Economists - Publications - Faculty & Research

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... View Details

Keywords: 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,... View Details

Keywords: 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... View Details

Keywords: 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... View Details

Keywords: Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

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

Keywords: Garry Emmons

23 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

payments, and are forgivable if firms use the cash infusion for essentials like rent and to retain most workers. A catastrophe in France A dozen years ago, as the Great Recession unfolded, French small businesses also faced catastrophic prospects, or what View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

06 Jan 2003
What Do You Think?

China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?

Original Article It was recently announced in somewhat wondrous tones that new car sales in China this past year exceeded one million. Reports in BusinessWeek and Forbes trumpet the growth of China and the size and promise of Chinese markets. Several View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Ray A. Goldberg

himself to return to the family business. In his second year in the MBA Program, Goldberg cross-registered for a course "across the river" with Professor John D. Black, a prominent agricultural economist who became his mentor... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Agriculture & Agribusiness

23 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle

in the development of what economists term "agglomeration economies" in the regions with the greatest venture capital activity. The efficiency of the venture capital process itself has been greatly augmented by the emergence of... View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner; Financial Services

24 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

How Kayak Users Built a New Industry

in how designs are created and then turned into real things. Many management scholars and economists fall into the habit of thinking that innovation is something that firms uniquely do in order to make money. But Eric von Hippel and his... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation

06 Nov 2019
Op-Ed

Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything

The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy

07 Oct 2015
What Do You Think?

What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?

infusions (say, from the IMF) may actually backfire because they eventually lead to longer life expectancy, further population growth, greater consumption of output produced by the investment, and a return to the previous condition of poverty. View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Jun 2022
News

Banquet Brings Latino Alumni Back Together; Dallas Club Marks 75 Years with a Look Ahead

of activities celebrating its 75th anniversary, the HBS Club of Dallas recently presented a fireside chat on “The Future of Dallas,” with Cullum Clark, an urban economist and thought leader on the future of cities. Van Sheets (right),... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

Technological Eclecticism Could Help Journal of Applied Corporate Finance Amar Bhidé “Keynes thought it would be ‘splendid’ if economists became more like dentists. Disciplinary economics has instead become more like physics in focusing... View Details

11 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives

You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

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Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Effect of Federal Taxes on Growing Enterprises . Study No. 2 focused on Polaroid as representative of the post-war financial issues facing new, expanding firms without large capital resources. Both graduates of Harvard's economics department, John Lintner went on to... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer

departments. The fact is, we are a magazine for practicing managers, and practicing managers need good ideas more than six times a year. What are HBR’s goals? As the Economist says, HBR single-handedly sets the agenda for business in the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

04 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

cycles The crisis demonstrates, painfully, the importance of cash. In his famous essay "The Yield from Money Held,” the economist William Hutt described cash in your pocket or on the balance sheet as “a fire engine when there are no... View Details

Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes

31 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants

Entrepreneurship,” written with his wife Sari Pekkala Kerr, a labor economist at Wellesley College. The paper uses a unique new database to track immigrants’ entrepreneurial activity over the past few decades, revealing, for example, what... View Details