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Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Under pressure to break-up IBM, Gerstner instead went against the tide of expectation and kept IBM in one piece. He went on to make IBM more competitive by announcing downsizing and a new vision for the company called network computing/e-business. During the period of... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

17 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Reserve Bank Governor Discusses India’s Financial Opportunities

question is: are you going to raise rates or cut them?" Rajan said at the beginning of his lecture. "The answer is: I'm not going to tell you. But what I will talk about is the state of the Indian economy." Rajan said that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2011
News

An Economy Undermined

our HBS professors had always warned that if we spent $5,000 today, we would be giving up a fortune ten or twenty years down the road, given the stock market’s rate of return. A famous futurist of the day was predicting that U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Jeff Madrick; Finance

01 Apr 1996
News

Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?

University's Wagner School of Public Policy. In The End of Affluence, you write that since 1870, America's productivity - the output of goods and services per hour of work - grew at an average annual rate of 2.25 percent until 1973. Since... View Details

Harold S. Geneen

Geneen diversified International Telephone and Telegraph through acquiring shares of companies ranging from the Sheraton Hotel Chain to the Hartford Insurance Company. Geneen grew his firm from $765 million to $8.5 billion in revenues to become one of the largest... View Details

Keywords: Communications

Howard L. Aller

Aller led American Power and Light during the height of its growth. Under his leadership, the company functioned as an umbrella organization for over 20 regional utility providers in the West and posted exceptional market value growth View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

01 Sep 2012
News

Doctoral Alumni Take Stage

about career opportunities.” The HBS Doctoral Programs enroll about 25 students each year out of roughly 800 applicants, an acceptance rate of approximately 4 percent. Some 130 students currently are working on doctoral degrees. View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Eugene P. Grisanti

Grisanti presided over a decade of consecutive growth in sales and earnings – achieving 12%+ growth rates in a mature market between 1986 and 1995. He secured International Flavors and Fragrances’ position as the world’s largest supplier... View Details

Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

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01 Mar 2014
News

Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions

1960), former chief economist, Royal Bank of Canada, Canada The United States has the worst of all worlds: a relatively high marginal tax rate that influences behavior negatively, but a considerably lower average tax View Details

Keywords: ask the expert; Finance

26 Feb 2018
Research & Ideas

The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels

FangXiaNuo Airbnb is revolutionizing the lodging market by keeping hotel rates in check and making additional rooms available in the country's hottest travel spots during peak periods when hotel rooms often sell out and View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Travel

19 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers

privacy notice at checkout, with language drawn from actual notices used by Nordstrom and Macy’s; other’s didn’t. Asked to rate on a scale of 1 to 100 how likely they were to go through with the purchase, the notice-aware group averaged... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

02 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Indulgence vs. Regret: Investing in Future Memories

to rate each item on a 7-point scale ranging from practical (1) to pleasurable (7). Keinan also asked the shoppers to circle one of two answers for each item: "Because I need it" or "Because I want to have it (although I... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2017
News

Research Brief: Better Brainstorming

having a high verbal fluency and a willingness to share). The budding entrepreneurs were then asked to work together to come up with new software products for the booming Indian wedding industry. The ideas generated by the teams were View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Dec 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter

affordable housing instead of allowing developers to build new higher-priced housing? If there was more high-priced housing in the market, wouldn’t other tiers become cheaper? —Gene Pao (MBA 1997) OAKES: We have to make it easier to build both market View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

Harold J. Hudson, Jr.

Hudson, as CEO of General Reinsurance, led the company in retaining its position as the largest distributor of wholesale insurance to the overall insurance industry. During his tenure, General Reinsurance posted some of the best market value growth View Details

Keywords: Finance

06 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

foreign business—without experience in that type of environment—to enter and to prosper in. The crime rate is certainly one of the highest in the world, to the extent that it affects the everyday lives of people and managers. The HIV... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Dec 2009
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Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?

countries were pondering policies regarding a flood of guest workers, some legal and some illegal. These issues tend to arise at times of economic growth or stress. The differing rates at which countries emerge from the recent global... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

Mar 2012
Article

Rethinking School

Economists have found that the higher a country's academic test scores, the faster its GDP grows. That puts the United States' perennially mediocre test scores in a particularly ominous light. Progress is being made, says Childress, of the Gates Foundation, but at the... View Details

15 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?

strategies—external aids like Internet blockers, nicotine patches, and swear jars. At the same time, studies show that few people use these supportive strategies. Why? “We know these kinds of strategies are helpful, and we know they tend not to be used at the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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