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  • 31 Jul 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Learning from Double-Digit Growth Experiences

Keywords: by Eric D. Werker
  • 01 Aug 2007
  • Op-Ed

Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments

consider becoming candidates. This is not a call for privatization of services (like trash pickup), which is already widespread. Instead, it's a suggestion that the job of mayor itself be awarded by voters to a private firm. Unlike other... View Details
Keywords: by Eric Werker
  • 21 Feb 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Developing the Guts of a GUT (Grand Unified Theory): Elite Commitment and Inclusive Growth

Keywords: by Lant Pritchett & Eric D. Werker
  • 16 Jan 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Political Economy of “Natural” Disasters

Keywords: by Charles Cohen & Eric D. Werker
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

KPMG for Mayor!

management, from anywhere in the world, and to remunerate them as the job requires. — Eric Werker is an HBS assistant professor. Reprinted by permission of Forbes magazine. ©... View Details
Keywords: Eric Werker; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 24 Jul 2013
  • Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

fund them in advance, there's trouble ahead. They will soon pay higher interest rates on their municipal bonds and ultimately may face a financial crisis like the current one in Detroit. That's not what the doctor ordered. The Long View View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto
  • 25 Jan 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

What Do Non-Governmental Organizations Do?

Keywords: by Eric D. Werker & Faisal Z. Ahmed
  • 30 Oct 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Do Voters Appreciate Responsive Governments? Evidence from Indian Disaster Relief

Keywords: by Shawn A. Cole, Andrew Healy & Eric D. Werker
  • 01 Oct 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Who Runs the International System? Power and the Staffing of the United Nations Secretariat

Keywords: by Paul Novosad & Eric Werker
  • 10 Aug 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Unobserved State Fragility and the Political Transfer Problem

Keywords: by Faisal Z. Ahmed & Eric Werker
  • 20 Apr 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank

Keywords: by Ashwin Kaja & Eric Werker
  • 02 May 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Profits and Economic Development

Keywords: by Dan Schwab & Eric Werker

    Eric J. Van den Steen

    Eric Van den Steen is a Professor of Business Administration at HBS, where he teaches strategy. He holds the Roy Little chair, established in honor of the founder of Textron. 

    Professor Van den Steen's research studies the fundamentals of strategy and... View Details

    • 01 Nov 2006
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Male Circumcision and AIDS: The Macroeconomic Impact of a Health Crisis

    Keywords: by Eric D. Werker, Amrita Ahuja & Brian Wendell
    • 01 Dec 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat

    Who really runs the world? We're not talking in a power-brokers-conspiring-in-the-back-room sort of way. Rather, by looking at the institutions that countries themselves have set up to organize the world's affairs, can we determine who is... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 02 Sep 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    The Curse of Double-Digit Growth

    Double-digit long-term growth might justify bragging rights for any country. But a turbocharged GDP comes at a price, says Eric D. Werker, an associate professor in the Business, Government and International... View Details
    Keywords: by Kim Girard
    • 20 Apr 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Misgovernance at the World Bank

    health clinics, schools, or technical advisors." Werker explained more about the study and its implications for global society in an e-mail Q&A. Martha Lagace: Why did you and Ashwin Kaja decide to look closer at the World Bank?... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 01 Dec 2014
    • News

    Small Countries Have Outsized Influence in United Nations Secretariat

    • 08 Jul 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: July 8, 2008

    rates over time. What Do Nongovernmental Organizations Do? Authors:Eric D. Werker and Faisal Z. Ahmand Periodical:Journal of Economic Perspectives 22, no. 2 (spring 2008) Abstract Nongovernmental... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 06 Nov 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

    enduring strength of the corporate climate in South Africa, says Eric D. Werker, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. Werker's case study, "Foreign Direct Investment and South... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace