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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
“To use economic terms, there are diminishing marginal returns to data-dumping in your answers.” — HBS professor emeritus John Kotter, author of Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down, on avoiding overuse of facts and... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
Incentive Plan By: Chung, Doug J., Thomas Steenburgh, and K. Sudhir Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:http://www.europeanfinancialreview.com/ August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics Acquirer-Target Social Ties and Merger... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
devised, which paved the way for the use of quantitative analysis in formal strategic planning. In 1944, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern published their classic work, The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. This work essentially... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 25 Sep 2008
- News
Been There, Seen That
the energy crisis, and (2) the economic meltdown. I’ve been rereading Energy Future, HBS professor emeritus Robert Stobaugh’s 1979 best-seller that predicted America’s dependence on foreign oil could well lead the country into serious... View Details
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-004.pdf What Should GAAP Look Like? A Survey and Economic Analysis (revised) Authors:S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner Abstract Based on extant literature, we articulate a positive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Clusters and Competition
William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard, whose ideas have been applied to improve the economic performance of companies, cities, states, regions, and entire nations. “This goes beyond the traditional writing of articles and... View Details
- Other Unpublished Work
Inflation Uncertainty and the Wage Bargain
By: Lucy White and Hans-Joachim Voth
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
threats to the global economic system. It survived two world wars and the Great Depression. It won the Cold War. Doesn’t capitalism reign supreme in the 21st century? Looking forward, we certainly can see challenges that will have to be... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Comeback Trail
Edited by Dan Morrell; illustrations by David Plunkert According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the United States’ current recession began in February, just as the first impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic began to slow... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Senior Executive Programme Strengthens African Managerial Leadership
One key to becoming more integrated into the global marketplace will be southern Africa's ability to respond to the radical economic and social changes taking place in its own backyard. "This not only poses complex challenges for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Entrepreneurial Unit Travels to China
changes in the Chinese economic and social system, and to see how entrepreneurship is being facilitated to play a role in this,” said Senior Lecturer Dan Isenberg, who helped organize the visits to Beijing, Hangzhou, and Shanghai. The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
in the economic crisis that hit last fall. Howell and I have been working on these issues for a decade. With the economic crisis, the issues of household debt, retail financial services, and regulation in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Imagine an Economy Without Wall Street
and capital only serve to stifle economic growth and opportunity, Nohria wrote. He also took note of critics who point to instances of global financial misdeeds, mistakes, or crises over the past decade and attack Wall Street for its... View Details
- 1998
- Chapter
Wage Bargaining, Labour Markets and Macroeconomic Performance in the Netherlands
By: Gunnar Trumbull, Anne Wren, Bob Hancke and David Soskice
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Where the Jobs Are
With U.S. economic recovery limping along and unemployment hovering above 9 percent, the Washington debate over regulatory and tax policies needed to spur economic revival has shifted into high gear. Outside... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Averting Crisis
data, the project also convenes researchers, policymakers, and financial executives to exchange ideas with BFFS faculty. The goal is to empower the project’s research to have broad real-world impact, sharing knowledge that could help prevent another View Details
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
PublicationsLabor Regulations and European Venture Capital Authors:Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr Publication:Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables
by Susan Young For some people, the words "new economy" describe the advent of a revolutionary economic order based on technology-related innovation, entrepreneurial management, and information-driven enterprise. Others question the... View Details
- July 2000
- Article
Competition and Human Capital Accumulation: A Theory of Interregional Specialization and Trade
By: Julio J. Rotemberg and G. Saloner
Rotemberg, Julio J., and G. Saloner. "Competition and Human Capital Accumulation: A Theory of Interregional Specialization and Trade." Regional Science and Urban Economics 30, no. 4 (July 2000): 373–404.
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Emerging Information
fruitless attempts to access information during a stint with KPMG Peat Marwick in Poland and while working with an economic reform team in Russia. Mueller credits his brother George, his business partner and technology expert, with the... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman