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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Books
(Brookings Institution Press) Awash in debt, most low- and moderate-income Americans borrow to stay afloat rather than to keep up with the Joneses. How did things go so wrong? How can we maintain and expand access to credit while View Details
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
the depth of problems in small business lending, and find and measure solutions. In the advent of another credit crisis this could prove disastrous. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
Elevate The book explains the fault lines that have often plagued U.S. efforts to protect its national interests in the region and how these ongoing faults have led to a precipitous decline in American influence. The author makes some... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter In the wake of the Snowden leaks in 2015, the New York Times dropped the bombshell news that one company had played a unique role in enabling the National Security Agency’s domestic spy program. The report, “AT&T Helped US Spy... View Details
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
Employers, insurers, taxpayers, and individual consumers pay widely varying prices for treatments, medical technology, and for digital information of fluctuating quality. One patient may receive a small charge for a treatment, while... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
it.” And the second is laws and regulations. These are designed to protect consumer interest, so companies should be regulating themselves in advance of any regulations that may be imposed on them. But they... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
intermediaries such as Wal-Mart against a combination of old-line retailers and labor, community, and development activists. Particularly in retailing, policies in the United States favor consumers and offer fewer View Details
- 30 Apr 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Brand Management
personality? How should I think about brand dilution? Does Branding Work For Business-to-business Marketing? B2B Branding: Does it Work? Does it make sense for B2B companies to take a cue from consumer companies and invest in brand... View Details
- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
Tightly packed workers and other weak protections allowed COVID-19 to sweep through American slaughterhouses during the past year, infecting at least 45,000 employees and killing an estimated 240 people. To Harvard Business School... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Sustainable Farming in the Arid World
operate sustainably. “I started Sundrop Farms about four years out of the MBA program. Most people don’t know but agriculture consumes about 50 percent of your operating costs are related to fossil fuels. Agriculture uses about 70 percent... View Details
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
technology, health and consumer care, and renewable energy. His scope of work to date encompasses the United States, the European Union, Brazil, India, Malaysia, South Korea, Philippines, Canada, and multiple African countries. In our... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Spray Canon
Taylor Callery Taylor Callery When street artist Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled sold for $110.5 million in 2017, famed art dealer and curator Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978) told the New York Times that the artist was “now in the same league as Francis Bacon and Pablo... View Details
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
up to the loss protection guarantees for participating insurers that were incorporated into the Affordable Care Act. What’s more, the government needs to help consumers make better decisions. In most states,... View Details
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
iStock Even as President Donald Trump and Republican leaders seem set on a course to weaken Obama-administration consumer protection regulations, a soon-to-be-published study reports that 7.3 percent of... View Details
- 03 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates
they are slipped into computers without the owners' consent. Opponents of typosquatting argue that the practice violates the federal Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act and forces clicks that are... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Strategists analyze market forces—great strategists also look beyond the market
government and interest groups that also seek market imperfections and try to fix them through legal or social means. "These non-market forces can affect the 'rules' of competition: think of Google's continued deliberations with US and EU competition and View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
In the Running?
consumer protection agency in the country,” he said. “If I look too far in the future, I’m going to miss the opportunity to do what needs to be done today and tomorrow.” View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations, had reached an estimated 100... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
business in the early 21st century: to promote economic growth; to protect workers; to promote consumer welfare, and to promote public welfare. Other major economic powers tend to have laws that promote... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
practices is important for understanding financial decision-making of households in dire circumstances as well as for setting appropriate consumer protection policies. We conduct a simple experiment in three... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman