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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
- 07 May 2014
- What Do You Think?
How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?
French economist Thomas Piketty. It's being hailed by some as one of a handful of important economic treatises in the last 50 years. Others question it as the work of a naïve academic. But the gist of Piketty's findings, based on...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
While conceding that songwriters and poets can make a strong case for "I love you," economists know that the three little words that really make the world go around are "supply and demand." This familiar marketplace mantra - its symmetry...
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Garry Emmons
- 10 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated
data scientist at Amazon; and Nils Wernerfelt, an economist at Meta, Facebook’s parent company. In one of the largest studies of its kind, Luca and his coauthors analyzed more than 800 public health advertising campaigns that reached 2.1...
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- 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...
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- 24 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention
win some moral victories: the Economist magazine stopped publishing the Argentinian government’s numbers in favor of Cavallo’s stats, and, when a new government took over, it relied on Cavallo’s numbers as it built a new index from...
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- 06 Jun 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly
- 16 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?
field of behavioral economics, which economists usually think of as a "new" field, was in fact rigorously studying the very factors that Smith, arguably the "father" of modern-day economics, had always thought were...
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by Ann Cullen
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Economics of Open Source
Tirole, an economist at the University of Toulouse and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In their new working paper, "The Simple Economics of Open Source," Lerner and Tirole make the case that an idealistic notion of...
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Building Collections | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
introduction by renowned economist Marx, Karl. Das Kapital: Kritik der Politischen Oekonomie. Erster Band . Buch 1. Der Produktionsprocess des Kapitals. Hamburg: Verlag von Otto Meissner; New-York: L. W. Schmidt, 1867. Marx, Karl. Il...
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- 27 Nov 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of US Firms
- 05 Jun 2009
- What Do You Think?
What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?
What do you think? Original Article During the past several weeks, economists have begun to predict substantially slower growth rates for the world's economy into the foreseeable future. Characteristic of this is the reduction of roughly...
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- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
in the August 2015 issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, the paper was co-authored by a team of behavioral economists and psychologists: Jooa Julia Lee, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University; Francesca Gino, a...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and The Economist much more effectively than they could before. Those publications integrate macroeconomics with what we know about business and markets, often in the very same articles. Without...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
History Matters
journalists to convey the accurate condition of the financial system, and with priests, ministers, and rabbis, to urge calm. In essence, Morgan, Stillman, Baker, and Cortelyou worked to resolve the classic challenge of quelling financial crises, which View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Alejandro Ramirez: A Very Good Time for Mexico
government that is inclusive of wider sectors of Mexican society.” Before he returns to Mexico, Ramirez will continue his doctoral studies at Cambridge University with economist Amartya Sen. Ramirez, who studied under Sen previously at...
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- 28 Mar 2012
- What Do You Think?
Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?
for many years, warns that R&D and product development capabilities will be lost along with the loss of such jobs. While examining the closing gap between developed and developing economies, Nobel Prize economist Michael Spence has...
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- 04 Feb 2022
- Book
Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries
Although many view socialism through the rigid lens of Soviet orthodoxy, it has always been a work in progress and an evolving and adaptable ideology on a global scale, says Harvard Business School Marvin Bower Associate Professor Jeremy Friedman. In his new book, Ripe...
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by Dina Gerdeman