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- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
endowments would not necessarily result in similar returns. The Empirical Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Innovation: Puzzles and Clues Author: Josh Lerner Publication: American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings (forthcoming) Abstract View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
be enormous. Though economists should treat the prospect of a developed space economy with healthy skepticism, it would be irresponsible to treat it as science fiction. In this article, I provide an analytical framework—based on classic... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
economist Milton Friedman as both a sign of growing academic skepticism about managerialism and an important cultural event in its own right. In his article, Friedman argued that the sole concern of American business should be the... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
90th anniversary is a sensible time to revisit a basic question: Are organizations more likely to succeed if they adopt good management practices? The answer may seem obvious to most HBR readers, but these three economists cast their net... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
obsolete.” Doriot was one of the century’s most visionary thinkers. He was early to recognize the importance of globalization and creativity in the business world. And decades before economists appreciated the value of technology, Doriot... View Details
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
Reputational Risk Not surprisingly, as corporate social responsibility and sustainability have increased in importance, so has managing reputational risk, which is now seen as one of the most important and difficult risks to manage. A survey of senior executives by The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
15 moratorium that shut down universities across the country to protest the Vietnam War. That demonstration brought Harvard University economist John Kenneth Galbraith to the HBS campus for a speech against the war, followed by a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
is commonplace, workers exert effort, there are high-powered contracts (and income is unequally distributed) and punishments are harsh. Economists who believe that deterrence (rather than retribution) shapes punishment can interpret the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
When you pitch your business, the story is everything, right? Daniel Kahneman the economist says, "Nobody ever did anything for a number. They did it because of a story." And I think the liberal arts gives you the basis for storytelling... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
the arguments of economists like Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz offering remedies for income inequality. Drawing on a historical study of the ebbs and flows of the US economy, he proposes ways to grow the economy faster, which will... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
19th, they paradoxically sought to make the world safe for “capitalists.” The word “socialists” was first used in northern Italy as a term of contempt for the political economists and legal reformers Pietro Verri and Cesare Beccaria,... View Details
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countries (Chinese investments in Africa, or climate change). The course itself consists of four modules. The first module ("Macroeconomic and Financial Dynamics") uses the experience of a famous economist (John Maynard Keynes) and... View Details