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- 13 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Experimental Researcher Helps Improve Health Care in Zambia
Sometimes big ideas start with small experiments. That's been the experience of Harvard Business School professor Nava Ashraf, whose experimental approach to research in developing countries has produced insights that have influenced government policies. Ashraf, an...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Evergreen Business
countryside, of yelling ‘Timberrrr!’ as daddy cuts down a tree.” It’s the same impulse that led Kok to buy the farm in 1980. A former EPA chief economist who now heads the investment banking firm Johan Hekelaar, Kok was looking for a...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- Fast Answer
FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Turkey
Click on Browse by Location and navigate to the country of interest. Use the tools on the right side of the results screen to refine your search. Statista Country information and data World Development Indicators Economist...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Get Companies to Invest More in Low-Wage Workers?
Inequality in society has been studied from almost every angle. Among others, French economist Thomas Piketty has provided ample evidence of trends in inequality, their causes, and their consequences. We’re reminded constantly of the...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Renter’s Market
City–based Redbrick with an economist partner in 2002. “Millions of individuals buy a unit or two to rent out as income producers,” Lee says. “But there existed no fund that went after single-family houses in some sort of aggregate way...
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- 06 Jul 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?
wisdom in areas such as economics and management truly threatened? Is it too early to tell? To what extent should the findings of neuroscientists and behavioral economists be incorporated into the business school curriculum? How do we...
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by Jim Heskett
- 28 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business
establishments would go under. “We see that lower-rated restaurants generally go out of business at higher rates, so they already tend to be living closer to the edge,” says Michael Luca, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, who conducted the research...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Books
financial globalization; and the challenges and policies of large economies. The cases, set in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the United States, approach these themes by exploring institutional detail in deep local context, exposing readers to recent key...
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- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
less burdensome for all citizens. "While the idea of a height tax follows directly from the standard economic framework for tax analysis, most people find the idea crazy," allows HBS professor Matthew C. Weinzierl, an economist...
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by Martha Lagace
- Portrait Project
Joel Bryce
spend 70 hours busing across Southern Africa? Fair questions. But. . .I'm afraid I don't have the answers. So go ahead. Cold call me. I'll look like I did on the first day of class. I may stumble over my words and say that it may be the story of my great-grandfather –...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
From venture capitalist to 'compassionate capitalist'
First he pioneered the British venture capitalist industry, cofounding Apax Partners in 1972. Then Sir Ronald M. Cohen (MBA 1969) led the way in social investment, prompting The Economist to call him “the compassionate capitalist.” Now he...
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- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
reality into the discussion by commenting that free trade and free markets, as described by economists in their theories, are both a delusion. “Trade today is pretty much an evil mixture of economics and politics, and markets are often...
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by James Heskett
- 03 Mar 2010
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?
Identity Economics, by Nobel Prize-winning economist George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton, takes this thinking to a macro-economic level. In their view, an organization (and even entire societies) works well when people personally identify...
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by Jim Heskett
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South Asia - Global Activities 2020
their BRI research to distinguished guests, including the World Bank’s lead economist for Myanmar, the Netherlands’ ambassador to Myanmar, and alumni. Myanmar Students presented their BRI research to distinguished guests, including the...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
Professor Rebecca Henderson, Photo credit: Susan Young Rebecca Henderson is worried about the current state of capitalism in America. The noted economist says that increasing global crises and challenges to democracy are posing some of...
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Prelude - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
economics through his working relationship with Paul Samuelson. Perhaps more than any other economist to date, Paul Samuelson is credited with ushering in the modern era of mathematical economic analysis incorporating formal probability...
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- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative
of a nascent development project that some compare to Shanghai’s thriving Pudong district. Research symposium Students had the opportunity to present their BRI research to alumni and other guests, including the World Bank’s lead economist...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Professors Fox, Mace Remembered
In March, the School lost two of its most distinguished and loyal professors, Bertrand Fox and Myles Mace. The following profiles recall their contributions to HBS. Professor emeritus Bertrand Fox, an economist and investment banking...
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- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
seeing its real importance. It didn't help that economists also thought that selling was unimportant in influencing markets and that door-to-door selling declined in the United States in the final decades of the 20th century. But scholars...
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- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
ways that are often invisible. A provocative new book by economists Adam B. Jaffe and Josh Lerner describes what's wrong, but shines a light on ways to fix the system, too. Their book, Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent...
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by Ann Cullen