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- 29 Jun 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Trade Credit and Taxes
- 06 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn
literature in economics on why firms tend not to cut people’s pay,” says Stanton, an applied economist who is an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at HBS. “We can actually measure the consequences.” A ‘natural... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 27 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance
What’s the best way to run a company? The question has bedeviled economists as long as companies have existed. How, after all, do you measure something as soft as management style across the range of different types and sizes of companies... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 2010
- Working Paper
Beyond Agency Theory: The Hidden and Heretofore Inaccessible Power of Integrity (PDF file of Keynote Slides)
By: Michael C. Jensen and Werner Erhard
There is far too much concern today about the conflicts of interest between people; for example, conflicts of interest between agents and owners—historically a favorite topic of Jensen—and not enough attention paid to the damage caused by an individual's conflict of... View Details
- 12 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
Customers at the Back of the Line Are Anxious—Can You Keep Them from Leaving?
poor suckers tomorrow.” Related Reading: People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things Hiding Products From Customers May Ultimately Boost Sales Behavioral Economists Can Make You a Healthier Consumer and Smarter Marketer... View Details
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
Publications 2006 Harvard Business Review Press Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics By: Davenport, Thomas H., and Jinho Kim Abstract—Managers today need to be able to analyze and make sense of data. They need to be conversant... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation
- 17 Jul 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
A Replication Study of Alan Blinder’s “How Many U.S. Jobs Might Be Offshorable?”
Keywords: by Troy Smith & Jan W. Rivkin
- 08 Oct 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
The Federal Reserve’s Abandonment of Its 1923 Principles
- 24 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Equalizing Outcomes vs. Equalizing Opportunities: Optimal Taxation when Children’s Abilities Depend on Parents’ Resources
Keywords: by Alexander Gelber & Matthew Weinzierl
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
PublicationsJoining a Nonprofit Board: What You Need to Know Authors:Marc J. Epstein and F. Warren McFarlan Publication:Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?
you they would pay more than they’re actually willing to pay. They say they would choose something that they don’t actually choose in practice,” says James Brand, an economist for Microsoft, who cowrote the working paper with Israeli and... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- Web
People - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
in a series of senior policy positions, including Vice President of development economics and chief economist of the World Bank, Undersecretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, Director of the National Economic Council for the... View Details
- 07 Jul 2021
- Book
Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust
history of right to wipe out one wrong. A company will have to be on the right side of trust again and again,” Sucher says. Lost trust often has financial consequences. An Economist magazine analysis of Volkswagen, Wells Fargo, and six... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?
the sector’s success, but to what extent have the loans meaningfully improved livelihoods? That question has been more difficult to track, say Natalia Rigol and Ben Roth. Both development economists and assistant professors at Harvard... View Details
- 05 Mar 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Frank or Deceptive Should Leaders Be?
by Nobel-prize winner in economics George Akerlof and economist Robert Sheeler of "irrational exuberance" fame. These authors cite the importance of what John Maynard Keynes once referred to as "animal spirits" in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior
behavioral economists Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, is a way of changing the environment in which decisions are made without meaningfully changing financial incentives. “If you take a particular policy objective as a given, nudges... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done
for policy choices.” Kerr, the Dimitri V. D’Arbeloff–MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration, has researched the economic effects of global migration of workers for more than a decade, sometimes partnering with his wife, Sari Pekkala Kerr, an View Details
- 05 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers
"Typically, most economists would tend to assume that these prices would be passed on relatively quickly at the consumer level. That didn’t happen.” To gauge the effects of the tariffs since the Trump Administration first imposed... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
PublicationsThe Future of Organization Design Authors:Baldwin, Carliss Y. Publication:Journal of Organization Design Abstract The modern corporation has long been the central focus of the field of organization design. Such firms can be likened to nation-states: they... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne