Economics Of Speech - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Jul 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: Ethics in Globalization

Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date of Event:... View Details

Keywords: Re: Rafael M. Di Tella

July 2024
Case

Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO

By: Reza Satchu, Tom Quinn and Andrew Kosc

In May 2021, after a surge in demand for digital services that prompted high valuations for startups across the Canadian tech sector, Saskatchewan-based Vendasta entered the final stages of the initial public offering (IPO) process. COO Jacqueline Cook had invested her... View Details

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Educators

Purchase

22 Mar 2010
Research & Ideas

One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution

comes to creating new ones? A: Answering this question goes back to our definition of innovation. Innovation is invention times impact. Invention is nice, but if it has no economic or social impact it is... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

November 2024
Case

Polish Agro: Where Do We Grow From Here?

By: Willy C. Shih, Lena Duchene and Daniela Beyersdorfer

By July 2024, Polish Agro had grown into one of Poland’s fastest-growing agribusinesses, with €230 million in revenue, 82 employees, and operations across Northern Poland. The company supported farmers with essential agricultural inputs like fertilizers and seeds,... View Details

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Educators

16 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

The cult of the CEO is complex and persistent—and usually not good for business, says HBS professor Rakesh Khurana. Khurana recently fielded questions from HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace in an e-mail interview about his... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks

Visibility of best practices. People are realizing the enormous amounts of money they've been leaving on the table in supply chain management because they have not been doing things right. So we're really... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Market for Babies

"It is difficult to conceive of a child as commerce," writes Harvard Business School professor Debora L. Spar in her new book, The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management

study, it is the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S. Its economic burden is also high, since it is linked to other afflictions such as heart and renal disease and blindness. And, she added, one View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Tech Investment the Wise Way

whom resources will flow. Value, of course, is an economic concept, not primarily measured in physical performance attributes, but rather what a buyer will pay for a product or service. A customer can value... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough & Richard S. Rosenbloom

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Ray A. Goldberg

leaders on the cutting edge of research. The driving force behind this gathering since its inception has been Ray Goldberg, the veritable father of agribusiness. Along with his then HBS colleague John H.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Agriculture & Agribusiness

24 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Behavioral Economists Can Make You a Healthier Consumer and Smarter Marketer

Click Here If people made purely rational decisions, life might be much easier for marketers in selling products and services. But few of us are that rational. Instead, our decisions are based on illogical biases such as loss aversion and... View Details

Keywords: by Amelia Kunhardt

03 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment

supply of skilled workers. Since unemployment rates for college graduates are much lower than for non-graduates and average incomes materially higher, more young people would presumably move down the path to View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Education

25 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity

occupational licensing, personal/psychological costs, and economic costs. He is currently studying productivity effects of new forms of remote work, such as “work from... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

03 Dec 2008
What Do You Think?

Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?

books, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, maintains that too much economic theory, formed by "Econs," is based on the behavior of homo economicus (economic man, someone with the knowledge and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

23 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

Media.) Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-039.pdf From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America Authors:Marion... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Professors Introduce Valuation Software

elements of the firm's accounting if they believe that reported data do not capture the economic performance of the company. The model then provides standardized financial... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers

in the paper Are Bankers Worth Their Pay? Evidence from a Talent Measure by Boris Vallée, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, and Claire Célérier, an assistant professor at the University of Zurich. “What we are saying is... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking

24 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit

substantial growth, because it looks as though they have been foregoing opportunities,” explains Kim. Whether a tech startup or a pet shop, small businesses are a major economic force, contributing 44 percent View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking

18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?

compliance function to being a profit center. The ratio of corporate taxes to GDP declined through the late 1990s even during an economic expansion. There has been a growing disconnect between the income... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Lessons from the Browser Wars

market. Q: In your paper, you explain that your analysis of the "classical concern" in the diffusion of new technologies is based on technological progress versus View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology

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