Browsing HBS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "India"

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    • Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India 

      Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William Robert; Stanton, Christopher Thomas (INFORMS, 2013-10-07)
      This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in ...

    • Highway to Success: The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing 

      Ghani, Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William Robert (2013-01-23)
      We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. ...

    • The International Politics of IFRS Harmonization 

      Ramanna, Karthik (De Gruyter, 2013)
      The globalization of accounting standards as seen through the proliferation of IFRS worldwide is one of the most important developments in corporate governance over the last decade. I offer an analysis of some international ...

    • Prosocial Spending and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal 

      Aknin, Lara B.; Barrington-Leigh, Christopher P.; Dunn, Elizabeth W.; Helliwell, John F.; Burns, Justine; Biswas-Diener, Robert; Kemeza, Imelda; Nyende, Paul; Ashton-James, Claire; Norton, Michael Irwin (American Psychological Association, 2013)
      This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: Human beings around the world derive emotional benefits from using their financial resources to help others (prosocial spending). In Study ...

    • Social and Spatial Clustering of People at Humanity’s Largest Gathering 

      Barnett, Ian; Khanna, Tarun; Onnela, Jukka-Pekka (Public Library of Science, 2016)
      Macroscopic behavior of scientific and societal systems results from the aggregation of microscopic behaviors of their constituent elements, but connecting the macroscopic with the microscopic in human behavior has ...

    • Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India 

      Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William Robert; O'Connell, Stephen (Taylor & Francis, 2013-10-07)
      We analyze the spatial determinants of entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. Among general district traits, quality of physical infrastructure and workforce education are the strongest ...