Chicago School Of Law And Economics - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2016
What Do You Think?

When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?

Yet a third view is that the odds of success in achieving important change are enhanced by coordinated efforts to alter, as Michael Beer puts it, “the organization model” (including culture) and the... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

10 Feb 2016
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: New Insights into Career Development

Christensen discusses economic theory and personal happiness. WORKING PAPERS Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility Effects of Demographic... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

20 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

The Acquirers

private equity and public companies "changes the ownership structure of assets and alters the incentives and governance mechanisms that... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services

25 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity

occupational licensing, personal/psychological costs, and economic costs. He is currently studying productivity effects of new forms of remote... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul

Potential real estate moguls at the 2001 Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference received an earful about profiting in a down market, creating value where there is none, and the addiction View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

03 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment

supply of skilled workers. Since unemployment rates for college graduates are much lower than for non-graduates and average incomes materially higher, more young people would presumably move down the path to... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Education

24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

for contracts in developing countries where the rule of law isn't as well enforced. In both anecdotal and empirical research, however, Healy has found that corruption may not... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

22 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs

the older worker is shown to the door," said Harvard Business School Associate Professor William R. Kerr, who recently cowrote a working paper called Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Computer; Financial Services

18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

bankruptcy reorganization on June 1, 2009. What are some of the key issues the company faces? Three Harvard Business School faculty members--Joseph Bower, an authority on general management; Vineet Kumar, a... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

04 Jan 2021
What Do You Think?

How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?

December 16, 2020. Summing up last month’s column My column last month about job training inequality and economic growth sparked many insightful comments about the role of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

paper called, "Asset Allocation and Asset Location: Household Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances," published by the Journal of Public View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Ray A. Goldberg

At the beginning of January, over two hundred senior executives and government officials from around the globe met at Harvard Business School for the fortieth annual... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Agriculture & Agribusiness

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

Beginning with the influential work of Professor Emeritus Robert N. Anthony in the 1960s and 1970s, Harvard Business School has given a prominent place to research View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger

care system into a consumer-driven model. What, in a nutshell, are the advantages to your proposal? And the risks? Herzlinger: The pros of consumer-driven health care: Unlike today's cookie-cutter insurance... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Feb 2011
What Do You Think?

Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?

ideas in management and applied economics. They include a wide range of topics, including several drawn from what have come to be known as neuro economics (how managers really... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

users out of luck. Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner and his colleagues are studying how SSOs balance the interests of users against... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology

09 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

developed by the company’s marketers and strategists. “They want to react to changing demand and supply conditions,” says study author Alexander J. MacKay, an assistant professor View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

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