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- 2025
- Working Paper
Generative AI and the Nature of Work
By: Manuel Hoffmann, Sam Boysel, Frank Nagle, Sida Peng and Kevin Xu
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology demonstrate a considerable potential
to complement human capital intensive activities. While an emerging literature documents wide-ranging
productivity effects of AI, relatively little attention has been paid... View Details
Keywords: Generative Ai; Digital Work; Open Source Software; Knowledge Economy; AI and Machine Learning; Open Source Distribution; Organizational Structure; Performance Productivity; Labor
Hoffmann, Manuel, Sam Boysel, Frank Nagle, Sida Peng, and Kevin Xu. "Generative AI and the Nature of Work." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-021, October 2024. (Revised April 2025.)
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
HBS Most important were the people I met. They had and continue to have a huge influence on me — they've opened doors and given me guidance that changed my life. Best business advice In my final day in Ben Shapiro's class at HBS, he made... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Privatization and the New European Economy
"some 12 to 15 percent of GDP in Europe was public sector enterprise," he said. But all that began to change in the early 1980s amid loud cries of inefficiency, as markets opened up and governments sought sources of revenue.... View Details
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
sell when it costs so little to be happy ." Warren speculated that "we are going to come up with a self-sustaining economy meaning that we will revert back to small towns that depend less on trade and more about the common... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- News
America has near record 5.6 million job openings
- 29 Jul 2013
- News
Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
awareness. "The Mandela family saw it as a way—through the medium of wine—to support a local economy and to tell the story about their values and their tradition that hopefully can be lessons for other people," says Cuffe. "So we are just... View Details
- Web
Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research
Business, Government & the International Economy Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students June 2025 Article Integral Outside: The Financial Curb Market, the Electric Telegraph, and the Politics... View Details
- November – December 2011
- Article
Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation
By: Carliss Baldwin and Eric von Hippel
In this paper, we assess the economic viability of innovation by producers relative to two increasingly important alternative models: innovations by single-user individuals or firms and open collaborative innovation. We analyze the design costs and architectures and... View Details
Keywords: Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Design; Cost; Communication; Competition; Economy; Research; Policy; Practice
Baldwin, Carliss, and Eric von Hippel. "Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation." Organization Science 22, no. 6 (November–December 2011): 1399–1417.
- 2012
- Chapter
The Small Worlds of Business Groups: Liberalization and Network Dynamics
By: Jon Brookfield, Sea-Jin Chang, Israel Drori, Shmuel Ellis, Sergio G. Lazzarini, Jordan I. Siegel and Juan Pablo von Bernath Bardina
Using comparative data from six major emerging economies — Brazil, Chile, Israel,
Mexico, South Korea, and Taiwan — we examine how ownership networks in those
societies responded to a roughly similar “ structural break ” of economic liberalization during the 1990s... View Details
Brookfield, Jon, Sea-Jin Chang, Israel Drori, Shmuel Ellis, Sergio G. Lazzarini, Jordan I. Siegel, and Juan Pablo von Bernath Bardina. "The Small Worlds of Business Groups: Liberalization and Network Dynamics." Chap. 3 in The Small Worlds of Corporate Governance, edited by Bruce Kogut, 77–115. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012.
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
New Economy Theme of HBS African-American Alumni Conference
growth," said conference cochair William H. Swift (MBA 1974). The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce sponsored the opening reception at the Ritz-Carlton. The conference kicked off with an examination of trends and opportunities in emerging... View Details
- 09 Sep 2015
- News
Here's why Germany is welcoming migrants with open arms
- 11 Sep 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Spatial Organization of Firms: Internal and External Agglomeration Economies and Location Choices Through the Value Chain
Keywords: by Juan Alcácer & Mercedes Delgado
- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
“The idea of opening America’s borders to creative, entrepreneurial immigrants is attractive. H1B is not, in my view, the correct vehicle for this. I would rather that the country revamp its immigration program along the lines currently... View Details
- 28 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
consequence, the likelihood of seeing the same mistakes repeated in the future. He also expressed an interest in doing something about it. "We came up with the idea that we could capture at least the past 30 or 40 years through the eyes of top business leaders." Focus... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 16 Feb 2015
- News
Yelp suggests its open data project could help end food poisoning
- Web
RoGME: Role of Government in Market Economies - Course Catalog
course opens with a case on why a hypothetical competitive market economy can be used as a starting point for analyzing what role government should play. Market economies are... View Details
- 21 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year
political economy, and behavior. This conversation is lightly edited for clarity and length. Rachel Layne: What draws you to the economy and politics of the far right? Paula Rettl: I'm from a country that has huge inequality. And then I... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- May 2021
- Case
The International Space Station, Principal-Agent Problems, and NASA's Quest to Keep Humans in Space
By: Matthew Weinzierl and Mehak Sarang
In building the International Space Station (ISS), NASA opened the door to the development of a robust in-space economy in low-Earth Orbit, and yet the decision to build the station, and continue to extend its lifetime, placed a huge burden on NASA’s Human Spaceflight... View Details
Keywords: Aerospace; Nasa; Space Economy; Principal-agent Theory; Policy; Commercialization; Aerospace Industry
Weinzierl, Matthew, and Mehak Sarang. "The International Space Station, Principal-Agent Problems, and NASA's Quest to Keep Humans in Space." Harvard Business School Case 721-054, May 2021.
- Book Review
Review of How Open is the U.S. Economy? edited by R.W. Hafer. Lexington Books, 1986
By: K. A. Froot
Keywords: Economy
Froot, K. A. "Review of How Open is the U.S. Economy? edited by R.W. Hafer. Lexington Books, 1986." Journal of International Economics 23, nos. 3-4 (November 1987): 389–391.