Liberalizing An Economy - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout

Government officials should have poured much more money into producing and distributing COVID-19 vaccines to save more lives and rescue the economy faster, according to new research co-authored by 16 researchers including Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

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Terrance McGuire

In the mid-1980s, when McGuire arrived on campus, the Boston area was abuzz with conversations about innovation and technology. The minicomputer era was fueling the local economy and the Rte. 128 high tech region felt rife with... View Details

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IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation - Course Catalog

research-based course. Our objective is to provide students with perspectives and insight into the eighth largest economy in the world. Although it is dominated by SMEs (companies with annual revenues of below 50m make up 82% of the... View Details

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Group Therapy

well, since the economic environments of emerging markets such as Chile, Costa Rica, or Mexico vary so greatly. Since business groups are such an integral part of most economies, understanding how these networked organizations function... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

17 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 17, 2006

influence facility managers' decisions. As a result, managers of facilities that are subjected to comparable institutional pressures adopt distinct sets of management practices that appease different external constituents. Using an... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019

Alumni Books So You Think You Can Teach: From Expert Practitioner to Successful Instructor by Bill Cockrum (MBA 1961) Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Cockrum provides a guide for presenting or teaching a class to an adult audience,... View Details

30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

developed economies and then turns to developing countries, covering the following topics: farmers' adoption of AI, how AI affects their decision to invest in risky assets, and the extent to which AI helps farmers smooth income and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas, April 18

trend is the use of online tools to improve physical asset utilization in many traditional off-line businesses. This article discusses the water industry as an example, and the organizational changes and levers relevant to extracting... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier

Seated before a computer with an Internet link, consumers today can flip through an estimated 800 million Web pages of public information by merely clicking a mouse. Add to this that television, now in 98... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

16 May 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps

An internment camp for German citizens in England. Chronicle/Alamy Stock Photo Global enterprises that do business in emerging economies face significant political risks—in extreme cases, imprisonment of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2020
News

Righting the Ship

Illustration by David Plunkert Illustration by David Plunkert Edited by Dan Morrell You wrote recently that the story of British explorer Ernest Shackleton, who led an expedition to Antarctica in 1914, is highly relevant for leaders... View Details

01 Jan 2003
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Greylock

1969 (After active duty, rose to rank of Lt. Colonel in Reserves) "No matter what business you're in, there is nothing more important than integrity and the reputation of your company. The post-bubble economy notwithstanding, there is... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017

(ForeEdge) The authors tell how an ad hoc, underfunded group of citizens worked together to challenge Boston boosters, the United States Olympic Committee, and the International Olympic Committee and derail Boston’s bid to host the 2024... View Details

04 Apr 2008
What Do You Think?

Who Owns Intellectual Property?

value to those with the resources to defend its ownership, a kind of survival of the fittest philosophy? Yet another school of thought asks whether these issues are overblown. D. R. Elliott commented that "much of the internet View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Sep 2003
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The Power of National Identity

proud of this distinction,” noted Abdelal, a scholar of international political economy and author of National Purpose in the World Economy: Post-Soviet States in Comparative Perspective, which won the 2002 Marshall Shulman Book Prize... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; National Security and International Affairs; Government

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Capitalism and the State (CATS) - Course Catalog

journalistic essays, videos, and podcasts. The reading load is relatively heavy (particularly for the first several sessions of the course), and students should be prepared to engage in conversations that are both philosophical and practical. After View Details

28 May 2007
Research & Ideas

How Property Ownership Changes Your World View

on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina. What the scholars found could be the start of a better understanding of why capitalism remains unpopular through large swaths of the world—particularly in areas where property rights are weak or nonexistent. In View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

17 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 17, 2007

bundle. Dominant firms otherwise sheltered from entry by standalone rivals may be vulnerable to an adjacent platform provider's envelopment attack. We analyze conditions under which envelopment strategies are likely to succeed. Download... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants

Debates over the pluses and minuses of immigrant entrepreneurs on the American economy are white hot, but one thing seems stubbornly lacking from them: facts. The arguments are familiar by now. Immigrants take jobs from native-born... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost

investment budget is only about $20 billion – for all areas of concern in all nations, according to World Bank Information. Further, the entire GDP of Nigeria, the largest economy in Africa, is only about $37 billion - for everything, not... View Details

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