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- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
moderate-income families. Low-risk and low-profile, savings bonds have been around for decades, offering the dual benefit of funding the national debt while acting as a savings vehicle for millions of Americans. In "Reinventing... View Details
- 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010
downstream companies lobbying in favor of the general protection of highly integrated conglomerates. In the steel industry, by contrast, national industrial policy in the absence of exogenous economic shocks fails to weaken local state... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
raising taxes. With the Pledge, we branded the Republican Party at the national level as the party that will not raise your taxes. What are your tax reform priorities for the second Bush administration? Year one, kill the “death” estate... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
leaders in building a stronger nation and world to ameliorate this ongoing legacy. Keep printing such thought-provoking and effective articles about issues of global social injustices. Joe Steele (MBA ’83) Craryville, NY View Details
- 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
- 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10
growing evidence of pollution and resulting political pressures. The variety of capitalism literature has suggested that the German coordinated market economy model was more conducive to green corporate strategies than liberal market economies such as the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
Is your company doing enough to protect itself from cyber attacks? According to several HBS faculty and alumni experts, senior executives need to pay more attention to this potential threat. It makes good business sense — and fulfills a View Details
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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar | About
responded magnificently. It is this community and its commitment to do whatever it takes to achieve our mission that gives me confidence that we can draw on all our past strengths and look forward to a remarkable future. I grew up in Bombay, as it was called then,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
nationalistic pride and identity but also allows them to leverage monetary policy, one of the most significant tools that governments have to affect their economies. However, we’ve seen countries like Ecuador getting rid of their national... View Details
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
they would be worried about losing members to neighboring churches and weigh those recruits more highly. For the national Methodist church, on the other hand, it doesn't matter which local congregation a Methodist belongs to. "It's... View Details
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
Publications Forthcoming National Bureau of Economic Research Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 16 By: Lerner, Josh, and Scott Stern Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://papers.nber.org/books/lern15-1 2015... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
catastrophic risks to patients, physicians, pharmaceutical firms, and regulators. Between the early 1960s and the present, national systems were built to collect, standardize, and respond to individual reports of side effects, with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
average of 3.2 hours each workday with their children, while employed fathers spend 2.3 hours each workday. Source: The Families and Work Institute's "1997 National Study of the Changing Workforce." Karla (Rose) Middlebrooks Keeping to... 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
- 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
the United States, the time, cost, and complications of patent suits provide openings for opportunistic assertions of infringement. This article proposes a way to address information problems that facilitate opportunistic assertion: an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
energy came in the factor markets (for land, labor capital, and knowledge), and it required the abandonment of feudalism. Unlike trade, capitalism spreads by political decisions and by political units such as states. As a consequence,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
than a meter. "The students wanted to get out right away," recalls Mukunda, an assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. "But I said, no! (Luckily I have a loud voice.) And I told... View Details
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
Also, people are more attuned to the knowledge that geopolitical strife is influenced by environmental issues, such as how American dependence on Persian Gulf oil colors its behavior in that volatile region. It is only in recent years that more and more people in the... View Details
Keywords: by 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
- 09 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 9, 2015
benefit from revealing unit cost information to consumers. A natural field experiment conducted with an online retailer suggests that cost transparency boosts sales. Six subsequent controlled lab experiments replicate this basic effect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne