World Economy - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Oct 2017
What Do You Think?

Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?

ever about innovative financial endeavors. So that brings me to the subject of digital money or “cryptocurrency,” a form of encrypted digital money. How should we think about the future of a currency that is manufactured (“mined”) and priced in the private View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Financial Services

03 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2010

Raghuram Iyengar, Sangman Han, and Sunil Gupta empirically assesses if friends indeed influence purchases. The answer: It depends. The End of Chimerica For the better part of the past decade, the world View Details

Keywords: by Staff

24 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

such highly used software can lead to security issues existing in the code base for more than 20 years, as was the case with PuTTY SSH. From hobby to mainstream Over the past 20 years, FOSS has moved from the domain of hobbyists and tinkerers to become an integral... View Details

Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

and view this page again, you will be able to play this video. Jeffrey Fear Jeffrey Fear has been an associate professor at Harvard Business School since 2001 in the Business, Government, and International Economy unit. Chandler's... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

dramatically as well—retail square footage in the United States grew from 18.45 square feet per capita in 1999 to 23.06 square feet per capita in 2009. The hope among retailers (and commercial real-estate developers) was that as the recession faded and the View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

01 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

via the exercise and the subsequent discussion." Seventeen faculty members from the Business, Government, and the International Economy course and the Strategy course were involved in the exercise and discussion. “The offshoring... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting

should, intervene to control economic fluctuations when economies got stuck in a suboptimal rut. In decades after World War II, econometric and policy-oriented forecasting came to dominate the field. Q: What... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 Apr 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

2018 London: Bloomsbury Academic Global History, Globally: Research and Practice Around the World By: Beckert, Sven, and Dominic Sachsenmaier, eds. Abstract— In recent years historians in many different parts of the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System

One need only look as far as the bookshelf to see the optimism attached to China's ascension as a world economic and political power. Titles like The Dragon Awakes; The Rise of China; and When China Rules the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

center of the country and to move goods from the factory to customer. The prosperity that began on the coast spread inland in the first decade of the new century. Q: What were the first red flags that indicated to you that China’s economy... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

02 Jun 2011
What Do You Think?

Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?

involved a developed economy, "That would (suggest) a new type of fourth world country, a developed economy which just turned into a developing one." Should world... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

05 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt

Global Credit Project to analyze the impact of corporate debt in more than 100 advanced and emerging economies in the credit booms that typically precede financial crises. The data overlaps with 87 systemic financial crises, including:... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

strategies at different geographic levels. Assessing the level—global, continental, subcontinental, national, intranational, or local—at which scale is most tightly tied to profitability is often a helpful guide to determining what constitutes a region. Put... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

02 May 2008
What Do You Think?

What is the Future of State Capitalism?

funds can replace taxes, they can be beneficial to a citizenry. There seemed to be little concern among respondents that states will use their sovereign funds to foster their political interests. Russell Widener comments that "I would worry more if they began to... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

23 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19

around the world could improve responses to the next global financial catastrophe. Work done recently by dozens of Harvard Business School students under Alberto Cavallo, the Edgerley Family Associate Professor of Business Administration... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

23 Jul 2024
In Practice

The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities

Iyoha are assistant professors in the Business, Government, and International Economy and Entrepreneurial Management Units, respectively. Meg Rithmire: Prepare to adapt to the policy backlash For at least a generation leading up to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing; Retail; Fashion; Industrial Products; Consumer Products; Steel; Transportation; Telecommunications

11 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’

book excerpt Firms As Actors From Chapter 1 Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World By Geoffrey Jones Entrepreneurs and firms have been important actors in the making of our modern global... View Details

Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones

07 Aug 2009
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?

uncoordinated information and education (Mark Beaty, Carlos V., Scott Beaumont, among others); and finally citizens, patients, and their loved ones who do or don't take part in managing their own wellness and care (Mary Parker). All of this is transpiring in an View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

economy in the last hundred-plus years. There was no specific event that brought the Dow over the 20,000 mark last week. Markets exhibit a fairly large degree of short-term volatility, so once you get close to 20,000, normal daily market... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

14 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout

to produce the vaccine that works.” Even as vaccine efforts gain momentum around the world, hundreds continue to die each day. The pandemic, which shrank the global economy by 4 percent in 2020, has also pushed more than 119 million... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

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