https://tomhickerson.com/en/tags/boston/Recent content in boston on Tom Hickerson's SiteHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usCopyright 2023-2026Sun, 14 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0000https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2004/2004-11-14-econ-theory-101/Sun, 14 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0000https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2004/2004-11-14-econ-theory-101/Over the spring, I took Michael Fairbanks’ class in International Entrepreneurism. It’s not entrepreneurship as much as it is business as usual in developing countries; Fairbanks founded the OTF Group, which specialises in strategy consulting for developing nations like Macedonia, Jamaica, Rwanda, etc. One of the last lectures he delivered in the class was a discussion of strategy versus innovation. Which economic strategies exist that support innovation? Which suppress it?https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2004/2004-06-13-costs-the-financiers-lingo/Sun, 13 Jun 2004 00:00:00 +0000https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2004/2004-06-13-costs-the-financiers-lingo/A fellow Fletcherite posted this link to our listserv today: Cost of War. We have been talking a lot about costs in Prof. Uhlmann’s course, so it’s interesting to see this from a hard-dollar perspective.https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2004/2004-06-07-neat-finds/Mon, 07 Jun 2004 00:00:00 +0000https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2004/2004-06-07-neat-finds/Went down to the Harvard Coop yesterday, and found some neat things, including Andrei Schleifer’s Inefficient Markets: An Introduction to Behavioral Finance. It’s something else to put on my reading list.https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2004/2004-05-21-job-history/Fri, 21 May 2004 00:00:00 +0000https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2004/2004-05-21-job-history/When I started working ten years ago, I had a BA in Russian and that was it. No technical skills. Some language skills, some office experience, but that was about all that there was. I got a job in the Ukraine after kicking around Austin Texas for a time, after graduation. I was earning 26k. Since I lived outside of the US for 300+ days a year, I got almost all of my taxes back to me.