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  • 08 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 8, 2010

literature on willpower. Understanding how willpower develops can shed important light on time-inconsistent economic decision making, a topic that has received substantial attention over recent decades. In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Gabe Weinreb

    I am a second-year PhD student in the Health Policy and Management program at Harvard Business School where my advisor is Dr. Rob Huckman. I live in Brookline with my fiance Natalie and our two cats, Joe and Huey. Before grad school I was a research assistant in the... View Details
    • 20 Dec 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

    the Canal Zone to Panama, with far-reaching implications for Panamanian economic development and U.S. relations with Latin America. Goethals mobilized a strong lobbying effort to kill the proposal to give... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation
    • January 2009
    • Case

    Creating The Partnership Solutions Group at Lehman Brothers

    By: David A. Thomas and Stephanie Creary
    Explores how two senior Wall St. executives created a successful commercial opportunity for Lehman Brothers that focused on building relationships with minority- and women-owned financial services firms. Illustrates how Patricia Miller Zollar and Nadja Fidelia aligned... View Details
    Keywords: Diversity; Gender; Partners and Partnerships; Power and Influence; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry
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    • 24 Mar 2015
    • News

    Integrated Reporting: Corporate Disclosure for China’s “New Normal”

    • 18 Jun 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement

    Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details
    Keywords: by by Janelle Conaway; Green Technology; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing
    • January 2008 (Revised July 2009)
    • Case

    Forecasting the Great Depression

    By: Walter A. Friedman
    What is proper role of professional economic forecasting in financial decision making? The case presents excerpts from three leading economic forecasters on the eve of, and just after, the stock market crash of October 1929. The first set of excerpts is from Roger... View Details
    Keywords: History; Mathematical Methods; Personal Development and Career; Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Crisis
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    • 25 Jan 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

    on how the economic system works and what history teaches us, business readers might turn to A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know, by Harvard Business School professor David A. Moss, who... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 Jul 2016
    • News

    Powering Up Our World

    • November 1995 (Revised January 1998)
    • Case

    Transformation of Pratt & Whitney North Haven (A)

    By: H. Kent Bowen, Linda A. Hill, Andrew P. Burtis, Sylvie Ryckebusch and John Schiavone
    Pratt & Whitney is a leader in the development and manufacturing of gas turbine engines for commercial and military aircraft. Economic conditions for the airline and defense industries are forcing the airplane engine builders to restructure. Ed Northern, a new general... View Details
    Keywords: Transformation; Restructuring; Production; Opportunities; Economy; Aerospace Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Connecticut
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    • 06 Jul 2016
    • News

    For small businesses, a good guide is a good start

    • July 2012
    • Supplement

    Generation Investment Management, Video

    By: Sandra J. Sucher
    Examines the Investment process of Generation Investment Management, a "sustainable" investing firm established in 2004 by David Blood and U.S. Vice President Al Gore. Places students in the position of David Lowish, director of global industrials, who must decide... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership And Managing People; Accountability; Investment Management; Social Issues; Investment; Corporate Accountability; Ethics; Development Economics; Natural Environment; Financial Services Industry; Energy Industry
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    • March 2010 (Revised June 2011)
    • Case

    Mirae Asset: Korea's Mutual Fund Pioneer

    By: Mukti Khaire, Michael Shih-ta Chen and G.A. Donovan
    Park Hyeon-Joo, the founder and chairman of Korea's earliest and largest mutual fund company, plans to expand internationally. After first offering emerging market funds to its Korean customers, the company then began selling local-currency funds in India and Brazil.... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Global Strategy; Emerging Markets; Financial Services Industry; South Korea
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    • Research Summary

    Game Theory for Business Strategy

    Game theory--the mathematical study of strategic interactions--came of age, in a sense, when three of the field's pioneers were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994. Yet despite the development of the theory and the widespread use of game-theoretic jargon in... View Details
    • October 2018
    • Article

    Africa Rising? A Historical Perspective

    By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
    Sub-Saharan Africa’s recent economic boom has raised hopes and expectations to lift the regions’ ‘bottom millions’ out of poverty by 2030. How realistic is that goal? We approach this question by comparing the experiences of three front-runners of region-specific... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Growth; Economy; Transformation; Poverty; History; Africa
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    • Research Summary

    Macroeconomic management

    By: Richard H.K. Vietor
    Richard H. K. Vietor has been studying how national governments foster economic development and compete in a globalized economy. He has been researching these activities in ten countries, publishing the results first in 2007, in a book entitled How Countries... View Details
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    Mathematical Appendix to "What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns"

    • December 2014 (Revised March 2018)
    • Case

    John D. Rockefeller: The Richest Man in the World

    By: Tom Nicholas and Vasiliki Fouka
    By the late nineteenth century scale and managerial hierarchies had extended to several major industrial sectors of the U.S. economy. Although the precise mechanisms often varied, this process mainly involved horizontal integration, some form of legal or administrative... View Details
    Keywords: Horizontal Integration; Wealth; Business History; Vertical Integration; Consolidation; Personal Development and Career; Energy Industry; United States
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    • 08 Dec 2006
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Industry R&D Survey: Patent Database Link Project

    Keywords: by William R. Kerr & Shihe Fu; Technology
    • September 2020
    • Article

    Community-Level Postmaterialism and Anti-Migrant Attitudes:: An Original Survey on Opposition to Sub-Saharan African Migrants in the Middle East

    By: Matt Buehler, Kristin Fabbe and Kyung Joon Han
    Why do native citizens of the Middle East and North Africa express greater opposition to certain types of migrants, refugees, and displaced persons? Why, particularly, do they express greater opposition to sub-Saharan African migrants? This article investigates these... View Details
    Keywords: Postmaterialism; Immigration; Attitudes; Prejudice and Bias; Surveys; Africa; Middle East
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