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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Eligibility & Criteria Awards How to Apply Past Projects New York City Urban Innovation Roadmap - "Pilot: New York City" Spring 2023 | Focus : Urban Economic Development; Technology; Ecosystem Strategy Team: Zoe Zabor Description: In... View Details
- 2016
- Chapter
Trade Associations, State Building, and the Sherman Act: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1912–25
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
From its founding in 1912 through the interwar years, the Chamber’s history shows a persistent preoccupation with progressive economics and policy making. Rather than flouting the new ideas of institutional economics, which favored federal regulators overseeing data... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Fairness; Supply and Industry; Policy; Business and Government Relations; United States
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "Trade Associations, State Building, and the Sherman Act: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1912–25." Chap. 1 in Capital Gains: Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America, edited by Richard R. John and Kim Phillips-Fein, 25–42. Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
- 30 May 2017
- News
Harvard’s Mihir Desai on New Book, ’The Wisdom of Finance’
- 09 Jun 2015
- News
Lessons in perseverance lead to high-quality schools for Peru
Pilar Deza (OPM 30, 2001) went from opening a nursery in her garage for four neighborhood children to operating some of Peru’s best-run private schools. She faced challenges all along the way, trying to create View Details
- August 2017
- Article
Tort Reform and Innovation
By: Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo
Current academic and policy debates focus on the impact of tort reforms on physicians’ behavior and medical costs. This paper examines whether these reforms also affect incentives to develop new technologies. We develop a theoretical model that predicts that the impact... View Details
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Legal Liability; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Galasso, Alberto, and Hong Luo. "Tort Reform and Innovation." Journal of Law & Economics 60, no. 3 (August 2017): 385–412.
- May 2009
- Article
The Empirical Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Innovation: Puzzles and Clues
By: Josh Lerner
Economists have long seen the patent system as a crucial lever through which policymakers affect the speed and nature of innovation in the economy. It is not surprising, then, that the profound changes which have roiled the global patent system over the past 20 years... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Policy; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Rights; Business and Government Relations
Lerner, Josh. "The Empirical Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Innovation: Puzzles and Clues." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 99, no. 2 (May 2009): 343–348. (Earlier version distributed as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 8977.)
- 09 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?
the United States will create a price effect for Americans and for the world. Forman: Where is this going from an economic and geopolitical perspective? Abdelal: They’re... View Details
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A Life’s Work | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Microsoft, and American Express. Within four months of completing the program, 85 percent of graduates (who now number over 5,000) are employed or attending college, earning an... View Details
- 13 May 2003
- Other Presentation
The Competitive Advantage of Regions
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "The Microeconomic Foundations of Economic Development," in The Global Competitiveness Report 2001,... View Details
Porter, Michael E. "The Competitive Advantage of Regions." Indiana Leadership Summit, Indianapolis, IN, May 13, 2003.
- 2017
- Working Paper
Biased Beliefs About Random Samples: Evidence from Two Integrated Experiments
By: Daniel J. Benjamin, Don A. Moore and Matthew Rabin
This paper describes results of a pair of incentivized experiments on biases in judgments about random samples. Consistent with the Law of Small Numbers (LSN), participants exaggerated the likelihood that short sequences and random subsets of coin flips would be... View Details
Benjamin, Daniel J., Don A. Moore, and Matthew Rabin. "Biased Beliefs About Random Samples: Evidence from Two Integrated Experiments." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 23927, October 2017.
- 27 Feb 2004
- Other Presentation
The Competitive Advantage of Regions
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "The Microeconomic Foundations of Economic Development," in The Global Competitiveness Report 2001,... View Details
Porter, Michael E. "The Competitive Advantage of Regions." Columbus Partnership Retreat, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA, February 27, 2004.
- 2017
- Working Paper
Tort Reform and Innovation
By: Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo
Current academic and policy debates focus on the impact of tort reforms on physicians’ behavior and medical costs. This paper examines whether these reforms also affect incentives to develop new technologies. We develop a theoretical model which predicts that the... View Details
Keywords: Lawsuits and Litigation; Laws and Statutes; Innovation and Invention; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Galasso, Alberto, and Hong Luo. "Tort Reform and Innovation." Working Paper, August 2017. (Accepted for publication in Journal of Law and Economics.)
- 06 Mar 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China
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Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
particularly volatile century of economic history. These four crises were so far-reaching that they affected virtually everyone involved in the U. S. market economy. Yet each was so complex that their causes... View Details
- 27 Dec 2015
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The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
and Alison Wood Brooks. Excellence Comes From Saying No (31,511) In a new course designed by Frances Frei and Amy Schulman, business and law... View Details
- 07 Mar 2008
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Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade
China and also became a major source of currency. 16 Millions of dollars’ worth of opium were imported into the country, distributed into the... View Details
- 08 Mar 2022
Top Business Schools Discuss: Application Advice for Deferred MBA Programs
Join Columbia Business School, Chicago Booth School of Business, Harvard Business School, Kellogg School of... View Details
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Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
program is transferable and replicable.) Idea/Concept : The concept reflects an innovative approach to the impact you seek to have. The team has a clear understanding of the issue it seeks to address, why... View Details