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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... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Web
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... View Details
- 2010
- Casebook
Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture
By: Laura Alfaro
All managers face a business environment in which international and macroeconomic phenomena matter. International capital flows can significantly affect countries' development efforts and provide clear investment opportunities for businesses. During the 1990s and early... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Capital; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations
Alfaro, Laura. Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2010.
- 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... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
began to move into the position of dominance that it enjoys in the MBA curriculum today. Building on the foundational work of Adolf Berle and Gardiner Means on the separation of ownership and control in the large corporation, and of Ronald Coase on the significance of... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is a “Level Playing Field” a Good Thing?
haves and have nots. Economists point to the rapid increases in economic growth and productivity in China and India in relation to more developed economies as evidence that a more level playing field is resulting in huge advances in the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 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
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
productivity and growth. And as the Harvard economist Benjamin Friedman has shown, growth has moral consequences in terms of a society’s tolerance for diversity, social mobility, correcting inequalities, and democratic values. CEOs who... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
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Forum - U.S. Competitiveness
Forum Started 18 Nov 2014 What Employers Must Do To Find Workers Forum started by Joseph B. Fuller Economists and commentators have long debated the existence of a “skills gap” and its purported causes. The Harvard Business School’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?
debate between economists such as the Chicago school’s Milton Friedman, who argued that the sole purpose of business is to generate profit for (and presumably transfer wealth to) shareholders by any legal and ethical means, and Yale’s... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics
emergent ideas of behavioral economics, experimentation, and behavioral ethics. More people are interested in understanding how people actually behave, instead of living with the standard assumptions that economists have made for decades,... View Details
- Web
Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Patent System Is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What To Do About It (Princeton University Press, 2004), with Adam Jaffe, was selected by The Economist as one of the Best Business and Economics Books of the Year. Erik Stafford :... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone.
New Mexico homeowners might think their inland location buffers them from the financial toll of climate change, but they’re still paying for climate-related property damage occurring in coastal states. New research finds that homeowners in New Mexico and other states... View Details
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Industry Information - Alumni
columnist discuss the financial aspects relating to all areas of sports. Business of Sport (BBC) News from around the globe featuring the connection point between business and sports. The Sports Economist Take a look at the academic view... View Details
- 07 Feb 2019
- Book
How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption
us the background and how you think about innovation? Gary Pisano: Probably the greatest economist of the 20th century was Joseph Schumpeter. He was really the godfather of the economics of innovation. He described a process he termed... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 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
- 12 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team
levels of stress. In the words of John Kenneth Galbraith, renowned economist and diplomat, “All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: It was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people... View Details
Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley
- 24 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?
professor. They surveyed 1,770 members of Alignable, an online platform for small-business leaders. To supplement that small-business data, a second survey was completed by 70 business economists belonging to the National Association for... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
foods.” Related Reading: Behavioral Economists Can Make You a Healthier Consumer and Smarter Marketer The Key to Keeping Resolutions? Betting Against Yourself You Probably Have a Bias for Making Bad Decisions. Here's Why. What do you... View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett