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- 14 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
10 Things I Learned During My First Month in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
I only had one week before classes started. On August 6th, I entered Pierce Hall on the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) campus to start the program. It’s been just... View Details
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The Economic Modeling of Strategy Process: 'Clean Models' and 'Dirty Hands'
Khanna, Tarun, Ranjay Gulati, and Nitin Nohria. "The Economic Modeling of Strategy Process: 'Clean Models' and 'Dirty Hands'." Strategic Management Journal 21, no. 7 (July 2000): 781–790.
- 13 Feb 2023
- News
Alumnus Gift Will Nurture Basic, Therapeutic Science
Ernesto Bertarelli (right) joins HMS Dean George Q. Daley and Harvard University President-elect Claudine Gay on the HMS campus in the courtyard of Building C, which will be enclosed to create a new skylighted atrium, thanks to a... View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
The $1 Trillion Link Between Mental Health and Economic Productivity
mental health is an outcome of improvements in economic development.” “We haven’t been as good at understanding the link between mental health and economics as we could be” A... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt
information about the risk of future economic crashes and deserve more scrutiny from policymakers, economists, and regulators. The paper emerges after years of persistent... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- September 2020
- Article
Creativity, Artificial Intelligence, and a World of Surprises
In recent years, progress has been made toward AI Creativity, which I define as the production of highly novel, yet appropriate, ideas, problem solutions, or other outputs by autonomous machines. I argue that organizational researchers of creativity and innovation... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; AI Creativity; Computer Science; Organizational Behavior; Psychology; Creativity; Technological Innovation; AI and Machine Learning
Amabile, Teresa M. "Creativity, Artificial Intelligence, and a World of Surprises." Academy of Management Discoveries 6, no. 3 (September 2020): 351–354.
- June 1996 (Revised November 1996)
- Background Note
Economic Gains from Trade: Comparative Advantage
By: Robert E. Kennedy and Nancy F. Koehn
How nations trade and whether they benefit from it are two of the oldest and most important questions in political economy. In the 170 years since David Ricardo formally developed the theory of comparative advantage, it has become one of the principles most widely... View Details
Kennedy, Robert E., and Nancy F. Koehn. "Economic Gains from Trade: Comparative Advantage." Harvard Business School Background Note 796-183, June 1996. (Revised November 1996.)
- 2013
- Chapter
Capturing History: The Case of the Federal Radio Commission in 1927
By: David Moss and Jonathan Lackow
In the study of regulation (and political economy more generally), there is a danger that historical inferences from theory may infect historical tests of theory. It is imperative, therefore, that historical tests always involve a vigorous search not only for... View Details
Keywords: Capture; History By Inference; Economic Theory Of Regulation; Federal Radio Commission; Theory; Economics; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
Moss, David, and Jonathan Lackow. "Capturing History: The Case of the Federal Radio Commission in 1927." Chap. 8 in Preventing Regulatory Capture: Special Interest Influence and How to Limit It, edited by Daniel Carpenter and David Moss. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- 2004
- Working Paper
Bottlenecks, Beliefs, and Breakthroughs: The Normative Logic of Economic Reform in Vietnam
Abrami, Regina M. "Bottlenecks, Beliefs, and Breakthroughs: The Normative Logic of Economic Reform in Vietnam." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 05-007, July 2004.
- 27 Jul 2016
- News
The 27 best health and science books to read this summer
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
a nation still shadowed by Mao Zedong’s controversial legacy institute market-based reforms that have made the country the world’s second-largest economic power. He has helped document that journey as the author View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- December 2016 (Revised January 2017)
- Case
Nutrition Science Initiative: Are All Calories Created Equal?
By: Kevin Schulman and Matan Dabora
In 2012, Gary Taubes lunched the Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI), a not-for-profit organization aiming to question the mainstream scientific paradigm regarding obesity and dietary recommendations. This case provides a brief scientific background on obesity and its... View Details
Schulman, Kevin, and Matan Dabora. "Nutrition Science Initiative: Are All Calories Created Equal?" Harvard Business School Case 317-033, December 2016. (Revised January 2017.)
- June 2013
- Article
Opting-in: Participation Bias in Economic Experiments
By: Robert Slonim, Carmen Wang, Ellen Garbarino and Danielle Merrett
Assuming individuals rationally decide whether to participate or not to participate in lab experiments, we hypothesize several non-representative biases in the characteristics of lab participants. We test the hypotheses by first collecting survey and experimental data... View Details
Slonim, Robert, Carmen Wang, Ellen Garbarino, and Danielle Merrett. "Opting-in: Participation Bias in Economic Experiments." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 90 (June 2013): 43–70.
- 31 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
5 Things on My Mind in the Second Year of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
engineering quite yet. I chose Harvard’s MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program because of its interdisciplinary approach to bridge the gap between engineering and business. I saw that the program consisted... View Details