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  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions

Image by Brian Stauffer What would the "perfect" tax plan look like? Sheridan Schechner (MBA/JD 1983), managing director, Barclays Capital, USA I'd envision three simple building blocks: a consumption tax with no exclusions that... View Details
Keywords: ask the expert; Finance
  • 14 Sep 2018
  • News

Best Credit Cards: Ask the Experts

  • 10 Mar 2022
  • Video

Ask Me Anything: Expert Panel on the War in Ukraine

  • 30 Jun 2023
  • News

At HKS Conference, Experts Ask Serious Questions about the Public Value of Happiness

  • 12 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts

recent study, which compared funding decisions of startup theater productions made by art-loving masses on crowdfunding website Kickstarter with evaluations by experts in the field. “Most of View Details
Keywords: Re: Ramana Nanda; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 26 Aug 2013
  • Video

Ask an EC

  • 13 May 2013
  • Blog Post

Becoming a Consulting Expert

project is given to you, you’re the expert on that piece. Never mind if you’ve never studied that industry or heard of the company or thought about View Details
Keywords: Consulting
  • January 2017
  • Case

TalentCorp Malaysia and the Returning Expert Programme

By: William R. Kerr, Danielle Li, Mathis Wagner and Alexis Brownell
TalentCorp Malaysia runs the "Returning Expert Programme" (REP), a government program designed to encourage Malaysian professionals abroad to return home through use of various incentives. The REP is intended to combat the "brain drain," caused by highly educated... View Details
Keywords: Malaysia; Diaspora; Brain Drain; Migration; Diasporas; Government and Politics; Immigration; Human Capital; Programs; Malaysia
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  • 29 May 2018
  • News

Ask Better Questions

  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin

Crypto-currency expert Santiago Subotovsky (MBA 2009), principal at Emergence Capital Partners, fields alumni questions on Bitcoin—a digital, virtual, and unregulated currency that allows for anonymous transactions and has quickly moved... View Details
Keywords: alumni; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information
  • April 1986 (Revised April 1996)
  • Case

PlanPower: The Financial Planning Expert System

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  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

Ask the Expert: Capital Architect

symphonic, and elegantly complex.” With high-profile transitions in Cuba, Ukraine, and Iran grabbing headlines—and more bubbling up around the globe—we asked Brunell to answer your questions and briefly... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter

Illustration by Vahram Muradyan Illustration by Vahram Muradyan With one quarter of all renters spending more than half their income on housing in the United States, as Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies found in 2017, about 11... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Ask the Expert: Disaster Master

documents to businesses around the world for nearly 30 years. “We have a natural tendency as humans to neglect low-probability events, even if the impact is very high,” he says. “The most basic analogy is... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Ask the Expert: On the Fly

(above: photo by Getty Images/Patrick Foto) A mathematics major, Don Carty (MBA 1971) has always seen the airline business as a huge puzzle, with the equation involving inventory and pricing, cruising... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 01 Mar 2015
  • News

Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed

for the first time in nine years, we asked former chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Board of Directors Kirk Sykes (OPM 26, 1998)—current president and managing... View Details
Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance
  • February 2018
  • Article

The Impact of a Surprise Donation Ask

By: Christine L. Exley and Ragan Petrie
Individuals frequently exploit "flexibility" built into decision environments to give less. They use uncertainty to justify options benefiting themselves over others, they avoid information that may encourage them to give, and they avoid the ask itself. In this paper,... View Details
Keywords: Charitable Giving; Prosocial Behavior; Self-serving Biases; Excuses; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Behavior
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  • October 2022
  • Case

Star Magnolia Capital: Becoming Experts at Finding Experts

By: Lauren Cohen, Hao Gao, River Ewing and Grace Headinger
Shinya Deguchi, Founder and Managing Partner of Star Magnolia Capital, a Shanghai-based multi-family office (MFO), considered how to convince a new prospective family that the MFO’s endowment model approach would best suit their needs. In recent decades, there has been... View Details
Keywords: China; Asia; Family Office; Shanghai; Financial Industry; Asset Management; Financial Instruments; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Investment; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Human Capital; Family Business; Financial Services Industry; China; Shanghai
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  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence

illustration by Taylor Callery illustration by Taylor Callery Artificial intelligence is not a replacement for the human brain. At least not yet. “That is decades away,” says Rudina Seseri (MBA 2005), answering one of View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods

Image by Edmon de Haro The US Postal Service prides itself on delivering through rain, sleet, and snow—but what about serious debt? After 11 straight years of losses and declining first-class mail volumes, View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint