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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents

By: David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson, Pian Shu and Gary Pisano
Manufacturing is the locus of U.S. innovation, accounting for more than three quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The rise of import competition from China has represented a major competitive shock to the sector, which in theory could benefit or stifle innovation. In... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Competition; System Shocks; Trade; Innovation and Invention; Manufacturing Industry; China; United States
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    The Academy of Fisticuffs

    The terms “capitalism” and “socialism” continue to haunt our political and economic imaginations, but we rarely consider their interconnected early history. Even the eighteenth century had its “socialists,” but unlike those of the nineteenth, they paradoxically... View Details

    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    College Tuition, Public Finance and New Business Starts

    By: Gareth Olds
    A 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 rates in the United States over... View Details
    Keywords: Cost; Higher Education; Entrepreneurship
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    Financing New Business Formation

    By: Paul A. Gompers
    New business creation has become a potent force for economicdevelopment in the United States. Prior to 1980, large firms created the majority of new jobs in the American economy. While considerable debate rages over whether small firms are the source of recent job... View Details
    • June 2014 (Revised January 2017)
    • Case

    Focus Financial Partners and the U.S. RIA Industry in 2014

    By: Luis Viceira and Emily A. Chien
    In the Spring of 2014, Rudy Adolf, CEO and founder of Focus Financial, and the two other co-founders of the firm are considering alternative growth strategies to solidify Focus Financial's position as a leading aggregator of independent wealth management firms in the... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Financial Services Industry
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    • 20 Dec 2016
    • First Look

    December 20, 2016

    contend with the fact that patenting is highly concentrated in certain product categories and that this concentration has been shifting over time. Accounting for secular trends in innovative activities, we find that the impact of the... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 11 Apr 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Pian Shu, Harvard Business School

    • Web

    Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

    Monetary Policy & Money Markets More Info Secular Stagnation in the Open Economy By: Gauti B. Eggertsson , Neil R. Mehrotra & Lawrence Summers APR 2016 Eggertson, Mehrotra, and Summers develop a two country model to examine how capital... View Details
    • 28 Apr 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Payout Policy

    Keywords: by Joan Farre-Mensa, Roni Michaely & Martin C. Schmalz
    • 07 Mar 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Scott Stern, MIT Sloan School of Management

    • 14 Oct 2015
    • HBS Seminar

    Scott Stern, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

    • Web

    People - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

    Treasury of the United States, from 1999 to 2001. He has written extensively on many fields in economics, most recently on policy responses to secular stagnation. Adi Sunderam Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance Adi... View Details
    • Web

    Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

    Data, Stabilization Policy & Regulation More Info Secular Stagnation in the Open Economy By: Gauti B. Eggertsson , Neil R. Mehrotra & Lawrence Summers APR 2016 Eggertson, Mehrotra, and Summers develop a two country model to examine how... View Details
    • Teaching Interest

    Overview

    Globalization and Emerging Markets (Elective Course) The world order has changed significantly in the last two decades. The influence of western-style varieties of capitalism has been challenged by new forms of capitalism that rely less on private enterprise and on the... View Details
    Keywords: Globalization; Strategy; Macroeconomics; State Capitalism; Political Economy; Emerging Markets; Multinational Firms and Management; Global Strategy; Economics; Energy Industry; Retail Industry; Mining Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Banking Industry; China; Africa; Dubai; Pakistan; India; Brazil; Russia; Cuba; Argentina
    • 11 Mar 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?

    secularization after the death of dictator Francisco Franco. Relevant. Governments can’t sway the opinion of a disinterested audience. The imagery and associations of the place need to matter to the targeted audience. A branding campaign... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Tourism
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    2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

    historical view of economics as an entirely secular product of the Enlightenment, religion exerted a powerful influence from the outset. The foundational transition that led to our modern thinking about capitalism, beginning in the 18th... View Details
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    2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

    whole story. Real interest rates have also experienced a secular decline and a subsequent sharp reversal which cannot be attributed to inflation. Their evolution suggests that other important factors related to real economic activity,... View Details
    • 01 Jun 2005
    • News

    Change of Pace

    between the liberal bishop and the GOP politician, who share an interest in putting the values of their Christian faith into action in the secular arena,” the Boston Globe (March 7, 2005) reported. Houghton, who himself at one time... View Details
    Keywords: GOP; Catholic; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
    • 07 Sep 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    Mindful Leadership: When East Meets West

    teamed with Tibetan Buddhist meditation master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche to present a conference on "mindful leadership," a secular process to explore the roles of self-awareness and self-compassion in developing strong and... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 31 May 2016
    • First Look

    May 31, 2016

    traditional U.S. public companies by more R&D–intensive firms is key to understanding the secular trend in average cash holdings. Over the last 35 years, an increasing share of R&D–intensive firms has entered the stock market with... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne