Economists - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

individuals. It is the journeys those people have made, and a brief glimpse of those journeys, that this book affords. Excerpt From Epilogue Of the Story Of American Business: From The Pages Of The New York Times Nancy F. Koehn, editor In 1942, the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

05 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

psychologists and economists did not begin to empirically investigate this type of want/should conflict until recently. In this paper, we review and synthesize the latest research on want/should conflict, focusing our attention on the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

19 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

examines contemporary economic theories that focus on the design and management of business organizations. In the first part of the paper, a taxonomy is presented that describes the different types of economists interested in this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2018
News

Making Sense of the Modern Startup

Illustration by Martin Leon Barreto In a lot of ways, it didn’t seem like a very good experiment to run. A young HBS professor—a rising star in the Finance area, an economist by training, by then already looking down the road at an... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

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

26 Feb 2008
First Look

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

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

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knowledge. Course Framework The Economist launched the "Africa Rising" framework into the international spotlight with its December 2011 cover story in which it posited, "After decades of slow growth, Africa has a real chance to follow in... View Details

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