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- 01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions
15 moratorium that shut down universities across the country to protest the Vietnam War. That demonstration brought Harvard University economist John Kenneth Galbraith to the HBS campus for a speech against the war, followed by a...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 1997
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"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
for the course was later published, and Paul asked me to become his research assistant. Working with him was critical to me, because he was one of the few economists at the time whose work really integrated sophisticated mathematics and...
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- 21 May 2019
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Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
availability in the Midwest and beyond. A shift in food production and water predictability On a regional level, an increase of warmer weather and the availability of fresh water from the Great Lakes has some debating the benefits, David Oppedahl, the senior business...
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Agriculture
- 01 Dec 2007
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Looking back; looking forward
a vote of the Harvard Corporation on April 8, 1908, and President Eliot’s choice for its first dean — a young Harvard economist named Edwin F. Gay — was confirmed that day. The following fall, 24 candidates arrived ready to pursue a...
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- 01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
19th, they paradoxically sought to make the world safe for “capitalists.” The word “socialists” was first used in northern Italy as a term of contempt for the political economists and legal reformers Pietro Verri and Cesare Beccaria,...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Accelerating Scientific Discovery
reduce human disease and suffering influences his work as a health care economist and researcher. “I imagine a world where we have treatments, ideally cures, for diseases where right now we have nothing,” he says. “So the big questions...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2008
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Alumni Books
Smart and Randy Street (MBA ’97) (Random House) The authors provide a solution to what the Economist calls “the single biggest problem in business today”: unsuccessful hiring. The average hiring mistake costs a company $1.5 million or...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
going to take your job? Current research by economist James Besson suggests that despite being associated with job losses, automation in fact often boosts employment in affected industries.
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
This made it appear as though the credit supply was expanding, because the run on credit looks like new loans being written on a bank’s balance sheet. In fact, Ivashina says, even after the publication of her 2009 findings with David Scharfstein on bank lending, many...
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- 01 Jun 1999
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Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
growth that South Africa is leading in the region." The Burden of Geography Economist Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of the Harvard Institute for International Development, delivered the first keynote address, a captivating presentation...
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Susan Young
- 22 Feb 2022
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An Rx for Small Business Recovery
business can get a loan.” Small Businesses Strengthen US Supply Chains The current global supply chain back-up underscores the importance of valuing and fostering small manufacturers and service providers. Referencing her work (see below) with View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 1997
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Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
Business Policy area, are economists with particular expertise in competitive strategy. Professor Stephen P. Bradley, who heads the unit, is enthusiastic about the group's influence: "We are at the forefront of our field," he says, "doing...
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Susan Young
- 01 Dec 1997
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Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
In a predawn phone call on October 14, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informed HBS professor Robert C. Merton that he had won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics. Merton's work evaluating risk has changed the nature of financial markets worldwide. At 53, he is the...
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- 20 Sep 2013
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Connections Add Up
lessons about choices and tradeoffs are about more than money—and even more powerful. "An economist in my network in Memphis was asking kids what they had learned, and one said, 'I learned not to join a gang.'" Her passion needed a...
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- 13 Nov 2020
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Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
digital technology to augment and expand their offerings. Guiding Small Business Owners Zoe Cullen, Mike Luca, and Chris Stanton, working with several MBA students and Harvard economist Ed Glaeser, created a guide for small business...
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- 01 Jan 2006
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Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
regenerating our deprived communities, improving financial inclusion, and realizing the potential of our disadvantaged youth.” Described by The Economist as “the compassionate capitalist,” Cohen is happy to say he’s not alone. “Just...
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- 28 May 2019
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Cure All
Associate Professor Raffaella Sadun (left) and Professor Leemore Dafny (right); image by John Ritter Professors Raffaella Sadun and Leemore Dafny are both economists who have studied hospitals extensively—Sadun’s research has looked at...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Banishing Balkan Ghosts
as a Nonprofit Management Fellow at a UN economic institute in Belgrade in 1990. “And with so many international students at the School, one truly becomes a world citizen through one's HBS friends.” Meanwhile, at the Kennedy School, Djelic met View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 15 Jun 2021
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The Path out of Polarization
“Everybody Knows: Russia and the Election,” Professors Rawi Abdelal and Rafael Di Tella examine the shifting media landscape and geopolitics that contributed to this moment. Di Tella is an economist who has studied Latin American...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Bringing It Back Home
cofounder of Roadtrip Nation. "He has the mind of an economist and the heart of a social worker." Performance Enhancements SPNM began in 1995 as one of the first major undertakings of the Social Enterprise Initiative, which had been...
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