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      • March 2021
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      The Impact of the General Data Protection Regulation on Internet Interconnection

      By: Ran Zhuo, Bradley Huffaker, KC Claffy and Shane Greenstein
      The Internet comprises thousands of independently operated networks, where bilaterally negotiated interconnection agreements determine the flow of data between networks. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) imposes strict restrictions on...  View Details
      Keywords: Personal Data; Privacy Regulation; Gdpr; Interconnection Agreements; Internet; Governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms
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      Zhuo, Ran, Bradley Huffaker, KC Claffy, and Shane Greenstein. "The Impact of the General Data Protection Regulation on Internet Interconnection." Telecommunications Policy 45, no. 2 (March 2021).
      • February 2021
      • Tutorial

      T-tests: Theory and Practice

      By: Michael Parzen, Natalie Epstein, Chiara Farronato and Michael Toffel
      This video provide an introduction to hypothesis testing, sampling, t-tests, and p-values. It provides examples of A/B testing and t-testing to assess whether difference between two groups are statistically significant. This video can be assigned in conjunction with...  View Details
      Keywords: Data Analysis; Data Analytics; Experiment Design; Experimentation
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      Parzen, Michael, Natalie Epstein, Chiara Farronato, and Michael Toffel. T-tests: Theory and Practice. Harvard Business School Tutorial 621-707, February 2021.
      • February 2021
      • Technical Note

      Probability Distributions

      By: Michael Parzen and Paul J. Hamilton
      This technical note introduces students to the concept of random variables, and from there the normal and binomial distributions. After a brief introduction to random variables, the note describes the standard properties of the normal distribution: a single peak, and a...  View Details
      Keywords: Analysis; Risk And Uncertainty; theory
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      Parzen, Michael, and Paul J. Hamilton. "Probability Distributions." Harvard Business School Technical Note 621-704, February 2021.
      • February 2021
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      A Dynamic Theory of Multiple Borrowing

      By: Daniel Green and Ernest Liu
      Multiple borrowing—a borrower obtains overlapping loans from multiple lenders—is a common phenomenon in many credit markets. We build a highly tractable, dynamic model of multiple borrowing and show that, because overlapping creditors may impose default externalities...  View Details
      Keywords: Commitment; Multiple Borrowing; Common Agency; Misallocation; Microfinance; Investment; Mathematical Methods
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      Green, Daniel, and Ernest Liu. "A Dynamic Theory of Multiple Borrowing." Journal of Financial Economics 139, no. 2 (February 2021): 389–404.
      • January 2021
      • Teaching Note

      Maritz Automotive

      By: Ashley V. Whillans and Lamar Pierce
      This case focuses on Charlotte Blank, the Chief Behavioral Officer at Maritz, as she tries to assist a major automotive manufacturer (CarCo) with increasing their sales by prepaying monthly bonuses to independently franchised car dealers and clawing them back if the...  View Details
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      Whillans, Ashley V., and Lamar Pierce. "Maritz Automotive." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 921-044, January 2021.
      • January 2021
      • Technical Note

      Strategy as Core Guidance

      By: Eric Van den Steen
      This note gives managers a concrete perspective on what ‘a strategy’ really is and what makes a decision ‘strategic.’ It also gives them practical frameworks to assess whether some set of decisions is really a strategy and how to assess a strategy’s effectiveness. It...  View Details
      Keywords: Strategy; Strategic Planning; Decision Making
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      Van den Steen, Eric. "Strategy as Core Guidance." Harvard Business School Technical Note 721-431, January 2021.
      • January 2021
      • Case

      The FIRE Savings Calculator

      By: Michael Parzen and Paul J. Hamilton
      This case follows Carol Muñoz, a member of the Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) lifestyle movement. At the age of 45, Carol is considering retiring and living off the $1 million she has accumulated. Using Monte Carlo simulation, Carol forecasts the...  View Details
      Keywords: Analysis; Forecasting And Prediction; Financial Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Investment Return; Personal Finance; Saving; Risk And Uncertainty; Diversification; theory; Financial Services Industry
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      Parzen, Michael, and Paul J. Hamilton. "The FIRE Savings Calculator." Harvard Business School Case 621-087, January 2021.
      • 2021
      • Article

      Helping and Happiness: A Review and Guide for Public Policy

      By: Lara B. Aknin and Ashley V. Whillans
      Perhaps one of the most reaffirming findings to emerge over the past several decades is that humans not only engage in generous behavior, they also appear to experience pleasure from doing so. Yet not all acts of helping lead to greater happiness. Here, we review the...  View Details
      Keywords: Generosity; Helping; Behavior; Motivation And Incentives; Happiness; Policy
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      Aknin, Lara B., and Ashley V. Whillans. "Helping and Happiness: A Review and Guide for Public Policy." Social Issues and Policy Review 15 (2021): 3–34.
      • 2021
      • Chapter

      International Business History and the Strategy of Multinational Enterprises: How History Matters

      By: Geoffrey Jones and Teresa da Silva Lopes
      This chapter provides an overview of the evolution of international business over the long-run as well as the strategies of MNEs. It highlights how strategies became more complex over time with MNEs moving from being coordinators of resources and managers of...  View Details
      Keywords: Multinational; International Business; Internalization; Globalization; theory; Multinational Firms And Management; Business History; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North And Central America
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      Jones, Geoffrey, and Teresa da Silva Lopes. "International Business History and the Strategy of Multinational Enterprises: How History Matters." Chap. 2 in The Oxford Handbook of International Business Strategy, edited by Kamel Mellahi, Klaus E. Meyer, Rajneesh Narula, Irina Surdu, and Alain Verbeke. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2021.
      • January–February 2021
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      Between Home and Work: Commuting as an Opportunity for Role Transitions

      By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Julia Lee Cunningham, Bradley Staats, Francesca Gino and Jochen I. Menges
      Across the globe, every workday people commute an average of 38 minutes each way, yet surprisingly little research has examined the implications of this daily routine for work-related outcomes. Integrating theories of boundary work, self-control, and work-family...  View Details
      Keywords: Commuting; Boundary Work; Self-control; Work-family Conflict; Prospection; Transition
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      Jachimowicz, Jon M., Julia Lee Cunningham, Bradley Staats, Francesca Gino, and Jochen I. Menges. "Between Home and Work: Commuting as an Opportunity for Role Transitions." Organization Science 32, no. 1 (January–February 2021): 64–85.
      • Winter 2021
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      Dealmaking Disrupted: The Unexplored Power of Social Media in Negotiation

      By: James K. Sebenius, Ben Cook, David A. Lax, Isaac Silberberg and Paul Levy
      While social media has had profound effects in many realms, the theory and practice of negotiation have remained relatively untouched by this potent phenomenon. In this article, we survey existing research in this area and develop a broader framework for understanding...  View Details
      Keywords: Social Media; Bargaining; 3d Negotiation; Negotiation; Conflict And Resolution
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      Sebenius, James K., Ben Cook, David A. Lax, Isaac Silberberg, and Paul Levy. "Dealmaking Disrupted: The Unexplored Power of Social Media in Negotiation." Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence, Technology, and Negotiation. Negotiation Journal 37, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 97–141.
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      No-fault Default, Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, and Financial Institutions

      By: Robert C. Merton and Richard T. Thakor
      This paper analyzes the costs and benefits of a no-fault-default debt structure as an alternative to the typical bankruptcy process. We show that the deadweight costs of bankruptcy can be avoided or substantially reduced through no-fault-default debt, which permits a...  View Details
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      Merton, Robert C., and Richard T. Thakor. "No-fault Default, Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, and Financial Institutions." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28341, January 2021.
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      Value of New Performance Information in Healthcare: Evidence from Japan

      By: Susanna Gallani, Takehisa Kajiwara and Ranjani Krishnan
      Mandatory measurement and disclosure of outcome measures are commonly used policy tools in healthcare. The effectiveness of such disclosures relies on the extent to which the new information produced by the mandatory system is internalized by the healthcare...  View Details
      Keywords: Value Of Information; Feedback; Patient Satisfaction; Healthcare; Health Care And Treatment; Satisfaction; Information; Measurement And Metrics; Performance Improvement
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      Gallani, Susanna, Takehisa Kajiwara, and Ranjani Krishnan. "Value of New Performance Information in Healthcare: Evidence from Japan." International Journal of Health Economics and Management 20, no. 4 (December 2020): 319–357.
      • December 2020
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      The Parable of the Auctioneer: Complexity in Paul R. Milgrom's Discovering Prices

      By: Scott Duke Kominers and Alexander Teytelboym
      Designing marketplaces in complex settings requires both novel economic theory and real-world engineering, often drawing upon ideas from fields such as computer science and operations research. In Discovering Prices, Milgrom (2017) explains the theory and design...  View Details
      Keywords: Pricing; Design; Auctions; Market Design; Complexity
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      Kominers, Scott Duke, and Alexander Teytelboym. "The Parable of the Auctioneer: Complexity in Paul R. Milgrom's Discovering Prices." Journal of Economic Literature 58, no. 4 (December 2020): 1180–1196.
      • November 2020
      • Case

      Roll-Ups and Surprise Billing: Collisions at the Intersection of Private Equity and Patient Care

      By: Trevor Fetter and Kira Seiger
      This case describes the increasing investment by private equity (PE) firms in patient care and other healthcare services. The case focuses on investments in physician staffing firms and roll-up strategy investments in physician practice management (PPM). Included in...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Ventures; Acquisition; Mergers And Acquisitions; Business Model; Change; Disruption; Fluctuation; Trends; Customers; Customer Value And Value Chain; Ethics; Fairness; Finance; Equity; Insurance; Private Equity; Geography; Geographic Scope; Health; Health Care And Treatment; Markets; Demand And Consumers; Supply And Industry; Industry Structures; Ownership; Ownership Type; Private Ownership; Relationships; Agency theory; Business And Community Relations; Business And Shareholder Relations; Business And Stakeholder Relations; Networks; Strategy; Competition; Consolidation; Expansion; Integration; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Value; Value Creation; Health Industry; Insurance Industry; United States
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      Fetter, Trevor, and Kira Seiger. "Roll-Ups and Surprise Billing: Collisions at the Intersection of Private Equity and Patient Care." Harvard Business School Case 321-049, November 2020.
      • November 2020
      • Article

      Disrupting the Disruptors or Enhancing Them? How Blockchain Re‐Shapes Two‐Sided Platforms

      By: Daniel Trabucchi, Antonella Moretto, Tommaso Buganza and Alan MacCormack
      The importance of platform‐based businesses in the modern economy is growing continuously and becoming increasingly relevant. Specifically, the deployment of digital technologies has enhanced the applicability of two‐sided business models, enabling companies to act not...  View Details
      Keywords: Blockchain; Two-sided Platforms; Business Model; Innovation And Invention; Technological Innovation
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      Trabucchi, Daniel, Antonella Moretto, Tommaso Buganza, and Alan MacCormack. "Disrupting the Disruptors or Enhancing Them? How Blockchain Re‐Shapes Two‐Sided Platforms." Journal of Product Innovation Management 37, no. 6 (November 2020): 552–574.
      • October 2020
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      Comparative Statics for Size-Dependent Discounts in Matching Markets

      By: David Delacretaz, Scott Duke Kominers and Alexandru Nichifor
      We prove a natural comparative static for many-to-many matching markets in which agents’ choice functions exhibit size-dependent discounts: reducing the extent to which some agent discounts additional partners leads to improved outcomes for the agents on the other side...  View Details
      Keywords: Size-dependent Discounts; Path-independence; Respect For Improvements; Market Design; Mathematical Methods
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      Delacretaz, David, Scott Duke Kominers, and Alexandru Nichifor. "Comparative Statics for Size-Dependent Discounts in Matching Markets." Journal of Mathematical Economics 90 (October 2020): 127–131.
      • October 2020
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      Collusion in Markets with Syndication

      By: John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, Richard Lowery and Jordan M. Barry
      Markets for IPOs and debt issuances are syndicated, in the sense that a bidder who wins a contract may invite losing bidders to join a syndicate that together fulfills the contract. We show that in markets with syndication, standard intuitions from industrial...  View Details
      Keywords: Collusion; Antitrust; Ipo Underwriting; Syndication; "repeated Games"; Markets; Game theory
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      Hatfield, John William, Scott Duke Kominers, Richard Lowery, and Jordan M. Barry. "Collusion in Markets with Syndication." Journal of Political Economy 128, no. 10 (October 2020).
      • September 2020
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      Community-Level Postmaterialism and Anti-Migrant Attitudes:: An Original Survey on Opposition to Sub-Saharan African Migrants in the Middle East

      By: Matt Buehler, Kristin Fabbe and Kyung Joon Han
      Why do native citizens of the Middle East and North Africa express greater opposition to certain types of migrants, refugees, and displaced persons? Why, particularly, do they express greater opposition to sub-Saharan African migrants? This article investigates these...  View Details
      Keywords: Postmaterialism; Immigration; Attitudes; Prejudice And Bias; Surveys; Africa; Middle East
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      Buehler, Matt, Kristin Fabbe, and Kyung Joon Han. "Community-Level Postmaterialism and Anti-Migrant Attitudes: An Original Survey on Opposition to Sub-Saharan African Migrants in the Middle East." International Studies Quarterly 64, no. 3 (September 2020): 669–683.
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      Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents

      By: David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson, Gary P. Pisano and Pian Shu
      Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U.S. patents matched to corporate...  View Details
      Keywords: Patents; Production; Trade; Competition; Innovation And Invention; United States
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      Autor, David, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson, Gary P. Pisano, and Pian Shu. "Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents." American Economic Review: Insights 2, no. 3 (September 2020): 357–374.
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