Economist - Publications - Faculty & Research

2010
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Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture

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

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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

30 Aug 2004
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Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset

The real estate business has become increasingly institutionalized, securitized, and professionalized. I am fascinated with the works of the Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto and why capital markets do not work in much of the non-West.... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Construction; Real Estate

25 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

The Secret Life of Supply Chains

divide, and to look instead at the hidden role of the supply chain economy in powering innovation and employment. It’s not surprising that most economists have focused on manufacturing when it comes to innovation. “It’s where the majority... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing; Service

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Opportunism and Earnings Manipulation: Evidence from Defined Benefit Pension Plans.” Josh Lerner : Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System Is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What To Do About It (Princeton University Press, 2004), with Adam... View Details

11 Jan 2010
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Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

resources to developing open source products. That sort of behavior is initially puzzling to economists because the firm is participating in the development of something that is going to be given away for free. Once you begin studying... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

debt. Enan, then 24 years old, leapt at the chance to work for Youssef Boutros-Ghali, an MIT-educated economist and advocate for trade liberalization who worked to reform Egypt’s social security and pension systems, among other... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

academics talk a good game about the need for interdisciplinary thinking, but we usually fall back on the strengths (or prejudices) of our primary discipline. Chandler was heavily influenced by sociologists such as Max Weber and Talcott Parsons, but also View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

into account, you're going to miss out on a big piece of the equation. It's not how economists would perceive it, weighing the costs and benefits. It's actually how much are you asking people to change, and are they willing to do it? In... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson