Economic Experiments - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2020
News

The Camel and the Unicorn

sustainability and resilience where unit economics from the get-go are strong, where burn is managed from the get-go, where there's a long-term approach to doing it. Morrell: Alex offers the example of the food delivery service Grubhub,... View Details

08 Sep 2015
First Look

September 8, 2015

and women alike rated power as one of the main consequences of professional advancement. Our findings reveal that men and women have different perceptions of what the experience of holding a high-level position will be like, with... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

26 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way to Go to Market

rotten customer experience as well as major financial troubles for some large players. What does Toyota understand about its channels that GM is still learning? A: We didn't specifically focus on Toyota's channel strategy in the study,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Sep 2018
News

Havana Rising

surprising to Gordon. For the past year, she’s been helping build out this Havana-based travel and consulting business with her husband and brother-in-law and is reliant on a rising network of Cuban entrepreneurs to deliver deep, curated travel View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

01 Jun 1996
News

1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

economic drivers" of business use of the Internet, explaining, "The change in the production process of information is altering the way it's distributed. Information is moving from paper into bits. That is a fundamental change in the... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

12 Dec 2018
News

Lesson Plan

on political campaigns that promise a different approach to foreign and domestic policy. As formative as those experiences were in establishing her sense of justice and political engagement, however, the linchpin is probably a very... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

the argument that counterfeit competence is driven by self-protection, we find individuals do not predict they would experience such a boost (Study 5) and that cheating after threat offers benefits similar to those provided by other... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

10 Mar 2021
Blog Post

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace

them, now more than ever before. After going through the pandemic and the associated economic and social upheaval, people care deeply about if their companies are socially responsible; they want to see evidence that they are helping... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Dec 2010
News

The Transformers

That experience led him to assign several Bain teams to analyze the viability of setting up a nonprofit consultancy. The need quickly became evident. Bain research turned up “some 3,000 solo practitioners who offered consulting services... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

publicity compensate for the deep hit to profit margins? This paper sets out to help small businesses decide whether it makes sense to offer discount vouchers. Research was conducted by Harvard Business School professor Ben Edelman, Business View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 1

Authors:David Goldreich and Hanna Halaburda Abstract The economic literature on choice focuses on individuals' decisions when faced with a given menu. However, the menu itself is often the result of preselection by a menu setter. We... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 29, 2008

Shanghai plant starts production in 2008, will its almost $50 million investment pay off? Is 10 years of experience in China enough to know how China works? Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Dec 2021
News

Rescue & Recovery

billion dollars in revenues and almost 6,000 people providing aid and economic opportunity in some of the toughest environments around the world. On top of these baseline operations, which have been expanding since its founding in 1979,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Stephen Voss; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

19 May 2022
News

Leading to Salvation

with them long enough (because they weren’t very well-managed), if you’ll stay with them long enough, we’ll do it. So what I did is I got MEDA, the Metropolitan Economic Development Association, to lend them money to pay their taxes. And... View Details

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

work was so hard, she wasn’t sure she would make it at first, she says, recalling a marketing professor who cold-called her to open a case she had not read. She faked it well enough, but the experience helped shape Oishi’s approach to... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2016
News

Vive la Madeleine!

radiates a benign intensity. “There were jobs to be created and families hoping for a solution. The second was that it could be a model for other companies in a similar situation. The economic climate in France was difficult, with... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

applicable to every listed company in the world: "The market capitalisation of any company listed on the [Johannesburg Stock Exchange] equals its economic value and not its book value. The financial report of a company, as seen in its... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2018
News

The Long Run

persons from 1999 to 2016. Beyond the devastating personal costs, there is an economic toll, too, caused by rising health care expenses for overdose prevention drugs and addiction treatment, criminal justice costs, and productivity loss... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

profound importance to contemporary readers, but also will be seminal secondary source for economic and political historians for generations to come. If you own a copy, keep it. A scholarly grandchild will thank you. Robert Kaplan My... View Details