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Some Uses of Happiness Data in Economics
By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
Di Tella, Rafael, and Robert MacCulloch. "Some Uses of Happiness Data in Economics." Journal of Economic Perspectives 20, no. 1 (Winter 2006): 25–46.
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
How do once-thriving centers of innovation slow down, falter, and in some cases all but grind to a halt? That's a question that fascinates HBS professor Donald N. Sull. In a new working paper describing his... View Details
- 1993
- Book
Economic Reality in Financial Reporting: A Global Survey of Voluntary Corporate Economic Reality Communications
By: David F. Hawkins
- November 2005 (Revised July 2006)
- Background Note
Understanding Economic Value Added
By: Mihir A. Desai, Fabrizio Ferri and Steve Treadwell
Explores the concept of economic value added (EVA) and its practical applications as a management control system for performance measurement and incentive compensation. Explains how EVA is measured and explores some of the adjustments to financial statements that are... View Details
Keywords: Value
Desai, Mihir A., Fabrizio Ferri, and Steve Treadwell. "Understanding Economic Value Added." Harvard Business School Background Note 206-016, November 2005. (Revised July 2006.)
- 23 Jun 2015
- Video
Overview of HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation
The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)
While the importance of innovation to economic development is widely understood, the conditions conducive to it remain the focus of much attention. This volume offers new theoretical and empirical contributions to fundamental questions relating to the economics of... View Details
- 2015
- Chapter
Innovation and Business Growth
By: William R. Kerr
Innovation and the pursuit of new business opportunities are essential for growth at the firm level; moreover, they provide the foundation for an economy to achieve new levels of technological prowess, productivity, and ultimately prosperity. This chapter describes... View Details
Kerr, William R. "Innovation and Business Growth." In Designing the Future: Economic, Societal and Political Dimensions of Innovation, edited by Austrian Council for Research and Training Development, 137–156. Vienna, Austria: Echomedia Buchverlag, 2015.
- September 2019 (Revised September 2020)
- Case
SOFWERX: Innovation at U.S. Special Operations Command (Abridged)
By: Herman Leonard, Mitch Weiss, Jin Hyun Paik and Kerry Herman
James "Hondo" Geurts, the Acquisition Executive for U.S. Special Operations Command was in the middle of his Senate confirmation hearing in 2017 to become Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition. Overseeing acquisitions in one of the... View Details
Keywords: Open Innovation; Crowdsourcing; Prototyping; Navy; Entrepreneurship; Public Equity; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Acquisition; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Administration Industry; United States
Leonard, Herman, Mitch Weiss, Jin Hyun Paik, and Kerry Herman. "SOFWERX: Innovation at U.S. Special Operations Command (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 820-047, September 2019. (Revised September 2020.)
Bridging the Gap with the ‘New’ Economic History of Africa
This review article seeks to build bridges between mainstream African history and the more historically oriented branch of the ‘new’ economic history of Africa. We survey four central topics of the new economic history of Africa — growth, trade, labor, and... View Details
- 2014
- Working Paper
Profits and Economic Development
By: Dan Schwab and Eric Werker
Are rents, or excess profits, good for development? Using industry-level manufacturing data, this paper demonstrates a negative effect of rents, measured by the mark-up ratio, on productivity growth. The negative effect is strongest in poor countries, suggesting that... View Details
Keywords: Firm Performance; Rent; Mark-up; Competition; Manufacturing; Development Economics; Profit; Economic Growth; Renting or Rental
Schwab, Dan, and Eric Werker. "Profits and Economic Development." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-087, March 2014. (Revised April 2014.)
- 15 Oct 2012
- News
Roth shares economics Nobel
- 2006
- Chapter
Creating the Dynamics of Hard-to-Imitate Innovation
By: Hirotaka Takeuchi
Takeuchi, Hirotaka. "Creating the Dynamics of Hard-to-Imitate Innovation." In Japan Moving Toward a More Advanced Knowledge Economy: Advanced Knowledge—Creating Companies, by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Tsutomu Shibata. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Institute (WBI), 2006.
- December 2022
- Case
The Economics of Growing the Cartwright Family
By: Emily R. McComb and Sara L. Fleiss
- April 2017
- Teaching Note
Colombia and the Economic Premium of Peace
- May 1984 (Revised May 1985)
- Supplement
CIBA-GEIGY (A4): Measurement of Economic Performance of Group Companies
Merchant, Kenneth A. "CIBA-GEIGY (A4): Measurement of Economic Performance of Group Companies." Harvard Business School Supplement 184-189, May 1984. (Revised May 1985.)
- August 2006
- Exercise
Bundling of Office Suites: An Economic Analysis
Presents a simple model to demonstrate that bundling can act as a barrier to entry. View Details
Coughlan, Peter J. "Bundling of Office Suites: An Economic Analysis." Harvard Business School Exercise 707-423, August 2006.
- 02 Nov 2023
- News
The Maoist Roots of Xi’s Economic Dilemma
- 12 Feb 2023
- News
Economic Integration and the Transmission of Democracy
- 03 Apr 2024
- HBS Seminar
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics
- 2001
- Other Unpublished Work
Clusters of Innovation: Regional Foundations of U.S. Competitiveness
Competitiveness has tended to be seen primarily from a federal perspective, and national policies and circumstances surely affect the prosperity of our economy. However, the Clusters of Innovation Initiative was undertaken with the realization that the real work of... View Details
Porter, Michael E. "Clusters of Innovation: Regional Foundations of U.S. Competitiveness." Council on Competitiveness, Washington, DC, October 2001. (Report.)