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- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
government spending, and consumer spending—consumer spending being the biggest—the United States consistently spends more than 100 percent of its GDP (as high as 106 percent in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings
Teams, which have become increasingly popular. To tackle some of these questions, Sadun has been studying how 300 knowledge workers have been spending their time during the pandemic and how those activities affect their moods and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- Web
Health Care - Faculty & Research
COVID-19 vaccines. Our findings suggest that federal subsidies and pandemic-induced reductions in spending opportunities explain the limited impact. Keywords: Revenue ; Small Business ; Health Pandemics ; View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980
industries. Europe and Japan had to spend the immediate postwar decade undergoing extensive reconstruction, heavily dependent on official aid from the United States, yet over time Europe and Japan closed the technological and productivity... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 16 Aug 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914-1990
- 16 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?
The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details
- 07 May 2014
- What Do You Think?
How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?
learning programs) to help the lower income groups and the under-privileged Government could launch reward programs to both groups to encourage their willingness to participate." Peter McCann said that, "The threat to democracy... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
affects innovation incentives in medical technologies. Prior studies have found early mover regulatory advantages for drugs. I find the opposite for medical devices, where pioneer entrants spend 34% (7.2 months) longer than follow-on... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?
extensive research of Russia, Ukraine, the politics of oil and gas, and sanctions. He has written case studies about the Russian government after the fall of the Soviet Union, energy politics in Europe, and modern-day Ukraine. This... View Details
- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
pretty regularly from folks saying, you know, I'm thinking about taking a job at a startup and, or I'm leaving my company. And do you think I should exercise these options? I Literally would spend an hour and a half on the phone with... View Details
- 02 Apr 2020
- What Do You Think?
What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?
organizations, in their counterparts in the public sector to work together on proactive contingency planning? Or is it too naïve to even suggest this? Does this pandemic teach us anything about cooperation between business and government... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?
in a bad economy, since you're spending more money to attract a new demographic that isn't showing up fast enough. Meanwhile, your old demographic is deserting you, putting you between a rock and a hard place. He also tried to deal with... View Details
- 11 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?
efforts in two recent cases, “The Brand Management of Places” and “Israel at 70: Is it Possible to (re)Brand a Country?” Success without a roadmap Government and business leaders hoping to shift the conversation about their regions might... View Details
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
1997, 2002). This paper explains how state governments got the funds to pay for education and examines the incentives that politicians had to spend on education between 1889 and 1930. Our findings are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, an M.P.A. from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. She serves on the Advisory Board of Harvard Business... View Details
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
Entrepreneurs. Since joining the HBS faculty in 1986, she also served as Co-Chair of the HBS MBA Program, Chair of Field Based Learning, and Co-Chair of the Harvard Policy Group on Networked Government Services. Prior to joining the HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Minimum Wage Debate Is Really About Social Values
aware that the long-term economic path for the United States has some challenges. Spending outstrips our forecast for revenue by an enormous amount and that requires some adjustment. We'll have to either raise taxes or cut spending.... View Details
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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
Government Intervention Labor Global Events Influence: High 1900 s 19 8.8 million immigrants arrive throughout decade Cities expand Population grows from 76 to 92 million Rural Free Delivery routes added Influence: Medium 10 1910 s 19... View Details