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  • 06 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 6

have often proved highly productive in policy terms, delivering the best ideas from both sides. In the 1840s, for instance, state politicians who were deeply skeptical of government pushed hard for balanced budget amendments while... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows

from the nonprofit and public sector to attend HBS, these fellowships enable the School to award $10,000 to a select number of incoming MBA students for each of their two years in the MBA Program. Beginning with the Class of 1990, 267... View Details
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Podcast - Business & Environment

engage. The conversation delves into the evolving role of COP, from setting targets to ensuring implementation, and the critical importance of corporate involvement in driving ambitious climate action. Read the Transcript Previous Episodes How View Details
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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

organized religion soars Brown v. Board of Education desegregated public schools> Influence: Medium-High 60 1960 19 Civil rights movement gain strength Antiwar sentiment divides electorate FDA approves oral contraceptive pill Influence:... View Details
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Podcasts - Managing the Future of Work

the public policy landscape. Strada’s Stephen Moret on democratizing access to education and opportunity 05 JUN 2024 | Managing the Future of Work The president & CEO of Strada Education Foundation on... View Details
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

1984, he was a national policy advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and to the president of the Republic of China. Michael Chen serves as executive director of the HBS Asia-Pacific Research Center (APRC). Prior to joining the APRC... View Details
  • 19 Sep 2023
  • HBS Case

How Will the Tech Titans Behind ChatGPT, Bard, and LLaMA Make Money?

subscription without usage limits as we are used to today. Usage pricing is going to be much more important. A second distinction is that a significant portion of the core technology is open source, and a lot of the data being used to train these models is View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology
  • September 2014
  • Article

Colonial Institutions, Trade Stocks, and the Diffusion of Elementary Education in Brazil, 1889–1930

By: Aldo Musacchio, Andre C. Martinez Fritscher and Martina Viarengo
We show how the decentralization of fiscal responsibility among Brazilian states between 1889 and 1930 promoted an unequal expansion of public schooling. We document how the variation in state export tax revenues, product of commodity booms, explains improvements in... View Details
Keywords: Institutions; Economic History; Education; Development Economics; Policy; Brazil
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  • 11 Jun 2024
  • In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024

As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

gender by political elites, it does not influence broader political outcomes like policy preferences or far-right voting. These findings reveal the sequence and mechanisms behind the distributional consequences of labor market... View Details
  • 18 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth

country. Q: What are the practical policy or other implications from your work for public or private decision makers? Where do you see the research making a difference? A: Our paper provides a simple... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 20 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

techniques for changing individual behavior in pursuit of policy objectives. The types of “nudge” interventions that governments are now adopting alter people’s decisions without coercion or significant changes to economic incentives. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Research Areas - Doctoral

environment in which businesses operate. Drawing from perspectives of economic theory, political science, and history, they examine the “rules” and policies established by government and other non-business institutions that affect... View Details
  • 1977
  • Working Paper

Mitigating Demographic Risk Through Social Insurance

By: Jerry R. Green
A two-period lifetime overlapping generations growth model is used to evaluate the possibility that social insurance can effectively offset economic risks associated with uncertainty about the rate of population growth. Crude measures of the seriousness of this type of... View Details
Keywords: Social Insurance; Econometric Models; Public Sector; Government Administration; Policy; Human Needs; Social Issues; Risk and Uncertainty
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Finance - Faculty & Research

effective policy response. Supporting this, we show through a difference-in-differences approach that "naming and shaming" firms with high misconduct rates was associated with a 10 percent reduction in misconduct. About the Unit Our... View Details
  • July – August 2009
  • Article

The Descent of Finance

What if the current recession turns out to be like the Great Depression of 1929-1933? Four years from now, the United States might find itself with a still-shrinking economy, half as many banks as in 2009, a third as many hedge funds, and retail banking resembling a... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry
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  • January 2008
  • Article

How to Change the World

By: Howard H. Stevenson
Alan Wilson has a decision to make. The CEO of his company, Grepter, wants him to relocate to Zurich, where he can gain valuable experience for a rise to the top. Karl, his best friend, hopes to lure him to a hedge fund that promises big money fast. Shiori, an enticing... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Values and Beliefs; Compensation and Benefits; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence
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  • 01 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

face major challenges including headline-grabbing litigation, imminent patent expirations, new technologies, rising drug development costs, generic drug substitution, international competitors, and complex public View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Social Progress Index - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Research Areas Research Areas Antitrust & Competition Policy CEO Leadership Environmental Quality Innovation & Innovative Capacity Philanthropy Social Progress Index Social Progress Index Social Progress Index Social progress is... View Details
  • 06 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

environment. Using a unique longitudinal sample of 1,069 leading public firms in 35 countries and 24 industries, I find that the effect of gender diversity on performance varies significantly across countries and industries due to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman