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- 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
- 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
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
Source: Raw Pixel Stockbrokers are taking advantage of their privileged position to increase profits for favored investors and hedge funds, all at the expense of their other customers, new research suggests. A team of economists has found... View Details
- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
of late nineteenth century economist Max Weber; it’s called bureaucracy.) At the HBX Live event, Christensen explained why business practitioners should care about theory in the first place. “We teach our students to be data-driven,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
(formerly known as Project Antares), a collaboration between HBS and HSPH that intends to use business and markets to break the perverse synergy between poverty and poor health. Says HSPH professor and Antares cofounder David Bloom, an View Details
- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
media creator for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. Related Reading: Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores? Behavioral Economists Can Make You a Healthier Consumer and Smarter Marketer Research Paper: The... View Details
- 12 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist
benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” This position sharply contrasts to Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman’s famous 1970 article, The... View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
economist and Harvard President Emeritus Lawrence H. Summers, University of Michigan Professor Gerald Davis, and Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at HBS. In her presentation, Kanter... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
was not. The Economist reported at the time that there were many warning flags of the EC's intent to scuttle the deal. For some time, the magazine pointed out, a philosophical gap had been widening between Europe and America over the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
regenerating our deprived communities, improving financial inclusion, and realizing the potential of our disadvantaged youth.” Described by The Economist as “the compassionate capitalist,” Cohen is happy to say he’s not alone. “Just... View Details
- 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
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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
- 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
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Why Many Businesses Are Becoming More Vocal In Support of LGBTQ Rights
year, Texas lawmakers pursued a similar “bathroom bill” and economists predicted massive losses: in tourism alone, $3.3 billion in annual gross product and 35,600 full-time jobs — just initially. The legislation failed, but the state... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 25 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset
has been to fill a gap in COVID-19 data. By creating a higher resolution dataset/map, we’ve enabled policymakers, epidemiologists, and economists to perform more representative and applicable research that will inform local policy... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
of Soviet times were abandoned—and with them the schools, hospitals, and infrastructure that had been built and sustained by large Soviet subsidies. Western economists urged the Kazakh government to break up the collectives into privately... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge