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Enabling Mission Impact: Funding Strategies for High-Risk High-Reward Innovation
Governments and foundations around the world are urgently seeking strategies to optimize their investments across a range of distinctive missions targeted towards societal challenges. How should such investments be made, from early R&D spending to later-stage... View Details
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Class Profile - Doctoral
Class Profile Class Profile Our doctoral students represent diverse backgrounds, degrees, undergraduate schools, and disciplines. Some students enter our doctoral programs upon graduation from college, while others spend a few years... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
treatment with a simulation of paying U.S. federal taxes. Allowing taxpayers to signal their preferences on the distribution of government spending results in a 15% reduction in the stated take-up rate of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
CENTURY ZEITGEIST Six contextual factors deeply influenced the opportunities available to 20th century business leaders: Demographics Technology Social Mores Government Labor Global the 20 th Century Zeitgeist Demographics Demographics... View Details
- 17 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
‘Not a Bunch of Weirdos’: Why Mainstream Investors Buy Crypto
investors but at a slower rate of about 5,000 investors per month. During both periods, investors devoted about 3 percent of deposits and 6 percent of spending to purchasing cryptocurrency. Sixty percent of crypto transactions are made by... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 16 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs
is that it is impossible to comprehend the vibrancy, energy, and enthusiasm without experiencing it firsthand. Q: Although moving toward a more capitalist system, the government still plays a strong role in the economic environment of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Curriculum - Case Method Project
particular focus on a populist movement to grant universal white male suffrage in 1840s Rhode Island. The case raises questions about the nature of voting rights and whether citizens have a right to overthrow a government that they... View Details
- March 2014
- Case
Babcock International Plc
By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2013, Babcock International Plc (Babcock) was the largest engineering services provider in the UK with sales of over £3 billion. Under the leadership of CEO Peter Rogers, Babcock had grown revenues and profits nearly tenfold over the previous decade as it benefited... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Change; Strategy And Leadership; Diversification; United Kingdom; Military; Nuclear Power; Nuclear; Engineering And Construction; Conglomerates; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Construction Industry; Energy Industry; United Kingdom
Wells, John R., and Galen Danskin. "Babcock International Plc." Harvard Business School Case 714-496, March 2014.
- Forthcoming
- Article
Economic Integration and the Transmission of Democracy
By: Marco Tabellini and Giacomo Magistretti
In this paper, we study the effects of economic integration with democratic partners on democracy. We assemble a large country-level panel dataset from 1960 to 2015, and exploit improvements in air, relative to sea, transportation to derive a time-varying instrument... View Details
Keywords: Democratization; Institutional Development; Economic Integration; International Trade; Democracy; Political Preferences; Institutions; Trade; Global Range; Economics; Government and Politics
Tabellini, Marco, and Giacomo Magistretti. "Economic Integration and the Transmission of Democracy." Review of Economic Studies (forthcoming). (Pre-published online August 9, 2024. Available also from VOX, VOXEU, Atlantico, The Economist, Domani, and Ideas for India. Longer NBER working paper version available here.)
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Senior Executive Leadership Program—China
region or with a partner in the region Nonprofit organizations Government agencies, especially those working closely with the private sector The program content is global in nature and applicable to the Chinese business environment. The... View Details
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Strategy for Health Care Delivery—Virtual
Design and implement a bundled payment system to reduce health care spending and increase quality of care Explore strategy transformation, geographic expansion, and the process of introducing new measurement approaches Expand your... View Details
- 2021
- Case
Starbucks: Opposing a Local Tax to Address Homelessness while Promoting Social Justice
By: Andrew J. Hoffman
In 2018, the Seattle City Council unanimously voted 9-0 for a tax that would require companies whose annual revenue surpassed $20 million to pay the city $275 per employee per year. The tax money would then be used to combat homelessness in Seattle. In response,... View Details
Keywords: Taxation; City; Welfare; Wealth and Poverty; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Seattle
Hoffman, Andrew J. "Starbucks: Opposing a Local Tax to Address Homelessness while Promoting Social Justice." William Davidson Institute Case 3-330-494, 2021.
- 02 Mar 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?
various free market mechanisms for addressing these issues. Where to start? Paul Jackson suggests that "The only thing the government should be involved with is controlling the drug, insurance, and medical industry advertising View Details
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
research project began in the classroom during my first year as a professor at HBS. In the winter of 2000, my students and I were discussing the financial crises that erupted in Asia during 1997 and 1998. Unlike its neighbors, the View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 12 Dec 2023
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HBS Faculty Books of 2023: Find Happiness, Fix Things, and Fail Well
Regimes? The efficiency of one-party governments might seem appealing, but leaders need a deep understanding of a country's power structure and "moral economy," says Meg Rithmire. Her book Precarious Ties: Business and the State in... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
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Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
2011). Workers embrace outside the offices of Lehman Brothers in Canary Wharf in London, Monday, September 15, 2008. Courtesy of AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth. On October 3, 2008, under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Turning Point: Where Credit Is Due
hopes and dreams. Parents spend their life savings so that their children can have the highest level of education possible, so this touched everyone’s heart. The biggest surprise for me was yet to come: I learned that all this time I had... View Details
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
Cassie, A.V. Whillans, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Time and money are scarce and precious resources: people experience stress about having insufficient time and worry about having insufficient money. This chapter reviews research showing that the ways in which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2023
- Working Paper
Saving and Consumption Responses to Student Loan Forbearance
By: Justin Katz
How do households adjust savings and consumption in response to liquidity from debt relief? I study this question using policy variation induced by federal student loan forbearance in the 2020 CARES Act and an individual-level panel of daily financial transactions
for... View Details
Keywords: Saving; Consumer Behavior; Borrowing and Debt; Interest Rates; Financial Liquidity; Personal Finance; Government Legislation
Katz, Justin. "Saving and Consumption Responses to Student Loan Forbearance." SSRN Working Paper Series, January 2023.
- 09 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Could Clean Hydrogen Become Affordable at Scale by 2030?
Hydrogen is poised to move from the sidelines of global clean energy as the industry learns to produce it more efficiently and at lower cost, according to newly published research led by Gunther Glenk, a climate fellow with Harvard Business School's Institute for the... View Details