Browsing HBS Scholarly Articles by Author "Drake, David Francis"
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Carbon Tariffs: Effects in Settings with Technology Choice and Foreign Comparative Advantage
Drake, David Francis (2012-09-04)Carbon regulation is intended to reduce global emissions, but there is growing concern that such regulation may simply shift production to unregulated regions and increase global emissions in the process. Carbon tariffs ... -
Inventory Management for Mobile Money Agents in the Developing World
Balasubramanian, Karthik; Drake, David Francis; Fearing, Douglas (2017-06-28)Mobile money systems, platforms built and managed by mobile network operators to allow money to be stored as digital currency, have burgeoned in the developing world as a mechanism to transfer money electronically. Mobile ... -
Mobile Money: The Effect of Service Quality and Competition on Demand
Balasubramanian, Karthik; Drake, David Francis (2015-01-29)The use of electronic money transfer through cellular networks (“mobile money") is rapidly increasing in the developing world. The resulting electronic currency ecosystem could improve the lives of the estimated 2 billion ... -
Observation Bias: The Impact of Demand Censoring on Newsvendor Level and Adjustment Behavior
Rudi, Nils; Drake, David Francis (INFORMS, 2014)In an experimental newsvendor setting we investigate three phenomena: level behavior—the decision-maker's average ordering tendency; adjustment behavior—the tendency to adjust period-to-period order quantities; and observation ... -
Sustainable Operations Management: An Enduring Stream or a Passing Fancy?
Drake, David Francis; Spinler, Stefan (2013)Paul Kleindorfer was among the first to weigh in on and nurture the stream of Sustainable Operations Management. The thoughts laid out here are based on conversations we had with Paul relating to the drivers underlying ... -
Technology Choice and Capacity Portfolios under Emissions Regulation
Drake, David Francis; Kleindorfer, Paul R.; Van Wassenhove, Luk N. (2016)We study the impact of emissions tax and emissions cap-and-trade regulation on a firm's technology choice and capacity decisions. We show that emissions price uncertainty under cap-and-trade results in greater expected ...