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- 01 Dec 2005
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Chen Directs Asia-Pacific Center
Michael Shih-Ta Chen (MBA ’72) is the new executive director of the School’s Asia-Pacific Research Center in Hong Kong. A banker and economist who has spent his career in Asia, Chen most recently directed the risk-management unit of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
suspect that the economists at the Boston Fed might say that a weaker EU economy suggests somewhat weaker US growth, since many US exporters depend on sales to the EU region. The oil price outlook matters, too, because it affects both the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
An Electrifying Tale
Prior to earning her MBA, Maryanne Cataldo (MBA ’92) decided to leave Washington, D.C., and her job as an economist in order to plug into a different career. She moved to Boston and joined an electrical workers union as an apprentice. “I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alvin Roth Wins Nobel Prize in Economics
kidney exchange system could be created to help match kidney donors with recipients. Al is one of the few economists who can point to real people whose lives have been saved by his work." Roth, who joined the HBS faculty in 1998, also... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Renter’s Market
City–based Redbrick with an economist partner in 2002. “Millions of individuals buy a unit or two to rent out as income producers,” Lee says. “But there existed no fund that went after single-family houses in some sort of aggregate way... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
A Helping Hand
security and opportunities to give back to society. It brought to mind the words of his father, a World Bank economist and governor of the Federal Reserve System. Recalled Rice, “He wanted to change the world, and he thought he could do... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Tickling the Ivories
KAO: Out of conflict and apparent mistakes, a beautiful, coherent melody. The Economist magazine has called him “Mr. Creativity” and a “serial innovator.” A former keyboard player for Frank Zappa, John Kao (MBA 1982), an HBS faculty... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Raising the bar for financial literacy
before joining CEE, says that some financial lessons about choices and tradeoffs aren't about money: "An economist in my network in Memphis was asking kids what they had learned, and one said, 'I learned not to join a gang,'" she recalls.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
ten years later. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5993.html. How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games When economists watch football games, they see more than flying pigskin and stadiums full of fans. Professor Alvin Roth studied the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
When a Rainy Day Comes: The Economics of Happiness
about 10 percent. The general happiness of the population suffers, too, even among people who do not personally experience job loss or reduction in income. For behavioral economists and politicians, among others, these findings raise the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside Modern HR
(think data analytics) as global competition for skilled workers increases. Matthew Breitfelder’s (MBA 2002) transition to the field came midcareer, after stints as an international economist at the US Department of Commerce, a corporate... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
wins, combined with a July 2012 paper that detailed the science behind the technology, attracted attention from the likes of the Economist and National Public Radio. Soon, Schrader no longer had to cold call the pharma companies—they were... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
A World of Information at Your Fingertips
database of 3.5 million companies, and Vault, a career development Web site. The service also provides seven business research sources without charge, including: databases from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
appointment book—it was largely empty. Like Buffett, Spier’s investing approach is iconoclastic. He moved his family to Zurich to escape the Wall Street Sturm und Drang. His theories on economic behavior are pulled not from economists but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2023
- News
SVB Crash Analysis
Global Banking Turmoil Harvard professor and economist Kenneth Rogoff says it's far better to sell a bank than to bail it out. Bailouts for Everyone? Harvard Law School professor Daniel Tarullo, who served as Fed regulator, talks about... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Vittorio Colao (MBA 1990)
modes I need to be in—decision-making, listening, analyzing, and so on.” Recent reads: One serious, one for relaxation. Ill Fares the Land by economist Tony Judt and The Ascendant: A Garrett Reilly Thriller by Drew Chapman. The View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Faculty Books
Financial System by David S. Scharfstein, as part of The Squam Lake Group (Princeton University Press) In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world’s leading economists — representing a broad spectrum of economic opinion — gathered at New... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
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HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
Thomas S. Murphy Associate Professor of Business Administration. An enterprising MBA student independently working to further existing research, she says, is “one of the interactions that you won’t find at other schools.” This kind of real-world input is especially... View Details
- 07 Jun 2011
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Back to the Future
undergraduate, Alden did read economist Joseph Schumpeter on entrepreneurship and wrote his honors thesis on his father as an entrepreneur of the family company. At HBS, Alden notes that several courses were helpful to anyone starting or... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Jesse Markham Dies at 93
Jesse Markham, an economist who joined the HBS faculty in 1968, died in his sleep on June 21 in Nashua, New Hampshire. Markham, whose work focused on price theory and industrial organization, was a well-known proponent of the “rule of... View Details