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- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
Sustainable Evaluation System Strategy By: Eccles, Robert G., and Peijun Duan Abstract—China's sustainable development faces three challenges: first, the follow-up momentum of sustainable View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 1994
- Chapter
Competition Policy and Privatization: An Organizational Perspective
By: James Langenfeld and Dennis Yao
Competition (antitrust) policies in Central and Eastern Europe need to address both short-term problems associated with the transition to a market economy as well as the development of institutions suitable for a mature market economy. In this paper we employ an... View Details
Langenfeld, James, and Dennis Yao. "Competition Policy and Privatization: An Organizational Perspective." Chap. 10 in Government and Markets: Establishing a Democratic Order and a Market Economy In Former Socialist Countries. 32, by Hendrikus Blommestein and Bernard Steunenberg, 195–218. International Studies in Economics and Econometrics. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994.
- 2016
- Working Paper
Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents
By: David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson, Pian Shu and Gary Pisano
Manufacturing is the locus of U.S. innovation, accounting for more than three quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The rise of import competition from China has represented a major competitive shock to the sector, which in theory could benefit or stifle innovation. In... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Competition; System Shocks; Trade; Innovation and Invention; Manufacturing Industry; China; United States
Autor, David, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson, Pian Shu, and Gary Pisano. "Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 22879, December 2016.
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
of society can be better met without these taxes, and though research continues to consider reasons why it may be justified, capital income taxation is generally viewed as inefficient. One concern probably less familiar to nonspecialists... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Setting the Legislative Agenda
The Congressional Oversight Panel identified eight specific areas most urgently in need of reform and addressed each with recommendations: Identify and regulate financial institutions that pose systemic... View Details
- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
contributing optimally to overall economic health? Has the U.S. gone too far? What obligations does this create for increasing service sector productivity? Do manufacturing-based economies have some kind of... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
of BlackBerry’s problems were sown well before Heins took on the CEO role. BlackBerry’s system had its roots in a mobile data architecture that came out of paging networks. By... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Imagine an Economy Without Wall Street
and capital only serve to stifle economic growth and opportunity, Nohria wrote. He also took note of critics who point to instances of global financial misdeeds, mistakes, or... View Details
- November 2020 (Revised March 2023)
- Teaching Note
Unrest in Chile
By: Vincent Pons, John Masko, Rafael Di Tella and William Mullins
In 2020, Chileans would head to the ballot box to decide their country’s future. Many international observers credited Chile’s decades of neoliberal governance with turning the country into Latin America’s “Tiger,” a prosperous, diversified economy on its way to... View Details
- December 2024
- Article
Large Shocks Travel Fast
By: Alberto Cavallo, Francesco Lippi and Ken Miyahara
We document a sizeable increase in the frequency of price adjustments following the large energy shocks of 2022. We use a tractable New Keynesian model, calibrated to the pre-shock data, to interpret such a pattern. The calibration highlights the state-dependence of... View Details
Cavallo, Alberto, Francesco Lippi, and Ken Miyahara. "Large Shocks Travel Fast." American Economic Review: Insights 6, no. 4 (December 2024): 558–574.
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Books
Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education by Michel Anteby (University of Chicago Press) How does HBS try to ensure that its faculty and students embrace proper business... View Details
- 30 Jan 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Credit Supply Shocks, Network Effects, and the Real Economy
- 03 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn
Is the economic downturn affecting the willingness and readiness of companies to look at the economic, social, and environmental impact of their business practices? Or is this... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
declared. “That caused the credit markets worldwide to seize up. The system went into a state of shock.” With Lehman’s abrupt demise, Thain suddenly faced the possibility that his own troubled firm, Merrill... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Four-Letter Word
according to the New York Times (February 1, 2011). Critics had believed that little of TARP’s $700 billion in emergency funding to prop up the financial system would ever be recouped. Miller was an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
and Robert Simons. The lively and informative presentations were punctuated by questions from faculty eager to share their own insights or to challenge colleagues' assumptions. The group worked together to assemble the pieces View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index of pairwise-industry agglomeration and investigate the patterns and determinants underlying the global View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
Image by Jezper by Regina E. Herzlinger Health care now represents some 18 percent of the American economy. With its costs continuing to rise, and with tens of millions uninsured, we in the United States are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
woes. But the improbably massive, Gothic-style building on a hilltop at 3220 The Alameda rises far above its gritty surroundings, as does the reputation of the school it houses. In an urban school system... View Details
- December 1994 (Revised January 1996)
- Case
Constructing a Nation: The United States and Their Constitution, 1763-1792
By: David A. Moss
Examines the founding of the United States of America during the second half of the eighteenth century. Focuses on: 1) the reasons why the American colonists rebelled against Britain (1763-1774); 2) the problems the new nation confronted during the War of Independence... View Details
Keywords: History; Economic Systems; Laws and Statutes; Property; Government Administration; United States
Moss, David A. "Constructing a Nation: The United States and Their Constitution, 1763-1792." Harvard Business School Case 795-063, December 1994. (Revised January 1996.)