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- 26 Feb 2014
- News
What Do People Have Against Retirement Income?
- 18 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language
arbitrary terms with no intrinsic meaning, a lesson that even economists have not learned. "On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language," a working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, provides a mathematical... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- Research Summary
Some Potential Effects of a Scramble on a Job Market (with Alvin Roth, Muriel Niederle, and Yuan Chuan Lien)
This project is directly inspired by the recent addition of a scramble to the economists job market.
We attempt to answer under what conditions and for whom adding a scramble is beneficial. View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- News
State health officials endorse Beth Israel-Lahey merger
- 26 Mar 2020
- News
'Bloomberg Surveillance' Full Show
- 28 Sep 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
What Can Economics Say About Alzheimer's Disease?
- 15 Jan 2011
- News
Revisiting the rights and responsibilities of business
- 24 Oct 2014
- News
Memories, Music, and Chef vs. Chef
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
paper, he and fellow economists have found themselves handicapped by a problem just as real as any technological barrier or requirement of incentives and efficiency: the downright distaste that some people feel for particular... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2021
- News
Once Tech’s Favorite Economist, Now a Thorn in Its Side
- 13 Jan 2017
- News
Higher Minimum Wage May Have Losers
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
One Way Companies Are Concealing Higher Prices: Smaller Packages
- 18 Feb 2013
- News
Has American innovation stalled?
- July 2007 (Revised October 2007)
- Case
Cintas y Lazos, Inc.
By: David F. Hawkins
A recent Cuban immigrant establishes a new notions store. The initial 3-month, GAAP-based income statement differs from one prepared by an economist friend. The store owner wants to know why one shows a profit and the other a loss. View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Financial Statements; Management Practices and Processes; Standards; Retail Industry; Florida
Hawkins, David F. "Cintas y Lazos, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 108-012, July 2007. (Revised October 2007.)
- 05 Mar 2012
- News
Apple's Job Creation Data Spurs an Economic Debate
Amitabh Chandra
Amitabh Chandra is the Henry and Allison McCance Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School where he is the Faculty Chair of the joint