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    Amitabh Chandra

    Amitabh Chandra is the Henry and Allison McCance Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School where he is the Faculty Chair of the joint View Details

    • 18 Mar 2009
    • News

    Regulate, Baby, Regulate

      Cameron Deal

      Cameron studies health economics and economic history, with a focus on LGBTQ populations and inequality. His research has specifically examined health risk and access disparities, youth homelessness, intergenerational mobility, and the effects of health policies on... View Details

      • 2007
      • Working Paper

      The Seer of Wellesley Hills: Roger Babson and the Babson Statistical Organization

      By: Walter A. Friedman
      Roger Babson was a pioneer of the business-forecasting industry in the United States in the early twentieth century. He built the largest private economic forecasting agency in the period and published a great range of economic statistics in his weekly newsletters. As... View Details
      Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Economics; Business History; Newsletters; Personal Development and Career; United States
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      • 2012
      • Other Unpublished Work

      Measuring the Broadband Bonus in 20 OECD Countries

      By: Shane Greenstein and Ryan McDevitt
      This paper provides estimates of the economic value created by broadband Internet using measures of new gross domestic product and consumer surplus. The study finds that the economic value created in 30 OECD countries correlates roughly with the overall size of their... View Details
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      • January 2006 (Revised April 2006)
      • Case

      Capitalism and Democracy in a New World

      By: Bruce R. Scott, Sarah Potvin and Alison Adams
      Focuses on the formulation of the Northwestern Ordinance as the core of a development strategy for capitalism and democracy in the United States. A precursor to the Constitution, the Northwestern Ordinance was based on the New England Model to achieve a broad and... View Details
      Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Economic Systems; Income; Laws and Statutes; Government and Politics; Growth and Development Strategy; Power and Influence; United States
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      • 21 Dec 2020
      • News

      Space Economics: Hunting Stags in Space

        Ethan C. Rouen

        Ethan Rouen is an associate professor of business administration in the Accounting and Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches the elective course Reimagining Capitalism. From 2020 to 2022, he served as the faculty co-chair of the View Details

          Sophus A. Reinert

          Sophus Reinert is T.J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of Business Administration and of History in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School and in the History Department and Harvard University. He has won numerous awards... View Details

          Keywords: banking; defense; education industry; fashion; food; manufacturing; wine

            Ana Antolin

            Ana Antolin is a doctoral candidate in the Strategy unit at Harvard Business School. She received her B.S. in Quantitative Economics and International Relations from Tufts University. Prior to joining Harvard, she worked as a full-time research assistant in... View Details

            • Dec 2019
            • Survey

            A Recovery Squandered

            Despite a decade of steady economic growth since the Great Recession, America has done remarkably little to address underlying structural weaknesses in the country’s economy and society. Surveys of HBS alumni worldwide, HBS MBA students,... View Details
            • 1977
            • Working Paper

            Mitigating Demographic Risk Through Social Insurance

            By: Jerry R. Green
            A two-period lifetime overlapping generations growth model is used to evaluate the possibility that social insurance can effectively offset economic risks associated with uncertainty about the rate of population growth. Crude measures of the seriousness of this type of... View Details
            Keywords: Social Insurance; Econometric Models; Public Sector; Government Administration; Policy; Human Needs; Social Issues; Risk and Uncertainty
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            • 06 Jul 2016
            • What Do You Think?

            How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?

            magic.’ Sorry, but it hasn’t.” They advanced possible responses with much more reliance on carrots than sticks. David Wittenberg, for example, said that, “Punishing companies for making economically rational decisions violates our... View Details
            Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Manufacturing
            • 2013
            • Working Paper

            Adjusting National Accounting for Health: Is the Business Cycle Countercyclical?

            By: Mark Egan, Casey B. Mulligan and Tomas J. Philipson
            Many national accounts of economic output and prosperity, such as gross domestic product (GDP) or net domestic product (NDP), offer an incomplete picture by ignoring, for example, the value of leisure, home production, and the value of health. Previous discussed... View Details
            Keywords: Health; Valuation; Accounting; United States
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            • 21 May 2024
            • Research & Ideas

            What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year

            As more than 50 countries hold elections in 2024, far-right politicians and policies look poised to gain ground, continuing a years-long trend evident in Europe, the United States, and South America. These movements often stoke grievances... View Details
            Keywords: by Rachel Layne

              Malcolm P. Baker

              Malcolm Baker is the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches the required course in finance and a short immersive program on investing in life sciences.

              His research is in the... View Details

              Keywords: asset management; biotechnology; financial services; high technology; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds); shipping; transportation
              • November 2008 (Revised January 2017)
              • Case

              Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of St. Luke

              By: Anthony Mayo and Shandi Onise Smith
              As America struggled to regain its balance in the aftermath of the American Civil War, Maggie Lena Walker did her best to actively effect change by finding solutions to the social and economic problems facing blacks and especially black women. Taking charge of the... View Details
              Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Ethnicity; Race; Social Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Welfare; Business and Community Relations; Gender; Banks and Banking
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                Maria P. Roche

                Maria Roche is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches Strategy in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Roche studies the commercialization of specialized knowledge and the specific role of... View Details

                Keywords: education industry; biotechnology; high technology
                • 17 Sep 2014
                • News

                Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter to Launch New U.S. Cluster Mapping Tool

                  Robert F. White

                  Bob White is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School where he teaches courses in the MBA program (Required and Elective curricula) and the Executive Education program. Courses taught include Entrepreneurial... View Details