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  • 23 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19

The fiscal and monetary response to the coronavirus pandemic has been emergent, global, and deep. Some countries have more sophisticated fiscal and monetary tools—and the ability to use them swiftly—than others. The ability to compare policy actions fairly may be key... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • June 2025
  • Article

Who Benefits from Online Gig Economy Platforms?

By: Christopher T. Stanton and Catherine Thomas
Online labor platforms for short-term, remote work have many more job seekers than available jobs. Despite their relative abundance, workers capture a substantial share of the surplus from transactions. We draw this conclusion from demand estimates that imply workers'... View Details
Keywords: Gig Economy; Knowledge Workers; Online Platforms; Job Search; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Wages; Demand and Consumers
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  • 2010
  • Book

The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System

By: as part of the Squam Lake Working Group Scharfstein, David S.
In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists-representing the broadest spectrum of economic opinion-gathered at New Hampshire's Squam Lake. Their goal: the mapping of a long-term plan for financial regulation reform. The Squam Lake... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financial Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations
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  • January 2009 (Revised October 2009)
  • Case

GLOBALGAP: Food Safety and Private Standards

By: David E. Bell and Mary Louise Shelman
In response to new laws governing liability and several food safety scares in the 1990s, European retailers drove the creation of a universal production standard based on Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) for fresh fruit and vegetables and a third-party certification... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Food; Governance Compliance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; Safety; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe
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  • February 2005
  • Case

Nomura Holdings

By: Tarun Khanna, Masako Egawa and Atsuko Nakajima
Nomura Holdings, Japan's largest investment bank, faced with intensifying competition in the global financial markets, was trying to decide how global its operations should be despite its Japan-centered business. Was the question of how global Nomura should be related... View Details
Keywords: Global Range; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Corporate Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Japan
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  • 2004
  • Case

Compensation Reform at Denver Public Schools

By: Allen Grossman, Nancy D. Beaulieu and Jennifer Suesse
Keywords: Education; Urban Scope; Compensation and Benefits; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Colorado
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  • Portrait Project

Lindsay McGregor

facing barriers outside my control – some unavoidable, but many that were within people’s power to change. Eventually, I found workarounds, like operating a mouse by foot and "typing" with voice-recognition software. Eventually,... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Luke Hodges

Ah the peace and control of compartmentalization! Set boundaries, build some walls. Choose on which side to be. You please, wait here. I hope you like the room. I try to keep it clean. Cup of tea? Stove is here, mugs over there. I’ll be... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

The Heart of the Deal

BURKE: Behind a complicated deal, some high-profile HBSers and cloak-and-dagger secrecy. Stephen Chernin/Getty Images Comcast’s bid for a controlling stake in NBC Universal was a complex deal that featured many HBS alumni in starring,... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Elevator Pitch: Common Knowledge

receive free access to their data and control how it is shared. The Why: Patient data is often fragmented across electronic medical record systems, providers, and categories. But recent changes to the laws governing medical records have... View Details
Keywords: entrepreneurship; healthcare; data; technology; Blavatnik Fellowship
  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

East Side Story

his wisdom, compassion, empathy, and commitment to public service, noting as well his sense of humor and legendary vocabulary. During his career, Goodman was a strong advocate for the arts and cultural institutions, and sponsored more than one thousand bills covering... View Details
  • 28 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

B2B Branding: Does it Work?

company websites worldwide to present a consistent face to stakeholders is the best way to get control of marketing communications that may have become too decentralized. Why should brand-building be important to B2B CEOs? First, most B2B... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Consumer Products
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot

automotive company Aptiv for the first autonomous commercial rollout in 2018. To date, customers have logged about 25,000 driverless rides and awarded them an average of 4.94 out of 5 stars. (A human pilot and copilot tag along, both to educate riders and to take... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

Action Plan: Rapids Growth

you’re basically wearing it and using your entire body to control it.” Learn from a pro. “Lessons are vital. It’s tempting to look at someone kayaking and say it looks easy, but knowing what to do if you lose your balance, if you go over,... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

Lessons from a Megacity

capital by foot, subte (subway), bus, and bright yellow bike-share bicycles. Pedestrian-only Florida Street in Buenos Aires. (Photos courtesy of John Macomber) Professor Macomber and students at the new electric power and water desalination plant in Chilca, Peru. The... View Details
Keywords: April White; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation
  • 26 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 26

surrounding their adoption. This finding raises the possibility that even though GPs facilitate some value-increasing acquisitions, they do have, on average, an overall negative effect on shareholder wealth; this effect could be due to GPs weakening the force of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

has become more concentrated in recent years, with most of it now controlled by just 1,000 companies. That allows economies of scale and scope and very high returns of capital, all of which give those companies tremendous power. With that... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
  • 02 Apr 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

Joyce Dias puts it, "People give up what they enjoy doing most in order to submit to the unnatural process of doing something— anything in order to earn their living." Combine this with research that cites a high correlation between job satisfaction and View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 04 Apr 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Who Owns Intellectual Property?

individuals, can borrow and adapt." That belief, they maintain, will require that some companies, in their own best interests, relinquish control over brands and "be more generous" with consumers. In other words, they take... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 19 Sep 2012
  • News

On a Sound Track

Park City before we manufacture. Having that added measure of control is huge. Is control an elusive goal in such a fast-growing company? Being in a growing company can be uncomfortable sometimes, because... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; audio equipment; fashion; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing