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- 30 Mar 2015
- News
An education reformer and social entrepreneur
Institute for Foreign Study (AIFS), a cultural exchange organization that has served 1.5 million students worldwide. In 1987 he began working with the British government to establish charter-type schools that specialized in technology.... View Details
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
these are good things. [They] don't want to just throw those out.—Ezra F. Vogel, Harvard University professor Yasunobe went on to discuss the changing attitude within the Japanese government towards big business. There is currently a... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
for idiosyncratic products that features the optimal stopping structure and a seller that learns about item-specific demand through the selling process. The model is estimated using novel panel data of a leading used-car dealership. View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
and environmental policy—were to their choice. Meanwhile, people who had voted for Hillary Clinton were asked how important they thought these policy issues were to “an average Trump voter.” As it turns out, Clinton voters largely... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jul 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?
Enforcement agency (ICE) over questions about how ICE conducts its business in handling immigrant families. Many assumed a legalistic stance, reminding us that ICE, as a duly created agency of the government was only carrying out the... View Details
- February 2011
- Article
The Culture and Discourse of Climate Skepticism
By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Hoffman, Andrew J. "The Culture and Discourse of Climate Skepticism." Strategic Organization 9, no. 1 (February 2011): 77–84. (Winner of the 2016 Best SO!apbox Essay Award, Strategic Organization.)
- 2021
- Working Paper
Who Closed the Schools?
By: Joshua D. Coval
This paper examines the differences in characteristics between U.S. public schools that opted for virtual instruction because of COVID-19, and schools that did not. Much of the variation can be explained by measures of the degree to which districts favored teachers... View Details
Keywords: Public Education; COVID-19; Virtual Learning; Education; Health Pandemics; Teaching; Internet and the Web; Policy; Outcome or Result; United States
Coval, Joshua D. "Who Closed the Schools?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-127, June 2021.
- September 2018 (Revised January 2020)
- Case
Apple Pay and Mobile Payments in Australia (A)
By: Feng Zhu, Susan Athey and David Lane
In summer 2016, four of Australia’s top five banks petitioned regulators for permission to bargain collectively with Apple over the terms under which they would support its digital wallet, Apple Pay. They argued that doing so would force concessions from Apple that... View Details
Keywords: Payment Methods; Mobile Payment; Apple; Banks and Banking; Cooperation; Problems and Challenges; Policy; Digital Platforms; Banking Industry; Australia
Zhu, Feng, Susan Athey, and David Lane. "Apple Pay and Mobile Payments in Australia (A)." Harvard Business School Case 619-010, September 2018. (Revised January 2020.)
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=108055 U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis: Policy Reactions Harvard Business School Case 708-036 By March 2008, the U.S. Government and the U.S. Federal Reserve Board had taken... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Lisandra Rickards (MBA 2010)
States. I didn’t want to just take a job. I wanted to have tangible outcomes to my endeavors. Jamaica is the largest English-speaking country in the Caribbean, with a relatively high number of universities. Recently, we’ve seen government... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Web
AllWorld Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
scaling growth and job creation. Winning companies will go public and become icons known around the world. Governments will benefit from real-time research on leveraged policy interventions. An expanding... View Details
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
one mechanism for capturing the performance benefits of diversity in experience and provide insight into how the management of experience accumulation affects team performance. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-145.pdf PublicationsInstitutional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
just simply that it exists, and that society needs to understand how it works. Ultimately, she concludes, government has a regulatory role to play in the baby trade. We asked Spar to discuss her research. Manda Salls: Why did you want to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson (MBA ’73) (Wiley) The authors show how modern finance combined with easy money threatened to cripple the world financial system. They... View Details
- September 2011 (Revised February 2014)
- Case
Duke Energy and the Nuclear Renaissance
Duke Energy, an American investor-owned electric utility, confronts multibillion dollar decisions about its future fuel mix. In particular, its leaders are considering building new nuclear capacity. Whether this is sensible depends, among other things, on demand... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Expansion; Policy; Business Strategy; Energy Sources; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; United States
Vietor, Richard H.K., and Forest L. Reinhardt. "Duke Energy and the Nuclear Renaissance." Harvard Business School Case 712-002, September 2011. (Revised February 2014.)
- 2008
- Chapter
Public Action for Public Goods: Theory and Evidence
By: Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer and Rohini Somanathan
This chapter focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods. It begins by developing a simple model of collective action which is intended to capture the various mechanisms that are discussed in the theoretical literature on collective... View Details
- 1999
- Chapter
Biotechnology, Competitiveness and the Regulatory State
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
- Portrait Project
Grace Hou
government policies give every person the protection and support needed to overcome any challenge. I will fight for a world where each and every person has the chance to finish their fight, arms raised in... View Details
- Web
4.2 Student/Faculty Ventures | MBA
who have formally withdrawn from their programs. A faculty member’s involvement with ventures associated with alumni (students who have graduated from HBS) is governed by the School’s Policy on Outside... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Faculty News
books, Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumer's Trust from Wedgwood to Dell and The Power of Commerce: Economy and Governance in the First British Empire. A member of the HBS faculty since 1991, Koehn is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of... View Details