Economics Of Information System - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Nov 2020
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Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues

Professor of Business Administration. His interest in expanding the reach of this work drove the launch of the COVID-19 Business Impact Center, an online hub for the School’s... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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@Soldiers Field

Understanding how the brain’s cognitive system relates to social and economic phenomena—including financial markets—was the focus of an April workshop on Belief Formation and... View Details

01 Mar 2009
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A New Approach to Health-Care Reform

of electronic medical records, which make patient information accessible and portable, have been talked about for a long time. One hurdle to progress on this relates, again, to the existing business model,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2011
News

Capitalism’s False Mantra

Martin lays out a litany of misery: two economic collapses in 10 years (following 70 years of relative stability), the public’s growing distrust View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Information; Information; Information

15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008

results are stronger in environments with less public information flow, suggesting that the shorting market is an important mechanism for private information revelation. Lobbies and Technology Diffusion... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

2016
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The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence, and Exceptions

By: Lyra J. Colfer and Carliss Y. Baldwin

The mirroring hypothesis predicts that organizational ties within a project, firm, or group of firms (e.g., communication, collocation, employment) will correspond to the technical dependencies in the work being performed. This article presents a unified picture of... View Details

Keywords: Modularity; Mirroring Hypothesis; Organization Design; Conway's Law; Knowledge Boundaries; Relational Contracts; Open Source Software; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Boundaries; Knowledge Management; Applications and Software

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01 Mar 2009
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Alumni Books

Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty: The New Rules for Getting the Right Things Done in Difficult Times by Ram Charan (MBA ’65, DBA ’67) (McGraw-Hill) Economic... View Details

Keywords: Information; Information

21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21

sustainable change in particular-can be most effectively managed. The book begins by laying out the economic case for change, while subsequent chapters describe how leaders at firms such as Du Pont, IBM, and Cemex have transformed their... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business

far. The American capital markets are a key element of the economic system, and "when they function well, they are a wonder of the world," he said. But the American... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

04 Mar 2015
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Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?

broad legislation to keep power in balance, you don't need to micromanage all the particulars, like individual wages." AIM expressed the opinion that "the voluntary actions of Walmart are not replicable but it is the best... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

21 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

Stephenson’s comparisons in his seminal novel, for one thing—yet they argue that the Strip is a perfect model for a future metaverse. The Strip largely formed as the result of corporate cooperation, rather than top-down urban planning and... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Nover; Information Technology; Information Technology

01 Jun 2001
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Eric C. Feagler: Against the Odds

CSG Systems International, a Denver software publisher. “I realized there that my understanding of economics, finance, and other business disciplines was limited,” Feagler notes, explaining his decision to... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Navy; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services

11 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

And it is changing fast. Its size and importance to human, environmental, and economic health means that no system is viewed with as much suspicion by so many people around the globe. Changing societal... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

variation in average asset returns than aggregate or non-stockholder consumption risk and provides more plausible economic magnitudes. We find that risk aversion estimates around 10 can match observed risk premia for the wealthiest... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 18, 2007

affects emotions. Finally, work in economics on the design of monetary policy makes several assumptions (e.g., a representative agent, a summary measure of emotions akin to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

blame game engulfed politicians and S&P itself. In the midst of all this angst, four Harvard Business School faculty members offer their views on what went wrong and what needs to be done to right the US ship View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

structure, social history, and educational system, companies developed under a system of family management that emphasized personal relationships more than formal structures, and relied more on broad-gauged... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

16 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 16

the positive accounting literature's current understanding of properties of financial reports to develop three hypotheses on corporate accountability reporting. I argue that an accountability reporting View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2010
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Eight Join HBS Faculty

accounting information affects economic outcomes, specifically, how accounting standards and corporate disclosures influence capital allocation decisions. Yu’s work has been cited in the New York Times. She... View Details

December 2007 (Revised January 2008)
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Transforming Arizona's Health Care System: Developing and Implementing the Health-e Connection Roadmap

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Ajay Vinze, T.S. Raghu and Minu Ipe

Addresses the issues of leadership and change management in the process of transforming an industry through an innovative public-private partnership approach to policy making. In 2005, the Governor of Arizona issued an Executive Order to create a roadmap for the state... View Details