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  • 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

Japan. An entire system of governance was blown away. In 1911, an imperial tradition of more than 2,000 years ended. After the subsequent disasters of world war and Maoist utopianism, China was an impoverished third world economy holding... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Facing Job Loss? More Skills Meant Faster Recovery in Uganda | Working Knowledge

estimates. Its young workforce is a potential asset that could help buoy companies. From a policy standpoint, Alfonsi’s research suggests that any government that wants to protect its economy and companies... View Details
  • 08 Mar 2017
  • Blog Post

Education Sector Opportunities at HBS

Technology Innovations in Education, Managing Human Capital, and an independent project through the Social Innovation Lab.  She was also able to examine the economic forces around teachers unions through her group paper in the Role of View Details
  • 17 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?

risks, government policy risks, and uncertainty about payments. In answer to conference organizers’ question about what he learned, McKinsey Senior Partner Daniel Stephens wrote: “I did not have an... View Details
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Classroom and Field Work - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

as well as careers in government or the corporate world. The Advanced Management Program, established in 1945, became available to women in the spring of 1962. Companies sent their mid-career executives to this intensive program so they... View Details
  • 02 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

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organization. Key concepts include: Organizations voluntarily adopting environmental and social policies represent a fundamentally distinct type of modern corporation, characterized by a governance structure... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

cause movement out of urban areas. This process is associated with improvements in the spatial allocation of plants across urban and rural locations. Spatial location of plants has implications for policy on investments in education,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Terms of Use | HBS Online

the Site, as well as any program material, program or cohort pages and platforms, directories and other electronic services available via the Site or any of the other Services. These Terms of Use, our Privacy Policy , SMS Terms ,... View Details
  • 30 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 30

and its implied elasticities are in the ballpark of a range of micro estimates. We find industrial policy subsidizing either the R&D or the continued operation of incumbents reduces growth and welfare. For example, a subsidy to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 May 2020
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What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

several distributors purposely suppressed supply to profiteer, further increasing prices. In response, the government took full control of the production and distribution of face masks. It halted mask exports and rationed and distributed... View Details
Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health
  • 23 May 2019
  • Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology
  • 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51195 Spring 2016 Business History Review California Fair Trade: Antitrust and the Politics of 'Fairness' in U.S. Competition Policy By: Sawyer, Laura Phillips Abstract—In the decades before... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment

to support immoral enterprises. Hayes argued that an investor is in a better position to change a company's policies than an outsider, noting that his college investment committee used proxy materials to raise an issue about sexual... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Mar 2021
  • News

Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic

Children learning remotely often have to rely on parents or a sibling for help. The pandemic has caused the largest disruption of education systems in history, affecting more than one billion learners in more than 190 countries, according to a 2020 United Nations... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • January 2005 (Revised October 2005)
  • Case

Private Capital and Public Policy: Standard & Poor's Sovereign Credit Ratings

By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Christopher Bruner
Describes Standard & Poor's sovereign credit ratings business. Provides background on the history of credit ratings agencies, the meaning of credit ratings, the expansion of the sovereign ratings business over recent decades, and the market for credit ratings. Also,... View Details
Keywords: Sovereign Finance; History; Policy; Business and Government Relations; International Finance; Country; Globalized Economies and Regions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Capital Markets; Debates; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

January 2017 Journal of Financial Economics The Unintended Consequences of the Zero Lower Bound Policy By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Marcin Kacperczyk Abstract—We study the impact of the zero lower bound interest rate View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

working conditions occur in the United States or Europe, usually there is a cry for more regulatory enforcement—along with an ensuing debate about how much government is enough (or too much). When such incidents happen overseas, however,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • December 2010
  • Article

Building Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Commercial Microfinance Organizations

By: Julie Battilana and Silvia Dorado
We explore how new types of hybrid organizations (organizations that combine institutional logics in unprecedented ways) can develop and maintain their hybrid nature in the absence of a "ready-to-wear" model for handling the tensions between the logics they combine.... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Microfinance; Growth and Development Strategy; Identity; Commercialization; Balance and Stability; Policy; Recruitment; Business Model
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  • 04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4

policy details. Between 51% and 63% of respondents approve of the various potential kidney markets we investigate, between 42% and 58% want such markets to be legal, and 38% of respondents disapprove of at least one market. Respondents... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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IFC: Japan; Exploring Japan's Innovation Ecosystem - Course Catalog

circumstances. The Add/Drop process at the start of the term is the mechanism for any IFC enrollment changes, and, after that point, the course fee is non-refundable. Refer to the GEO website for full details on IFCs and be sure you understand the Course View Details