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  • 23 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19

realize as a typical citizen as you're going about your daily life.” A resource for COVID researchers Even though the tracker is no longer updated live, the detailed database could serve as a great resource for a growing number of View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 10 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 10, 2015

collaborating with academic economists and other quantitative social scientists to apply such rigorous methods to the study of public finance. These developments allow for more reliable measurements of the effects of different policy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?

fiduciary responsibilities. A second approach, by economist Paul Portney, considered whether firms can do CSR without getting hurt competitively, and whether or not they should. He concluded that they could, under limited circumstances,... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 23 May 2019
  • Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology
  • 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016

jurists, including Louis Brandeis and institutional economist E.R.A. Seligman, supported RPM as a protection to independent proprietors. The breakdown of legal and economic consensus regarding what constituted “unfair competition” allowed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 20

Decentralize? Authors:Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract There is a widespread sense that over the last two decades firms have been decentralizing decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Sep 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO

feelings and aesthetics rather than ideas, a stronger interest in people rather than things, prefer jobs in social or artistic areas, extraversion expressed as gregariousness rather than assertiveness, and neuroticism, characterized by high anxiety and lower stress... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 23 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier

should focus their efforts on helping people with debt before they go through the stress of the collections process, he says. “We were optimistic that it could nevertheless have a cost-effective impact.” “An economist might not be that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health
  • 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
  • 25 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 25

in the country's economy during the past two decades, have brought together a group of economists and political scientists to systematically examine the impact of a wide range of factors affecting the economy's collapse, from the cost of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

compare mobility with and without noncompetes, controlling for other factors in what economists call a "natural experiment." States differ in their enforcement of noncompetes. That said, even the anticipation of a drawn-out... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 12 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

improvements in impoverished countries. Lodge advanced the ideas in a January 2006 two-part piece in YaleGlobal coauthored with economist Craig Wilson. The authors also have a book due in May, A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty: How... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 12 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions

he is at odds with the theories of economist Mancur Olson, whose 1965 book, The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, sparked a generation of political scientists and regulation theorists, including George... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 27 Sep 2017
  • Research & Ideas

What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?

equipment. Amabile hastens to add that user innovation is nothing new; necessity has long been the mother of invention. (See, for example, economist Eric von Hippel’s paper The Dominant Role of Users in the Scientific Instrument... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility

socially responsible a company was. Marquis and his fellow researchers based their inquiry on a similar study regarding individual decision-making done by UCLA economist Keith Chen. In a paper published in the American Economic Review in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 04 Jan 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?

important contributor to sustained economic growth than such things as openness to trade, a competitive exchange rate, level of foreign investment, or the quality and stability of a country's political institutions. At the risk of oversimplifying a complex analysis,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 02 Jul 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?

new book, Obliquity, by British economist John Kay. You might guess that Kay thinks profit as a "direct goal" is overrated, otherwise he wouldn't have much substance for a book on the subject. Kay argues that business problems... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 15 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

be enormous. Though economists should treat the prospect of a developed space economy with healthy skepticism, it would be irresponsible to treat it as science fiction. In this article, I provide an analytical framework—based on classic... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

cycles The crisis demonstrates, painfully, the importance of cash. In his famous essay "The Yield from Money Held,” the economist William Hutt described cash in your pocket or on the balance sheet as “a fire engine when there are no... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
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