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  • September 2017
  • Teaching Note

The Productivity Decline: Demographics, Robots, or Globalization?

By: Laura Alfaro and Hayley Pallan
In the early 21st century, there was a noticeable trend of declining productivity growth. Despite the persistent decline in productivity growth, a consensus on its explanation had not been reached. Some of the debate focused on the technicalities of productivity... View Details
Keywords: Performance Productivity; Measurement and Metrics; Technological Innovation; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Globalization; Business and Government Relations
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  • 07 Mar 2019
  • HBS Seminar

Petra Moser, NYU Stern School of Business

  • 25 Oct 2018
  • HBS Seminar

Fanyin Zheng, Columbia University

  • 21 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 21

Rank-Order Tournaments Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau, Constance E. Helfat, Karim R. Lakhani, and Michael Menietti Abstract Economic analysis of rank-order tournaments has shown that intensified competition leads to declining performance.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Oct 2010
  • News

Cool. So we are not alone

  • 03 Dec 2014
  • HBS Seminar

Ginger Jin, University of Maryland

    Amitabh Chandra

    Amitabh Chandra is the Henry and Allison McCance Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School where he is the Faculty Chair of the joint View Details

    • 11 Jul 2018
    • News

    Airbnb benefits local economies. But mainly in white neighborhoods, study finds.

      Sebastian Hillenbrand

      Sebastian Hillenbrand is an Assistant Professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the Finance I course in the MBA required curriculum.  

      Sebastian’s research interests are in behavioral and... View Details

        Shane M. Greenstein

        Shane Greenstein is the Martin Marshall Professor of Business Administration. He teaches in the Technology, Operations and Management Unit. 

        Encompassing a wide array of questions about computing, communication, and Internet markets, Professor Greenstein’s... View Details

        Keywords: computer; information technology industry; electronics; information; e-commerce industry; internet; software
        • 10 Feb 2022
        • Research & Ideas

        Why Are Prices So High Right Now—and Will They Ever Return to Normal?

        tend to drive up prices, typically for three to four months. But as the COVID-19 pandemic wears on, some shortages, especially food and electronics, are likely to linger much longer. That means higher prices are probably here to stay for a while as well, according to... View Details
        Keywords: by Rachel Layne
        • Article

        Entrepreneurship: Field of Dreams?

        This paper has two objectives. We begin by contrasting two potential paths for future research in entrepreneurship. One is the establishment of an independent field of research with a clear jurisdiction, a common theoretical canon, and autonomy from related fields. The... View Details
        Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Research; Interests
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          Robert C. Merton

          Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

          Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

          Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
          • 10 Oct 2023
          • Research & Ideas

          In Empowering Black Voters, Did a Landmark Law Stir White Angst?

          political participation and bolstered economic conditions for Black communities. But the law also galvanized "racially conservative" white voters, stoking their fear of losing power and influence, a dynamic that lingers today, write View Details
          Keywords: by Rachel Layne

            Teresa M. Amabile

            Teresa Amabile is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. Originally educated and employed as a chemist, Teresa received her Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University. Her current research investigates how people approach and... View Details

            • 17 Aug 2018
            • News

            How your peers can help your start-up

              Maria P. Roche

              Maria Roche is an Assistant Professor in the Strategy Unit. She teaches the MBA elective Innovating at Scale and contributes to teaching in executive education programs. Her research examines how specialized knowledge is commercialized and how... View Details

              Keywords: education industry; biotechnology; high technology
              • September 2017 (Revised August 2018)
              • Case

              The Productivity Decline: Demographics, Robots, or Globalization?

              By: Laura Alfaro, Hayley Pallan and Sarah Jeong
              In the early 21st century, there was a noticeable trend of declining productivity growth. Despite the persistent decline in productivity growth, a consensus on its explanation had not been reached. Some of the debate focused on the technicalities of productivity... View Details
              Keywords: Productivity; Performance Productivity; Measurement and Metrics; Technological Innovation; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Globalization; Business and Government Relations
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              • March 2006
              • Case

              The Whitesides Lab

              By: H. Kent Bowen and Francesca Gino
              A significant part of the long-term economic growth in developed economies depends on the translation of scientific research into new products and processes. Focuses on the front end of this value creation stream. The laboratory of George Whitesides has a 30-year... View Details
              Keywords: Research; Performance Productivity; Economic Growth; Infrastructure; Creativity; Groups and Teams; Value Creation; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Leadership; Resource Allocation
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              • November 2007
              • Article

              Innovation and Incentives: Evidence from Corporate R&D

              By: Josh Lerner and Julie Wulf
              Beginning in the late 1980s, American corporations began increasingly linking the compensation of central research personnel to the economic objectives of the corporation. This paper examines the impact of the shifting compensation of the heads of corporate research... View Details
              Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Motivation and Incentives; Goals and Objectives; Research and Development; Patents; Employee Stock Ownership Plan
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