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- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
contributing optimally to overall economic health? Has the U.S. gone too far? What obligations does this create for increasing service sector productivity? Do manufacturing-based economies have some kind of inherent advantage over... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Capitalism’s False Mantra
Martin lays out a litany of misery: two economic collapses in 10 years (following 70 years of relative stability), the public’s growing distrust of business, an unending line of execs paraded on perp walks, and decreasing rather than... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
is unclear and the spirit of the law is open to interpretation. A close reading of the record suggests that much of Enron’s behavior fell into this penumbra. But that same record also suggests that Skilling lost his way in this shadowed space by encouraging and... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
this seemed timeless and unchanging - until recently. A Whole New Ball Game At first glance, the scene suggests classic Americana, straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting: a football star, larger than life, visiting a classroom of rapt... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
attended British boarding schools before graduating from Yale as an economics major in 2001. After leaving the Ivy League, she accepted a position with consulting giant McKinsey in its San Francisco office, having turned down an offer... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
local economic development. The reserve was in a region in the northeastern part of the country, not far from Mozambique, that sorely called out for progress in both these dimensions. The Sabi Sand Game... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?
the Olympic Games as an opportunity to advance freedom in China. What are the obstacles these reformers face? Tarun Khanna: Many kinds of freedoms, particularly freedom to engage in economic activities, have... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
nations, says Greyser. In 1964, Japan made a similar overture with the Tokyo Games to point to its recovery from defeat in World War II. China used the Beijing Games in 2008 to showcase itself as an View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
order preservation, then all (pure strategy) Nash equilibria induce equal division. Next, we consider division rules satisfying efficiency, equal treatment of equals, and claims monotonicity. For claim games with at most three agents,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Student-Profile
Do Yoon Kim
My background drew me to subjects like game theory, and courses in industrial organization piqued my interest the most. I applied to economics programs, but ultimately chose the Strategy program at HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
that comes from satisfying the Wall Street “beasts” quarterly-earnings estimates. If you don’t hit the number, your stock falls. This is an unfortunate game where Wall Street research had become the corrupt handmaiden of the investment... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online
The Trouble behind Livedoor When Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie was arrested early this year, it shook Japan’s economic underpinnings. Assistant Professor Robin Greenwood discusses what went wrong with one of that country’s most-watched... View Details
- July 2014
- Article
Accounting for Crises
By: Venky Nagar and Gwen Yu
We provide among the first empirical evidence consistent with recent macro global-game crisis models, which show that the precision of public signals can coordinate crises (e.g., Angeletos and Werning, 2006; Morris and Shin, 2002, 2003). In these models,... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Mathematical Methods; Game Theory; Financial Markets; Forecasting and Prediction; Accounting; Financial Crisis
Nagar, Venky, and Gwen Yu. "Accounting for Crises." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 6, no. 3 (July 2014): 184–213.
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
Christine Keung (at podium) and Reginald Smith (both MBA 2020) present recommendations for economic development to the West Virginia State Senate in May 2022. How did you meet? Reggie Smith: "We first met before classes started RC year at... View Details
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
not being cheated? I've been looking at this for five years from a technical perspective. But it has struck me that this is basically an economic problem, namely a problem with incentives. The fraudsters do what they do with reasonable... View Details
- Web
Teams | New Venture Competition
Gaitan (EdM 2025) Husain Rasheed Engaging kids in Kazakhstan with an AI-driven simulation game that makes learning English fun Remarcation Hannah Wong (MArch 2025) Jia Wen Goh Fostering the autonomy of disabled users in public space... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
How Green Was My (Silicon) Valley
of the corporate leaders President Obama says he most admires, has become an influential policy and economic adviser to the Obama administration. He has contributed to the campaigns of Obama and other politicians, and some observers have... View Details
Alvaro Rodriguez Arregui
of Vitro, CEO of Farmacias Benavides, and CFO of Grupo Elektra. His achievements have been recognized by various organizations, including being named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2005, one of the 30 Top Social... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
on those earnings, targeting behavior is muted and no longer generates a negative effort response to higher wages. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53905 in press Games and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
impossible for me to answer this question without sounding hyperbolic, but the reality is VR has the potential to dramatically transform how we live, work, and socialize. Today, VR’s consumer experiences are mostly related to games and... View Details