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01 Sep 2023
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History Matters

The stunning collapse of three high-profile banks in recent months—Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank—churned up a host of headlines and fears: Are these signs of major instability? The first dominos to fall? In the second edition of their... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

27 Nov 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of US Firms

Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr & William F. Lincoln

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... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Teaching Award for exceptional contributions to the experience of the graduating class. 2023 Vincent Pons : Winner of the 2023 Best Young Economist Award from Le Monde and the Cercle des économistes. Sophus A. Reinert : Received the 2023... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani

supportive of me." The importance of mentorship was impressed upon Modigliani at an early age. "I've always been around people who care about ideas. Everyone is a teacher in my family, except for me." That includes her grandfather, Franco Modigliani, a Nobel... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

07 Jul 2003
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Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?

had risen to the highest rate in nine years. Economists assure us that productivity (the ratio of product and service outputs to labor and capital inputs) improvements are good for all of us, whether we are employed (and thus factored... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Serving the Public Interest Through Competition: British Railroads - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

public interests.” 9 It was leading political figures like Gladstone, economist Mark Casson contends, who “believed that the right of a railway to interfere with private property, in the interests of merchants and industrialists, could... View Details

03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

reported trouble staffing up when the economy began to recover. "Helping workers keep attached to their prior employers could speed up the recovery," explained Till von Wachter, an economist with the University of California at Los... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

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... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

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... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; World Bank; United Nations; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

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... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Porter Prize Japan - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

published in the 1990 book The Competitive Advantage of Nations . The book Can Japan Compete? , which was selected as one of the top three non-fiction books of 2000 by The Economist , was co-authored by Michael Porter and Hirotaka... View Details

2013
Working Paper

International Health Economics

By: Mark Egan and Tomas J. Philipson

Perhaps because health care is a local service sector, health economists have paid little attention to international linkages between domestic health care economies. However, the growth in domestic health care sectors is often attributed to medical innovations whose... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Global Range; Economics

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28 Mar 2012
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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... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

16 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

other economists offers a new way of thinking about this puzzle. Published in September by the National Bureau of Economic Research, On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women’s Financial Control Affects Labor Supply and Gender... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Market Research Reports in General Databases

Multi-Industry, Country Reports Global EMIS 2016 to current Colliers Real Estate Emerging Markets EMIS 2013 to 2018 Deloitte Multi-Industry Global EMIS 2013 to current Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Energy, Healthcare, Financial... View Details

24 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

habit-forming behavior, whether people recognized it as such, whether it was possible to induce the habit with experimental interventions, and whether the habit would continue after the interventions ceased. The field experiment was based on the theory of “rational... View Details