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- 30 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One
important implications in an election year marked by widespread protests. Harvard Business School Professor Vincent Pons teamed up with Amory Gethin, a fellow economist at the World Bank Development Research Group, to study 14 major...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
discoveries. The Irrational Economist challenges the conventional wisdom about how to make the right decisions in the new era we have entered. It reveals a profound revolution in thinking as understood by some of the greatest minds in our...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions
he is at odds with the theories of economist Mancur Olson, whose 1965 book, The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, sparked a generation of political scientists and regulation theorists, including George...
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by Kim Girard
- 24 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought
passed since risky mortgage lending, excessive borrowing, and soaring housing prices collided in 2008 to trigger one of the more severe financial crises in American history. Since then, economists have been studying the factors that led...
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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog
("Macroeconomic and Financial Dynamics") uses the experience of a famous economist (John Maynard Keynes) and several countries which have suffered through tremendous economic dislocation to identify and develop the issues of...
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- 23 Jan 2008
- Op-Ed
A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?
place to live than the linchpin of an investment strategy. Economists praised homeownership as "forced savings": People might eventually pay off their 30-year fixed-rate mortgages, celebrating with neighbors at mortgage-burning...
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- 27 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
equipment. Amabile hastens to add that user innovation is nothing new; necessity has long been the mother of invention. (See, for example, economist Eric von Hippel’s paper The Dominant Role of Users in the Scientific Instrument...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
socially responsible a company was. Marquis and his fellow researchers based their inquiry on a similar study regarding individual decision-making done by UCLA economist Keith Chen. In a paper published in the American Economic Review in...
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by Michael Blanding
- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
important contributor to sustained economic growth than such things as openness to trade, a competitive exchange rate, level of foreign investment, or the quality and stability of a country's political institutions. At the risk of oversimplifying a complex analysis,...
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by Jim Heskett
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
new book, Obliquity, by British economist John Kay. You might guess that Kay thinks profit as a "direct goal" is overrated, otherwise he wouldn't have much substance for a book on the subject. Kay argues that business problems...
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by Jim Heskett
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
Associate Professor Raffaella Sadun (left) and Professor Leemore Dafny (right); image by John Ritter Professors Raffaella Sadun and Leemore Dafny are both economists who have studied hospitals extensively—Sadun’s research has looked at...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
as a Nonprofit Management Fellow at a UN economic institute in Belgrade in 1990. “And with so many international students at the School, one truly becomes a world citizen through one's HBS friends.” Meanwhile, at the Kennedy School, Djelic met View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
bureaucracy can be wildly at odds with what entrepreneurs and their backers really need. Economists have also focused on a second problem, delineated in the theory of regulatory capture. These writings suggest that private- and...
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- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
there was virtually no debate whatsoever that the federal government should step into the breach.— David A. Moss At the same time, in designing risk management policies, lawmakers always have to be exceedingly careful about a phenomenon that View Details
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by Laura Linard
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
This made it appear as though the credit supply was expanding, because the run on credit looks like new loans being written on a bank’s balance sheet. In fact, Ivashina says, even after the publication of her 2009 findings with David Scharfstein on bank lending, many...
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- 11 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’
that they posed a threat to the nation state. Yet as historians, economists and other scholars have discovered that globalization has a long history, so the role of business enterprises has tended to be written out of the script. The...
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Re: Geoffrey G. Jones
- 18 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
4 Advantages of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
Harvard,” I found my post-HBS job with a group of economists from across the river in Cambridge (i.e. where most of Harvard’s campus is located). The venture—QuantCo—is a global, Boston-based, financial technology company building...
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- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Reconsidering Retirement
economist Burt Malkiel (MBA 1955), former chair of the Yale endowment Charley Ellis (MBA 1963), and former head of IBM’s investment funds Jay Vivian (MBA 1978) to serve on the Rebalance Investment Committee. The company has also invested...
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- 26 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?
Bangladesh. Hussam—along with Erin Kelley, an economist at the World Bank; Gregory Lane, an assistant professor at American University; and Fatima Zahra, a research fellow from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health—seek to take...
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by Danielle Kost
- 28 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Property Ownership Changes Your World View
I think that the rejection of pro-market reforms in Latin America or Eastern Europe or Africa is not related to economic interests, as most economists claim, but to the way that people see the world," says Di Tella. "We think...
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by Julia Hanna