Economy - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2018
News

Diversity and Diminishing Tax Revenues

01 Aug 2018
News

Are share buybacks 'plundering company resources'?

01 Sep 2012
News

Rebel with a Cause

but increasingly, it seemed to Massie, many big businesses lacked a moral compass. Putting his newly acquired business knowledge to work, Massie developed the Project on Business, Values, and the Economy at Harvard Divinity School. He is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; social activism; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Mar 2013
News

2nd HBS Survey on US Competitiveness

A second survey of nearly 7,000 HBS alumni and just over 1,000 members of the general public found ongoing concern regarding America's ability to compete in the global economy but wide agreement between liberals and conservatives on the... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

Around the World

considerable research attention from several HBS faculty members, including Bob Hayes and Kim Clark. And as developing economies took off, “students could no longer be counted on to spend their entire professional careers in the United... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

26 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes

The Indian economy has been teetering on the brink for the past few months. The most manifest of these problems has been the crash of the Indian rupee, which has shown a decline of approximately 20 percent against the US dollar in a short... View Details

Keywords: by Zeenat Potia

23 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19

or a partial one. Developing countries have a different pandemic One notable difference among nations seemed intuitive: Developing countries have far fewer tools—they are less able to stave off a deep recession or even depression—than more mature View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

15 Oct 2001
Op-Ed

Lessons from the Rubble

have been obvious even without the devastation we have just witnessed. First is that the new economy never was all that different from the old. In the ancient, heady days of the Internet boom, it became fashionable to declare that the... View Details

Keywords: by Debora L. Spar

01 Mar 2025
News

Forward Thinking

There was a time when human activity in outer space was a highly centralized, government-led endeavor, says Professor and Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl. But that era has passed: Over the past two decades, a calcified space bureaucracy has given way to a... View Details

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

February 1983 (Revised May 1985)
Case

China: Central Economic Planning

By: David B. Yoffie

Keywords: Economy; Planning; Policy; China

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May 9, 2024
Editorial

Public Companies Are Alive and Well: They’re Fewer in Number but Bigger and More Profitable than Ever Before.

By: Mark J. Roe and Charles C.Y. Wang

Keywords: Public Ownership; Economy; United States

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August 2012 (Revised June 2017)
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Australia: Commodities and Competitiveness

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Laura Alfaro

For the past few decades, Australia has dealt with the benefits and costs of repeated mining booms—inflation, a housing bubble, a current account deficit and growing dependence on China. Between 1996 and 2007, however, Australia had most of these issues under control... View Details