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- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
Japan would approach the ratios of the US. Even assuming that all such long-term projections are never accurate, is it possible that a country could fall into bankruptcy? What does national bankruptcy mean? Years ago economists told us... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
Richard H.K. Vietor, Rawi E. Abdelal, and Jan W. Rivkin created a classroom exercise that asked HBS students to assess the potential "offshorability" of more than 800 occupations in the United States. The exercise replicated a controversial 2007 study by Princeton... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 05 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2006
believing concentration is increasing even when it isn't, and to discuss possible reasons. What Is the Impact of Software Patent Shifts? Evidence from Lotus v. Borland Authors:Josh Lerner and Feng Zhu Periodical:International Journal of Industrial Organization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
in how designs are created and then turned into real things. Many management scholars and economists fall into the habit of thinking that innovation is something that firms uniquely do in order to make money. But Eric von Hippel and his... View Details
- 23 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
payments, and are forgivable if firms use the cash infusion for essentials like rent and to retain most workers. A catastrophe in France A dozen years ago, as the Great Recession unfolded, French small businesses also faced catastrophic prospects, or what View Details
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
economists have recently modeled that increasing regulatory burdens are forcing banks to hire additional full-time employees focused on oversight and enforcement, which can hurt the return on assets of some community banks by as much as... View Details
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
last out of the office or laboratory in order to prove their dedication. Economists view increases in the average work week just as favorably as increases in average wages earned. At current levels, the average work week in the US would... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
We all know how political influence works: company X donates money to politician Y, and then that pol leans on regulator Z to go easy on his new best friend. In economic parlance, that circle of back-scratching is known as "regulatory capture." View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
interdisciplinary, with economists and business historians joining together to confront theory with empirical evidence. Publisher's Link: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415532716/ Working PapersNo Margin, No Mission? A Field... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
Technological Eclecticism Could Help Journal of Applied Corporate Finance Amar Bhidé “Keynes thought it would be ‘splendid’ if economists became more like dentists. Disciplinary economics has instead become more like physics in focusing... View Details
- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
media creator for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. Related Reading: Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores? Behavioral Economists Can Make You a Healthier Consumer and Smarter Marketer Research Paper: The... View Details
- 12 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist
benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” This position sharply contrasts to Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman’s famous 1970 article, The... View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
economist and Harvard President Emeritus Lawrence H. Summers, University of Michigan Professor Gerald Davis, and Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at HBS. In her presentation, Kanter... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
was not. The Economist reported at the time that there were many warning flags of the EC's intent to scuttle the deal. For some time, the magazine pointed out, a philosophical gap had been widening between Europe and America over the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
economists working to solve problems. Retailers such as Walmart are also putting together behavioral teams. New frameworks are continuing to develop, and the broader use of behavioral economics has continued to scale at an impressive... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
Davis Goes To Hbs I was originally trained in economics, getting my undergraduate and Masters degrees in this field. I was working in Boston as an economist in my early twenties and realized that I really liked psychology—and family... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
Many in business long believed that product innovation sprung from inside their own companies—that is, until economist Eric Arthur von Hippel came along in the late 1970s. Von Hippel proposed that users were as important, if not more... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
economist E.R.A. Seligman supported RPM as a legitimate tactic to protect small businesspeople and enhance non-price competition. The breakdown of legal and economic consensus regarding what constituted “unfair competition” allowed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
typically build up around a geographic location where natural resources, an appropriately educated labor force, and a university or other research institution co-mingle. In recent years, some economists have argued that manufacturing... View Details
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
a principle that behavioral economists now emphasize: the importance of salient feedback in affecting customer choice, especially when long-term costs of a purchase (health care, trucks) or one's behavior (eating, driving habits) are... View Details