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- 02 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Trump’s Tariffs Could Harm Allies as Much as Opponents
After many on and off signals, President Donald Trump pulled the trigger March 1 and announced he would slap long-term duties on steel (25 percent) and aluminum (10 percent) imports next week. The last imposition of tariffs on steel by the United States was by the Bush... View Details
- 10 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy
paper, "Cost of External Finance and Selection into Entrepreneurship," Nanda looks at how entrepreneurial activity is affected across various groups of individuals when a tax reform increases the cost of financing a business.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
"The fact that the benefits of addressing the problem of climate change almost certainly outweigh the costs ... does not make concerted global action to address the problem easy." —Climate Change in 2018: Implications for... View Details
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
Summit attendees worked on identifying "bottlenecks and pain points" while devising potential solutions to the country's infrastructure woes. Many of the problems have a direct impact on business. For example, airline flight delays and cancellations View Details
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
presentation given at the fifth U.S.-China Health Summit at Harvard Medical School in September by John A. Quelch, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Professor in Health Policy... View Details
- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
Association and an MBA candidate in the class of 2015 at Harvard Business School. The event was moderated by Anita Elberse, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, whose research focuses on... View Details
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
individuals identified as likely to defect. The tricky part comes in figuring out exactly who should be targeted. “You have to look at the net profitability of the retention campaign” Sunil Gupta, the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
to their accounting reports following CLs. Our results indicate that disclosure of regulatory oversight activities can strengthen public enforcement. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55919 forthcoming View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
of 1949 Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. "The team discovered that having access to laptops and finding uses for them wasn't the main problem. A greater problem was financing the purchase and... View Details
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
Below are the views that faculty shared with the HBS community on Earth Day. 1. Robert G. Eccles Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and author of One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy (This article, titled,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
data for themselves and look forward to the new questions they can tackle with it. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53265 forthcoming Boston University Law Review Troll Check? A Proposal for Administrative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
could go on as usual were out of sync with reality. Hopefully, cooler heads will prevail in the days ahead. — Laura Alfaro Laura Alfaro is the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration at HBS. She has focused extensively on... View Details
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?
effects of competition have an advantage within their markets, says Alexander J. MacKay, assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, who coauthored the study Consumer Inertia and Market Power with Marc... View Details
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
blame game engulfed politicians and S&P itself. In the midst of all this angst, four Harvard Business School faculty members offer their views on what went wrong and what needs to be done to right the US ship of state. bo Becker, Assistant Professor Of Business... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
technical, financial, and administrative resources to these innovative clinicians and facilitates the development of the ideas so they eventually become medical practice. While successful on many dimensions, Parrish is faced with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
40 or so years, SASB hopes to simplify and standardize how businesses report data from their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives. George Serafeim is the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
institution’s patient portal. Conclusions. As healthcare costs continue to rise in the United States and around the world, a value-based approach with explicit, transparently reported patient outcomes will not only create opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
recognizes that contingent debt can be associated with incentive problems and lack of commitment. Thus, the benefits of unexpected inflation are tempered by higher interest rates. We obtain that costs from inflation more than offset the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne