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  • 01 Aug 2018
  • What Do You Think?

Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?

reality into the discussion by commenting that free trade and free markets, as described by economists in their theories, are both a delusion. “Trade today is pretty much an evil mixture of economics and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 10 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

Solutions to these challenges are the province of market design—a blend of game theory and experimental economics. Roth, a professor of both... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

Hope for Reform Dims

THAIN: Regulations failed to keep up with innovations in financial markets. A year after the federal government rushed to rescue Wall Street from its own nearly fatal excesses, former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain (MBA ’79) worries “that... View Details
Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs
  • 01 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?

largely or completely unrelated to capitalism, might challenge it from the outside. And if capitalism is threatened, what can be done to protect it, and by whom? For the colloquium, we compiled a briefing book based primarily on data from a 2007 World Bank study View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

Mandatory Nonfinancial Performance Measurement Beneficial? By: Gallani, Susanna, Takehisa Kajiwara, and Ranjani Krishnan Abstract—We use value of information theory and examine the effect View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations

the importance of understanding social networks' impacts on many aspects of our lives. People seem to associate "social networks" solely with popular Internet sites. We believe social networks are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • November 1981 (Revised June 1998)
  • Case

A Keynesian Cure for the Depression

Keynes, in excerpts from a 1933 pamphlet, outlines his recommendations for recovery from the Depression. He emphasizes the need for public works expenditures financed by government borrowing and discusses the "multiplier" effect of deficit spending on gross national... View Details
Keywords: History; Business Cycles; Theory; Microeconomics; Government Administration
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  • 27 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

progress in the public sphere of work, making it difficult to expose and undermine the social and cultural bases of inequality. Workers were warm and welcoming, generous with their time, conscientious in... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 29 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

income remained relatively stable, about 3 to 1. Over the last 20 years, however, the financial markets that financed the housing system in the United States changed remarkably. Local markets once dominated by tightly regulated savings... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 18 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth

domestic savings in economic growth has been discounted in the past? How has your research advanced knowledge in this area? Diego Comin: There are several literatures that have studied the relationship between savings and growth. At least... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 11 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 11

Standard theories of corporate ownership assume that because markets are efficient, insiders ultimately bear agency costs and therefore have a strong incentive to minimize conflicts View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 20

rely on indirect governance through regulated competition among political as well as economic actors in structures that in many ways parallel the competition found in organized sports. Inevitably these two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism

managers. We haven't always understood these changes." Leviathan In Business In a new working paper, Leviathan in Business: Varieties of State Capitalism and Their Implications for Economic Performance,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • fall 1995
  • Article

Standard Setting Consortia, Antitrust, and High-Technology Industries

By: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao
Examines the antitrust treatment of private-sector standard setting in the U.S. Applicability of law and decision-making issues in high technology industries; Examination of cost-based facilitating theory; Approach to evaluate the reasonableness of a standard. View Details
Keywords: Private Sector; Information Technology; Law; Decision Making; Cost; Theory; Performance Evaluation; Standards; United States
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  • 24 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Want People to Save More? Send a Text

Dina Pomeranz's interest in helping people build a savings cushion for difficult economic times emerged during a summer internship in Cameroon, where a woman she lived with shared how worried and anxious she was about her financial... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 08 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 8, 2006

case. This paper, in contrast, reports an experiment designed to meaningfully pose the question: "How good an approximation does a theory provide on average?" Even in the simplest class of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

driven To Lead: Good, Bad, And Misguided Leadership By Paul R. Lawrence To deal with the much-discussed but still poorly understood complex of economic affairs known as globalization, we must examine its... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
  • 04 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 4

conclude, after one century of banking crisis this is the best of times for Mexican banking. Publisher's link: http://www.library.hbs.edu/forms/purchaseform/ November 2014 Journal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Book Review: My Lunch with Warren

appointment book—it was largely empty. Like Buffett, Spier’s investing approach is iconoclastic. He moved his family to Zurich to escape the Wall Street Sturm und Drang. His theories on economic behavior are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

institutional theory, and economic theory. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-025.pdf Broadening Focus: Spillovers and the Benefits of Specialization in the Hospital Industry... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace