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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
The Long View
resulting research creates a deeper understanding of the issue at hand and, when we're successful, can impact both scholars' and policymakers' approaches to the problem. In some cases, terrific policy proposals emerge as well, but that's... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
undaunted, has since launched Innovate Your State, a nonprofit dedicated to boosting public participation in initiatives to improve government. Its first effort, the Fix California Challenge, crowdsourced ideas for ways to improve state... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
those traders’ companies were then paying $20,000 a month. Parker thought he could provide a better service for $500 a month. He was proposing to sell $100,000 worth of debentures and stock representing 10... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Business Firsthand in South Korea
Korean soldier immediately asked for a Choco Pie, a beloved South Korean treat that is banned in the north. The soldier’s request is a dramatic example of the popularity of the round, chocolate-covered,... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
the success of the four-year pilot program, which has been extended for a year (recently introduced legislation has proposed making it permanent); how community colleges can address the middle-skills gap;... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
But It's All Right Now (In Fact, It's a Gas)
to New England. Industry observers thought his proposal for an LNG plant there, small by industry standards, was “totally harebrained,” Shearer recalled, but Trinidadian officials liked it. Three years of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
An Unconventional Suggestion
Consulting Group proposed an 11-point plan of regulatory reforms, technological advances, and infrastructure and workforce development. The goal: to realize the economic benefits of unconventional gas and oil (already adding more than... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Turning Point: On the Line
to take the chance and pursue a career as a writer. Over the course of one week, I resigned from Disney, proposed to her, and commenced dragging my now-wife along for this nearly 30-year journey as a TV... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
the political and economic turmoil following the fall of the Berlin Wall, he urged GM's senior management to locate a new plant for the company's Opel line in the East German town of Eisenach. Eisenach seemed a long shot at best. Even... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Fast Lane to Country Lane
business skills but left room for morning walks, dining together at every meal, volunteering in her community, and being with her daughter. In just three years, Lackley has taken the business from one where Mark worked on specific View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
Norquist Illustration by Rob Barber Grover G. Norquist (MBA ’81) may not be a household name, but he’s definitely a Washington institution. As president of Americans for Tax Reform, which he founded in 1985, Norquist has aggressively... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
causes and impact of the country’s mortgage meltdown. Serving since 1998 as director of Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, Retsinas also teaches at the Graduate School of Design and the Kennedy School of Government. A... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
begin to repatriate cash and use it productively at home. The combined revenue effect is likely to be relatively small. Ideally, firms would invest their excess cash funds in new projects in the United States and avoid the 2 percent tax. President Obama’s View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
ROLE MODELS: Baltimore principal Cindy Harcum says PELP's strength is helping participants consider the application of business models while understanding the unique challenges of their field. A grizzled Baltimore cabbie does a double take when an out-of-town visitor... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
remains overlooked. The author provides an insightful view into differences between confidence and competence while also recommending several ways to address the issue of incompetence at the ‘top.’ It’s a relevant discussion for so many... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Closing the 'Network Gap'
student Shelby Schrier (MBA 2022) read Hu’s post and it struck a chord. “I wouldn’t be where I am today if it weren’t for the people and networks that have helped me along the way. But most professionals don’t have that same access. I... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
academic institution for shaping ideas about management and enterprise in the field of life sciences. “What was needed,” he says, “was an initiative to pull things together and examine the business and industrial dynamics of it.” When... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
Director Cognetti that the board will follow state and federal procurement laws to bid out for ongoing and as-needed services, with target dates to send out requests for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
“International Power 50” list of women executives in 2008, has won praise for combining a conservative financial approach with progressive policies. Raised in New Jersey, Carroll studied geology at Skidmore College, went on to earn a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
goal. Profits reported to tax authorities and to capital markets were essentially the same. Over time, well-considered exceptions — expensing of investments, for example — were introduced to advance policy goals such as stimulating... View Details