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- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
rendered in two recent articles authored by Google Chief Economist Hal Varian. Varian asserts four uses that follow from computer-mediated transactions: "data extraction and analysis," "new contractual forms due to better...
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?
fiduciary responsibilities. A second approach, by economist Paul Portney, considered whether firms can do CSR without getting hurt competitively, and whether or not they should. He concluded that they could, under limited circumstances,...
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by Manda Salls
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
emphasize users over producers. Large parts of the knowledge economy now routinely rely on users, communities, and open innovation approaches to solve important technological and organizational problems. This view of innovation, pioneered by the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
feelings and aesthetics rather than ideas, a stronger interest in people rather than things, prefer jobs in social or artistic areas, extraversion expressed as gregariousness rather than assertiveness, and neuroticism, characterized by high anxiety and lower stress...
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by Bill George
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers...
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- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
recent key events that have shaped the way economists think about these subjects. The events covered have a clear global perspective as the cases are set in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, as well as the United States. The cases...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
economics, primarily in the understanding of foreign aid, is also one of the few economists who studies issues of humanitarian and emergency assistance. One of his papers, on a refugee camp economy, has been accepted by the Journal of...
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by Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
the idea that people will use a product or service more right after they pay for it. How can companies make this work for them? A: Sunk costs are a curious bit of psychology. Economists say that attending to sunk costs is not...
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by Manda Mahoney
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions
he is at odds with the theories of economist Mancur Olson, whose 1965 book, The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, sparked a generation of political scientists and regulation theorists, including George...
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by Kim Girard
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
their interconnected early history. Even the 18th century had its “socialists,” but unlike those of the 19th, they paradoxically sought to make the world safe for “capitalists.” The word “socialists” was first used in Northern Italy as a term of contempt for the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
the practice of business strategy for 30 years. The problem lies instead in what strategic leaders are not trained to do. In caricature, Porter's view casts strategists as practitioner economists who expertly analyze and manage market...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
equipment. Amabile hastens to add that user innovation is nothing new; necessity has long been the mother of invention. (See, for example, economist Eric von Hippel’s paper The Dominant Role of Users in the Scientific Instrument...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
socially responsible a company was. Marquis and his fellow researchers based their inquiry on a similar study regarding individual decision-making done by UCLA economist Keith Chen. In a paper published in the American Economic Review in...
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by Michael Blanding
- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
important contributor to sustained economic growth than such things as openness to trade, a competitive exchange rate, level of foreign investment, or the quality and stability of a country's political institutions. At the risk of oversimplifying a complex analysis,...
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by Jim Heskett
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
new book, Obliquity, by British economist John Kay. You might guess that Kay thinks profit as a "direct goal" is overrated, otherwise he wouldn't have much substance for a book on the subject. Kay argues that business problems...
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by Jim Heskett
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
bridge economic, sociological, and psychological concerns. Nonetheless, a key indicator of this trend is the dominance of the view of organizational economists that hierarchy outperforms non-hierarchical alternatives (including democracy)...
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Carmen Nobel
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
cycles The crisis demonstrates, painfully, the importance of cash. In his famous essay "The Yield from Money Held,” the economist William Hutt described cash in your pocket or on the balance sheet as “a fire engine when there are no...
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by Frank V. Cespedes
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
Entrepreneurship,” written with his wife Sari Pekkala Kerr, a labor economist at Wellesley College. The paper uses a unique new database to track immigrants’ entrepreneurial activity over the past few decades, revealing, for example, what...
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by Michael Blanding
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
of Soviet times were abandoned—and with them the schools, hospitals, and infrastructure that had been built and sustained by large Soviet subsidies. Western economists urged the Kazakh government to break up the collectives into privately...
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by George C. Lodge
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
insight from behavioral economists and organizational consultants is also included. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52264 December 2016 Journal of Business and Policy Research Corporate Sponsorship in...
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Carmen Nobel