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- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
policy tool that has attracted increased interest. Yet questions about the efficacy and the efficiency with which funds are used are subject to frequent debate. This paper examines empirical data from the Danish National Advanced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
assessment of over 120 developed and emerging economies. Produced in collaboration with a distinguished group of international scholars and a global network of around 120 leading national research institutes and business organizations,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?
wealthiest households. It's not that low-income families have a terrible savings rate, explained Tufano. In fact, within Individual Development Accounts (described below), poor families have a 2.2% savings rate, compared to the national... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- March 2021
- Supplement
Snapp: Scaling Under Sanctions in Iran (B)
By: Meg Rithmire and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in November 2020 as Eyad Alkassar and Mahmoud Fouz, co-founders of Iran’s first and leading ride-hailing platform, Snapp, eagerly await the results of the U.S. presidential elections.
The case takes us through the challenging times between... View Details
The case takes us through the challenging times between... View Details
Keywords: Sanctions; Change Management; Disruption; Volatility; Decision Choices and Conditions; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Government and Politics; International Relations; National Security; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Health Pandemics; Transportation Industry; Middle East; Iran
Rithmire, Meg, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "Snapp: Scaling Under Sanctions in Iran (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 721-036, March 2021.
- September 2006 (Revised August 2007)
- Case
The Dubai Ports World Debacle and its Aftermath
By: Julio J. Rotemberg
Describes the political ramifications in the United States of Dubai-based DP World's acquisition of London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O). Because P&O operated some port terminals in the United States, DP World obtained clearance from the... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; National Security; Business and Government Relations; Ship Transportation; Dubai; United States
Rotemberg, Julio J. "The Dubai Ports World Debacle and its Aftermath." Harvard Business School Case 707-014, September 2006. (Revised August 2007.)
- October 2018 (Revised August 2019)
- Case
Everybody Knows: Russia and the Election
By: Rawi Abdelal, Rafael Di Tella and Galit Goldstein
Following a contentious presidential race, Donald Trump’s 2016 election destabilized America’s status quo. Academics, journalists, politicians and the public at large examined why Trump had won. Many Americans, inside and outside the government, asserted that a... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Industry; Strategic Alliances (Business); Business And Government; Business And Public Policy; Business And Society; Media Businesses; Media Content; Media Slant; Media Regulation; Internet Of Everything; Government Policy; Politics; Political Campaigns; Political Strategy; Political Turmoil; Government; Government Regulation; Security; International Business; International Relations; National Security; Political Elections; News; Media; Internet and the Web; Rights; Problems and Challenges; Globalization; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Government Legislation; Risk and Uncertainty; Cognition and Thinking; Conflict and Resolution; Identity; Civil Society or Community; Culture; Public Opinion; Social Issues; War; Social Media; Public Administration Industry; United States; Russia
Abdelal, Rawi, Rafael Di Tella, and Galit Goldstein. "Everybody Knows: Russia and the Election." Harvard Business School Case 719-012, October 2018. (Revised August 2019.)
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
world's premier regulator of food, drugs, cosmetics, and other products and also of helping to lead the transformation of medicine to a molecular level. Current logistical challenges include ever-more rapid movement of products across View Details
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
and financial technology, the digital health ecosystem is in its nascent stages and has been waiting for a catalyst to seed the system. This National Health Protection Scheme is expected to provide just this impetus for widespread... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
of the opposite phenomenon, in which employees do not have enough work to fill their time and are left with hours of meaningless idle time each week. We conducted six studies that examine the prevalence and work pacing consequences of involuntary idle time. In a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
from multiple sources and individual-level survey data collected as part of the International Social Survey Programme in 2002 and 2012 from nationally representative samples of men and women in 24 countries. Adult daughters of employed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Improving Fairness in Flight Delays
working paper, "Modeling Passenger Travel and Delays in the National Air Transportation System," Fearing and coauthors Cynthia Barnhart and Vikrant Vaze of MIT apply statistical techniques to develop a representative sample of... View Details
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two
decades mixing and selling skin care formulas before she undertook to build a national market for her products. Howard Schultz did not grow up drinking specialty coffee, but as soon as he was introduced to the business, he learned as much... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
their data for two years before publishing it. "Today," he said, "the standard is 24 hours to put information on the Web; that's the rule for participating in the Genome Project." (The U.S. Human Genome Project, a joint effort of the U.S. Department of Energy and the... View Details
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
governments, and national and local support organizations. In 2018, the program had graduated 7,300 scholars—just 2,700 shy of the 10,000 target. The case examines the creation of the 10,000 Small Businesses ecosystem and asks students to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
New York City. It was 2006 and the housing market was peaking but had not yet crashed. Both Rose and Weinstein were experienced developers of low-income housing, the former as CEO of the Jonathan Rose Companies, a national developer, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
thinking through the issues facing rail transportation and discusses three recent freight rail infrastructure projects that hold promise for the future: the National Gateway, the Keystone Corridor, and the CREATE decongestion project in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
likely contributed to the great recession by inflating the housing and credit bubbles in 2005-2007. But when it comes to sovereign risk, they are getting it right. Across the world, there are many serious threats to the long-term ability to repay View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke seeks to increase capacity building, screening, referral, and management of NCDs across India and includes community-based outreach and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
even rational in making funding decisions. Drawing on a panel of national experts and comprehensive data from the largest crowdfunding site, we examine funding decisions for proposed theater projects, a category where expert and crowd... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
power, they nationalized all our assets. To date, they have not given them back. We fretted for 10 years. However, we felt that the loss is ours as we are losing the business of 70 million people—equal to the population of Kenya and... View Details