National Security - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

incorporated, along with evidence that they are considering and including the needs of DACs and groups underserved by the current transit structure.[55] Additionally, $6 billion are directed to surface transportation projects that have “significant View Details

12 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research

Blanding is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: Bruce yuanyue Bi / Alamy Stock Photo] Related Reading Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive Do National Security Secrets Hold Back View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Lifelong Financial Security for “Conflicting Interests and the Effect of Fiduciary Duty: Evidence from Variable Annuities” ( The Review of Financial Studies , 2022) with Shan Ge and Johnny Tang. Benjamin C. Esty : Winner of the 2023 Case... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

The War Within

When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

reputational risk for businesses. Our recommendations are that companies exposed to China and US-China competition adopt a governance framework that is well-informed, holistic, enduring, authoritative, and tailored to review strategic and View Details

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US Business Immigration Overview - Alumni

Careers US Business Immigration Overview Careers US Business Immigration Overview Looking to work in the United States? We know that it can often be tricky to figure out the requirements needed to secure work authorization. Below we have... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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On the Radar

cutting-edge technologies to also build the most advanced security capabilities for biology.” The coronavirus presented a “crucible moment,” he acknowledges. Concentric launched in 2020 with a COVID-19 testing service for schools and... View Details

Keywords: Janine White; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

02 Oct 2017
What Do You Think?

Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?

specific use of the asset class when he observed that a possible use of Bitcoin could be “hedge funds betting on sovereign debt defaults.” Charles Sabatier III added that Bitcoin is the most secure financial network in the world. “The... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Financial Services

12 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Pay Workers More So They Steal Less

cited in the paper. The problem is particularly severe in retail chains: According to the 2008 National Retail Security Survey, inventory-related employee theft contributed to a loss of $15.9 billion.... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail

28 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

dismissals have increased, and settlements in recent years have declined,” conclude the authors of a new research paper. “Our study asks why.” The number of lawsuits specifically about Rule 10b-5, the antifraud regulation created under the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting

01 Mar 2004
News

New Horizons for Iraq

supplies, and services required for the ship’s ten-month deployment, the longest for any Navy vessel since the Vietnam War. On May 1, 2003, when President Bush visited the ship and declared an end to major hostilities in Iraq, Fabry served as escort to View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; James E. Aisner; Julia Hanna; National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs

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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

co-founder of the ad agency Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, secured the U.S. Steel advertising account in 1935. Barton recognized that executives of U.S. Steel subsidiaries, sometimes skeptical of public relations and its drain on... View Details

04 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

2015 had secured $12.5 million in seed and Series A funding. The founders must determine the best growth strategy for Alfred. Should they expand Alfred beyond their present operating cities, New York and Boston, or should they focus on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 2002
News

Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable

In June 2000, when the National Commission on Terrorism released its report, the commission's chairman, L. Paul ("Jerry") Bremer III (MBA '66), issued a warning. "There's a chance terrorists will try to stage a catastrophic event in the... View Details

Keywords: counterterrorism; terrorism; National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs

07 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

credits the work of the National Hurricane Center, Nate Silver, and others for helping educate the public on how to interpret probability forecasts, but more work is needed to improve visualizations. “Even if you say there’s a 10 percent... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation

06 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 6

bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war's end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking the power to tax, it had no means to repay them. The Founders... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women

National Institutes of Health that spurred more women to become scientists and discouraged biases among men in the field, Koning says. While male inventors far outnumber women inventors, biomedical patents View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

September 2020
Case

An Introduction to Money Laundering: 'The Hunter'

By: Eugene Soltes, Guilhem Ros and Grace Liu

Money laundering schemes disguise the criminal origins of an estimated 2% to 5% of the world’s gross domestic product. Money laundering not only enables criminals to escape detection, but may also be used to finance further criminal operations including terrorism. This... View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Accounting Audits; Financial Reporting; Financial Institutions; Banks and Banking; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Governance Controls; International Relations; National Security; Ethics; Accounting Industry; Banking Industry; United States; Europe

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01 Sep 2008
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Totting Up the Bill for the Iraq War

actual financial cost of operating the Afghanistan and Iraq wars at $2.7 trillion. (Before the wars, the Bush White House estimated the bill would be $50 billion.) Next comes a question: What could we have done with the money had we not gone to war? According to the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs

January 2021 (Revised July 2022)
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Snapp: Scaling Under Sanctions in Iran (A)

By: Meg Rithmire and Gamze Yucaoglu

The case opens in November 2019 as Eyad Alkassar and Mahmoud Fouz, co-founders of Iran’s first and leading ride-hailing platform, Snapp, find out about Apple’s and Google’s decisions to remove all Iranian apps from their respective application stores.
The case... View Details