World Economy - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2015
News

Learning from Global Immersion Experiences

just India—to HBS and the best of HBS to the region.” Anjali Raina (AMP 174, 2008), Executive Director of HBS’s India Research Center With the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund predicting that India will overtake China as the... View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

A Binary Formula

buildings, this emphasis on science will affect HBS. The unique challenges of managing and leading science-based businesses — certain to be a driver of this century’s new economy — demand new management paradigms. For a core group of HBS... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; science; research; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

01 Sep 2020
News

Righting the Ship

economy. The way you save the economy and bring it back is to get the virus under control, right now. The third thing Shackleton teaches us: you can swear unchangeable, unassailable intransigence to the mission, but how you get it done is... View Details

17 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?

than traditional businesses that employ their workers. And so it seemed until June, when the California Labor Commission disrupted the sharing economy when it declared that an Uber driver was an employee, not an independent contractor.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service; Technology

30 Nov 2018
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy

01 Jun 2004
News

Books

“consumption-based economy of the early 20th century originated in the face-to-face selling strategies of peddlers and book canvassers of the previous generation.” The book begins in the early 1800s with a look at the hardships of the... View Details

Keywords: book review; faculty books; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

17 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 17, 2007

U.S. frontier. To address reverse-causality concerns, reduced-form specifications exploit exogenous changes in U.S. immigration quotas. Consistent with a model of sector reallocation, output growth in less developed economies is... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Feb 2011
News

A Capitalist in China

Kuhns: Wrote the book on Chinese business realities. When it comes to investing in China, financier and industrialist John Kuhns (MBA ’77) looks backward to see the way forward. “I have always invested in China based on my belief that it is an View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

12 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions

interview. "The start of properly regulating the economy is to understand how regulation is made, and this means forgetting what we thought we knew about the weakness of groups." A consumer policy expert, Trumbull wrote Strength in... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

When Reputation Trumps Regulation

governance violations were effectively cut off from the global capital markets and lost their future access to outside finance. A more reliable system for disclosure could allow far more firms from emerging economies to tap into the... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

23 May 2019
News

Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995

CFO: Unefon, Grupo Salinas, and Grupo Elektra 2002 Named CEO, Farmacias Benavides 2003 Named CFO, Vitro 2005 Named Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum 2007 Cofounds IGNIA 2007 Named Chairman of the Board, Accion International 2009... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2022
News

Contributing to a Better Future

School, Harvard University, and the worldwide business community, an undertaking that is ambitious, but with some historical precedent at HBS, Spar says. “When the United States was in World War II, the School played a major role in... View Details

Keywords: April White

04 May 2017
News

Going the Distance

Photo courtesy of Martin Frey Martin Frey (AMP 165, 2003) didn’t plan to become the first person in the world to climb the Seven Summits and sail the Seven Seas, an achievement that earned him placement in the Guinness View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

23 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?

The last six years have proved just how fluid the international oil market is. And if recent support of the Keystone Pipeline by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Nebraska Supreme Court (which approved the pipeline's path through that state) are any indication,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Richard H.K. Vietor; Energy; Utilities

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting

should, intervene to control economic fluctuations when economies got stuck in a suboptimal rut. In decades after World War II, econometric and policy-oriented forecasting came to dominate the field. Q: What... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

platforms, and hybrid platforms. We suggest that the world is moving towards more and more hybrids, and we identify the key steps in building a successful platform. 3) Failure is more likely than winner-take-all: mispricing, mistrust,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

individuals, subgroups, and teams perform. Paper: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=1534-0856&volume=15 The Political Economy of Bilateral Foreign Aid Author:Werker, Eric D. Publication:In Handbook of Safeguarding Global... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Apr 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

2018 London: Bloomsbury Academic Global History, Globally: Research and Practice Around the World By: Beckert, Sven, and Dominic Sachsenmaier, eds. Abstract— In recent years historians in many different parts of the View Details