Food Security and Human Mobility During the Covid-19 Lockdown
COVID-19 represents not only a health crisis but a crisis of food insecurity and starvation for migrants. Central governments should ensure that food security policies are implemented effectively and...
View ArticleAggregate and Firm-Level Stock Returns During Pandemics, in Real Time
This paper explains the seemingly conflicting narratives from the stock and labor market about the underlying state of the economy.
View ArticlePaying It Backward and Forward: Expanding Access to Convalescent Plasma...
Without a vaccine for COVID-19, the medical community has turned to a century-old therapy. This paper discusses a market design approach for expanding the collection and distribution of convalescent...
View ArticleAre Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?
Experts from Harvard Business School's Digital Initiative discuss how technology is helping leading companies gain an edge during the coronavirus pandemic.
View ArticleCorporate Resilience and Response During COVID-19
Investors look for evidence during a market crisis that a company is resilient. This study includes findings that challenge the notion that companies need to adopt practices that hurt their employees...
View ArticleThe Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in...
Researcherstest the relationship between historical immigration to the United States and political ideology today.
View ArticleA Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
Liberia trains community workers to help medical professionals on the front lines of disease control, says Brian Trelstad.Could the model work elsewhere?
View ArticleGovernment Incentives for Entrepreneurship
Even though many public policy efforts on entrepreneurship are well intentioned, the success rate has been disappointing. This essay explores these policies, focusing on financial incentives to...
View ArticleYour Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.
The coronavirus makes your customers less able and less willing to spend than before. How should you re-engage with them? Advice from Rohit Deshpandé and colleagues.
View ArticleThe Rise of the Investor State: State Capital in the Chinese Economy
Researchers document and explain the rise of a novel form of intervention on the part of the Chinese state: the expansion of state capital beyond ownership of state firms.
View ArticleWhat Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?
Phone or flour? People with lower incomes are judged more harshly for what they choose to buy, say Serena F. Hagerty and Kate Barasz.
View ArticleIterative Coordination and Innovation
Do Agile methodologies promote innovation? Results of a field experiment with Google show that increasing the frequency and goal orientation of stand-up meetings reinforces integration and value but...
View ArticleDignity, Inequality, and the Populist Backlash: Lessons from America and...
COVID-19 has enhanced already existing fissures undermining some societies’ commitments to globalization. Governments and firms need to act decisively to make the models of capitalism in the United...
View ArticleBeginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System
In a new book, Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter argue for a new way of electing political leaders, the Final-Five Voting System, to revitalize America’s fossilized governing process.
View ArticleWeak Credit Covenants
Using novel data from 1,240 credit agreements, researchers investigate sources of contractual complexity in the leveraged loan market.
View ArticleWhy Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises
As demonstrated after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, Japanese businesses have a unique capability for long-term survival. Hirotaka Takeuchi explains their strategy of investing in community over...
View ArticleMeasuring the Perceived Liquidity of the Corporate Bond Market
This paper proposes a novel measure of corporate bond market liquidity based on portfolio holdings instead of transaction data.
View ArticleIs a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to...
Business schools need to be better recruiters of Black students. How can past, unsuccessful outreach attempts be improved? asks James Heskett.
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