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      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      Bollywood, Skin Color and Sexism: The Role of the Film Industry in Emboldening and Contesting Stereotypes in India after Independence

      By: Sudev Sheth, Geoffrey Jones and Morgan Spencer
      This working paper examines the social impact of the film industry in India during the first four decades after Indian Independence in 1947. It shows that Bollywood, the mainstream cinema in India and the counterpart in scale to Hollywood in the United States, shared...  View Details
      Keywords: Film Industry; Bollywood; Tamil Cinema; Male Gaze; Social Impact; Stereotypes; Oral History; Film Entertainment; Gender; Race; Personal Characteristics; Prejudice And Bias; Business History; Motion Pictures And Video Industry; India
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      Sheth, Sudev, Geoffrey Jones, and Morgan Spencer. "Bollywood, Skin Color and Sexism: The Role of the Film Industry in Emboldening and Contesting Stereotypes in India after Independence." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-077, January 2021.
      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      Persuasive Propaganda During the 2015 Argentine Ballotage

      By: Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky
      We study a propaganda campaign sponsored by the government against the main political challenger in the days preceding the 2015 Argentine runoff presidential election. Subjects in the treatment group watched an “ad” initially aired during soccer transmissions that was...  View Details
      Keywords: Propaganda; Persuasion; Voting; Voting; Political Elections; government And Politics; Communication Strategy; Power And Influence; Public Opinion; Argentina
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      Di Tella, Rafael, Sebastian Galiani, and Ernesto Schargrodsky. "Persuasive Propaganda During the 2015 Argentine Ballotage." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-030, September 2019. (Revised November 2019.)
      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      rTSR: When Do Relative Performance Metrics Capture Relative Performance?

      By: Paul Ma, Jee-Eun Shin and Charles C. Y. Wang
      We develop a measurement-error framework for assessing the quality of relative-performance metrics designed to filter out the systematic component of performance and analyze relative total shareholder return (rTSR)—the predominant metric market participants use to...  View Details
      Keywords: Relative Tsr; Relative Performance Evaluation; Systematic Risk; Board Of Directors; Compensation Consultants; Style Effects; Executive Compensation; Performance Evaluation; Corporate governance
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      Ma, Paul, Jee-Eun Shin, and Charles C. Y. Wang. "rTSR: When Do Relative Performance Metrics Capture Relative Performance?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-112, April 2019. (Revised September 2019.)
      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      Labor Market Shocks and the Demand for Trade Protection: Evidence from Online Surveys

      By: Rafael Di Tella and Dani Rodrik
      We study preferences for government action in response to layoffs resulting from different types of labor-market shocks. We consider the following shocks: technological change, a demand shift, bad management, and three kinds of international outsourcing. Respondents...  View Details
      Keywords: Labor; Markets; System Shocks; Trade; Attitudes; Surveys
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      Di Tella, Rafael, and Dani Rodrik. "Labor Market Shocks and the Demand for Trade Protection: Evidence from Online Surveys." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 25705, March 2019.
      • 2020
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      Overcoming the Cold Start Problem of CRM Using a Probabilistic Machine Learning Approach

      By: Nicolas Padilla and Eva Ascarza
      The success of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) programs ultimately depends on the firm's ability to understand consumers' preferences and precisely capture how these preferences may differ across customers. Only by understanding customer heterogeneity, firms can...  View Details
      Keywords: Customer Management; Targeting; Deep Exponential Families; Probabilistic Machine Learning; Cold Start Problem; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Value And Value Chain; Consumer Behavior; Data And Data Sets; Mathematical Methods; Retail Industry
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      Padilla, Nicolas, and Eva Ascarza. "Overcoming the Cold Start Problem of CRM Using a Probabilistic Machine Learning Approach." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-091, February 2019. (Revised May 2020.)
      • 2018
      • Working Paper

      The Impact of Pensions and Insurance on Global Yield Curves

      By: Robin Greenwood and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen
      We document a strong effect of pension and insurance company (P&I) assets on the long end of the yield curve. Using data from 26 countries, the yield spread between 30-year and 10-year government bond yields is negatively related to the ratio of pension assets (in...  View Details
      Keywords: Pension Funds; Investment Funds; Insurance; Assets; Interest Rates; Bonds
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      Greenwood, Robin, and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen. "The Impact of Pensions and Insurance on Global Yield Curves." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-109, June 2018. (Revised December 2018.)
      • April 2018
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      The Power of Voice in Stimulating Morality: Eliciting Taxpayer Preferences Increases Tax Compliance

      By: Cait Lamberton, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and Michael I. Norton
      Decisions about paying taxes represent one of the most common moral quandaries faced by citizens. In the present research, we argue that taxpayer compliance can be raised by increasing “voice”: allowing taxpayers to express non-binding preferences about the way their...  View Details
      Keywords: Morality; Public Policy; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Taxation; Policy; Attitudes; governance Compliance
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      Lamberton, Cait, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, and Michael I. Norton. "The Power of Voice in Stimulating Morality: Eliciting Taxpayer Preferences Increases Tax Compliance." Special Issue on Marketplace Morality. Journal of Consumer Psychology 28, no. 2 (April 2018): 310–328.
      • 2016
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      Meet the Oligarchs: Business Legitimacy, State Capacity and Taxation

      By: Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra and Alejandro Lagomarsino
      We analyze the role of people’s beliefs about the rich in the determination of public policy in the context of a randomized online survey experiment. A question we study is the desirability of government-private sector meetings, a variable we argue is connected to...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Legitimacy; State Capacity; Meetings; Taxes; Top 1%; Regulation; Prejudice And Bias; Values And Beliefs; Taxation; Business And government Relations
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      Di Tella, Rafael, Juan Dubra, and Alejandro Lagomarsino. "Meet the Oligarchs: Business Legitimacy, State Capacity and Taxation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-046, December 2016.
      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default

      By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
      Recurrent concerns over debt sustainability in emerging and developed nations have prompted renewed debate on the role of fiscal rules. Their optimality, however, remains unclear. We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules in a standard model of sovereign debt...  View Details
      Keywords: Sovereign Debt; Hyperbolic Discounting; Fiscal Rules; Sovereign Finance
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      Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk. "Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-134, June 2016. (Also NBER Working Paper w23370. Revised January 2019.)
      • February 2016 (Revised February 2018)
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      The Battle over the Initiative and Referendum in Massachusetts (1918)

      By: David Moss and Dean Grodzins
      On Election Day in 1918, Massachusetts voters would have to decide not only on their preferred candidates for governor and U.S. Senator, but also whether or not to approve 19 proposed amendments to the state constitution. By far the most controversial of these would...  View Details
      Keywords: Political Elections; government Legislation; Power And Influence; History; Massachusetts
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      Moss, David, and Dean Grodzins. "The Battle over the Initiative and Referendum in Massachusetts (1918)." Harvard Business School Case 716-044, February 2016. (Revised February 2018.)
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      How Elastic Are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments

      By: Ilyana Kuziemko, Michael I. Norton, Emmanuel Saez and Stefanie Stantcheva
      We analyze randomized online survey experiments providing interactive, customized information on U.S. income inequality, the link between top income tax rates and economic growth, and the estate tax. The treatment has large effects on views about inequality but only...  View Details
      Keywords: Income; Taxation; Economic Growth; United States
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      Kuziemko, Ilyana, Michael I. Norton, Emmanuel Saez, and Stefanie Stantcheva. "How Elastic Are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments." American Economic Review 105, no. 4 (April 2015): 1478–1508.
      • September 2014
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      Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials

      By: William R. Kerr
      In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern,...  View Details
      Keywords: Equality And Inequality; Income; government And Politics
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      Kerr, William R. "Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials." Journal of Monetary Economics 66 (September 2014): 62–78.
      • 2014
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      Bond Supply and Excess Bond Returns

      By: Robin Greenwood and Dimitri Vayanos
      We examine empirically how the maturity structure of government debt affects bond yields and excess returns. Our analysis is based on a theoretical model of preferred habitat in which clienteles with strong preferences for specific maturities trade with arbitrageurs....  View Details
      Keywords: Bonds; Investment Return
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      Greenwood, Robin, and Dimitri Vayanos. "Bond Supply and Excess Bond Returns." Review of Financial Studies 27, no. 3 (March 2014): 663–713. (Also earlier version NBER Working Paper Series, No. 13806, February 2008.)
      • October 2013
      • Case

      Dongfeng Nissan's Venucia (A)

      By: Forest Reinhardt, Mayuka Yamazaki and G.A. Donovan
      The (A) case describes the launch of a new passenger vehicle in China, produced jointly by Nissan of Japan and by Chinese automaker Dongfeng. Early sales results following the April 2012 launch were disappointing and the joint venture's managers had to decide how to...  View Details
      Keywords: Auto Industry; China; Japan; Cross-cultural/cross-border; Crisis Management; Global Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Product Launch; Multinational Firms And Management; Multinational Firms; Competitive Strategy; Product Launch; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms And Management; Crisis Management; Cross-cultural And Cross-border Issues; Auto Industry; China; Japan
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      Reinhardt, Forest, Mayuka Yamazaki, and G.A. Donovan. "Dongfeng Nissan's Venucia (A)." Harvard Business School Case 714-014, October 2013.
      • October 2013
      • Supplement

      Dongfeng Nissan's Venucia (B)

      By: Forest Reinhardt, Mayuka Yamazaki and G.A. Donovan
      The (A) case describes the launch of a new passenger vehicle in China, produced jointly by Nissan of Japan and by Chinese automaker Dongfeng. Early sales results following the April 2012 launch were disappointing and the joint venture's managers had to decide how to...  View Details
      Keywords: China; Japan; Competitive Strategy; Auto Industry; Product Launch; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms And Management; Multinational Firms; Crisis Management; Cross-cultural/cross-border; Environment; Sustainability; Competitive Strategy; Product Launch; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms And Management; Crisis Management; Cross-cultural And Cross-border Issues; Auto Industry; China; Japan
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      Reinhardt, Forest, Mayuka Yamazaki, and G.A. Donovan. "Dongfeng Nissan's Venucia (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 714-015, October 2013.
      • October 2013
      • Supplement

      Dongfeng Nissan's Venucia (C)

      By: Forest Reinhardt, Mayuka Yamazaki and G.A. Donovan
      The (A) case describes the launch of a new passenger vehicle in China, produced jointly by Nissan of Japan and by Chinese automaker Dongfeng. Early sales results following the April 2012 launch were disappointing and the joint venture's managers had to decide how to...  View Details
      Keywords: China; Japan; Competitive Strategy; Auto Industry; Product Launch; Environment; Sustainability; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms And Management; Crisis Management; Cross-cultural/cross-border; Competitive Strategy; Product Launch; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms And Management; Crisis Management; Cross-cultural And Cross-border Issues; Auto Industry; China; Japan
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      Reinhardt, Forest, Mayuka Yamazaki, and G.A. Donovan. "Dongfeng Nissan's Venucia (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 714-016, October 2013.
      • February 2013 (Revised February 2014)
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      Phu My Hung

      By: John Macomber and Dawn H. Lau
      Privately held city development promoters decide whether to partner on next phase or go it alone in a 20-year, 4000-acre project. Set outside of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, this decades-long project led by two Taiwanese families reshaped and built the economic...  View Details
      Keywords: Urban Development; Infrastructure; Real Estate Industry; Viet Nam
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      Macomber, John, and Dawn H. Lau. "Phu My Hung." Harvard Business School Case 213-098, February 2013. (Revised February 2014.)
      • 2012
      • Chapter

      The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort

      By: Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani
      Software development occurs in a patchwork or "confederacy" of different types of institutions (universities, small start-ups, multinational enterprises, government agencies, etc.) utilizing varied work approaches. Here we speculate on one possible explanation for this...  View Details
      Keywords: Innovation And Invention; Software; Product Development; Organizations; Employees; Behavior; Competition; Cooperation; Creativity; Information Technology Industry
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      Boudreau, Kevin J., and Karim R. Lakhani. "The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort." In The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, 483–502. University of Chicago Press, 2012.
      • November 2011 (Revised June 2013)
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      Natura Cosméticos, S.A.

      By: Robert G. Eccles, George Serafeim and James Heffernan
      Rodolfo Guttilla, Director of Corporate Affairs for Natura Cosméticos S.A. (Natura), prepared for a meeting with key stakeholders to discuss the future of integrated reporting at Natura. A cosmetics company with a strong brand, robust growth in international and...  View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Decision Making; Beauty And Cosmetics Industry; Brazil
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      Eccles, Robert G., George Serafeim, and James Heffernan. "Natura Cosméticos, S.A." Harvard Business School Case 412-052, November 2011. (Revised June 2013.)
      • September 2009 (Revised June 2011)
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      Citigroup's Exchange Offer (B)

      By: Robin Greenwood and James Quinn
      Citigroup faced considerable distress in early 2009. In late 2008, the bank had accepted $45 billion in preferred equity from the United States government via the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP). Yet, the stock had continued to slide in early 2009. In late...  View Details
      Keywords: Financial Instruments; Financial Services Industry
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      Greenwood, Robin, and James Quinn. "Citigroup's Exchange Offer (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 210-004, September 2009. (Revised June 2011.)
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