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09 Nov 2021
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Holiday Season 2021: When Should you Mail Packages Amid Shortages and Delays

Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?

This paper employs a new empirical approach for identifying the impact of government spending on the private sector. Our key innovation is to use changes in congressional committee chairmanship as a source of exogenous variation in state-level federal xpenditures. In... View Details

12 Mar 2020
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A proposal to cap provider prices and price growth in the commercial health-care market

01 Apr 2019
What Do You Think?

Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?

accompanied by lower inflation and interest rates—that justify deficit spending to produce both economic growth and social programs designed to improve our quality of life and reduce social inequality” (JohnfrmClevelnd). Or, it prompts... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

January 2025
Case

North Forty: Managing Liquidity Through Change

By: Luis M. Viceira and Brad Towne

This case explores the interaction between spending and investment decisions at a family office, specifically the family office of Jeff and Tricia Raikes, with special emphasis on the management of spending, portfolio investments, and asset liquidity in the presence of... View Details

Keywords: Family Office; Forecasting and Prediction; Asset Management; Financial Liquidity; Financial Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Spending; Planning

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Purchase

05 May 2020
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What if You Don’t Want to Go Back to the Office?

19 Jan 2017
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Putting People at the Centre of Health Care

Research Summary

Emerging and Frontier Markets

By: Arthur I Segel

I continue to spend a great deal of time examining real estate in all aspects from development to securitization in new and growing markets. View Details

14 Feb 2012
News

Where's the Boss? Trapped in a Meeting

07 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits

This is partly because the relationship between infrastructure spending and economic growth, if focused only on the United States, has been hard to update. The US Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, after all, was signed into law... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Construction

13 Oct 2021
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What’s Wrong with America’s Consumer-Price Index?

14 Aug 2012
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Shoes are the heart of department stores

21 Dec 2011
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Are You Wasting Your Most Valuable Asset?

11 Jun 2021
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Q&A: The Missing Piece of the Puzzle in Manufacturing

20 Jan 2023
Blog Post

The Importance of Mentorship: A Conversation With Professor Ting Zhang

individuals through advising and mentoring. Could you give us a summary of how you’ve seen organizations do that and why do you think it is important? When I talk to people in different industries and organizations, people agree on the importance of mentorship.... View Details

03 May 2023
Blog Post

Five Ways to Build Community at HBS

When I was admitted to HBS on December 9, 2021, I was so excited that I flew to Boston the next day to spend the weekend exploring the city, and visualizing what this next chapter in my life could mean for me. By January, I decided not to... View Details

23 Jan 2015
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How U.S. laws protecting America’s best ideas are killing innovation

16 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules

anyone, it must make that information public to everyone. “Place yourself in the position of a hedge fund manager. Why would you spend all this energy seeking to meet with the CEO if it didn't help to significantly inform you in some... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

03 Feb 2015
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Should Your Kids Know How Much You Make?

11 Aug 2015
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