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- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
Most of us tend not to think of capitalism as a moral system. The prevailing view of the free market, among laypeople and economists alike, is that it's one step removed from the law of the jungle. But the fact is that capitalism has...
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by Michael Blanding
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By: Debora L. Spar
I'll have a girl, please
American Public Media [Marketplace], 12 September 2006
DR. DEBORAH SPAR: "The ability to choose gender is really only the first... View Details
- 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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- 27 Nov 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of US Firms
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Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs ( Princeton University Press, October 2002)
By: Rakesh Khurana
In this book, I argue that the external CEO labor market was born in a burst of rhetoric about wresting control of corporations away from a group of self-interested insiders, as senior managers in the era of managerial capitalism had come to be portrayed. The rationale...
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- 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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- 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...
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by Julia Hanna
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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...
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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
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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Young Economist Award from Le Monde and the Cercle des économistes. Sophus A. Reinert : Received the 2023 HBS Student Association Faculty Teaching Award for exceptional contributions to the experience of the graduating class. Meg Rithmire...
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Manipulation: Evidence from Defined Benefit Pension Plans.” Josh Lerner : Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System Is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What To Do About It (Princeton University Press, 2004), with Adam Jaffe, was selected by...
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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
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...
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Julia Hanna
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
process. That process, in fact, I'm more or less convinced is not led by the marketer. Once you say "marketer," I think the message doesn't stick. People say, "My God, you want to have a marketing person?" That person could be a social worker; it...
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by Martha Lagace
- 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...
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by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
David J. Collis : Selected as a 1976 Downing Scholar at University of Cambridge. David J. Collis : Named the 1976 Wrenbury Scholar at University of Cambridge (top academic economist of the class). Ashish Nanda : Awarded President of India...
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- 11 Oct 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?
trends, and economic growth rates. But in business, it is also influenced strongly by the cost of retirees, which in turn is determined in large part by the outcomes of negotiations between management and labor. Harvard economists David...
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by Jim Heskett
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
adage about the economist who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. When the benchmark used to evaluate a department or a process is based on an aggregate financial metric, the assumption is that the department or...
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- 18 Oct 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Monetary Policy Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks
- 01 Nov 2022
- What Do You Think?
Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?
those crossing the border to request asylum without “waiting in line” for fully documented or legal entry. (As economist Tara Watson and writer Kalee Thompson point out in their recent book, it is more accurate to say that under current...
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by James Heskett
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance
urged prospective home-buyers to save the entire purchase price before acquiring a home. In practice, however, most home-buyers and home-builders after the Civil War got themselves a mortgage—or three or four. By the 1920s, economists...
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