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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
"Taxation, meet Representation." Following up on his pledge to provide greater support for manufacturing, President Obama has announced a proposal to cut the effective tax rate for manufacturers to 25 percent. A number of economists... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
more than we earn. It’s very simple.” —James Wolfensohn (MBA ’59), Chairman, Wolfensohn & Company, LLC “The real strength of America is not its technical schools. What we don’t have in India, and what the world doesn’t understand the... View Details
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
When Standard & Poor's Rating Services lowered its long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States from AAA to AA+ on August 5, it was a shot heard 'round the world. Stock markets plummeted,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
buildings, a joint program of the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency; the National Association of Home Builders' NAHBGreen program; and the aforementioned LEED, a rating system that doles out points for each of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
homelessness. But the affordable housing problem is especially acute in urban areas, where entire tranches of the workforce—teachers, laborers, first responders, restaurant and transit workers, for example—are squeezed out of their communities by rising View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 20 Nov 2014
- News
Expanding Audiences Through HBX CORe
one-of-a-kind virtual classroom in real time. CORe immerses students in real-world problems using the case method. It comprises three courses taught by renowned faculty members in the areas of Business Analytics, Economics for Managers,... View Details
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
spread, defined as the spread of local currency bonds over the synthetic local currency risk-free rate constructed using cross-currency swaps. We find that local currency credit spreads are positive and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
our HBS professors had always warned that if we spent $5,000 today, we would be giving up a fortune ten or twenty years down the road, given the stock market’s rate of return. A famous futurist of the day was predicting that U.S.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Back to School
The state of public education in the United States is a perennial hot-button topic, with rhetoric often outpacing any real sense of progress. The Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), a 2003 joint ini-tiative of HBS and Harvard’s... View Details
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
beliefs. This group was told the actual data on reciprocation rates from the previous rounds, then asked the same sequence of questions, including what percentage would prove trustworthy. The only real bump... View Details
- Profile
Angela R. Hicks Bowman
becoming a real business, simultaneously opening in four new markets and in need of more veteran leadership. Over time, Angie’s List instituted a basic business model that charged members a nominal annual fee that provided access to the... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
who was working as a senior project manager at Amazon, had become obsessed with understanding why the paper-heavy US immigration process remained so difficult and expensive. “Immigration is one of those overlooked areas where technology can truly do some View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
The Businesslike Gourmet: Karen Page on America's Foodservice Industry
and yes. With less time to eat, many Americans rely on fast food and have no real knowledge or expectation of quality. But many other Americans - consumers and chefs - have traveled in recent years to places where food is celebrated.... View Details
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
its current status as a low-income country to a middle-income one by 2030. “The timeline could be two or three years, or a decade later” While the International Monetary Fund predicted the country could achieve 6-7 percent annual increases in View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 08 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Writing the Case for Public School Reform
The state of public education in the United States is a perennial hot-button topic, with rhetoric often outpacing any real sense of progress. The Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), a 2003 joint initiative of HBS and Harvard's... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The US Patent System’s Uncertain Fate
Lerner: Not only is the system not doing its intended job, which is to encourage new ideas, it is essentially being hijacked to tax the innovators. Still, it’s a real struggle to get people excited about patent reform. What are the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
parlayed his fame as a celebrity real estate developer into a winning pitch to voters as a Washington outsider. Emphasizing his decades of experience as a wheeler-dealer building luxury hotels, casinos, and golf courses around the world,... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
with almost every market — public and private equities, fixed income, real estate — going up everywhere in the world, investors became overly confident and not in tune with how much risk they were embedding into their portfolios. What... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
A Look at Olook
followers, and a run rate hovering around 15 million reals (about US$6.4 million). The biggest strain on demand? A customer base that just isn't accustomed to online shopping norms: "Being able to return... View Details
- 20 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Bargain Hunters Beware: A Store's 'Original Price' Might Not Be After All
tells them so. What if those “original prices” stores base their discounts on aren’t real? That’s the question Donald Ngwe asks in his new working paper, Fake Discounts Drive Real Revenues in Retail. An assistant professor in Harvard... View Details