Economy - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

asset to the country." Indeed, the war was a watershed for entrepreneurialism. While it was true that the war temporarily stunted the development of small business, it ultimately created a more fertile environment for the entrepreneurial View Details

Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante

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Credit Supply Shocks, Network Effects, and the Real Economy

By: Laura Alfaro

We consider the real effects of bank lending shocks and how they permeate the economy through buyer-supplier linkages. We combine administrative data on all firms in Spain with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset with information on the universe of corporate loans for... View Details

02 Jul 2008
Conference Presentation

A Design-Centric View of the Economy

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

Keywords: Design; Economics

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09 May 2008
Conference Presentation

A Design-Centric View of the Economy

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

Keywords: Design; Economics

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16 Dec 2008
News

Michael Porter discusses Economy and Education

24 Feb 2014
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Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy

30 Jul 2012
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How technology adoption affects global economies

18 Dec 2019
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Harvard Study on Economy Recovery Squandered

02 Jun 2016
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Imagine an Economy Without Wall Street

22 May 2020
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Rebuilding the Economy Around Good Jobs

May 27, 2022
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How 'Digital Nomad' Visas Can Boost Local Economies

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury

More and more companies are offering their employees the option to “work from anywhere,” whether in their home office, in another state, or even halfway around the globe. A growing group of remote professionals are taking the “anywhere” in work-from-anywhere to new... View Details

Keywords: Remote Work; COVID-19 Pandemic; Collaboration; Work-Life Balance; Human Resources; Collaborative Innovation and Invention

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The Role of Capital Markets in the Digital Economy

This topic of research is motivated by the rapid rise of digital adoption in firms across the economy and capital market participants’ growing interest in this phenomenon. My work studies how investors are responding to digitization, provides insights on the... View Details

Long-run Returns to Impact Investing in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies

There is growing interest in impact investing, the idea of deploying capital to obtain both financial and social or environmental returns. Examination of every equity investment made by the International Finance Corporation, one of the largest and... View Details

06 May 2022
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Democratize Work: The Case for Reorganizing the Economy

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B Lab: Building a New Sector of the Economy

By: Christopher Marquis, Andrew David Klaber and Bobbi Thomason

The founders of B Lab are on a mission to create a new sector of the economy and are specifically focused on a three objectives: 1) building a community of Certified B Corporations (B=Benefit) that legally expand their corporate responsibilities to include... View Details

Keywords: Economic Sectors; Social Entrepreneurship; Investment; Policy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Social Enterprise; Value Creation

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