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- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
Economics Oliver Hart's Contributions to the Understanding of Strategic Alliances and Technology Licensing By: Lerner, Josh Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50650 forthcoming... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2013
- Op-Ed
Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again
hotspot for biomedical innovation. The lessons from our history are clear: Where we invest in science, we gain enormous economic pay-offs. “Where we invest in science, we gain enormous economic pay-offs” In... View Details
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
power in Ghana's history. Focuses on Ghana's long history of poor economic performance and intractable poverty, highlighting the challenges of economic development in Africa... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
firsthand as CFO of Liberia’s Forestry Development Authority (FDA). An American citizen, I came here in 2006 to work in a USAID-sponsored project aimed at combating corruption in state-owned enterprises. Here’s one case I encountered: A... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Developing ideas that have tangible, real-world impact—not just in academia but in practice and policy—has always been a vital part of HBS’s DNA. So not... View Details
- 30 Jun 2014
- Blog Post
Cambridge to Nairobi
2010, and they had long been on my list of “dream companies to work for.” In the spring, I reached out to Ushahidi’s Business Development lead, interviewed, and received an offer. A few formals and five finals later, I found myself on a... View Details
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Impact on Research & Curriculum | Baker Library
nationwide. AASU founders called upon the School’s administration to develop new courses and cases in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including those centered on economic View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
Hong Kong for guidance in developing China's economy. Cheng stressed, however, that Hong Kong's future economic success will depend on China's observance of the formal transition agreement whose terms state... View Details
- Fast Answer
Emerging Market/Frontier Market Fellowship Resources
data World Development Indicators: Statistics from the World Bank for almost 600 development indicators, dating as far back as 1960. Economist Intelligence Unit: Country reports and a tool to... View Details
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Special Collections & Archives | Baker Library
development of instant photography, trusted advisor to Polaroid founder Edwin Land, and liaison to iconic landscape photographer Ansel Adams. From Inquiry to Action: Harvard Business School & the Case Method Since the 1920s, HBS has been... View Details
- Portrait Project
Valerie Galinskaya
instead of hopeful. I want to use my love of language to articulate the big questions — about economic freedom, happiness, motivation, resilience, triumph, and failure — and develop a meaningful dialogue. I... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Dhruv Agarwala, MBA 2002
Dhruv Agarwala, who grew up in Calcutta, credits HBS for being instrumental in shaping his career. From his first job in the United States—as a business development associate at General Electric—to his latest entrepreneurial endeavor in... View Details
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Regulation and UK Retailing Productivity: Evidence from Microdata
By: Jonathan Haskel and Raffaella Sadun
We explore the effects of planning regulation on the UK retail sector between 1997 and 2003 using micro-data from the UK census. We document a shift to smaller shops following a 1996 regulatory change that increased the costs of opening large stores. Our analysis... View Details
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Performance Productivity; Growth and Development; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Change; Cost; Retail Industry; United Kingdom
Haskel, Jonathan, and Raffaella Sadun. "Regulation and UK Retailing Productivity: Evidence from Microdata." Economica 79, no. 315 (July 2012): 425–448.
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
Professors Ananth Raman and Roy Shapiro are two members of the HBS faculty team that developed the new Executive Education program, Managing the Supply Chain: The General Manager's Perspective. In this conversation with the Executive... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Merton Named University Professor
in Economic Sciences for his work on the valuation of stock options, had held the George Fisher Baker Professorship of Business Administration at HBS since 1988. The John and Natty McArthur University Professorship was established after... View Details
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
people, rotating them, developing them, putting them in challenging assignments. Those are things you can actually do something about. What I am saying is that companies should clone the processes in View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics
by a single mother living in the projects in Cambridge, Harvard seemed untouchable,” she explained. However, years later, Dozie surprised herself by walking into an Aldrich Hall classroom and into a life-changing experience. She had earned a degree in View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Make the Most of HBS Alumni Resources
by Ann Kelly, Alumni Board President Kelly Whether you graduated last June or just celebrated a reunion with a number you don’t enjoy saying aloud, you may be among those alumni who see HBS’s contribution to your development as having... View Details
- 16 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs
Beverage, Shanda, Fosun, Focus, and Tsinghua University. Purpose: Begin to comprehend some of the fundamental changes in the Chinese economic and social system, and how entrepreneurship is being facilitated to play a role in this. Also... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
Economics researchers have long studied how local workers respond when an industry such as steel manufacturing is squashed by obsolescence or competition. Is the region able to regenerate with new industries and workers to fill them? Do... View Details