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09 Feb 2021
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Open Source Developers Could be Worth Billions

31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

Any parent can tell you that a surefire way to turn joy into rage is to offer your child a big candy bar—and then turn around and offer an even bigger one to his sister. Suddenly, a special treat turns into a great injustice. "Hey! How come she got more? That's not... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

03 Jan 2014
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What's Wrong With GDP?

17 Jan 2018
News

What Does a C.E.O. Actually Do?

07 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism

If capitalism was the most influential single economic and social force of the 20th century (and continuing today), there is no better guide to understanding its power and complexity than famed economist Joseph Schumpeter, says Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

29 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'

Under chief economist Pat Bajari, Amazon has hired more than 150 PhD economists in five years. He’s also cornered the market on what might be called “rookie economists” just out of school. That crowns Amazon... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology; Education

Benjamin N. Roth

Ben Roth is the Purnima Puri and Richard Barrera Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. He is a development economist that employs both economic theory and field experimentation to pursue questions in two overlapping... View Details

17 Sep 2020
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We Really Shouldn’t Force People Back into the Office

06 Apr 2017
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Harvard Business School Professor Julio Rotemberg Dies at 63

26 Oct 2015
Working Paper Summaries

Applications of Fractional Response Model to the Study of Bounded Dependent Variables in Accounting Research

Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Ranjani Krishnan & Jeffrey M. Wooldridge; Accounting

17 Jan 2020
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Trump’s China tariffs have not caused Americans to pay $1,000 more a year. Here’s why.

01 Aug 2019
News

China Races Ahead of the U.S. in the Battle for 5G Supremacy

Ebehi Iyoha

Ebehi Iyoha is an Assistant Professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research interests lie at the intersection of industrial organization and international trade. Using a combination of structural and reduced-form methods,... View Details

18 Sep 2019
News

Norton: Simplicity Is The New Status Symbol

29 Dec 2015
News

Prison Breaks And Dishwasher Diplomacy

20 Jul 2016
News

Why the Justice Dept may block health insurer mergers

Zoe B. Cullen

Zoe Cullen graduated with a PhD from Stanford in Economics in 2016. She worked from 2016-2018 as the Chief Economist for an Asian bank on the roll out of a digital transaction platform. In 2018 she joined HBS as an Assistant Professor in the Entrepreneurial... View Details

07 Jul 2016
News

Research: Want More Entrepreneurs? Make College Cheaper

01 May 2006
What Do You Think?

Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?

of two economists, Galbraith and Milton Friedman, described by Time magazine in 1975 as the modern world's most important economists along with John Maynard Keynes and Adam Smith. There were remarkable similarities between them. Both... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

March 1996 (Revised August 1997)
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World to Mexico--Get a Grip!

By: Huw Pill and Courtenay Sprague

The views of three prominent international economists on the events leading to, and ensuing from, the Mexican peso crisis of December 1994 to March 1995. View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Mexico

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