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- September 2011 (Revised March 2014)
- Case
Liberia
By: Eric Werker and Jasmina Beganovic
From 1989 to 2003 civil war raged in Liberia, causing GDP per capita to drop an unprecedented 90% from peak to trough. The roots of Liberia's conflict and economic decline are complex and intertwined, resting on over a century of discriminatory elite rule and twisted... View Details
Keywords: War; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Crisis; Government and Politics; Macroeconomics; Liberia
Werker, Eric, and Jasmina Beganovic. "Liberia." Harvard Business School Case 712-011, September 2011. (Revised March 2014.)
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
activity to distance themselves from competitors. Microfinance: Business, Profitability, and the Creation of Social Value Author:Michael Chu Publication:Chap. 28 in Business Solutions for the Global Poor: Creating Social and Economic Value, edited View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?
the short to medium run the government will still play an important role in supporting housing finance. But as we move to greater reliance on private mortgage credit it will be important to combine such privatization with better regulation. As View Details
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
history of these entities.... When it is monetized" (whether by competition or government) "the for-profit enterprise will select the lowest price alternative." But Allen Howlett expressed reservations about this approach,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
with the downside of thinking slow. So here is what my gut tells me about what you said this month: Thinking slow, as Daniel Kahneman calls it in his recent book by that name, is important under circumstances of high risk, uncertain... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist
benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” This position sharply contrasts to Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman’s famous 1970 article, The... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
Schlesinger I have just begun Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Nobel Prize-winner Angus Deaton. This book represents a well- crafted effort of social science research applied... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
productivity externalities in the host country generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a mechanism that emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling foreign direct investment (FDI) to promote growth through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators
study confirming this was done by a group of researchers, Merton Reznikoff, George Domino, Carolyn Bridges, and Merton Honeymon, who studied creative abilities in 117 pairs of identical and fraternal twins. Testing twins aged fifteen to... View Details
- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
This opinion piece, first published in the New York Times in August 2005, has been updated by Pankaj Ghemawat for HBS Working Knowledge.Mighty Wal-Mart's headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, must feel less like a hotbed of retailing and... View Details
- 03 Mar 2010
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?
Identity Economics, by Nobel Prize-winning economist George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton, takes this thinking to a macro-economic level. In their view, an organization (and even entire societies) works well... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
What do a health food manufacturer, an infectious-diseases specialist and a content-management expert have in common? Answer: All are women, all are entrepreneurs. And by virtue of being women and entrepreneurs they share one... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- October 2012
- Teaching Note
Liberia (TN)
By: Eric Werker and Ian Cornell
From 1989 to 2003 civil war raged in Liberia, causing GDP per capita to drop an unprecedented 90% from peak to trough. The roots of Liberia's conflict and economic decline are complex and intertwined, resting on over a century of discriminatory elite rule and twisted... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
Beset by changes on several fronts, the media industry, traditionally comprising the familiar print and broadcast channels of mass communication, has been undergoing a major transformation in recent years, change that appears certain to... View Details
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
or sell. Payatas and the orderly, verdant Harvard Business School campus—nearly equals, as it happens, in terms of the acreage they occupy—are separated by a gulf far greater than any measure of miles or statistics. Yet as HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
call that goal the "Utilitarian criterion" after the philosophical framework that supports it. Since pioneering work in the 1970s by Nobel laureate James Mirrlees, the Utilitarian criterion has dominated tax... View Details
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
are not unequivocally a club that one should strive to join," writes Werker in his April 2013 working paper, Learning from Double-Digit Growth Experiences, published by the International Growth Centre at the London School of... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
yields. However, the fraction of seniors is uncorrelated with share repurchases, investment, or profitability, suggesting that geographic variation in dividend payout is not driven by some unmeasured firm characteristic affecting the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- September 2008 (Revised October 2008)
- Case
Marc Abrahams: Annals of an Improbable Entrepreneur
By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
Marc Abrahams was a media entrepreneur who specialized in science humor. In 2008, he sought to boost the scale and monetization potential of his business. That business, called Improbable Research, encompassed a magazine (Annals of Improbable Research), a high-profile... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Selection and Staffing; Human Capital; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Personal Development and Career
Groysberg, Boris, and Michael Slind. "Marc Abrahams: Annals of an Improbable Entrepreneur." Harvard Business School Case 409-013, September 2008. (Revised October 2008.)
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
Business Cycles was Joseph Schumpeter's least successful book when measured by its professed aims and several other yardsticks. Yet the book contains two vital aspects that have largely been overlooked. First, the prodigious research that... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw