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- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
for learning about what works in digital health. Recently, we have witnessed developments that would have been difficult to imagine just a few years ago. In the United States, we have seen massive expansions in insurance coverage for... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
the service. But that’s not going to happen because the largest investors in bonds — banks, insurance companies, and mutual funds — aren’t willing to pay because they think they do a much better job than the rating agencies. What I... View Details
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
research organizations that partnered with business groups and regulatory bodies. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53310 The Decline of Big-Bank Lending to Small Business: Dynamic Impacts on Local Credit and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
emphasis on services naturally accompany the growth of a knowledge society, representing an insurance policy for the continuance of innovation and progress necessary to maintain world economic leadership? What do you think? Original... View Details
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
http://hbr.org/product/keeping-up-with-the-quants-your-guide-to-understan/an/11177-HBK-ENG 2006 Strategic Management Journal Location Strategies for Agglomeration Economies By: Alcácer, Juan, and Wilbur Chung Abstract—Geographically concentrated industry activity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
Governance Codes in Context: How States, Markets, and Civil Society Shape Adherence to Global Labor Standards By: Toffel, Michael W., Jodi L. Short, and Melissa Ouellet Abstract—Transnational business regulation is increasingly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
U.S. dollar, Juan Peirano of Velox Group explains, "The system is very rigid. The price we pay is higher unemployment and a slower rate of economic growth, but I think we will start to move again by the end of 2000." HBS professor Pankaj... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
working with the private sector, and 2) to address Nigeria’s massive youth unemployment problem by engaging young people in agribusiness. To achieve his first goal, Sanginga in 2013 established a business incubation platform (BIP), which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
unemployment that peaked at 28 percent, while more than 44 percent of the population slipped below the poverty line. And violent protests.So many years of protest, much of it fueled by anti-austerity anger and the inherent tensions from... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
Beyond the Boom Senior Lecturer John Macomber The oil boom has lowered the unemployment rate in Williston, North Dakota, to less than 1 percent. “With respect to the city, if you want to diversify the economy and make it attractive to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
where we try to ease the pain of the death of at least one, possibly two, of these companies. That’s wise because it would be a tremendous shock to confidence if unemployment was to suddenly leap up by a million or more. But the long-term... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
measures, and they require a lot of work. You can see why people are, in my view, overly content with the status quo. When the next recession hits, I expect to see the employers that are purchasing health plans start to demand something different, which in turn is... View Details
- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
web of business ties, lending, and cross-shareholdings. In Germany's financial sector, it might be the insurance giant Allianz. In Italy, it may be a set of powerful families. In Russia, it can be the Russian mafia and other protection... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
insurance payment, diagnostic testing, and physician visit, followed by an accurate assignment of the cost of employees and equipment at each process step. "The transformative result has been our ability to better measure costs that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
with programs related to strengthening education, the parliamentary system, job creation, and investment. But as the top part of society is going one way, things can still slip in the other direction if problems on the Moroccan street like View Details
- May 2025
- Case
RTX's Lifetime Income Strategy: Shaping the Future of Retirement
By: Daniel Green, Luis M. Viceira and Sarah Mehta
Set in 2024, this case explores the Lifetime Income Strategy (LIS), a novel retirement product launched by aerospace and defense company RTX in 2012. Aiming to embed the security of a traditional pension within a 401(k) plan, the LIS allowed participants to secure a... View Details
Keywords: Asset Management; Compensation and Benefits; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Jobs and Positions; Labor; Retirement; Society; Adoption; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry; United States; Virginia
Green, Daniel, Luis M. Viceira, and Sarah Mehta. "RTX's Lifetime Income Strategy: Shaping the Future of Retirement." Harvard Business School Case 225-016, May 2025.
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
was substantial. We also show that immigrant inventors were more productive than native born inventors; however, they received significantly lower levels of labor income. The immigrant inventor wage gap cannot be explained by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
platforms may coexist without the market tipping. Our model helps explain why platforms with different business models coexist in markets, including online dating, housing, and labor markets. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
was stealing jobs from born-and-bred Americans. But it also ruled out the opposing idea that the program created a huge number of jobs for Americans. "We do not find any substantive effect on native scientists and engineers across a range of View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
dimensions. Consistently, banks that serve customer bases with more dispersed needs receive lower satisfaction scores than banks serving customer bases with less dispersed needs. Finally, a longitudinal analysis of the deposit growth of all federally View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne