Economic Research - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2003
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Greylock

look ridiculously easy, but it's not. It involves hard work that takes a considerable amount of focus and dedication." HENRY McCANCE Yale University, 1964 B.A., Economics "At HBS, I remember the challenge of analyzing difficult problems,... View Details

01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards

conflicts between monitoring and advisory responsibilities, and the frustration of serving in a role under intense scrutiny in a brutal economic environment have made the job unattractive to many capable people and difficult for anyone to... View Details

Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance

30 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.

addressable market of $280 billion. That’s music to the ears of small businesses. Indeed, our research shows a sizeable credit gap exists for small businesses, particularly for loans under $100,000, which is the size that over 60 percent... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills and Brayden McCarthy; Financial Services

01 Jun 2022
News

What We’re Reading

parts that I like most is when Elizabeth Bennet rejects the wealthy Mr. Darcy’s proclamation of love and marriage because he treated her as an inferior. For the 19th century, Jane Austen takes a truly radical approach to economic and... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Oral Histories | Baker Library

in research and women in media buying, but none in the account training area. So I went with them, and was the first woman to be in that training program, and stayed with them a number of years. I was an account executive on Eastern... View Details

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

Alvarez, and research associate Dan Greenberg (Harvard MBA 2012). Their new book Retail Revolution: Will Your Brick-and-Mortar Store Survive?, predicts, among many other things, the continuing decline of major brick and mortar brands... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals

may end up feeling that executives from the other company have taken over. All of these human forces can destroy the potential economic value of the merger." Beer suggests that cross-company task forces be established to design the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry

01 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However, this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and project characteristics which are often hard to measure. Hence, we differentiate "quality... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Feb 2016
HBS Case

Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can

advertising. “Government is a giant customer. They buy a lot of stuff” Harvard Business School professor Mitchell Weiss explores this strategy pivot in a new case on Bigbelly, co-written with case researcher Christine Snively, that looks... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

04 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

organization, join the club. Despite the mantra that goals are good, the process of setting beneficial goals is harder than it looks. New research by HBS professor Max H. Bazerman and colleagues explores the hidden cost when stretch goals... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Mar 2010
News

Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career

new initiatives. Light became Acting Dean in August 2005 upon the departure of Kim B. Clark, and Dean in April 2006. The School’s 2008 Centennial celebration provided a high point of Light’s five-year tenure; the global economic crisis... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

05 Oct 2021
Blog Post

First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference Across Borders

it out he did, and sophomore year Westphal secured an internship in banking and equity research and junior year he did a banking internship at Credit Suisse. From Wall Street to Harvard Way After graduation, Westphal joined JPMorgan full... View Details

26 Feb 2020
News

Phoenix Rising

presides over the epicenter of Athens—looking out over Hellenic Parliament on one corner and Syntagma Square on the other—has been witnessing the capital’s highs and lows since 1842. Protesters took hammers to the hotel’s white marble steps in 2015 and hurled hunks of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

05 Mar 2020
News

Green Light

told Lo. “Because if the unit economics of this thing turn out to be even remotely true, it’s the future of food.” Lo’s interest was piqued. She knew almost nothing about farming and had always just trusted that the Western world’s food... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

01 Dec 2001
News

September 11: A Community Reflects

develop new case materials or to tailor existing materials, teaching plans, or class discussions to address the tragedy and its aftermath; HBS-sponsored panel discussions on topics such as the economic impact of the tragedy,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

populations. eBaker, the research portal for HBS Alumni, provides access to the ABI database where you can find EIU country reports that include historical, current and forecast data for related economic and... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

software development, where his research reveals the benefits of agile processes and the value of modular designs Elizabeth Christoforetti Elizabeth Bowie Christoforetti is the founding principal at Supernormal, an architecture, urban... View Details

01 Mar 2013
News

Making Change

2011), and I—have complementary consulting and research backgrounds and a shared passion to serve the global poor. Together, we decided that IDinsight was the best way for us to make an impact. This year, we will have 20 employees helping... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; housing; gay rights; diabesity; disability; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Real Estate

11 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 11

Publications August 2013 MIT Sloan Management Review The Surprising Benefits of Nonconformity By: Bellezza, Silvia, Francesca Gino, and Anat Keinan Abstract—This research demonstrates that, under certain circumstances, people wearing... View Details