Publications

29 Sep 2022
News

Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal

soon change rapidly. “When I decided to take on that role, the world looked very different than it would later that spring,” says Diagne. “I had no idea that it would turn into a pandemic-response and economic-recovery role.” He took the last flight from the View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

2011
Other Unpublished Work

What Do Private Firms Look Like?

By: John Asker, Joan Farre-Mensa and Alexander Ljungqvist

Private firms in the U.S. are not subject to public reporting requirements, so relatively little is known about their characteristics and behavior—until now. This Data Appendix describes a new database on private U.S. firms, created by Sageworks Inc. in cooperation... View Details

Keywords: Data and Data Sets; Behavior; Public Sector; Corporate Disclosure; Private Sector; Financial Statements; United States

SSRN

01 Dec 2003
News

Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

levels of productivity. At 5.4 percent, 2002 saw the biggest annual gain in productivity growth since 1950. Like many consumers, companies are tightening their belts and doing more with less in an effort to survive, and thrive, at a time when making things in the View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

October 1998 (Revised June 2002)
Case

Austin, Texas: Building a High-Tech Economy

By: Bruce R. Scott and Srinivas Sunder

Members of the community decide to try to diversify the economy of Austin, Texas, by welcoming high-technology firms and by augmenting the electrical engineering faculty at University of Texas--Austin. View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Diversification; Information Technology; Policy; Government and Politics; Engineering; Technological Innovation; Competitive Advantage; Higher Education; Texas

17 Feb 2015
HBS Case

HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco

Allison Ciechanover (Harvard MBA 2002) and Kunal Modi (Harvard MBA/MPP 2013), a manager at McKinsey & Co. in San Francisco. The influx of wealthy tech workers into San Francisco'sneighborhoods is the subject of a case study.©iStock.com/franckreporter At a time when... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

01 Mar 2025
News

Forward Thinking

book, Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier, Weinzierl and his coauthor Brendan Rosseau—a former teaching fellow and research associate at HBS who now works for Jeff Bezos’s space company Blue Origin—explore how the... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Franziska Barczyk; Space Research and Technology; Government

2016
Working Paper

Big History, Global Corporations, Virtual Capitalism

By: Richard L. Nolan

Homo sapiens has mastered its environment so thoroughly that, for the first time in history, a small minority of the population is capable of creating enough food and fuels to support not only itself, but also a growing majority of the 6 billion people now living on... View Details

Keywords: Economic Systems; Internet and the Web; Innovation and Invention; United States

SSRN

01 Apr 1998
News

Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International

Michael Chu (MBA '76) is president and CEO of ACCION International, a private nonprofit corporation founded in 1961 and based in Somerville, Massachusetts. ACCION's affiliates in thirteen Latin American countries and the United States... View Details

January 1984 (Revised April 1993)
Background Note

Introduction to U.S. Political Economy: Antecedents to the New Deal

Provides background information on developments in the U.S. economy and policy over several decades preceding the Hoover Administration. View Details

Keywords: Policy; Macroeconomics; United States

15 Sep 2003
Other Presentation

Initiative for a Competitive Milwaukee: The Time for Action

By: Michael E. Porter

Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; United States

April 1994
Case

Uruguay Round of the GATT: Choices in U.S. Trade Policy

By: Louis T. Wells Jr.

Keywords: Trade; Policy; United States

December 2006
Article

When More Power Makes Actors Worse Off: Turning a Profit in the American Economy

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and Tiziana Casciaro

Keywords: Profit; Economy; United States

04 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Max Bazerman

on ways to grow the pie of social resources within the legal and legislative systems of the United States, as well as within the democratic systems of other nations. The constraints that democracies place on power certainly do not... View Details

Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman

Portrait Project

Dami Adesanya

empathy, and speaks with conviction. I will be most impactful being true to myself. Home is where my heart is. I am going to invest in the economic development of Africa so that the promise my generation sees today can become a reality... View Details

26 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 26, 2008

evidence. In particular, we find that every major interest group, not just radio broadcasters, publicly opposed expansion of the band in 1927 and that broadcasters themselves were divided at the FRC's hearings. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

June 1991 (Revised March 1995)
Background Note

Coming of the Railroads

Makes possible a discussion of the growth of the railroads in the nineteenth century and the impact of that growth on the American economy. View Details

Keywords: Rail Transportation; Macroeconomics; Rail Industry; United States