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      • 02 Mar 2021
      • Cold Call Podcast

      Can Historic Social Injustices be Addressed Through Reparations?

      Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants believe historic social injustices should be addressed through reparations. Professor Mihir Desai discusses the arguments for and against reparations in response to the Tulsa Massacre and, more broadly, to the effects of slavery and racist government policies in the US in his case, “The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations.”  Open for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

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      SystemRemove System →

      New research on systems from Harvard Business School faculty on issues including systems architecture and modularity.
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      • 14 Sep 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Digital Labor Market Inequality and the Decline of IT Exceptionalism

      by Ruiqing Cao and Shane Greenstein

      The experience in five cities accounts for almost all the wage inequality in IT wages in the US between 2000 and 2018. Overall that brought IT wages closer to STEM wages.

      • 27 Jul 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Gender Inequality in Research Productivity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

      by Ruomeng Cui, Hao Ding, and Feng Zhu

      Analysis of data from the largest open-access repositories for social science in the world finds that female researchers’ productivity significantly dropped relative to that of male researchers as a result of the lockdown in the United States.

      • 18 Jun 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?

      by Rachel Layne

      Phone or flour? People with lower incomes are judged more harshly for what they choose to buy, say Serena F. Hagerty and Kate Barasz. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 01 Jun 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Spreading the Health: Americans' Estimated and Ideal Distributions of Death and Health(care)

      by Sorapop Kiatpongsan and Michael I. Norton

      Across varying political ideologies and income levels, Americans both underestimate the current extent of inequality of mortality and healthcare, and prefer each to be more equally distributed.

      • 21 Apr 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Changing In-group Boundaries: The Role of New Immigrant Waves in the US

      by Vasiliki Fouka, Shom Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini

      How do new immigrants affect natives’ views of other minority groups? This work studies the evolution of group boundaries in the United States and indicates that whites living in states receiving more Mexican immigrants recategorize blacks as in-group members, because of the inflow of a new, “affectively” more distant group.

      • 23 Mar 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation

      by Michael Blanding

      Rather than chilling innovation, product accidents may provide companies an unexpected opportunity to develop new technologies desired by consumers, according to Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 30 Jul 2019
      • Working Paper Summaries

      ‘Organizing’, ‘Innovating’, and ‘Managing’ in Complexity Space

      by Michael C. Moldoveanu

      This paper explores organizational complexity by proposing a two-dimensional framework to help us understand organizational coping mechanisms and failure modes. The framework makes it possible to ask new questions about organizational adaptations to complexity that investigate its underlying structure and dynamics.

      • 25 Feb 2019
      • Research & Ideas

      How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

      by Dina Gerdeman

      Researchers believe gender stereotypes hold women back in the workplace. Katherine Coffman's research adds a new twist: They can even cause women to question their own abilities. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 17 Oct 2018
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Quantile Forecasts of Product Life Cycles Using Exponential Smoothing

      by Xiaojia Guo, Kenneth C. Lichtendahl Jr., and Yael Grushka-Cockayne

      Many important business decisions rely on a manager’s forecast of a product or service’s life cycle. One of the most widely used forecasting techniques is exponential smoothing models. This paper introduces a model suitable for large-scale forecasting environments where key operational decisions depend on quantile forecasts.

      • 08 Oct 2018
      • Research & Ideas

      Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder

      by Rachel Layne

      Learning what your co-worker earns can make you less productive, but knowing your manager's paycheck can motivate you to work harder. Research by Zoë Cullen. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 10 Sep 2018
      • Research & Ideas

      Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later

      by Robin J. Ely

      Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s Men and Women of the Corporation inspired and informed a generation of scholars studying gender, status, and power. Robin J. Ely interviews Kanter about her groundbreaking research and why it remains relevant today. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 02 Jul 2018
      • Research & Ideas

      Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes

      by Roberta Holland

      New research by Ethan Rouen and colleagues suggests that corporate tax cuts contribute to income inequality. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 06 Jun 2018
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Complex Disclosure

      by Ginger Zhe Jin, Michael Luca, and Daniel Martin

      This study shows that companies looking to hide unfavorable information might strategically be making contract terms unnecessarily complex, harming consumers and undermining the effectiveness of disclosure. These results highlight a role for regulation that would encourage simpler forms of disclosure.

      • 13 May 2018
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Corporate Tax Cuts Increase Income Inequality

      by Suresh Nallareddy, Ethan Rouen, and Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato

      This paper examines corporate tax reform by estimating the causal effect of state corporate tax cuts on top income inequality. Results suggest that, while corporate tax cuts increase investment, the gains from this investment are concentrated on top earners, who may also exploit additional strategies to increase the share of total income that accrues to the top 1 percent.

      • 30 Jan 2018
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Credit Supply Shocks, Network Effects, and the Real Economy

      by Laura Alfaro, Manuel García, and Enrique Moral-Benito

      Using data for Spain between 2003 and 2013, this study examines firms’ responses to credit supply shocks during times of boom (expansion) and bust (financial crisis and recession). Results indicate that propagation of these shocks through the Spanish production network doubles the magnitude of the real effects typically estimated in the literature. This study also shows how such effects vary greatly during booms and busts.

      • 12 Jan 2018
      • Cold Call Podcast

      Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.

      As a young man, Martin Luther King, Jr. was unsure about his future as a leader of a social change. Bill George explains how King grew to become one of the most powerful civil rights leaders in history. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 08 Jan 2018
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation

      by Laura Alfaro, Nick Bloom, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros, Andrew F. Newman, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen

      The study develops a simple model and provides new data to examine the relationship between vertical integration and delegation of decision-making, two critical aspects of a firm organizational design that are typically studied in isolation. The results show that delegation and vertical integration are positively correlated.

      • 17 Nov 2017
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Equity Concerns Are Narrowly Framed

      by Christine L. Exley and Judd B. Kessler

      This paper based on a large online study finds that individuals tend to differentiate in their concerns about fairness along specific dimensions, especially time and money, and are much more worried about fairness in one (time) than the other (money). These attitudes may help explain a seemingly wide variety of phenomena.

      • 12 Oct 2017
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Decline of Big-Bank Lending to Small Business: Dynamic Impacts on Local Credit and Labor Markets

      by Brian S. Chen, Samuel G. Hanson, and Jeremy C. Stein

      Between 2008 and 2014, the Top 4 banks sharply decreased their lending to small business. This paper examines the lasting economic consequences of this contraction, finding that a credit supply shock from a subset of lenders can have surprisingly long-lived effects on real activity.

      • 22 Aug 2017
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Investors as Stewards of the Commons?

      by George Serafeim

      This paper lays out a framework suggesting that index investors and adequately funded asset owners are a potential mechanism to build and sustain pre-competitive collaborations for addressing environmental and social issues. With long time horizons and significant common ownership of companies within the same industry or supply chain, investors could serve as vehicles for the establishment and/or stability of collaborations between companies.

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