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- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
dispersed around the globe. But the one theme that has attracted the most HBS Working Knowledge readers over our 11-year history is how to improve personal leadership skills. A third of the articles on this page relate to improving work... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
academic psychologists, Harvard Business School professors, directors of organizations, and government officials. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51447 Winter 2017 Oxford Review of Economic Policy The... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
economic terms is a certain kind of transaction cost or tax or another one of those market imperfections. Q: How are these trends reflected in your teaching? A: All of my research and cases over the last several years have been in these... View Details
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
the optimal capital requirement is around 20%. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51305 The Empirical Economics of Online Attention By: Boik, Andre, Shane Greenstein, and Jeffrey Prince Abstract—In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
regulation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55884 April 2019 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Incentives for Public Goods Inside Organizations: Field Experimental Evidence By: Blasco,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
vaccination are much greater than those for high technology products. Delays to getting shots in arms can reduce the odds of reaching global herd immunity, reinforce safety and health concerns across countries, and slow down the world’s View Details
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
growing public discourse cites the rising cost of education and student debt overhang as a contributor to slow economic growth. A parallel discussion explores the causes of the secular decline in business dynamism and entrepreneurship... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
propose a general mechanism of partner choice, "screening," that is similar to the economic theory of mechanism design. Imposing the appropriate costs and rewards may induce the informed individuals to screen themselves... View Details
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
PublicationsDo Voters Demand Responsive Governments? Evidence from Indian Disaster Relief Authors:Shawn Cole, Andrew Healy, and Eric Werker Publication:Journal of Development Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Using rainfall, public... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
Business and Economics, arguably the most comprehensive collection of early economics found anywhere. The institution in effect has a very long history of engaging with such questions, dating back to its... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- July 2018 (Revised July 2018)
- Teaching Note
Argentina Power—Don’t Cry for Me Argentina
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-041. This case concerns a complex potential energy infrastructure investment in Argentina by a global conglomerate shortly after Mauricio Macri (“Macri”) became President of Argentina in 2015. The central issues are (i) why was a country... View Details
- July 2004 (Revised October 2018)
- Case
Opium and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century
By: Geoffrey Jones, Elisabeth Koll and Alexis Gendron
This case examines the role of Jardine Matheson, a trading company founded by two Scottish merchants, in the opium trade between India and China during the nineteenth century. The two Opium Wars fought between Western powers and China, which sought to stop opium... View Details
Keywords: History; Globalized Economies and Regions; Ethnicity; Multinational Firms and Management; Groups and Teams; Trade; Social and Collaborative Networks; China; United Kingdom
Jones, Geoffrey, Elisabeth Koll, and Alexis Gendron. "Opium and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century." Harvard Business School Case 805-010, July 2004. (Revised October 2018.)
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
Thomas Friedman, author of "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century", opines that a number of events ranging from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the rise of the Internet have flattened the competitive... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- December 2010 (Revised June 2018)
- Case
The Pecora Hearings
By: David Moss, Cole Bolton and Eugene Kintgen
In 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, the Senate Banking Committee began a much-publicized investigation of the nation's financial sector. The hearings, which came to be known as the Pecora hearings after the Banking Committee's lead counsel Ferdinand Pecora,... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Fairness; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Institutions; Debt Securities; Stocks; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; History; Financial Services Industry; United States
Moss, David, Cole Bolton, and Eugene Kintgen. "The Pecora Hearings." Harvard Business School Case 711-046, December 2010. (Revised June 2018.)
- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
Article Some of the more interesting writing that is relevant to management these days is found in out-of-the-way places in my local bookstore. In addition to the management and economics sections, you should check out neuroscience,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
charitable giving, crowding out intrinsic motivations to give by corrupting a purely social act with economic considerations. Purchase the Book: http://www.psypress.com/the-science-of-giving-9781848728851 Americans Do I.T. Better: U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
productive. The authors have studied when 161 countries adopted 104 technologies over the past 200 years, and they conclude that profound economic advantages-as measured by per capita income-accrue to early adopters of technology. Read... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
November 2016 Quarterly Journal of Economics Stereotypes By: Bordalo, Pedro, Katherine Baldiga Coffman, Nicola Gennaioli, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—We present a model of stereotypes based on Kahneman and Tversky's representativeness... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
Publication:Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (spring 2011) Abstract This paper examines the optimal response of monetary and fiscal policy to a decline in aggregate demand. The theoretical framework is a two-period general... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne