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- 22 Feb 2022
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Addressing The Financial Security Gap
initiative helps organizations create short-term financial stability for vulnerable workers and communities. FINANCE AND THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY READ MORE STORIES FINANCE AND THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY READ MORE... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
spending too much; and the Reagan and Bush administrations’ tax policies and deregulatory environment for encouraging risk-taking. Conard makes the contrarian case for how the economy really works, what went wrong over the past decade,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Bottom-Line Discrepancies
Desai, who is studying the gap between book income — what companies report to shareholders — and tax income — what companies report to the IRS. In a paper titled “The Divergence between Book and Tax Income” published in the forthcoming volume 17 of the National Bureau... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
economic pie available to be divided among its various stakeholders, instead of just slicing up a fixed pie in a way that favors one group over another. Consider, for example, the conclusions of the McKinsey Global Institute’s study of... View Details
- 28 May 2019
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A More Perfect Union
business, but there is a real opportunity for a switch in the way that business views government: In a long-term view, business would benefit from a strong democracy because it would yield better economic View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
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Tapping into Opportunity
between Florida and Georgia, and some are among water districts within a single state, such as California. Shankar has worked on this issue as well, coauthoring the water policy paper that has driven California's water conservation... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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Tried and Tested
in economically important contexts and designing and testing policies aimed at closing them. Her work focuses on the role of beliefs: How do stereotypes bias the beliefs that individuals hold about... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
government before discussing the country’s founding economic and political principles, as espoused by Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. He goes on to explore the basic principles of the... View Details
- 13 Dec 2011
- News
Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project
RELATED LINKS Video: Dean Nohria introduces the Project U.S. Competitiveness home page HBS Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness The Path to Economic Revival Made in America — Making Their Way How Boeing Competes — James McNerney Jr.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
prisons, and garbage collection among them — has been attempted, When All Else Fails argues that government has been and will inevitably continue to be the nation's ultimate risk manager and insurer of last resort. Drawing on history and View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
accommodation to a host of conflicting interests, an arrangement that damaged society’s economic well-being. The agency theorists had a broad impact on corporate policy and, in particular, on a fundamental... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
1979), Minnick is pressing for a simple solution to curb emissions by putting a tax on carbon that would be assessed where the carbon enters the market, at the mine mouth or oil refinery, and then passed on to the consumer. “You want it to be passed forward, so people... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
from mistakes we learned a long time ago not to make. Why would we now repeat the mistake of banking on a nuclear option that simply makes no economic sense? Michael Hogan (MBA ’88) Sunapee, NH Priorities Trump Prescriptions Your December... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
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Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
President, Women's World Banking Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Stanford University, 1971 B.A., Economics LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "Power matters. Money matters. People matter. We need to mobilize power,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
(PhDBE 2009) and HBS assistant professor George Serafeim, the trio studied data from a matched sample of 180 companies over 18 years. Organizations that had adopted environmental and social policies by 1993 (described as... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
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The Dragon’s Tale
market-based reforms that have made the country the world’s second-largest economic power. He has helped document that journey as the author of scores of cases, articles, and papers on Chinese business, as well as his recent book, Can... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
policy issues remained strong. He enrolled at HBS because he believes that, more so than policymakers, “managers who lead health-care systems are the ones today who are introducing needed changes.” At the School, Jain has done three... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
HBS Duch worked on independent research with Professor Michael Porter, who had just published his landmark book, The Competitive Advantage of Nations. “It was a great opportunity,” Duch says. “Porter’s work on the capacity of government to create View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
mitigation. And because cities are discovering that the greener they are, the better their quality of life and the greater their competitive advantage, they have by necessity become innovative, reality-based drivers of environmental View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
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Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
Leeuwenhof, the majestic estate of Western Cape Premier Gerald Morkel. With the splendor of Table Mountain above and the beauty of Table Bay below, Morkel welcomed his guests to Cape Town, which he described as "a region of great economic... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young