Economics Of Information System - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Aug 2021
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ALUMNI WORK TO REVERSE BIAS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY

pillars of underfunded structural challenges: policing and criminal justice reform; economic empowerment; health care equity; and youth education, empowerment, and civic engagement. Black and brown social... View Details

23 Sep 2020
News

HBS Action Plan for Racial Equity

This week, Dean Nohria shared the School’s Action Plan for Racial Equity in a letter to the HBS community. “The horrifying murder of George Floyd, and an all too long history of similar injustices, has... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

Noted & Quoted

“To use economic terms, there are diminishing marginal returns to data-dumping in your answers.” — HBS professor emeritus John Kotter, author of Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down, on... View Details

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

02 Mar 2016
News

On Credit

church, or were married to a neighbor’s daughter. But with the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 and the spread of railroads, newly developed transportation systems expanded... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

20 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 20

PublicationsThe Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services: An Economic Analysis Authors:Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis, and Alvin J. Silk Publication:Review View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2011
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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

17 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 17

companies increasingly are participants in open communities of science and technology. To participate in the system of exchange in such communities, firms often publicly... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Student-Profile

Yueran Ma

appears to be a significant component of financing activities in capital markets today; it could also affect how we think about government policies like quantitative easing, as well as other corporate activities like mergers. I have also... View Details

22 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 22

Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Publication:American Economic Review 99, no. 5 (December 2009) Abstract We use a new firm-level dataset that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

from the Working Paper.Ann Cullen: How is your system different than traditional mutual fund rating systems? Cohen: Our method takes advantage of a wealth of previously... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

December 2001
Teaching Note

Parenting Magazine TN

By: Paul A. Gompers

Teaching Note for (9-291-015). A rewritten version of an earlier teaching note. View Details

Keywords: Money; Capital; Capital Budgeting; Decisions; Cost Accounting; Economic Systems; Negotiation Process; Corporate Accountability; Negotiation Deal; Business Startups; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Journalism and News Industry; Publishing Industry

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02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

George C. Lodge

some HBS students, he gathered local statistics and followed the development of a peasant cooperative movement. Lodge found that economic development was more accurately seen as psychological and political... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

08 Apr 2011
News

Management Matters In Health Care, Too

Harvard Medical School. He has shown that detailed checklists can improve surgical patient outcomes. Gawande told the audience that traditional practices with individual doctors can’t meet the complex challenges of modern medicine.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2014
News

The Digital Deck

Lastly, to be self-sustaining, HBX requires a robust economic model." "Our approach and offerings through HBX are directly influenced by the School's distinctive case-based learning model, which is rooted in the principle View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2008
News

Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?

threats to the global economic system. It survived two world wars and the Great Depression. It won the Cold War. Doesn’t capitalism reign supreme in the 21st century? Looking forward, we certainly can see challenges that will have to be... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

November 2002 (Revised March 2006)
Case

ApproTEC Kenya: Technologies to Fight Poverty and Create Wealth

By: V. Kasturi Rangan

ApproTEC markets a range of technologies to improve the income of subsistence farmers and other small-scale entrepreneurs in East Africa. Having achieved considerable success in its first eight years, the two founders/entrepreneurs are seeking ways to scale the impact... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise; Development Economics; Poverty; Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Kenya; Africa

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13 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

regulators. Moreover, our findings highlight the trade-off between slow execution and potential information leakage in the decision of optimal trading speed. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2008
News

Business at the Summit

clear how you solve that problem,” Ferguson said, noting that it is a topic that commands considerable attention in HBS classrooms. Another problem is that new financial regulations imposed after a crisis occurs may “impede the process of... View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management

03 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Faculty Spotlight: Professor Jurgen Weiss

every general manager understands the role of energy in the world. Part of the course will explore how energy enables our prosperity, enables our economic activity. But I want... View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

Alumni Books

better. To this end, they offer a set of management tools drawn from best practices in successful companies, the military, and government agencies. After showing why the federal personnel system needs... View Details

Keywords: Information; Information

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