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Economics of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital

Designed for Harvard College sophomores.

Course Description: Why do so many individuals choose to pursue entrepreneurship despite substantial risks? How do these entrepreneurs raise money to finance their ventures? And what is the impact of... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurship And Strategy; Venture Capital
  • Summer, 2021
  • Article

The Economics of Energy Efficiency in Developing Countries

By: Meredith Fowlie and Robyn C. Meeks
Almost all of the world’s energy demand growth is projected to occur in low- and medium-income countries (LMICs). Targeted energy efficiency investments have the potential to mitigate tensions between economic growth objectives and sustainable development commitments.... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Energy; Energy Policy
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  • 21 Feb 2019
  • Blog Post

Machine Learning and Behavioral Economics

economics is about how people understand information.” As an undergraduate at William & Mary, he interned at Google, where he gained an insider’s perspective on a new technology, Google Glass. Bracaglia wrote SQL for the Glass team,... View Details
  • April 2015
  • Case

Accor: Designing an Asset-Right Business and Disclosure Strategy

By: Mozaffar Khan and George Serafeim
Sebastien Bazin was now in charge of Accor, the world's largest French hotelier, a CAC 40 company with 3,600 hotels in 92 countries and a market cap of €10 billion. Previously as the European head of Colony Capital, one of the largest private equity groups and the... View Details
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  • 11 Oct 2021
  • News

Nobel Winners Found Economic Experiments in the Real World

  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics

Max Bazerman and Mike Luca (Image by John Ritter) What makes people behave the way they do—and to what degree are design choices influencing that? Associate Professor Mike Luca studies the design of online platforms, while Professor Max Bazerman’s work focuses on... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

    Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions

    Business transactions take widely varying forms―from multibillion-dollar corporate mergers to patent licenses to the signing of an all-star quarterback. Yet every deal shares the same goal, or at least should: to maximize the joint value created and to distribute... View Details
    • Article

    The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective

    By: Peter A. Coles, John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth and John J. Siegfried
    This paper, written by the members of the American Economic Association (AEA) Ad Hoc Committee on the Job Market, provides an overview of the market for new Ph.D. economists. It describes the role of the AEA in the market and focuses in particular on two mechanisms... View Details
    Keywords: Market Design; Jobs and Positions
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    • 19 May 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective

    Keywords: by Peter A. Coles, John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth & John J. Siegfried
    • 01 Dec 2009
    • News

    An Action Plan for Economic Recovery

    designate a knowledgeable person, independent of both issuers and rating agencies, to select a rating agency for the bond issuer and negotiate a rating fee. This would eliminate the two worst abuses: the issuer shopping for a higher... View Details
    Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
    • 05 Dec 2013
    • What Do You Think?

    Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?

    Original Article There is a body of research that seeks to relate economics to human biology. It's usually associated with the notion that the life cycles of businesses parallel stages of biological life: birth, rapid growth, maturity,... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
    • 05 May 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration

    Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr & William F. Lincoln; Technology
    • 08 Sep 2015
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Through the Grapevine: Network Effects on the Design of Executive Compensation Contracts

    Keywords: by Susanna Gallani
    • December 2020
    • Article

    The Parable of the Auctioneer: Complexity in Paul R. Milgrom's Discovering Prices

    By: Scott Duke Kominers and Alexander Teytelboym
    Designing marketplaces in complex settings requires both novel economic theory and real-world engineering, often drawing upon ideas from fields such as computer science and operations research. In Discovering Prices, Milgrom (2017) explains the theory and design... View Details
    Keywords: Pricing; Design; Auctions; Market Design; Complexity
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    • 2022
    • Book

    The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth

    By: Michael J. Andrews, Aaron Chatterji, Josh Lerner and Scott Stern
    We live in an era in which innovation and entrepreneurship seem ubiquitous, particularly in regions like Silicon Valley, Boston, and the Research Triangle Park. But many metrics of economic growth, such as productivity growth and business dynamism, have been at best... View Details
    Keywords: Productivity Growth; Production Technologies; Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; Economic Growth; Competition; Organizational Design; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation
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    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective

    By: Peter A. Coles, John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth and John J. Siegfried
    This paper provides an overview of the market for new Ph.D. economists. It describes the role of the American Economic Association (AEA) in the market and focuses in particular on two mechanisms adopted in recent years at the suggestion of our committee. First, job... View Details
    Keywords: Cost Management; Information; Surveys; Jobs and Positions; Job Interviews; Job Search; Emerging Markets; Digital Platforms; Service Operations; Internet and the Web
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    • 16 Sep 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?

    In 2012, two seasoned scholars shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their research on designing markets. Lloyd Shapley had developed theoretical methods to create stable matches in... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
    • Web

    Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

    of Readiness program? + – In addition to being a standalone certificate program, Economics for Managers is also one component course of the Credential of Readiness (CORe) program , which also includes Business Analytics and Financial... View Details
    • 01 Dec 2012
    • News

    Alvin Roth Wins Nobel Prize in Economics

    Shapley, of the 2012 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The men were recognized for their contributions to solving a core economic problem—how to match different agents... View Details
    • 23 Oct 2019
    • News

    Designing a More Artful Future for the Middle East

    chains. “Fashion is an important form of art, and there are skilled artisans right in Lebanon producing modest, fashionable clothing with embellishments inspired by local culture,” he explains. “Darza is building something that has View Details
    Keywords: Inclusion