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Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
. . . It was accordingly natural that financial and commercial devises for bringing more products to more people should be developed: department stores, chain stores, mail-order salesmanship, etc.” [9] Paul M. Mazur, a Harvard-trained View Details
- 23 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified
close to real time. Although the study helps identify where gentrification is occurring, it’s unclear what’s causing what. “It could be that people see a Starbucks coming in and say, ‘This is a neighborhood we should move into,’” says Glaeser, an urban View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 May 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration
- 29 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines
- April 2022
- Teaching Note
Banorte Móvil: Data-Driven Mobile Growth
By: Ayelet Israeli and Carla Larangeira
In mid-2019, Carlos Hank was deliberating over the results for Banorte Móvil—the mobile application for Banorte, Mexico’s most profitable and second-largest financial institution. Hank, who had been appointed as Banorte´s Chairman of the Board in January 2015, had... View Details
- 06 Jun 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
study of multi-sided markets such a young science? Are they a relatively new phenomenon? What is driving their growth? A: Multi-sided markets in general are not new at all: They have been around for ages—think of the dating clubs! However, it is not until very recently... View Details
- 19 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?
theory, Zhu and Greenstein took a database of terms developed by University of Chicago economists Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse Shapiro to examine newspaper bias. Gentzkow and Shapiro studied speeches in the 2005 Congressional Record to... View Details
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News - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
economist throws support behind natural gas Harvard economist throws support behind natural gas by Michael E. Porter Feb 18, 2016 Media Mention Uncertainty and Confusion: Parsing the FOMC Minutes Uncertainty... View Details
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Matthew C. Weinzierl | About
in 2008, Professor Weinzierl served as the Staff Economist for Macroeconomics on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and worked in the New York office of McKinsey & Company. Professor Weinzierl has written on a range of topics in... View Details
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
they operate. Political science, government, and history paid attention; and even the economist Joseph Schumpeter, with his notion of individuals who operate outside the social structure and who can then innovate, staked out a tradition... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay
areas, but there are fewer success stories today. At the macro level, the profit squeeze is just hard.” The working paper was co-written by HBS doctoral student Innessa Colaiacovo; Margaret Dalton, an analyst at the Center for Economic Inclusion; and Sari Pekkala Kerr,... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
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Environmental Quality - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
mechanisms by which environmental regulations might enhance competitiveness; for example reduction in the use of costly chemicals or lower waste disposal costs. The traditional view of environmental regulation held by virtually all View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
The Promise of Positive Optimal Taxation: A Generalized Theory Calibrated to Survey Evidence on Normative Preferences Explains Puzzling Features of Policy
Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
expected to try to fill up their own vessels with fish on each voyage—to do less would not be in their competitive interest. Yet if every fisherman acts this way, all will lose out as the overall stock becomes depleted. Economists call... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
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Doing Business in a Divided World - Alumni
both business and civil society. The goal here is to broaden our conversation from the urgent demands firms often face to a longer-term consideration of how they can best address the expanded role that society is asking them to play. View Details
- 04 Nov 2009
- What Do You Think?
What is the Role of Government Vis-à-Vis Capitalism?
sports analogy apply here, with government setting and enforcing the rules even-handedly through officials in its employ? Or is government's role instead to let market mechanisms and the "invisible hand" do their best? Have View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Sep 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?
and sold between the two countries. Could it be defended at home as a step toward curbing inflation in the US? Maybe, although economists have told us that the effects would be small. How much of it would actually trickle down to... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 01 Feb 2023
- What Do You Think?
Will Hybrid Work Strategies Pull Down Long-Term Performance?
at prescribed times or days of the week. According to Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom, who has studied remote work for years, totally remote workers constituted 15 percent of the US workforce as of early 2023, with another 30 percent... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Historical Data & Sources - Business History
Asia, Oceania, 1750-2005 . New York: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2007 Economist Intelligence Unit, EIU Country Data database, accessed April 23, 2013 International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics database Download Data Set in... View Details