Liberalizing An Economy - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

establishing the existence of equilibria and other useful properties in diverse settings such as matching, auctions, and exchange economies with indivisible goods. We extend earlier models’ definitions of substitutability to settings in... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2020
News

Road Work

Sean (left) and Kenny Salas Photo courtesy of Camino Financial Sean (left) and Kenny Salas Photo courtesy of Camino Financial Twin brothers Kenny and Sean Salas (both MBA 2015) grew up with firsthand knowledge of what it takes to be an... View Details

Keywords: banking; LatinX; small businesses; COVID-19; Finance

01 Apr 2002
News

Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms

research plus their own wealth of practical and academic experience to examine the unique challenges of leadership in professional service firms. The result of what may be the first-ever collaboration between an HBS faculty author and a... View Details

Keywords: professional service firms; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Mar 2017
News

In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)

father would make us read through the annual reports of companies he had invested in, but that was an early influence: realizing I had an education and holidays because my parents complemented their income... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Oct 2015
News

Banking on Trust

“Development work is more about listening than telling,” says Marie Sheppard (MBA 1990), a veteran of more than two decades with the World Bank Group. As she winds up an assignment as manager of the Bank’s Innovation Labs in Washington,... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

spiritual rebirth in the modern era. Through the works of artists such as Raphael, Duccio, Rembrandt, Monet, and Picasso, you will discover how various themes and motifs of man’s struggle to find God occur, morph, fade, and then reoccur centuries later. Family... View Details

06 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 6

competition for the past 20 years: an ad hoc, laissez-faire vision promoted by the United States versus a managed vision relying on multilateral rules and international organizations promoted by the European Union. Although the American... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jan 2008
News

James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959

endeavors to nurture businesses in emerging economies and promote sustainable sources of energy, show his continuing determination to bridge the gap between policies and people. In the course of one two-week trip last May, James... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

A Summit Higher Than Everest

recently moved into its eight-story home on West 110th Street, the room already had an air of timelessness. The wood-paneled walls were lined with portraits of great American adventurers and the trophies they had brought back from the... View Details

Keywords: April White; mountain; climb; climbing; adventure

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?

vision, guts, and a can-do spirit can transform weak institutions, invent wildly creative contraptions, build fantastic new markets, and conquer distant infidels. American men love the populist guy who stands against dominating institutions, fights for View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

17 Nov 2022
News

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change

We are in a unique moment in time, where the United States’ chance to make a difference on climate is greater – and more necessary – than ever. With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in August, business leaders have a nearly $370 billion opportunity to... View Details

01 Oct 2000
News

Three Promoted to Full Professor

Differentiation: Implications for Corporate Strategy." Reinhardt, who joined the faculty in 1991, currently teaches the required MBA course Business, Government, and the International Economy as well as the elective Business and the... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

L. Paul Bremer: In His Own Words

Introducer: Mornings at 5 a.m., Bremer jogs around the “once-splendid gardens of Saddam’s former palace.” He is driven around Baghdad in an armored Chevy Suburban. His “wood-paneled office was once the epicenter of Saddam’s government.” A... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

26 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

just a term—you can take it or leave it. But the phenomenon of across-the-table competition, as exists in a negotiation, and also same-side-of- the-table competition, as exists in an auction, is pretty ubiquitous in our increasingly... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

27 Mar 2014
News

From Marx to Marketing

the time a partner at the Athens-based Ulysses Commission Trading Company, an agency company representing foreign manufacturers in the Greek market, watched those dramatic days in late 1989 with mixed feelings. "I knew that the... View Details

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road

performance problems in the United States. This seems surprising at first sight. The United States is by far the world's largest host economy for multinationals. Foreign firms hold large, and sometimes commanding, positions in such major... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

business and specifically, the individuals who shaped it. An appreciation for the history of a field and its great masters is at the core of most liberal arts programs. We thought, why should the study of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

then scale economies have the potential to be an obvious global advantage. Down To Cases The book's case examples and detailed decision-making maps offer a practical guide to some of the complex issues that... View Details