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- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
of Kansas City) The Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet as a Financial-Stability Tool By: Greenwood, Robin, Samuel Gregory Hanson, and Jeremy C. Stein Abstract—We argue that the Federal Reserve should use its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
been more desirable, as a policy matter, but is now a missed opportunity. Using this experience on staggered boards as a motivating case study, the article then examines a policy choice regarding Section 203 of the Delaware corporate code. Four facts are uncontested:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
believes that all of St. HOPE's other activities—economic development, civic leadership development, and the arts—are interdependent with transforming urban education. Raises questions of growth, including the challenges of replicating a model developed specifically... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
for six years in a row; but leadership saw CHOP as more than the large main campus in western Philadelphia. Beginning in the 1990s, CHOP had created a large network of Primary Care Providers, Specialty Care Centers, Ambulatory Surgery Centers, and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
students and their middle class and white counterparts, the gap persists. By age nine, African American and Latino students are on average three grade levels behind, and students from low-income communities are seven times less likely to... View Details
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
cost of the other (e.g., watching ads). Digital disruptors are changing the way consumers entertain themselves, shop, communicate with others, and even own products. This can have a huge negative impact on traditional businesses, who will... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
federal center and provincial governments, relations between the state and big business, economic policy, and models of economic development. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710030-PDF-ENG Foreign Direct... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
important first step. But AHCT's executives also knew if they were going to really be effective, they'd have to make it as easy as possible to sign up. The federal law allowed for commissions for brokers who... View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
Conconi Abstract—In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
1933-1945; the Federal Republic (West Germany) or German Democratic Republic (East Germany) 1945-1989. In terms of political or economic history, these divisions make a lot of sense, but in terms of individuals' experiences or business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience
involving federal authorities. Process: Structure documentation, processes, and communications to effectively support investigations when errors occur. Ensure there is a way to capture, retain, and document... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
released in May 2013, economists from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis quantified the costs of increased regulation on community banks, modeling the impact of new regulatory costs as the hiring of... View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
competition if they don’t serve customer needs, there’s no higher authority lording over the political system. Though the Federal Election Commission is nominally tasked with ensuring that election and... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
Bill George, Professor of Management Practice Social networking is the most significant business development of 2010, topping the resurgence of the U.S. automobile industry. During the year social networking morphed from a personal View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
Business School Case 709-025 In 1987, President Ronald Reagan established the President's Commission on Privatization to identify federal government functions that could be shifted to the private sector.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
rates is the highest priority in higher education. A bachelor’s degree may once have been a ticket to the middle class, but that is no longer a sure thing. Analyses by labor economists, as well as a survey commissioned by the Pew Research... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
permitted by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is realigning media ownership. Among other changes, the Federal Communications Commission recently relaxed restrictions on... View Details
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
institutions, in chronological order. The first story deals with a policy-making process at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The second deals with an administrative legal proceeding regarding anti-trust enforcement by the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?
found, in the retail gas markets they studied, was that accounting for increased consumer inertia led to an estimated 3.3 percent post-merger price increase, compared with the 5.9 percent increase predicted by a static model typically used by the View Details