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- 20 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
that adjustments grow more stringent and accurate in the months leading up to default and better predict lender default recovery rates. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52018 Peer Influence on Trade... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?
develop the ideas behind the Savings for Working Families Act (S. 2023/H.R. 4106), sponsored by Senators Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) and Rick Santorum (R-PA), which was introduced in 2000. Currently, the SWFA has been incorporated in the Charity Aid, View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
807-126 PRG-Schultz will run out of cash within a couple of months unless the new CEO can reduce costs and restructure the company's debt. PRG was the dominant market leader in the audit recovery industry. The industry consisted of firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Real Estate
United States, the real estate market faces reduced cash flows and significant re-pricing. The housing market must bottom out before a recovery in the real estate sector can begin. Expiring loans will have to be dealt with. The real... View Details
- 20 May 2016
- Op-Ed
World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics
programs than the entire budget of the WHO and has played a major role in aiding recovery in the Ebola-hit economies of West Africa. The Commission's report hints at but never quite concedes that the World Bank should take a more... View Details
- 19 Jan 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis
opportunity to develop and grow. Key concepts include: In a crisis, remember your internal compass of values: When crisis strikes, leaders often look for an "at-any-cost" quick fix in attempting to save face, says George. To ensure that economic View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
and Recovery In 2013, Sam Frons founded Addicaid—a mobile application (app) that allowed people in addiction recovery to track their progress, check in with counselors, and connect with others in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2010
- Op-Ed
Tax US Companies to Spur Spending
would also help enormously in directing these cash hoards toward investment. But even cash disgorged through dividends, share repurchases or mergers would have a potentially stimulative effect compared with corporations banking the funds. It is tempting to pin hopes of... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 01 Mar 2004
- What Do You Think?
Are Customer Loyalty Initiatives Worth the Investment?
To compete with truly 'sticky' customer service, you're going to need to get creative . . ." Jim Coyle suggests that this may involve putting in place effective service recovery programs that "fix problems when they are brought... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
Vogel pointed to technical sectors, such as electronic games, as a sign that "Japan is a lot more creative than it is given credit for." It was impossible to discuss the role of business in Japan's recovery without discussing... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
Recent reports that sales of new single-family homes rose in March are proof points that "the housing market recovery remains on track." We asked Nicolas P. Retsinas to reflect on the re-emergence of the housing industry, what... View Details
- 02 Sep 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?
given the length of the economic recovery from the depths of 2008. But are several basic forces at work that put the notion of an imminent recession to rest? In the early 1960s, in a class on business logistics at The Ohio State... View Details
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
data-id=_/ryQnayeNjTevj53FSE60][/div] In past recessions, especially the 2008 financial crisis, it was lost income taxes that caused state and local governments to feel the pinch, but only after annual taxes became due in 2009. The result was a drawn-out View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
Harvard Business School Case 716-474 The Great East Japan Earthquake (F): Google Japan's Response and Recovery Efforts No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716474-PDF-ENG Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Competition of Countries
economy. Hopefully, I can finish by the late fall of next year. After that, I have in mind another project on U.S. economic management since the New Deal—through the exchange-rate collapse of Nixon, the demise of U.S. competitiveness under Ford and Carter, the Reagan... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
patient outcomes poses particular challenges, in part because "outcome" is a surprisingly nebulous concept. The Value-Based Health Care model divides outcome into a tiered hierarchy: health status achieved (e.g., survival), process of View Details
- 16 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters
that predates and goes well beyond the recent economic downturn. It won't go away when an economic recovery occurs; in fact, absent systemic effort, it may get worse. The second is that the multidisciplinary approach of the experts we've... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria
- 17 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Decoding the Artful Sidestep
candidates whether they supported the economic recovery plan. Neither gave him a direct response, so after several minutes of candidate "answers" he followed up with, "All right, let's go back to my question." Q: What... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Steve Jobs Legacy
have ever studied. He had an extremely complex personality, yet his products were paragons of clarity, simplicity, and elegance. He suffered a very public failure in the 1980s, when he was fired at the company he had cofounded, yet he made one of the greatest View Details
- 10 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists
reopening plans of institutions,” they write. Leadership could consider childcare infrastructure at each university or institution when crafting reopening plans, both as the pandemic drags on and well into the recovery period, Myers and... View Details