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- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
of social science and intellectual history more generally. In this book, some of the world’s leading economists and experts on Serra explore the enduring appeal of his Short Treatise. The authors analyse the work in its historical,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
a principle that behavioral economists now emphasize: the importance of salient feedback in affecting customer choice, especially when long-term costs of a purchase (health care, trucks) or one's behavior (eating, driving habits) are... View Details
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
and economist Warren Persons, gained international renown for its three-curve A-B-C chart, which rendered business fluctuations as the ebb and flow of speculation (A), business (B), and banking (C). The service was directed by C. J.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
short-term moves such as layoffs, interpreted by some as running counter to the Statement’s ideals, were balanced by concern for the long-term survival of the organization so important to other employees able to keep their jobs. In the midst of this debate, Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
Harvard Business School professors Raffaella Sadun and Leemore Dafny are both economists who have studied hospitals extensively—Sadun’s research has looked at the economics of management, while Dafny’s examines interactions between health... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs
stock price falls substantially, the CEO will be left holding options that have lost most of their value (a scenario economists describe as "out of the money"). And while there may be some chance of getting these options back... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 25 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.
in the twisted web of Washington fundraising and lobbying that can definitively prove dollar x bought result y. Perhaps that's why there has been such little empirical research among economists on the issue. "The whole perspective of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless
findings suggest that women (or other minorities) might be better able to maximize their voice by increasing their representation more broadly, rather than targeting a few high-level positions. Informal ways of influence are of great interest to Iyer, an View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
6 (June 2009) Abstract Duke behavioral economist Ariely and Harvard Business School professor Norton explore how our consumption of concepts influences physical consumption, both positively and negatively. Read the article:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
monitoring management. While the Economist magazine recently suggested that we are in an era of the "imperial shareholder," our results indicate that activism tends to be most successful when there is a high probability of a... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
business can get a loan.” Small Businesses Strengthen US Supply Chains The current global supply chain back-up underscores the importance of valuing and fostering small manufacturers and service providers. Referencing her work (see below) with View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
Business Policy area, are economists with particular expertise in competitive strategy. Professor Stephen P. Bradley, who heads the unit, is enthusiastic about the group's influence: "We are at the forefront of our field," he says, "doing... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
In a predawn phone call on October 14, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informed HBS professor Robert C. Merton that he had won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics. Merton's work evaluating risk has changed the nature of financial markets worldwide. At 53, he is the... View Details
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
important social welfare benefit by facilitating the initiation of M&A deals. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52924 A Welfarist Role for Nonwelfarist Rules: An Example with Envy By: Weinzierl, Matthew Abstract—I propose and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Mar 2023
- News
Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year
Clubs News Clubs News HBS Association of Boston Commemorates Centennial In 2023, the HBS Association of Boston (HBSAB) is commemorating its Centennial Year with activities and events aimed at celebrating a century of alumni accomplishments, exploring the trends shaping... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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leadership at HBS. Read the essay Andrew F. Brimmer "I do feel that the economic plight of blacks is a serious matter. So I bring the same economist's tool kit to that subject as other economists bring to examine other national economic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
term. So interested was the public in its findings and analysis, the book became a widely praised New York Times bestseller. It was also “a model of what university research and monograph writing on a major question of policy should be,” declared Harvard View Details