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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
disruptions and revenue losses will require even more transformational thinking.” Mills believes three important lessons from the pandemic can help point the way. FINANCE AND THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY READ MORE STORIES FINANCE AND THE View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
pricing—a phenomenon that admittedly makes no rational economic sense. When presented an opportunity for a freebie, "classical economic theory says you should pay nothing," says Santana. "Why... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
hold the mortgage-backed securities used to fund these riskier loans. And if the borrower defaults, the lender with significant skin in the game should be the one that deals with the borrower, not some servicer with minimal View Details
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
driven To Lead: Good, Bad, And Misguided Leadership By Paul R. Lawrence To deal with the much-discussed but still poorly understood complex of economic affairs known as globalization, we must examine its several forms from a Renewed... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
wealth-based discrimination in employee-customer relations and that envy toward wealthy customers and empathy toward those of similar economic status drive much of this illegal behavior. Implications for both theory and practice are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
debt and served as Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy in her native Costa Rica from 2010 to 2012. Europe Needs More Europe The game of brinkmanship that the latest Greek government has played... View Details
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-102.pdf Cases & Course Materials (None this week.) Publications Managing Up Author: Linda A. Hill Publication: Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, forthcoming Abstract Managing up is not political View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
cofounder of Intuit, the world leader in software for personal and small business finance. After studying economics and math at the University of Southern California and earning his MBA, he learned the ropes of product marketing at... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
volatile industry. Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers and the other leaders in attendance hoped that rallying around a shared idea and supporting a civic initiative such as Envision was the formula for economic sustainability. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
reasonably to expect. Nobody wants to play a game where they find out after the final whistle whether the high or low score wins." Stevenson, who joined the HBS faculty in 1968, developed two real estate courses with a general management... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
Leeuwenhof, the majestic estate of Western Cape Premier Gerald Morkel. With the splendor of Table Mountain above and the beauty of Table Bay below, Morkel welcomed his guests to Cape Town, which he described as "a region of great economic... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
PublicationsRecent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics Authors:Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Publication:,em>Annual Review of Economics Vol. 2 (2010) Abstract We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
behavior. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51072 forthcoming Games and Economic Behavior Contract Design and Stability in Many-to-Many Matching By: Hatfield, John William, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510032-PDF-ENG Carbon Trading Simulation: Black Cement Inc. Peter A. ColesHarvard Business School Supplement 911-053 This simulation presents students the opportunity to experience firsthand the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21
productivity and employment. There are few significant differences between industries with limited and high private equity activity. It is hard to find support for claims that economic activity in industries with private equity backing is... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
Published since 1979 by the World Economic Forum, the Global Competitiveness Report ranks seventy-five countries and measures the comparative strengths and weaknesses of their economies. At a press conference announcing publication of the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
goods across borders but in ways that maximize economic benefits for all. Sexy Women Eat: Secrets to Eating What You Want and Still Looking Fabulous by Divya Gugnani (MBA '04) (Harper) Forget about dieting; just eat! Gugnani shows how... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
study seeks to understand the effect of access to sex selection technologies such as ultrasound, and consequently skewed sex ratios, on the marriage market and intrahousehold outcomes of females in India. Existing economic theory and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
corn—how it changes color to optimize filtration of ultraviolet light: Soon, he explains, the corn leaves will be tinted a deep purplish-red. Keen has taught a course on the economics of corn at Creighton University's Heider College of... View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
holding them accountable?” Gehl said she and Porter wondered. “What’s going on?” Porter, who studies economic development and competitiveness, said the idea to examine politics through the lens of business stemmed from his experience... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette