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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
nations such as China and India — have all accelerated what would have been an inevitable decline. I don’t think the decline will be as pronounced for American business in the next two decades as for the nation-state per se. That’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
New Idea: State of the Art
interviewer in 2013. It was a quantifiable argument: A major National Endowment for the Arts survey released that year reported that only about 20 percent of Americans visit museums annually, but 71 percent engaged with the arts through... View Details
- 20 Jan 2011
- News
Oil Spill Solution
SOAKING IT IN: Scott Smith has proven the absorbency of his firm's Opflex polymer foam at major oil spills in the Gulf and China. Last April’s Gulf of Mexico disaster was back on the front pages in early January when the National... View Details
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
iStock Even as President Donald Trump and Republican leaders seem set on a course to weaken Obama-administration consumer protection regulations, a soon-to-be-published study reports that 7.3 percent of financial advisors in the United... View Details
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy
pardonable hyperbole of the guidebook, into a "stupendous, gigantic, super-magnificent ... greatest show on earth." Time magazine called it "the biggest, costliest, most ambitious undertaking ever attempted in the history of international... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
(NAFTA). Twenty-five years after the landmark trade pact was signed by the United States, Canada, and Mexico, considerable debate surrounded it. Trade and trade agreements were a focal point of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. NAFTA... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
innovation." In a forthcoming book to be published by the National Bureau of Economic Research in association with the University of Chicago Press, Accelerating Innovation in Energy: Insights from Multiple Sectors, Henderson and... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009
the impact on national prosperity that a vital entrepreneurial climate can have. In the long run, the significance of these policies looms much larger. Much of the discussion in the book has focused on specific policies and analyses. From... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
they realize that others are paying less. Q: When Groupon first came on the scene, most of the participating retailers were small, local food- or service-oriented businesses. Eventually, though, we started seeing Groupons from national... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Making of a School
UNIVERSITY Bishop William Lawrence of Harvard University approached George F. Baker, chairman of the First National Bank of New York, to request a $1 million gift to the School. After a few months had passed, Baker famously told Lawrence,... View Details
- 31 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Improving Fairness in Flight Delays
approach, you can get more efficiency out of the system and still have a nice balance of fairness when you have two conflicting programs in the system." According to the US Congress Joint Economic Committee, the cost associated with domestic flight delays in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
(twenty years in the United States), and the other is the solidity of the patent. Regarding length, it’s a sensitive point. If we have delays in FDA regulatory approval because more questions are being asked, or if we are more diligent... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
requires some handholding and has historically been populated with would-be national players that lack both specialized knowledge and the ability to respond quickly, this hands-on, engineering-heavy style has been a key differentiator for... View Details
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
strategy. Fairness, Efficiency and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation Authors:Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias, and Nikolaos Trichakis Publication:Operations Research (forthcoming) Abstract We propose a scalable, data-driven method for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
markets—and how market design made things better. Thickness:A classic example of a thickness problem is the process of helping nephrology patients in need of kidney transplants. In 2006, some 5,000 patients in the United States either... View Details
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Minal Mehta
And when Bollywood was exploding across college campuses in my undergrad years at UC Berkeley, I was leading my dance team to sweep national competitions. It feels like BollyX had always been in the cards. "It was 18 months after I... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
investigate whether stocks in the euro area have moved from a regime in which national stock markets were priced with discount rates that were predominantly country specific, to a regime in which national... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Westminster, Bingham juggled vaccine suppliers, Whitehall, the media circus—and her daughter’s exams. Political maneuvering, miscommunications, and administrative meddling nearly jeopardized the project, but perseverance paid off. Catapulted into a View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11
of historical change. Sadly, the field of entrepreneurship as it has evolved in recent decades has become narrow and is often confined to little more than econometric testing of large datasets concerning high tech entrepreneurs in the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)
reverse of mine. She had her children early; in fact, her kids were out of the house by the time she was 40. And she had her career later. After thirty years in various Washington libraries, she retired this February as head librarian of the View Details