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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
the scourge of too big to fail. One is to break up the largest financial institutions, possibly with a new and improved Glass-Steagall law. The other is to perfect a bankruptcy process for super-sized financial firms so they can fail safely without the need for View Details
- Mar 2012
- Article
Reviving Entrepreneurship
New enterprises don't exist in a vacuum: They rise or fall depending on myriad contextual factors, all of them interrelated, and all of them affected by government policy. U.S. lawmakers must carefully consider the effects of View Details
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
investment banking--give their points of view. Joseph Bower, Baker Foundation Professor The GM IPO represents the beginning of the end of a remarkable piece of intervention by the Obama administration. The government's involvement in the...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
function,” said Roundtable president John Castellani. Skeptics of government intervention are quick to point out that more than two decades of well-meaning attempts to constrain ever-soaring corporate pay...
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- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
School of Public Health, Project Antares aims to create a system for devising commercial incentives that provide affordable public health initiatives, or "interventions" in healthcare parlance. Examples of commercial high-impact View Details
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Day in IFC: Marta Milkowska (HKS), United Kingdom - MBA
course in which students work with a real client from the UK government to design interventions inspired by behavioral science. Our team was tasked to create a digital solution to help young, low-income...
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- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
Insights Team (BIT), which became the world’s first government organization dedicated to incorporating behavioral economics into policy. BIT saw the tax letter as an opportunity to test the value of behavioral View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
Municipalities have been selling bonds to pay for public works projects—fire stations, parking garages,sewage treatment systems—for 200 years. It’s only in the past decade or so, however, that they’ve been selling them with an extra perk: helping the environment. In...
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- 08 Mar 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?
freedom of individual choice should always trump government intervention but, perhaps more so than in other developed countries, this sentiment enjoys widespread support in America. The View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
Alchemists of Loss: How Modern Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson (MBA ’73) (Wiley) The authors discuss modern finance as a U.S. invention,...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
Illustration by David Plunkert Here’s a really scary thought. Now that the federal government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into saving financial institutions deemed “too big to fail,” hasn’t it implicitly guaranteed similar...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
simple enough. Investors fund nonprofit social ventures whose interventions result in a measurable social benefit as well as a financial savings to the government. (Government saves money, for example, when fewer people are homeless or...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson (MBA ’73) (Wiley) The authors show how modern finance combined with easy money threatened to cripple the...
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- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on the Public Sector
power of the private sector. Business is uniquely effective at scaling sustainable solutions. Ensuring that existing businesses led our interventions enabled us to avoid the all-too-common pitfall in foreign aid: offering band-aid...
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- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
consistency in our guiding principles, such as supporting human rights, without sacrificing much-needed nuance and variation in strategy (e.g., backing military intervention in one case but not another). Third, diplomacy should be guided...
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- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
of the state-driven agenda for the foreseeable future. Publisher's Link: http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Economics/History/?view=usa&ci=9780199657964 Food Choices of Minority and Low-Income Employees: A Cafeteria View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
Workplace: Implications, Issues, and Insights for Future Research and Action,” with 28 other researchers. "Low-cost, light touch interventions can improve conditions for employees." The havoc the virus has wreaked on businesses worldwide...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Compensation Game
continue to enjoy broad freedom to unload options, a practice that enables executives to benefit from increases in short-term stock prices that come at the expense of long-term value. That the market for CEOs has not been operating like other markets does not mean that...
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by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
signal to people that there will be demand in the future and things are going to get better. The way to send that signal, in his view, was through deficit spending. If the government borrowed heavily and spent the money, that would send a...
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