Unit Economics - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2010
News

Merton Receives Prestigious Award

University Professor Robert Merton, a member of the HBS faculty since 1988 and cowinner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics, recently received the Kolmogorov Medal from the University of London. He was honored for his distinguished work in the fields of research... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance

01 Dec 2008
News

What Went Wrong?

you want to dig deeper, visit the School’s new Web site that compiles news articles and videos featuring comments by HBS faculty on the global economic crisis: www.hbs.edu/economic-crisis/. View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

January 2009
Journal Article

The Fiscal Impact of High-skilled Emigration: Flows of Indians to the U.S.

By: Mihir Desai, D. Kapur, J. McHale and K Rogers

Easing immigration restrictions for the highly skilled in developed countries portends a future of increased human capital outflows from developing countries. The myriad consequences of these developments for developing countries include the direct loss of the fiscal... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Diasporas; Developing Countries and Economies; Taxation; Compensation and Benefits; Human Capital; Mathematical Methods; India; United States

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01 Dec 2004
News

Boom Times Ahead

productivity cycles drive economic booms that are further powered by the explosion of new technologies,” explained the Sacramento Bee (October 5, 2004). People get excited when Dent gets bullish, because he’s been right on the money... View Details

Profile

Allen Yang

While Allen Yang certainly has the intellectual chops to tackle big ideas, he's always had a hunger for the tangible and the practical—for hands-on reality. "In college, I studied economics," Allen says. "But it was all theoretical. I wanted to see how... View Details

Keywords: CPG; Tech; Financial Services

24 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54405 forthcoming Latin American Economic Review Some Elements of Peronist Beliefs and Tastes By: Di Tella, Rafael, and Juan Dubra Abstract—We study the beliefs and values... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 7

defined as the extent to which an actor's network contacts are connected to one another, affects the initiation and adoption of change in organizations. Using longitudinal survey data supplemented with eight in-depth case studies, we analyze 68 organizational change... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Mar 2017
News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

that IBM knew it had to rethink its omnibus IBM Watson Unit. “So we formed a unit called Watson Health,” Hogan says. With Jeopardy!, Watson had mastered trivia, become a better Wikipedia. It had done this by gaining what was in essence... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

Portrait Project

Clive Chang

opportunities for artists to pursue their passion without regard to economic constraints. I will break down industry barriers and develop novel business models to help emerging artists feed themselves and their families through their... View Details

01 Jun 2013
News

Five Bright Ideas

17, 1991) Its schools are found in some of the world's toughest neighborhoods—in Iraq, India, and the United States—because SABIS and its president, Carl Bistany, believe every child deserves a chance. SABIS is a for-profit education... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Apr 2002
News

Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction

history of women in business to give her audience some perspective on the transformational effects of economic independence. Among the first places U.S. women worked outside the home were textile factories in Massachusetts, she noted. The... View Details

Keywords: H Naylor Fitzhugh; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

2003
Chapter

Short-Term America Revisited? Boom and Bust in the Venture Capital Industry and the Impact on Innovation

By: Josh Lerner and Paul A. Gompers

This chapter seeks to understand the implications of the recent decline in venture activity for innovation. It argues that the situation may not be as grim as it initially appears. While there are many reasons for believing that on average venture capital has a... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Innovation and Invention; Business Cycles; Financial Services Industry; United States

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01 Jun 2007
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Profiles from the class of 2007

who speaks fluent Hebrew, Arabic, and English and who has long been involved with peace-related initiatives and nonprofits, that experience convinced him “to work on the business side of peace.” “Peace in the Middle East,” he says, “will not be sustainable if people... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

09 Dec 2015
Research Event

When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms

the competitive landscape of platforms, Zhu delved into data from Amazon.com, which serves both as the biggest online retailer in the United States and as a platform on which third-party retailers can sell their wares directly to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Technology; Web Services

01 Mar 2023
News

Fostering a Supportive Community

After graduating from Cornell University, where he majored in policy analysis, Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021) spent seven years working in education and for a nonprofit that advances equity and economic mobility in the southern View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Mele

17 Apr 2014
News

York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition

(MBA 2005), Nayana Mawilmada (MBA 2005) and Jayamin Pelpola (MBA 2010). The firm hopes to capitalize on the current development drive and rapid economic growth taking place in Sri Lanka. Based in Colombo, York Street Partners was launched... View Details

Keywords: New Venture Competition; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

Portrait Project

Dionne Hosten

hear and tell, jumping into the economic and maybe even the political fray in my home country of Trinidad, and of course, all those new hairstyles to try...... I'm restless but maybe all my wandering will eventually get me to the right... View Details

09 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch

three years ago: "Rethinking the nature of executive pay within the context of our larger economic and social system and the challenges we face may enable us to create a new model of compensation rooted in a more realistic... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

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Mamongae Mahlare

Allocate time and energy to initiatives for the primary benefit of my beloved South Africa Many lives were sacrificed for my freedom And with political freedom comes great responsibility To achieve economic emancipation So our children... View Details