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  • 30 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 31, 2006

  Working PapersHow Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages Authors:Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek Abstract The empirical literature finds mixed evidence on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2024
  • Module Note

The Scope of the Corporation

By: David J. Collis
Every company, regardless of size or configuration, has to make decisions about the appropriate scope of its operations. In fact, the issue is so fundamental that Ronald Coase won the Nobel Prize in Economics for merely asking the question, “what determines the scope... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Mission and Purpose
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  • 13 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/818089-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 919-401 The Reputation of the 'World's Most Prestigious Award': The Nobel Prize Nobel... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 31 Jan 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

    2014 became the first woman to win the Fields Medal, which is equivalent to the Nobel Prize in mathematics. These superstar worries are real, and there are many more one-in-a-thousand talents that could be... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • 02 Dec 2015
    • HBS Seminar

    Fabian Waldinger, Associate Professor, University of Warwick, Department of Economics

    • 15 Oct 2016
    • News

    Political dysfunction, economic progress and James Buchanan

    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence

    By: William R. Kerr
    High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of U.S. workers in these fields, and they have a similar contribution in terms of output measures like patents or firm starts. This... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Diaspora; Diasporas; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Immigration
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    • 2017
    • Chapter

    U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence

    By: William R. Kerr
    High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of U.S. workers in these fields, and they have a similar contribution in terms of output measures like patents or firm starts. This... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Diaspora; Diasporas; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Immigration; United States
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    • March 2020
    • Article

    A Revolution in Economics? It's Just Getting Started...

    By: Shawn A. Cole, William Pariente and Anja Sautmann
    We have each experienced thrills and pain while supporting the mission of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, which facilitated many of the experiments described in the 2019 Nobel Prize citation. J-PAL in many ways seeks to fulfill what Angrist and Pischke... View Details
    Keywords: Randomized Control Trials; Economics; Research; Innovation and Invention
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    • September 2008 (Revised October 2008)
    • Case

    Marc Abrahams: Annals of an Improbable Entrepreneur

    By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
    Marc Abrahams was a media entrepreneur who specialized in science humor. In 2008, he sought to boost the scale and monetization potential of his business. That business, called Improbable Research, encompassed a magazine (Annals of Improbable Research), a high-profile... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Selection and Staffing; Human Capital; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Personal Development and Career
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    • Fall 2020
    • Article

    Christo and Jeanne‐Claude: The Negotiation of Art and Vice Versa

    By: Michael A. Wheeler
    Over the past two decades the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (PON) has named thirteen people as Great Negotiators. The project, directed by my colleague Jim Sebenius, has given us the opportunity to commend our honorees’ outstanding work and to learn from... View Details
    Keywords: Art; Negotiation; Arts
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    • 19 Aug 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution

    Keywords: by N. Gregory Mankiw & Matthew Weinzierl
    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    The Imposter Among Us

    Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Peter Arkle It was their rst day at Harvard and like the rest of his cohort, Edgar Wallner (PMD 22, 1971) will never forget meeting Robert Gaines-Cooper. Frankly, it would have been difficult to miss the Englishman, who... View Details
    Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
    • Web

    Doctoral 100 Years - Doctoral

    Graduate wins Nobel Prize Dr. Robert B. Wilson (MBA 1961, DBA 1963) becomes the first HBS Doctoral graduate to be awarded the Nobel Prize in... View Details
    • 04 Jan 2017
    • What Do You Think?

    How Much Bureaucracy is a Good Thing in Government and Business?

    Bureaucracy doesn’t seem to have many advocates. But if we can extrapolate from the work of Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman and others on individual human behavior, we may obtain insights into situations... View Details
    Keywords: by James L. Heskett
    • Web

    Skydeck - Alumni

    1961, DBA 1963) on his journey from Depression-era Nebraska to a 2020 Nobel Prize Leading to Salvation 2022 Alumni Achievement Award recipient Bob Ryan (MBA 1970) had just stepped off his last board when he... View Details
    • 12 Apr 2022
    • Book

    Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence

    Britain’s 20th century empire was the largest in human history, with a quarter of the world’s land and nearly 700 million people. Yet the empire drew its strength from violence. That’s the conclusion Harvard Business School Professor Caroline Elkins draws in her new... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 16 Jan 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management

    This led owners to experiment with ways of increasing the pace of labor, Rosenthal explains, such as holding contests with small cash prizes for those who picked the most cotton, and then requiring the winners to pick that much cotton... View Details
    Keywords: by Katie Johnston
    • Web

    HBS - The year in Review

    Chair, India Sanitation Coalition Robert L. Ryan MBA 1970 Retired Senior VP and CFO, Medtronic Inc. Robert B. Wilson MBA 1961, DBA 1963 Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus, Stanford University; 2020 Sveriges Riksbank View Details