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      • 05 Jan 2021
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      Using Behavioral Science to Improve Well-Being for Social Workers

      For child and family social workers, coping with the hardships of children and parents is part of the job. But that can cause a lot of stress. Is it possible for financially constrained organizations to improve social workers’ well-being using non-cash rewards, recognition, and other strategies from behavioral science? Assistant Professor Ashley Whillans describes the experience of Chief Executive Michael Sanders’ at the UK’s What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care, as he led a research program aimed at improving the morale of social workers in her case, “The What Works Centre: Using Behavioral Science to Improve Social Worker Well-being.”  Open for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

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      • 08 Dec 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Party-State Capitalism in China

      by Margaret Pearson, Meg Rithmire, and Kellee Tsai

      China’s political economy has evolved from “state capitalism” to a distinctly party-driven incarnation. Party-state capitalism, via enhanced party monitoring and industrial policy, deepens ambiguity between the state and private sectors, and increases pressure on foreign capital, prioritizing the regime’s political survival above all.

      • 10 Aug 2019
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Varieties of Outward Chinese Capital: Domestic Politics Status and Globalization of Chinese Firms

      by Meg Rithmire

      Most popular and scholarly writing about China’s global push overemphasizes the power of the state. This paper explains how three types of domestic Chinese capital—state capital, private capital, and crony capital—differ in political vulnerability and pursue globalization in different ways. All prefer capital openness, but they do so for different reasons.

      • 15 May 2019
      • Research Event

      The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History

      by Geoffrey G. Jones

      Geoffrey G. Jones reports on a business history conference studying the many shades of capitalism around the world and through time. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 01 May 2019
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose

      by Malcolm S. Salter

      Shareholder value maximization has become the de facto expression of the institutional purpose guiding many managers’ decision making. The author proposes an alternative, justice-based guideline for corporate purpose based on established moral and organizational principles.

      • 07 Dec 2018
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Oral History and Writing the Business History of Emerging Markets

      by Geoffrey Jones and Rachael Comunale

      Oral history is a valuable resource to explore how businesses developed and functioned in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, regions with a growing share of global economic activity and the majority of the world’s population. While oral history is not uncritical, it provides openings for opinions, voices, and judgements on events on which there was often silence.

      • 26 Sep 2017
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Merchants and the Origins of Capitalism

      by Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona

      This chapter shows how a new kind of predominantly Italian merchants emerged as global figures during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Then as now, they pooled capital and shared risk to enrich themselves and their polities, utilized the infrastructure and markets that they helped make, and created new legal and financial instruments to facilitate their ventures.

      • 31 Oct 2016
      • Research & Ideas

      Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest

      by Carmen Nobel

      A new study by Marco Di Maggio and colleagues takes a deep dive into the efficacy of the Fed’s quantitative easing strategy to understand how the various rounds of QE affected “the real economy.” Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 07 May 2014
      • What Do You Think?

      How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

      by James Heskett

      SUMMING UP James Heskett's readers weigh in on Thomas Piketty and how wealth disparity is burdening society. Closed for comment; 42 Comment(s) posted.

      • 29 Jul 2013
      • Research & Ideas

      A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

      by Michael Blanding

      Harvard Business School's Rebecca M. Henderson and Karthik Ramanna argue that company managers have a moral obligation to preserve capitalism. Closed for comment; 20 Comment(s) posted.

      • 06 Feb 2013
      • What Do You Think?

      Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?

      by James Heskett

      Summing-Up If capitalism creates unacceptable income inequality, what can be done about it? asks Jim Heskett. Whole Foods Market offers one possible solution, and now Jim's readers offer their own. Closed for comment; 46 Comment(s) posted.

      • 20 Feb 2009
      • Working Paper Summaries

      When Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth?

      by Philippe Aghion, Diego Comin, Peter Howitt & Isabel Tecu

      The researchers begin with a simply stated question: Can a country grow faster by saving more? Long-run growth theories imply that a country can grow faster by investing more in human or physical capital or in R&D, but that a country with access to international capital markets cannot grow faster by saving more. Domestic saving is therefore not considered an important ingredient in the growth process because investment can be financed by foreign saving. From the point of view of standard growth theory, the positive cross-country correlation between saving and growth that many commentators have noted appears puzzling. HBS professor Diego Comin and colleagues develop a theory of local saving and growth in an open economy with domestic and foreign investors. Key concepts include: Domestic saving is more critical for adopting new technologies in developing rather than developed economies. Familiarity with the technology frontier reduces its cost of adoption. Advanced countries readily adopt the frontier technology, but for countries far from the technology frontier, it is too expensive to adopt such technology without outside help. Entrepreneurs in these countries need to rely on foreign investors. However, domestic entrepreneurs may not deliver on their input contribution unless they have invested sufficient capital in the project. This co-investment is in turn financed out of domestic saving, highlighting the role of domestic saving in economic growth. Closed for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

      • 20 Aug 2008
      • Op-Ed

      The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

      by Nancy Koehn

      Bill Gates has it right. Business is the most powerful force for change in the world right now and gives the idea of creative capitalism real power, writes Harvard Business School Professor Nancy F. Koehn. Open for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

      • 12 Oct 1999
      • Research & Ideas

      It Came in the First Ships: Capitalism in America

      by Thomas K. McCraw

      The Virginians in Jamestown, the Puritans in Massachusetts Bay, the Quakers in Pennsylvania and other early settlers of what later became the United States all brought with them elements of capitalism, precursors of the future nation's market-driven direction. In this excerpt from his article "American Capitalism" in Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions, HBS Professor Thomas K. McCraw looks at the early years of capitalism on the North American continent. Open for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

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