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- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
the great cities of America. But there will likely be massive arguments about how to raise the money and how to invest it. The solution may lie in finance models that have proven successful in several nations across the Atlantic Ocean—not... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
Regulate Companies like Airbnb and Uber? By: Edelman, Benjamin G., and Damien Geradin Abstract—New software platforms use modern information technology, including full-featured web sites and mobile apps, to allow service providers and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
Courtesy Rahkeem Morris Courtesy Rahkeem Morris Rahkeem Morris (MBA 2018) spent the first 10 years of his work life as an hourly wage earner, moving from one minimum wage job to the next, often unable to transfer learned skills or... View Details
- 20 May 2016
- Op-Ed
World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics
significantly reduced. In fact, the WHO would probably be a more effective and nimble organization if it was half its current size, not double. The WHO's role in preparing for, providing early monitoring and managing pandemic crises should be View Details
- Web
Protecting Yourself Against Social Engineering | Information Technology
to. A form of social engineering called Business Email Compromises is when a bad actor pretends to be a vendor or someone you frequently make payments to. They advise you that they need you to send the money to a different account because... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Fostering a Supportive Community
After graduating from Cornell University, where he majored in policy analysis, Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021) spent seven years working in education and for a nonprofit that advances equity and economic mobility in the southern United States.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
research, started in the year 2000, was aimed at understanding how an innovative team working together in a creative act managed the process of knowledge transfer between the more experienced and less experienced members of that team. The... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
we are already in a very different moment in history compared to the middle of the 1990s. The international financial community no longer embraces capital mobility with just a few qualifications; rather, the qualifications these days are... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
company to be more competitive because it is easier to source skilled people, access suppliers efficiently, and operate productively. In money management, for example, every road show comes to Boston because there is a cluster of major... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
international banking, I am familiar with “the old shell game” of tax evasion via the transfer pricing mechanism. Differentiating between tax avoidance and tax evasion in this area is often very difficult indeed. But very big View Details
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
opportunities to practice their skills in time frames connected to actual buying processes. They can do so by using the same technologies that are “disrupting” their customer-contact activities: videos and mobile apps that reps can view... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 11
markets are closer (a better fit) to one firm than to the other, and that certain knowledge is more transferable across markets (less market specific). We then solve the model computationally and identify three equilibrium... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Dec 2010
- Op-Ed
Tax US Companies to Spur Spending
been a saving grace in ensuring that the financial crisis did not cause further damage to the economy. With traditional monetary and fiscal policy instruments seemingly exhausted, the mobilization of that cash hoard can prove critical to... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977
four children were old enough to do basic math, Tisch set up a fund for each of them that was to be used for charity. “Rather than spend money on another iPod,” says Charlotte, 17, Tisch’s youngest daughter, “my sister and I support AIDS... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
energy conservation alone. And this is all in a world in which we are spending a ridiculously small amount of money on clean energy research, and the private sector has only minimal incentives to invest. In 2014, for example, the... View Details
- 24 May 2023
- Blog Post
Innovating, Funding, and Scaling Climate Solutions at Harvard Business School: Day Three of Harvard Climate Action Week
to business, the money and skills necessary to fund a decarbonized future, and different approaches to building a just and skilled workforce. Tufano’s session on financing highlighted the growing sense of urgency in finding sufficient... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
companies and, well, straight men. In the offices of a Cambridge software firm, the Deckingers are discussing their vision for Jess, Meet Ken with a team of mobile app designers. Their target audience is single, heterosexual women, ages... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historical Perspective: Levitt Shaped the Debate
one hand, could write a doctoral dissertation titled, "World War II Manpower Mobilization and Utilization in a Local Labor Market" and, three decades later, pen an opinion piece for The New York Times headlined, "Yes, Throw... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
debut in Target and Fresh Market stores. Kahawa 1893 is experimenting with using blockchain for transparency in the tipping process. It also is exploring whether cryptocurrency might allow for more efficient tipping in a cafe setting. The cost of View Details
- Web
Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade
traders in the China trade rippled out to and touched the society to which Western merchants overseas would eventually return. “Expatriates were the effective agents in transferring whatever was moved from China to America . . . goods,... View Details