Publications

Educators

6 Apr 2006
Other Presentation

Economic Strategy for Newark

By: Michael E. Porter

OpportunityNewark (ON) is a market-driven economic development initiative to increase the competitiveness of Newark as a business location, stimulate business development, and better connect residents to job opportunities. View Details

Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; Society; United States

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February 2005
Article

The Lamentable Law of Marketing Management

By: G. McGovern and John A. Quelch

17 Aug 2016
Working Paper Summaries

The Empirical Economics of Online Attention

Keywords: by Andre Boik, Shane Greenstein, and Jeffrey Prince; Media & Broadcasting

November 2005 (Revised July 2006)
Background Note

Understanding Economic Value Added

By: Mihir A. Desai, Fabrizio Ferri and Steve Treadwell

Explores the concept of economic value added (EVA) and its practical applications as a management control system for performance measurement and incentive compensation. Explains how EVA is measured and explores some of the adjustments to financial statements that are... View Details

Keywords: Value

Educators

1992
Chapter

Multilateral Conference Mediation: Tommy Koh and the Law of the Sea

By: James K. Sebenius and Lance Antrim

Keywords: Negotiation; International Relations; Laws and Statutes

November 2018 (Revised December 2020)
Technical Note

Economic Growth

By: Alberto Cavallo, Anne Laski and Florencia Hnilo

Educators

2008
Article

Workplace Democracy, Workplace Republicanism, and Economic Democracy

By: Nien-he Hsieh

Keywords: Economics; Theory

Researchers have long hypothesized that research outputs from government, university, and private company R&D contribute to economic growth, but these contributions may be difficult to measure when they take a non-pecuniary form. The growth of networking... View Details

July 2010
Background Note

Remedies for Patent Infringement under U.S. Law

By: Lena G. Goldberg and Chad Carr

Under the U.S. Patent Act, a patent owner has a statutory right to exclude others from engaging in the unauthorized production, use, sale, or importation of a patented invention. This note examines how that right is enforced and what remedies a patent owner has when... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Patents; Law Enforcement; Rights; United States

October 2014
Supplement

Honeywell and the Great Recession: The Economic Recovery (B)

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Susan J. Winterberg

Five years after the Great Recession, Honeywell's CEO Dave Cote and his executive team reflect on the choices they made to manage costs and earnings forecasts during that uncertain time. They discuss which cost cutting measures they decided to take and their personal... View Details

Keywords: Layoffs; Furloughs; Downsizing; Work Sharing; Short Time Work; Recessions; Earnings Forecast; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Cost Management; Executive Compensation; Crisis Management; Financial Crisis; Manufacturing Industry

Article

Foreword: On Financial Innovation and Economic Growth

By: Robert C. Merton

Keywords: Information; Finance; Innovation and Invention; Economic Growth

1982
Article

The Economics of Matching: Stability and Incentives

By: Alvin E. Roth

Keywords: Balance and Stability; Motivation and Incentives; Economics

February 2015 (Revised September 2016)
Teaching Note

Making stickK Stick: The Business of Behavioral Economics

By: Leslie K. John and Michael Norton

Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.

This Teaching Note explains the theory of the case and teaching plan for the case: Making sticK Stick: The Business of Behavioral Economics (514019). The case focuses on a... View Details

Keywords: Behavioral Economics; Behavior Change; B2B Vs. B2C; Human Resource Management; Marketing Of Innovations; Health ＆ Wellness; Weight Loss; Charitable Giving; Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Health; Business Model; Sales; Human Resources; Health Industry; United States

Article

Inertia and Incentives: Bridging Organizational Economics and Organizational Competence

By: Rebecca M. Henderson and Sarah Kaplan

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Economics; Competency and Skills