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  • 08 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

compare each other, both the similarities and differences, especially of their business systems. So we set about using the convening power of the School to bring together the best scholars in business and economic history in both... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2018
  • Book

The New History of American Capitalism

infrastructure for transactional activity, new scholarship asks what forces shape modern patterns of economic activity and how those patterns sort people and resources. Instead of reproducing conventional... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
  • 15 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Calderón: Economic Arguments Needed to Fight Climate Change

fight against coal is the reason HBS Professor Joseph Lassiter is bullish on fracking and nuclear power.) "If we provide economic arguments, we will win this battle,'' Calderon said. "The good news... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing
  • 18 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Central Banks Missed Inflation Red Flags. This Pricing Model Could Help.

environments.” If central banks had used economic models that account for variations in the speed of firm’s pricing decisions rather than their traditional forecasting tools, policymakers might have detected... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking
  • winter 1996
  • Article

Forward Buying, Merchandising and Manufacturer Trade Deals: A Model

By: R. Lal, J. D. Little and J. M. Villas-Boas
Keywords: Trade
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  • 2012
  • Article

Behavioral Economics and the Psychology of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption

By: Joe Price and Jason Riis
Behavioral economics is an emerging paradigm that challenges the assumptions and predictions of classical economics. This new paradigm emphasizes that consumers do not always make optimal use of available information nor do they always make choices and tradeoffs in a... View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Food; Social Marketing; Decision Choices and Conditions; Consumer Behavior; Nutrition
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  • Forthcoming
  • Book

Innovating in Healthcare: Creating Breakthrough Tech, Services, Drugs, Products, and Business Models

By: Regina E. Herzlinger
Innovating in Healthcare offers effective approaches for designing, reworking, and implementing innovative healthcare services, products, and business models. It will help anyone working in healthcare service or product development, from hospitals to startups,... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Product Development; Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Health Industry
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  • January–February 2018
  • Article

The New CEO Activists

By: Aaron K Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel
Though corporations have been lobbying the government and making campaign donations for a long time now, in recent years a dramatic new trend has emerged in U.S. politics: CEOs are taking very public stands on thorny political issues that have nothing to do with their... View Details
Keywords: Government Policy; Rights; Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Sustainability; Leadership; Corporate Accountability; Policy; Social Issues; Communication Intention and Meaning; United States
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  • October 2004
  • Article

FDI and Economic Growth: The Role of Local Financial Markets

By: Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Selin Sayek
The purpose of this paper is to examine the various links among foreign direct investment, financial markets and growth. We model an economy with a continuum of agents indexed by their level of ability. Agents have two choices: they can work for the foreign company in... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Financial Markets; Economic Growth; Cost; Wealth; Investment Return; Knowledge
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  • 20 Mar 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

kicking off a panel discussion at Cyberposium 2000. "But I think it's fair to characterize the incubator space as rather a sleepy one." Until now, that is. Once largely the domain of universities and public economic development... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
  • 09 Mar 2021
  • News

Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity

Sara Enright (MBA 2004) speaks with students at the Community College of Rhode Island. Courtesy Sara Enright When former Rhode Island Governor Gina M. Raimondo came into office in 2015, she included in her plans to make the state more View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

    The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations

    Innovation is a much-used buzzword these days, but when it comes to creating and implementing a new idea, many companies miss the mark—plans backfire, consumer preferences shift, or tried-and-true practices fail to work in a new context. So is innovation just a... View Details
    • 18 Jul 2022
    • News

    How to Make College More Affordable? Try the Charter School Model

    • May 1998 (Revised April 2000)
    • Case

    City of New York, The

    By: Paul M. Healy
    This case examines the economics of a municipality, and then explores its financial position from the perspective of a bond rating firm. View Details
    Keywords: Bonds; Financial Management; Public Sector; City; Financial Statements; Government Administration
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    Exploring the Tail of Creativity: An Evolutionary Model of Breakthrough Invention

    This research, under the direction of Lee Fleming, argued for a distributional approach to new product development and has formed the basis for my subsequent research. View Details
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    News sources- India

    Where can I can find business news specific to India? Daily News Sources:

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    • TeachingInterests

    Behavioral Economics and Applications in Markets (Econ 970, Spring 2013 and 2014)

    Second-year undergraduate course introducing students to academic research in the field of behavioral economics. The course covers key models of time-inconsistent preferences, overconfidence, social preferences, and projection bias. The students are introduced to... View Details
    • 14 Feb 2007
    • Op-Ed

    Tata-Corus: India’s New Steel Giant

    complacency might well prove to be the biggest weapon available to the new big-five kid on the block from Jamshedpur. First printed in The Economic Times/India Times. View Details
    Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
    • 07 Oct 2015
    • What Do You Think?

    What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?

    On Immigration Does the US Have Anything to Learn from Europe? We should not confuse the potential economic benefits of immigration for the United States with what is happening in Europe and specifically Germany. While the benefits can be... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • September 1999
    • Case

    New Zealand: The Wonder Down Under

    By: Willis M. Emmons III and Kevin W. W. Glasgow
    Long regarded as the most extensive welfare state among the world's industrialized nations, New Zealand embarked on a strategy of radical economic reform/liberalization following a severe foreign exchange crisis in 1984. This case examines the initial reform strategy... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Development Economics; New Zealand
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