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- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
economics, primarily in the understanding of foreign aid, is also one of the few economists who studies issues of humanitarian and emergency assistance. One of his papers, on a refugee camp economy, has been accepted by the Journal of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
the idea that people will use a product or service more right after they pay for it. How can companies make this work for them? A: Sunk costs are a curious bit of psychology. Economists say that attending to sunk costs is not... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
promulgated by academic economists in the 1970s, is behind the idea that corporate managers should make shareholder value their primary concern and that boards should ensure they do. The theory regards shareholders as owners of the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
struggle with internal conflict when deciding whether to behave responsibly or indulge in impulsivity, psychologists and economists did not begin to empirically investigate this type of want/should conflict until recently. In this paper,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
date so far back? Howard Stevenson: I think it depends on your perspective. The discussion about the role of business in society and the responsibilities of business leaders has been going on since Scottish economist Adam Smith wrote The... View Details
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
short-term moves such as layoffs, interpreted by some as running counter to the Statement’s ideals, were balanced by concern for the long-term survival of the organization so important to other employees able to keep their jobs. In the midst of this debate, Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
Harvard Business School professors Raffaella Sadun and Leemore Dafny are both economists who have studied hospitals extensively—Sadun’s research has looked at the economics of management, while Dafny’s examines interactions between health... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs
stock price falls substantially, the CEO will be left holding options that have lost most of their value (a scenario economists describe as "out of the money"). And while there may be some chance of getting these options back... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 25 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.
in the twisted web of Washington fundraising and lobbying that can definitively prove dollar x bought result y. Perhaps that's why there has been such little empirical research among economists on the issue. "The whole perspective of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless
findings suggest that women (or other minorities) might be better able to maximize their voice by increasing their representation more broadly, rather than targeting a few high-level positions. Informal ways of influence are of great interest to Iyer, an View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
6 (June 2009) Abstract Duke behavioral economist Ariely and Harvard Business School professor Norton explore how our consumption of concepts influences physical consumption, both positively and negatively. Read the article:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
monitoring management. While the Economist magazine recently suggested that we are in an era of the "imperial shareholder," our results indicate that activism tends to be most successful when there is a high probability of a... View Details
- 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
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
their interconnected early history. Even the 18th century had its “socialists,” but unlike those of the 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... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
the practice of business strategy for 30 years. The problem lies instead in what strategic leaders are not trained to do. In caricature, Porter's view casts strategists as practitioner economists who expertly analyze and manage market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
immigrant establishes a new notions store. The initial 3-month, GAAP-based income statement differs from one prepared by an economist friend. The store owner wants to know why one shows a profit and the other a loss. Purchase this case: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
skepticism, are beginning to overdose. The bust likes to think of itself as a radical departure from the boom, but it has in common with it one big thing: a mob mentality.” Likewise, the economist Charles Kindleberger, in his seminal 1978... View Details
- 05 Nov 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?
that people tend to devalue long-term returns in relation to short-term gains. They tend not to buy and sell according to self-set rules. A person willing to pay up to $200 for a ticket to a sporting event is not, once he owns it, willing to sell it at any price above... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 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