inc., based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, is a large manufacturer of cranes and compact construction equipment, aerial work platforms, and food service equipment. Founded in 1987, Paramount now had manufacturing operations in 24 countries. However, it...  View Details
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      Baldwin, Carliss Y., and Wei Wang. "Paramount Equipment, Inc." Harvard Business School Brief Case 914-557, July 2014.
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