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  • 01 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

Abstract—Objective: Assess whether a commitment contract informed by behavioral economics leads to persistent virologic suppression among HIV-positive patients with poor antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence. Design: Single-center pilot... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2006
  • Case

Edison Schools, Inc.: From the Candle to the Light Bulb?

Edison Schools, Inc., a pioneer in the for-profit management of public schools, demonstrates the challenges and opportunities related to private sector involvement in the delivery of a public good. Follows the organization from its start-up through its initial public... View Details
Keywords: Private Ownership; Public Sector; Education; Conflict and Resolution; Public Administration Industry; Education Industry; United States
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  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

The Road Less Traveled

Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas... View Details
Keywords: Janine White; illustrations by WACSO; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation
  • Web

The new industrial state? | Institute for Business in Global Society

The new industrial state? Global Leadership Roundtable Washington, DC February 2024 In partnership with the NobleReach Foundation The future of American economic policy On February 27, 2024, a gathering took place in Washington, D.C.,... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

Sahlman Heads External Relations

contributed important ideas to the study of business. But the manifestation of those ideas is in what the alumni and the people touched by our alumni end up doing with that knowledge.” Sahlman (MBA ’75), who assumed his new role July 1, holds a Ph.D. in business View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

Warren Law Remembered

University and served for three years in the Pacific as one of the youngest officers in the U.S. Navy before graduating from HBS in 1948 and earning his Ph.D. in economics in 1953 from Harvard University. Law is survived by his wife of 53... View Details
Keywords: obiturary; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • December 2021
  • Case

Grace Capital

By: Sara Fleiss, Robin Greenwood, Eren Kuzucu and Denise Han
In March 2020, the global pandemic was delivering a dose of volatility to the U.S. economy. Catherine Faddis, the CIO of Grace Capital, a Boston-based long-only equity manager, analyzed movements in her portfolio while eyeing previously shelved opportunities to invest... View Details
Keywords: Preferred Stock; COVID-19 Pandemic; Economy; Health Pandemics; Volatility; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Investment; Strategy; Decision Making; Investment Portfolio; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 07 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 7

concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United States. We discuss rationales for the agglomeration of these activities and the economic consequences of clusters. We identify and discuss... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 31 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Fairness in Flight Delays

approach, you can get more efficiency out of the system and still have a nice balance of fairness when you have two conflicting programs in the system." According to the US Congress Joint Economic Committee, the cost associated with... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Air Transportation
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

The HBS Fund

operators in the United States were only able to glean a general estimate of location from mobile calls, thus hampering response times. Now, thanks to technology developed by RapidSOS, calls received from most Android phones automatically... View Details
  • Web

Annual Report 2019 - Annual Report 2019

Director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers—examined the decisions they made and steps they took to try to stabilize the financial system. Professors Robin Greenwood and David Scharfstein co-chaired the conference to, in... View Details
  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course

economic miracle (1920s); cars in the second (post-World War II) Convenience Store Retailing in Two Countries: Southland and Seven-Eleven Japan How Japanese managers learned from their American counterparts, then taught the teachers The... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • March 1997
  • Case

Stone Container in Honduras (B)

By: Hannah Bowles and James K. Sebenius
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Preparation; Negotiation Types; Environmental Sustainability; Conflict of Interests; Globalized Firms and Management; Developing Countries and Economies; Government and Politics; Manufacturing Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Honduras; Chicago
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  • March 2024 (Revised July 2024)
  • Case

The CHIPS Program Office

By: Mitchell B. Weiss and Sebastian Negron-Reichard
In February 2023, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo weighed signing off on a Notice of Funding Opportunity (“NOFO”) with at least one unconventional provision: a pre-application (“pre-app”) to the actual application for parts of $39 billion in direct semiconductor... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Government Administration; Government Legislation; Motivation and Incentives; Semiconductor Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States
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  • May 2008
  • Teaching Note

Vegpro Group: Growing in Harmony (TN)

By: David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman
Teaching Note for [508-001]. View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Customers; Production; Price; Ethics; Environmental Sustainability; Development Economics; Supply Chain; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; United Kingdom; Kenya
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  • 19 Jan 2022
  • In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
  • 22 Jul 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power

Partners, a midstream oil and natural gas pipeline company, have joined forces to turn waste heat to power (WHP) at four sites in the United States. Construction on the projects—three in Ohio and one in Indiana—is expected to start early... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Too Big To Fail

to help, has the government unwittingly created the mother of all moral hazards — implicit rescue guarantees as far as the eye can see? No doubt about it, says HBS professor and economic historian David Moss. “The extension of implicit... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance
  • 19 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving

how much good the donation will achieve. “That gives you some moral wiggle room to pursue the more selfish action,” says Exley, an assistant professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at HBS. Her research attempts to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Portrait Project

Oded Eran

the radio. Fast-forward 6 months. I am working with a group of Arabs and Israelis on a conference promoting peace through economic cooperation. After the conference, I grabbed a beer with Sari, a Palestinian entrepreneur from the West... View Details