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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
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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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
have CEOs walk off in handcuffs. This is not an Enron kind of situation. People made some bad bets, maybe even some stupid bets, but even though I’m not a lawyer, I don’t think stupidity is a crime.” Mankiw outlined the two basic objections of academic View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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Get Creative
equation. It’s not how economists would perceive it, weighing the costs and benefits. It’s actually how much are you asking people to change, and are they willing to do it? In short, most of what leads to a product succeeding or failing...
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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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- 01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit
evolution,” he explained. “It is never good when the state intervenes to the point that it essentially controls a financial system and makes bankruptcy a near impossibility.” Citing Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter, Ferguson observed...
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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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- 01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door
undergraduate degree from MIT, she worked in Washington as an economist and as a consultant before pursuing her doctorate at HBS. Photo courtesy of Baker Library Historical Collections Did you feel extra pressure to succeed because you...
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- 26 May 2022
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Bidding Up
economists treat as being a black box, look inside to see what’s going on. So an auction’s a perfect example of a price formation process. Like I worked with oil exploration leases, the value of exploring a tract is pretty much the same...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
the arguments of economists like Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz offering remedies for income inequality. Drawing on a historical study of the ebbs and flows of the US economy, he proposes ways to grow the economy faster, which will...
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- 01 Apr 1999
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An Eye to the East
Katahira, an economist at the University of Tokyo. Years of economic stagnation and generational shifts mean that previous assumptions are quickly becoming obsolete, Katahira noted. "Japanese consumers and the concept of consumer...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Mar 2007
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The Winning Season
Cardinals. “Bill DeWitt Jr. and his partners have far exceeded the standard for private investment in a professional sports facility and have earned hearty praise for their spirit of partnership with and commitment to their host community,” wrote Smith College...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution
International Energy Agency’s chief economist announce that 2010 saw the largest annual rise in carbon emissions in history. So just how hot is it? Climate change, Bloomberg says, is “the greatest challenge that humanity has ever created...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis
patients than any other hospital in the state—to bend without breaking under the pressure of the pandemic. Professor Robert Huckman is an economist and health care researcher who serves as unit head for Technology and Operations...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
formas, dividends, debt maturity, asymmetric information, and more. Power Is Boring: The Globalized World as Explained by the Most Anarchic of Economists (Il potere è noioso: Il mondo globalizzato raccontato dal più anarchico degli...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup
Illustration by Martin Leon Barreto In a lot of ways, it didn’t seem like a very good experiment to run. A young HBS professor—a rising star in the Finance area, an economist by training, by then already looking down the road at an...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)