Publications

2025
Working Paper

Bringing Science to Market: Knowledge Foundations, Inventor-Founders, and Performance

By: Justine Boudou and Maria Roche

In this paper, we examine how a startup’s knowledge foundations—embedded in its core technology—influence its performance in the exit market. Using a dataset of 1,006 biomedicine startups founded between 2005 and 2015, we focus on two key factors: (1) the degree of... View Details

Keywords: Firm Performance; Knowledge Foundations; Exits; Academic Startups; Inventor-founder; Specialized Scientific Knowledge; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation; Research; Information Publishing; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship

Research Summary

FDI and Economic Growth: The Role of the Local Financial Markets (joint with Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Selin Sayek)

By: Laura Alfaro

In this paper, we examine the various links among foreign direct investment (FDI), financial markets, and economic growth. We explore whether countries with better financial systems can exploit FDI more efficiently. Empirical analysis, using cross-country data between... View Details

Article

Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations: Economic Recovery and the Determinants of Productivity and Innovation: Evidence from Post-WWII Italy

By: Michela Giorcelli

August 2024
Background Note

The Five Pillars That Drive the Success or Failure of Healthcare and Life Sciences Innovations

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Educators

08 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

countries side-by-side, exploring them from the 1850s up until the present day, when Chile’s economic strength seems to have surpassed Argentina’s—a reversal of fortune. The Impact View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Calderón: Economic Arguments Needed to Fight Climate Change

the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate. Calderón chairs the initiative, which comprises corporate executives, local politicians, and former heads of state from 14 countries. ''If we provide View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

Article

Economics at the FTC: Physician Acquisitions, Standard Essential Patents, and Accuracy of Credit Reporting

By: Julie Carlson, Leemore S. Dafny, Beth Freeborn, Pauline Ippolito and Brett Wendling

September 2005
Article

History, Institutions and Economic Performance: the Legacy of Colonial Land Tenure Systems in India

By: Abhijit Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer

Keywords: History; Property; Performance; India

2012
Chapter

Citizens' Perceptions and the Disconnect Between Economics and Regulatory Policy

By: Jonathan Baron, William T. McEnroe and Christopher Poliquin

Economic theory is clear about the advantages and disadvantages of various ways of regulating negative externalities, such as command and control, cap and trade, taxation, subsidies, and tort law. Yet public policy rarely follows the recommendations that follow from... View Details

Keywords: Regulation; Decision Making; Government and Politics; United States

26 Apr 2012
Other Presentation

Regional Competitiveness and the Role of Business

By: Michael E. Porter

Regional competitiveness and CSV presentation at "Encuentro de Comisiones Regionales de Competitividad," Bogotá View Details

Keywords: Economic Development; Competitiveness; Economics; Society; Colombia

2007
Article

'One will make of Political Economy...what the Scholastics did with Philosophy': Henry Lloyd and the Mathematization of Economics

By: Sophus A. Reinert

Keywords: Government and Politics; Economy; Economics

Article

Market Failure and the Environmental Policies of Firms: Economic Rationales for 'Beyond Compliance' Behavior

By: F. L. Reinhardt

Keywords: Failure; Policy; Business Ventures; Behavior; Economics

August 2017 (Revised August 2018)
Case

Busbud: Building a Data Company

By: Srikant M. Datar, Alistair Croll and Caitlin N. Bowler

The case features the work of LP Maurice (HBS '08) as he decides to take on the fragmented bus travel industry and launch an online business that aggregates and shares bus schedules for routes around the world. His first challenge: finding that the data he needs is... View Details

Keywords: Data Science; Analytics and Data Science; Business Startups; Knowledge Acquisition; Customers; Measurement and Metrics; Transportation Industry

Educators

2013
Book

Democracy and Its Elected Enemies: American Political Capture and Economic Decline

By: Steven Rosefielde and Daniel Quinn Mills

Democracy and Its Elected Enemies reveals that American politicians have usurped their constitutional authority, substituting their economic and political sovereignty for the people's. This has been accomplished by creating an enormous public service sector... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Government and Politics; Macroeconomics; Public Administration Industry; United States

November 2024
Teaching Note

The Marshall Plan: The Politics and Economics of Europe's Recovery After World War II

By: Vincent Pons, Marco Tabellini and Vestal McIntyre

December 2008 (Revised October 2012)
Case

Special Economic Zones in India: Public Purpose and Private Property (A)

By: Laura Alfaro and Lakshmi Iyer

In 2005, the government of India enacted the Special Economic Zones (SEZ) Act in order to attract investment, generate export revenues, and create manufacturing jobs. However, several planned projects faced difficulties in acquiring land for setting up the SEZ. In... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Development Economics; Economic Growth; Policy; Government Legislation; Property; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; India

Educators