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  • 1999
  • Chapter

The Economics of Drug Discovery

By: Rebecca M. Henderson and Iain Cockburn
Keywords: Economics; Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 26 Nov 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Sciences of Design: Observations on an Emerging Field

Keywords: by Sandeep Purao, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan Hevner, Veda C. Storey, Jan Pries-Heje, Brian Smith & Ying Zhu; Technology
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

The Role of Taxes in the Disconnect Between Corporate Performance and Economic Growth

By: Urooj Khan, Suresh Nallareddy and Ethan Rouen
We investigate the relation between the growth in corporate profits and the overall U.S. economy, focusing on the impact of the U.S. corporate tax regime on this relation. We document that the growth of corporate profits, on average, has outpaced the growth of the... View Details
Keywords: Taxes; Gdp; Corporate Profits; American Jobs Creation Act Of 2004; Taxation; Economic Growth; Profit; United States
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Data Sources: Economics of Digitization

By: Shane Greenstein
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  • 2015
  • Book

Handbook of Experimental Economic Methodology

By: Guillaume R. Frechette and Andrew Schotter
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  • 29 Mar 2023
  • News

Economic Report of the President

  • 31 Jul 2023
  • HBS Conference

Future of AI and Economics

  • Video

Introduction to Data Science Principles

  • October 2023
  • Article

Laboratory Safety and Research Productivity

By: Alberto Galasso, Hong Luo and Brooklynn Zhu
Are laboratory safety practices a tax on scientific productivity? We examine this question by exploiting the substantial increase in safety regulations at the University of California following the shocking accidental death of a research assistant in 2008.... View Details
Keywords: Economics Of Science; Risk Perception; Safety Regulations; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Working Conditions; Safety; Performance Productivity
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  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

Stiletto Science

feet.” Or, as Hughes described it, “A shoe you can think in.” Hughes is chairman of HBN Shoe, which owns Insolia, a biomechanically correct design that’s built into a heeled shoe and can’t be seen when the shoe is being worn. Nordstrom is... View Details
Keywords: high-heeled shoes; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade
  • Video

Introduction to Data Science Ready

    First Impressions: The Science of Meeting People

    A strong handshake and assertive greeting may not be the best way to make a good first impression. New research suggests that people respond more positively to someone who comes across as trustworthy rather than confident.

    Social psychologist Amy... View Details
    • September 2012
    • Article

    Bringing Science to the Art of Strategy

    By: A. G. Lafley, Roger L. Martin, Jan W. Rivkin and Nicolaj Siggelkow
    For all its emphasis on data and number crunching, conventional strategic planning is not actually scientific. It lacks the hypothesis generation and testing that's at the heart of the scientific method. To produce novel and successful strategies, teams need to adopt a... View Details
    Keywords: Strategic Planning; Science
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    • 23 Mar 2011
    • News

    The Economic Impact of the Japanese Disasters

      Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions

      Business transactions take widely varying forms―from multibillion-dollar corporate mergers to patent licenses to the signing of an all-star quarterback. Yet every deal shares the same goal, or at least should: to maximize the joint value created and to distribute... View Details
      • 2016
      • Working Paper

      Economic Transition and Private-Sector Labor Demand: Evidence from Urban China

      By: Lakshmi Iyer, Xin Meng, Nancy Qian and Xiaoxue Zhao
      This paper studies the policy determinants of economic transition and estimates the elasticity demand for labor in the infant private sector in urban China. We show that a reform that untied access to housing in urban areas from working for the state sector accounts... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Transition; Structural Change; Labor Mobility; Transition; Human Capital; Private Sector; China
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      • July 28, 2020
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      Economic Vulnerability of Households with Essential Workers

      By: Grace McCormack, Christopher Avery, Ariella Kahn-Lang Spitzer and Amitabh Chandra
      The label of “essential worker” reflects society’s needs but does not mean that society has compensated those workers for additional risks incurred on the job during the current pandemic. When an essential worker contracts severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus... View Details
      Keywords: Essential Workers; Health Pandemics; Household; Financial Condition; United States
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      • 24 Aug 2017
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      Building Businesses around Breakthrough Science

      • 2014
      • Working Paper

      The New Empirical Economics of Management

      By: Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur and John Van Reenen
      Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey to try to explain the large and persistent TFP differences across firms and countries. This review... View Details
      Keywords: Management; Organization; Productivity; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Productivity; Microeconomics
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      Development Economics (PhD)

      By: Shawn A. Cole

      This course, intended for second-year PhD students in economics and related fields, is taught by Michael Kremer, Phillippe Aghion, and Shawn Cole.

      Part I (Kremer) of the course will cover macro-economic topics including aggregate and non-aggregate growth... View Details