Economists - Publications - Faculty & Research

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... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Feb 2022
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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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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

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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... 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

01 Jun 2001
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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

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

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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... View Details

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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... View Details

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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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

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... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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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... View Details

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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

18 Oct 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Monetary Policy Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks

Keywords: by John Y. Campbell, Carolin E. Pflueger & Luis M. Viceira

11 Oct 2006
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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... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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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
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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

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

2018
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New Prospects for Organizational Democracy?: How the Joint Pursuit of Social and Financial Goals Challenges Traditional Organizational Designs

By: Julie Battilana, Michael Fuerstein and Michael Lee

For an extended period during the first half of the 20th century, industrial democracy was a vibrant movement, with ideological and organizational ties to a thriving unionism. In 2015, however, things look different. While there are instances of democracy in the... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Values and Beliefs; Integration; Theory

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09 Jan 2006
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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... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

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