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- Dictionary Entry
Total Factor Productivity
By: Diego Comin
Total Factor Productivity (TFP) is the portion of output not explained by the amount of inputs used in production. The following definition describes the measurement and importance of TFP for growth, fluctuations and development as well as likely future directions of... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Economic Growth; Measurement and Metrics; Production; Performance Productivity; Research
Comin, Diego. "Total Factor Productivity." In The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. 2nd ed. Edited by Steven Derlauf and Larry Blume. Hampshire, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
- Research Summary
Output and asset price fluctuations
What are the sources of business cycles? How are these shocks propagated in the economy? Why are their effects so persistent? How can we explain asset price fluctuations? How are shocks transmitted internationally?To study these questions, I have developed a series... View Details
- 28 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Profit Power of Corporate Culture
real wages have not been increasing, although compensation often falls rather low on the list of things that employees seek out of the employment "deal." Q: What is the culture cycle? A: The culture cycle begins with the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do
recommendations from watchdogs like CharityWatch, which tend to give higher ratings to charities with low overhead costs. But that can lead to a harmful cycle in which charities keep their overhead costs unreasonably low in order to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Feb 2020
- Book
Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations
assets, knowledge, and systems. Without such stewardship, the company cannot develop sustained commitment and performance. Instead, cycles of high and low performance destroy value for all stakeholders. And just as boards need to hold... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Dec 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Return on Political Investment in the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004
- 24 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?
COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details
- 18 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal
Foundation (now the Livestrong Foundation). Since 2004, the yellow Livestrong bracelets on the wrists of his supporters had become a ubiquitous symbol of hope and determination. When Armstrong chose to break the rules of professional View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
One meeting each year should be a joint board-management retreat mid-way in the company's planning cycle to plan next year's activities. Additional time between meetings is typically required of board members to work on special... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
the end of the first month. To learn more, read How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding Boris Groysberg, Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration. Tip: Shorten selling cycles The crisis demonstrates,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
whether anxiety about the unethical behavior leads to a vicious cycle of cheating-to-relieve-the-stress-of-getting-caught-cheating. (When providing the first saliva sample for the study, participants were unaware that they were about to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti
quantify the cost of delivering high-quality impacts.” Shah elaborates: “Now PIH can say, for example, ‘Here’s what it costs to support one woman’s cycle of care for an entire year. Would you like to support one woman’s View Details
- Research Summary
Overview
Professor Begenau’s research agenda is directed at better understanding how financial markets work and how they affect the real economy. She uses quantitative analysis to build both prescriptive and descriptive models concerning financial risk in banking, and she also... View Details
- 10 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
talk less about how we can encourage positive spillovers." Creating virtuous cycles like FOSS involves rewiring existing market inefficiencies, which produce too many negative side effects and too few positive ones, Nagle says. It’s an... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 06 Jan 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Mechanisms of Technology Re-Emergence and Identity Change in a Mature Field: Swiss Watchmaking, 1970-2008
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
deficit spending send the signal that demand will increase, and thus both aim to break the cycle of negative expectations about the economy. Q: What's a good way to think about foreign direct investment in the United States? Are we... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
which managers can acquire new knowledge, skills, perspective, and judgment. People should look for jobs in which they can leverage initial fit to establish a self-reinforcing cycle of success whereby, year after year, they acquire more... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
- 29 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
The $1 Trillion Link Between Mental Health and Economic Productivity
hurt the economy, and, consequently, how an economic downturn can lead to more mental health problems. Click to watch. Here are some key points in the five-minute video: At 1:25 Ashraf talks about the vicious cycle that can happen when... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration
minorities, according to research that involved surveying hundreds of people and studying thousands of datasets at government and social organizations. This pattern can “fuel a self-perpetuating cycle of segregation,” which may not only... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
And so, there’s a lot of uncertainty around crypto; and in times of overall financial market uncertainty, people pull away from riskier assets. At the same time, a lot of the basic technology investment and entrepreneurship in crypto is still going on. We saw this with... View Details