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06 Aug 2012
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The high cost of private pension savings

23 Jan 2011
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Air Products ruling will set takeover benchmark

14 Sep 2009
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Moving Beyond the Conventional Wisdom of Whole-District Reform

16 Dec 2009
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How to restore confidence in loan securitisation

Give Employees Cash to Purchase Their Own Health Insurance

Employers’ and employees’ health care costs continue to skyrocket. A solution is to allow employers to give employees pre-tax cash to purchase their own health insurance. This move, enabled by a newly enacted federal rule, would put competitive pressure on insurers,... View Details

May 2010 (Revised May 2010)
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Data.gov

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Robert D. Austin and Yumi Yi

This case presents the logic and execution underlying the launch of Data.gov, an instantiation of President Obama's initiative for transparency and open government. The process used by Vivek Kundra, the federal CIO, and his team to rapidly develop the website and to... View Details

Keywords: Safety; Rights; Analytics and Data Science; Internet and the Web; Ethics; Cost vs Benefits; Innovation and Management; Information Management; Public Administration Industry; Information Industry; United States

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October 24, 2018
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End the Corporate Health Care Tax

By: Mark R. Kramer and John Pontillo

Imagine if a single piece of legislation could effectively eliminate all U.S. corporate taxes, subsidize hundreds of millions of dollars in new corporate investment, increase the take-home pay of most U.S. employees, ease state and local budgets, and reduce the U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Taxation; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Taxation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; United States

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Wenxin Du is a Professor of Finance and the Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management at the Harvard Business School. She studies global currency and fixed income markets, central banking, financial... View Details

18 Feb 2014
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A Better Path to Corporate Tax Reform

27 Jul 2020
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This Tech Could Let Bosses Spy on You While You’re Working from Home

05 Nov 2018
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HBS Associate Professor Raffaella Sadun Wins National Science Foundation Grant

25 Feb 2014
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Is Gap Inc.'s Minimum Wage Hike Good Retail Politics? Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn Weighs In

12 May 2021
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Colonial Pipeline Shutdown Prompts Federal, State Action to Move Fuel

11 May 2012
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Charlotte's competitive muscle

07 Nov 2012
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A Breed Apart: Why Our Elites Are So Disconnected

January 2009 (Revised November 2011)
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The Tip of the Iceberg: JP Morgan Chase and Bear Stearns (A)

By: Clayton S. Rose, Daniel Baird Bergstresser and David Lane

"Bear Stearns & Co. burned through nearly all of its $18 billion in cash reserves during the week of March 10, 2008, and an unprecedented provision of liquidity support from the Federal Reserve on Friday, March 13 was insufficient to reverse the decline in Bear's... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Crisis; Capital; Financial Liquidity; Financial Strategy; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Competition; Valuation; Financial Services Industry

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Nov 2011
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The Big 3 Roar Back

February 1998 (Revised May 2007)
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Airborne Express

By: Jan W. Rivkin

In the wake of a highly successful quarter, senior managers of Airborne Express, the third largest player in the express mail industry, review the firm's competitive position. Airborne has survived, and recently prospered, in an industry with significant economies of... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Business Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Global Strategy; Rank and Position; Service Industry

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