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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
says. “And in a system that requires low levels of taxation, free markets, and privatization of state assets, you have a paradox. The paradox is that the state is in less of a position to act. The state is no longer a redistributor of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
you a standard answer to that, but I need to understand each client's specific circumstances before ever giving asset-allocation advice. What are their income and lifestyle needs, time horizons, and goals? Is the money going to charity,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
Casey, Comcast's New England Region general manager, transformed a low commitment and performance organization. When he took charge of this Comcast region he inherited an organization that was bureaucratic, had View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Mar 2024
- News
OC Alumni Get Clarity on AI; Inequality and Climate Change Explored in DC
leaders and policymakers understand the disproportionate impacts of climate change on low income and marginalized communities. Spar and Choi touched on a range of issues, including the vital importance of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
affordable and standardized medical appointments to low income families that are uninsured and underserved by the public system, in the poorest districts of Brazil’s largest cities. Spendwisor.com enables... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
dependent on a meager income from the land. Our school was a seven-kilometer walk in each direction. With little food, it was difficult to have the energy to walk that distance every day. During the monsoon floods, we wore a towel-like... View Details
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
probably witness higher inflation. We also know that our entitlement policies are unsustainable, that our unfunded pension liabilities take their toll on millions of retired workers, and that those on fixed incomes are being clobbered by... View Details
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
Finally, the long-run risks model implies extremely low yields and negative-term premia on inflation-indexed bonds. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14788 Measuring the Financial Sophistication of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Dec 2009
- What Do You Think?
Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?
and importing unskilled workers to keep costs low takes away the initiative for technological advances ." And Sam Heffner, invoking the noted economist, Milton Friedman, pointed out that "before he died, the great Dr. Friedman... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
with New Hampshire Audubon to work on global conservation issues in Costa Rica. What are the keys to success in working on environmental issues in a developing country? Costa Rica is known for its environmental ethic, but even there you have to be especially sensitive... View Details
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
on income and deforestation, but diverged on chemicals and legality, leading to low uptake. The Alliance responded by launching a second sustainability standard called the CRAFT Code in 2018. Whereas... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
Experiment By: Cole, Shawn, Xavier Giné, and James Vickery Abstract—Weather is a key source of income risk, particularly in emerging market economies. This paper uses a randomized controlled trial involving a sample of Indian farmers to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
concluded that "governments should fund education in math and science ... Markets will take care of entrepreneurial innovation." Jay Somasundaram asked whether we are even asking the right question. In his words, "The critical problems of this century... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
questions. Yet, the conceptions of business that each question implies can be (and historically have tended to be) mutually exclusive. Everybody wants goods and services made available at low prices. But achieving that goal often means... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 11 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time
programs: the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and the Emergency Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program. Both provided cash grants and low interest loans to qualifying small businesses and gig workers. As COVID-19 spread, the two classmates... View Details
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
Wildebeest added: “There is a good case to be made that deficits from loose monetary policy are the actual cause of the ever-widening income disparity in the US and nearly every major economy.” (JohnfrmClevelnd reminded Wildebeest that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
operating cable systems, the sample companies' weighted average pretax income was only 3.1 percent of revenues. 19 This low profit margin reflected the interest expense associated with an average... View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the CFO
of its faculty, staff, and students as it leaned into its mission of educating leaders who make a difference in the world. Faced with the most significant disruption to the MBA Program since World War II, the School's leadership—including outgoing Dean Nitin Nohria and... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?
the Internal Revenue Service is the federal tax gap, which is the difference between what Americans should pay on their taxes and what they actually do pay. According to the IRS's most recent estimates the gap amounts to around $350 billion annually, largely due to... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
What if a bedrock method that investors have relied on for decades to find cheap-but-promising stocks to buy low and sell high no longer works well? The book-to-market ratio has been used since at least the Great Depression to identify... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne