Publications

1984
Book

Of Politics and Economic Reality: The Art of Winning Elections with Sound Economic Policies

By: Amar Bhide

Keywords: Political Economy; Elections

Research Summary

Sustainable Inner-City Economic Development

By: Michael E. Porter

Michael E. Porter is using the framework he developed in The Competitive Advantage of Nations to examine the economic development problems in distressed inner-city areas. He seeks to understand the potential of inner-city businesses, government policies, and... View Details

June 2005 (Revised October 2007)
Teaching Note

The Law of One Price (TN)

By: Joshua D. Coval and Erik Stafford

Teaching Note to (2-205-079). View Details

Keywords: Price

September 2022
Teaching Note

Marsha Simms: Trailblazer in Corporate Law

By: Robin Ely, Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 422-012. View Details

02 Feb 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector

Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter; Financial Services

May 2007 (Revised April 2010)
Teaching Note

Duane Morris: Balancing Growth and Culture at a Law Firm (TN)

By: Boris Groysberg

Keywords: Balance and Stability; Business Growth and Maturation; Organizational Culture; Legal Services Industry

01 Sep 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Transaction Cost Economics in the Digital Economy: A Research Agenda

Keywords: by Frank Nagle, Robert Seamans, and Steve Tadelis

February 1997 (Revised October 1999)
Case

Shock Therapy in Eastern Europe: The Polish and Czechoslovak Economic Reforms

Provides information on economic reform programs in Poland and Czechoslovakia in 1990. Students are asked to compare and contrast the economic situations in the two countries, as well as the political constraints on reform. View Details

Keywords: Macroeconomics; Poland; Slovakia; Czech Republic

Educators

Research Summary

The Economics of Search

Utilizing data on web searches, we characterize the economics of search and estimate the path of diffusion for information, allowing us to specify how choice sets are actually formed among consumers and examine the impact of cybergeography vs. spatial geography. Joint... View Details

May 2002
Teaching Note

Venture Law Group (A) & (B), TN

By: Ashish Nanda and Thomas J. DeLong

Teaching Note for (9-800-065) and (9-800-191). View Details

Keywords: Legal Services Industry

Article

The Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks

By: A. E. Roth, Christopher Avery and Christine Jolls

Keywords: Jobs and Positions; Law

Research Summary

Business and Low Income Sectors: The Creation of Economic and Social Value

In the last three decades, innovative commercial solutions have emerged in developing nations focusing on providing effective responses to the hugely underserved needs of low-income populations, both as consumers as well as active participants in productive value... View Details

1989
Book

Planning and Power in Iran: Ebtehaj and Economic Development under the Shah

By: Geoffrey Jones

This book provides a biography of Abol Hassan Ebtehaj, who headed Iran's central bank and Plan Organization during the 1940s and 1950s. It provides a wide-ranging survey of the problems of modernization and economic planning in Iran. Ebtehaj was at the center of... View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decision Making; Economics; Central Banking; Policy; Political History; Resignation and Termination; Biography; Books; Surveys; Growth and Development Strategy; Planning; Iran

14 Feb 2008
Working Paper Summaries

Laws vs. Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890-1950

Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

The Simple Economics of Open Source

outwardly the situation smells of economic anarchy. Where are the market forces, when thousands of talented programmers—and even many commercial firms—spend inordinate amounts of time writing and sharing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

Article

On the Optimal Structure of Liability Laws

By: Jerry R. Green

We consider the control of tvo-party accidents through the use of liability rules that assign damages according to whether or not predetermined standards for care have been met. Particular emphasis is given to how the differential in the costs of accident avoidance... View Details

Keywords: Legal Liability; Law