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07 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

book, Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy, Harvard Business School historian Sophus A. Reinert unearths John Cary's An Essay on the State of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Making Small Farms More Sustainable—and Profitable

By: Lino Dias, Robert S. Kaplan and Harmanpreet Singh

Smallholder farms provide a large proportion of food supply in developing economies, but 40% of these farmers live on less than U.S.$2/day and their deforestation produces environmental degradation. With a rapidly growing global population, it is imperative to improve... View Details

Keywords: Small Farms; Sustainable Agriculture; Agribusiness; Developing Countries and Economies; Environmental Sustainability

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16 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 16

multinational investment in host economies, and this chapter reviews this research. The focus is primarily on developing country host economies and more broadly on the global distribution of wealth and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

assessments for 462 of 774 occupations, or a rate of 60 percent. (As an aside, few, if any, of the students knew of Blinder's View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

January 2005 (Revised October 2005)
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Private Capital and Public Policy: Standard & Poor's Sovereign Credit Ratings

By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Christopher Bruner

Describes Standard & Poor's sovereign credit ratings business. Provides background on the history of credit ratings agencies, the meaning of credit ratings, the expansion of the sovereign ratings business over recent decades, and the market for credit ratings. Also,... View Details

Keywords: Sovereign Finance; History; Policy; Business and Government Relations; International Finance; Country; Globalized Economies and Regions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Capital Markets; Debates; Financial Services Industry; United States

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01 Jun 2014
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Roads to Recovery

sector, government, labor associations, and civic advocacy groups. The impact of this national summit on its participants was perhaps best described by Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), who declared midway through the event that "the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development

10 Jan 2005
What Do You Think?

Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?

American" (as some of you put it) solution to this challenge? What, if anything, should be done to get the country ready for the debate? What do you think? Original... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

07 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

made by its Board of Executive Directors. However, in any given year the majority of the Bank's member countries do not get a chance to serve on this powerful body. In this... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Mar 2009
Op-Ed

Credit is Not the Bogey

to live. Try paying for an apartment, food, transportation, clothes, and medicines on the $20,000 annual salary of a low-wage worker. We have an anodyne myth that everybody who works full-time in this View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas & Eric S. Belsky; Construction; Real Estate; Financial Services

03 Nov 2003
What Do You Think?

Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?

restore credibility to financial markets? And if not through legislation and regulation, how then do we address the disease rather than the symptoms? What do you think? Original Article The collapse of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Apr 2006
What Do You Think?

Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?

global basis . . . nothing short of dismantling the global economy could reverse the trend." Nari Kannan commented, "Clamping down on globalization by any country or company will ensure its own... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

31 May 2016
HBS Case

Who Owns Space?

have carried out resupply missions to the International Space Station, and both Blue Origin and SpaceX have safely landed rockets back on Earth after flights into space, a key step toward lowering the cost View Details

Keywords: Re: Matthew C. Weinzierl; Aerospace

18 May 2015
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Changing the conversation on US infrastructure challenges

Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s interest in US transportation and infrastructure began well before Boston’s record-setting 2015 snowstorms focused national attention on the downside of deferred maintenance for aging public transit systems. In... View Details

14 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 14

of host countries' investment laws. Second, and perhaps most important, is the very rigid view of contracts that panels have tended to take, even when a host country acts as a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 21, 2010

PublicationsA History of Irish Economic Thought Authors:Thomas Boylan, Renee Prendergast, and John Turner, eds. Publication:London: Routledge, 2010 Abstract For a country that can boast a distinguished... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2008
News

Avoiding a Succession Crisis

CEO about as tough as it ever has been. Companies need world-class efficiency, constant innovation, and a customer orientation. This requires a group of talented, dedicated people working as a team across business units and View Details

Keywords: Joseph L. Bower; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

01 Dec 2014
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Living Social

at the forefront of testing new models of high-impact philanthropy. The new trend is midcareer and late-career professionals who have had great success in business and are now looking for a more... View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

01 Apr 2002
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Emerging Research on Emerging Markets

Zingales, who discussed the real effects of local financial development. The second day of presentations focused on economic development and context. "While virtually all countries, poor as well as rich,... View Details

Keywords: Yasheng Huang; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Mar 2013
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Leveraging Female Talent

that keep executives awake at night. But before you can do that, you have to find out what keeps them awake at night. Who did you talk to? At this point, my research associates and I have interviewed over 250 people in the United States and, with the help View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

04 Jan 2012
What Do You Think?

Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?

increasing inequality, at least in the U.S. and U.K., has positioned those countries in excess of the "right amount." Among those supporting this view were Bob Dillon, who commented that... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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