Economists - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Apr 2012
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Calling All Leaders: Feed and Water Yourself

19 Jul 2019
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Harvard's Retsinas Interview on U.S. Home Prices

05 Apr 2021
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Biden Plan Spurs Fight Over What ‘Infrastructure’ Really Means

06 May 2019
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Forget Socialism. The U.S. Needs Responsible Capitalism

21 Dec 2010
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Harvard Business School Faculty on 2010's Biggest Business Developments

17 Dec 2018
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Assistant Professors Natalia Rigol and Ben Roth: Empower

12 Feb 2020
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Michael Norton Explains 'Boaty McBoatface,’ And The Risks Of Consumer Voting

May 2010
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Does Product Market Competition Lead Firms to Decentralize?

By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen

There is a widespread sense that over the last two decades firms have been decentralizing decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy. Economists have developed a range of theories to account for delegation, but there is less empirical evidence,... View Details

Keywords: Product; Markets; Competition; Business Ventures; Geographic Location; Employees; Research; Programs; Decisions

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14 Jul 2020
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Is renewable natural gas a serious alternative to ‘electrify everything’?

13 Feb 2018
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Is America in a Retail Apocalypse? Ask Yelp

02 Mar 2016
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Extrapolation and Bubbles

Keywords: by Nicholas Barberis, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer

September 26, 2018
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Ownership and Power Structure: Together at Last

By: Laura Alfaro, Nicholas Bloom, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros, Andrew Newman, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen

Economists have largely ignored the deep interdependency between integration and delegation. This column describes a new theory of integration and delegation choices aimed at shedding light on how these distinct elements of organizational design interact. Contrary to... View Details

Keywords: Power; Organisational Design; Economics; Ownership; Organizational Design

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28 Sep 2015
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Healthcare Inequality

29 Apr 2020
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Why Latin America Needs the Private Sector More Than Ever

2010
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Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors

By: Rebecca Henderson and Richard G. Newell

A combination of concerns about climate change and energy security has recently led to significant increases in public funding for energy R&D. Some commentators are suggesting that these increases need to be sustained, and are advocating for increases of as much as... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Research and Development; Pollutants; Climate Change; Energy Industry

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