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  • 01 May 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault

any job to succeed, the supply of resources available to the worker must be in balance with the responsibilities of the job, says Simons. It’s a simple supply-and-demand lesson that should ring true for anyone who has taken an economics... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

    Benjamin C. Esty

    Benjamin Esty is the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Over the years, he has taught a variety of courses ranging from advanced corporate finance and project finance to competitive strategy and leadership. He... View Details

    Keywords: banking; asset management; investment banking industry; consumer products; shipping; wine; financial services
    • 22 May 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Strategy-Proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match

    Keywords: by Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak & Alvin E. Roth
    • August 2023
    • Teaching Note

    Kunshan, Incorporated: The Making of China’s Richest Town

    By: William C. Kirby and Noah B. Truwit
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 313-103. The case is designed to give the students an understanding of the local Chinese entrepreneurial state and how foreign and Chinese firms have worked with it to create China’s richest small city. The major themes are—local state... View Details
    Keywords: Higher Education; Entrepreneurship; Economic Growth; Economic Systems; Business and Government Relations; Development Economics; China
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    • 31 Jul 2009
    • News

    India's pockets of prosperity?

    • Article

    Workplace Stressors & Health Outcomes: Health Policy for the Workplace

    By: Joel Goh, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Stefanos A. Zenios
    Extensive research focuses on the causes of workplace-induced stress. However, policy efforts to tackle the ever-increasing health costs and poor health outcomes in the United States have largely ignored the health effects of psychosocial workplace stressors such as... View Details
    Keywords: Occupational Health; Mortality; Stress; Meta-analysis; Health
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    • Teaching Interest

    Finance Reporting and Control

    Financial Reporting and Control (FRC) is a course about how leaders can design and use performance measurement systems to build more effective organizations. Throughout their careers, business leaders are required to... View Details

      Mihir A. Desai

      Mihir A. Desai is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He received his Ph.D. in political economy from Harvard... View Details

        Alison Wood Brooks

        Alison Wood Brooks is the O'Brien Associate Professor of Business Administration and Hellman Faculty Fellow in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches a cutting-edge course in the MBA elective curriculum called "How... View Details

        • Article

        Good Markets (Really Do) Make Good Neighbors

        By: Scott Duke Kominers
        This article gives a (very) brief exposition of what market design is, along with four examples of market design in action. Loosely themed after Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall,” the examples demonstrate ways in which market design can break barriers—physical,... View Details
        Keywords: Market Design; Economics; Theory; Change; Society
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        • April 2015 (Revised January 2020)
        • Case

        Japan's Missing Arrow?

        By: Laura Alfaro and Hilary White
        In late December 2014, Shinzo Abe was elected to another term as the prime minister of Japan. His re-election was largely interpreted as a vote of confidence for his economics policies, collectively referred to as "Abenomics." Comprised of three "arrows," including... View Details
        Keywords: Currency; Bonds; Government Bonds; Government Debt; Public Finance; Quantitative Easing; Stimulus; Fiscal Policy; Fiscal Deficits; Debt Management; Debt Reduction; Abenomics; Exchange Rate; Exports; Reform; Economics; Macroeconomics; Policy; Government Legislation; Government and Politics; Asia; Japan
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        • July 2022
        • Supplement

        Netflix: A Creative Approach to Culture and Agility (B)

        By: Ranjay Gulati and Matt Higgins
        This (B) case, set in summer 2022, was designed as a companion to "Netflix: A Creative Approach to Culture and Agility," a case set in 2018. The purpose of this brief document is to unlock a discussion around how the Netflix culture can be used to weather new... View Details
        Keywords: Netflix; Corporate Culture; Streaming; Media; Technology; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Leadership Style; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Technology Industry; California
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          Roy D. Shapiro

          Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

          • Teaching Interest

          Financial Reporting and Control

          By: Suraj Srinivasan

          Financial Reporting and Control (FRC) covers topics about how managers can design and use performance measurement systems for external reporting and internal management to build more effective organizations. Throughout their careers, business leaders are required to... View Details

          Keywords: Financial Reporting

            Jan W. Rivkin

            Jan W. Rivkin is a Professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. In the past, he has served as Faculty Chair of the MBA Program, Senior Associate Dean for Research, and head of the Strategy Unit. His research, course development, and teaching focus on... View Details

            Keywords: airline; computer; internet; music; transportation
            • 19 Dec 2022
            • Research & Ideas

            What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't

            motivations around good deeds. Given their respective backgrounds in economics and social psychology, Exley and Zlatev each draw on different literature in their work, and their study designs tend to look... View Details
            Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin
            • 19 Sep 2017
            • First Look

            First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

            translate economic theory and analysis into practical solutions to real-world problems. By redesigning both the rules that guide market transactions and the infrastructure that enables those transactions to take place, market View Details
            Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
            • November – December 2011
            • Article

            Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation

            By: Carliss Baldwin and Eric von Hippel
            In this paper, we assess the economic viability of innovation by producers relative to two increasingly important alternative models: innovations by single-user individuals or firms and open collaborative innovation. We analyze the design costs and architectures and... View Details
            Keywords: Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Design; Cost; Communication; Competition; Economy; Research; Policy; Practice
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              Terry Culpepper

              Terry II Culpepper researches topics in empirical industrial organization, urban economics, and organizational economics. Prior to Harvard, he studied economics at the University of Chicago, then worked there as an economic researcher in industrial organization. View Details
              • 18 Oct 2013
              • HBS Seminar

              George Borjas, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School