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- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
recommended by theory, top marginal income tax rates have declined, marginal income tax schedules have flattened, redistribution has risen with income inequality, and commodity taxes are more uniform and are typically assessed on final... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
to take the lead in globalisation, developing its higher education and research systems at speed and actively seeking to cooperate with academic partners along the New Silk Roads in order to attract talent (back). But under which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
reservation. With Marriott, it’s a manual system with software sprinkled in to make human processes more effective. But Airbnb is fundamentally digital. And that means every human bottleneck is pushed out. You have algorithms matching... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
have capital requirements tied to the credit ratings of their investments. Conditional on ratings, insurance portfolios are systematically biased toward higher yield, higher CDS bonds. This behavior appears to be related to the business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
unfortunately, there are some cases where it stimulated the immune system and not only it didn't confer protection, but actually helped the virus invade the cell because it was incomplete in terms of its immunogenic properties. We have to... View Details
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
platforms, in contrast to most other firms who focused on stand-alone applications. It was an approach that permeated both their tools business—the software they provided to other programmers for developing applications; and the operating View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
joint evaluation, making joint evaluation the money-maximizing evaluation procedure. Our findings are compatible with a behavioral model of information processing and with the System 1/System 2 distinction in behavioral decision research... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations
described the limitations of their current system and gave an overview of their needs and expectations. After the presentation, a dialogue opened up between the executives and the prospective bidders. Representatives from consulting firm... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- Web
Media Coverage - Managing the Future of Work
Workforce With AI: Harvard Business School’s Raffaella Sadun Re: Raffaella Sadun 19 Mar 2025 Hill Fed Keeps Rates Unchanged as Trump Tariffs, Economic Concerns Loom Re: Willy Shih 10 Mar 2025 Harvard Business Review How Gen AI Could... View Details
- 14 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
10 Things I Learned During My First Month in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
surprise for a class called “systems engineering.” We started with the basics and moved into more complex concepts and their real-world applications. For our midterm project, a classmate and I analyzed different parameters and the influence they had on Airbnb guest... View Details
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Events - Business History
Rates and Expectations in the Eighteenth Century” Hannah Farber, Columbia 3:30 - 5:00 PM, via Zoom Oct 25 25 Oct 2021 Business History Seminar: Global Business and Society “Perspectives on the Role of Philanthropy in Socioeconomic... View Details
- 05 Jun 2009
- What Do You Think?
What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?
if we demand less, use less, and want less forever?" Jim Geisman continued this line of thought in saying, "Overall, I think growth is overrated unsustainable." Andrew Lianwarne suggested that "we need to reshape the way our economic View Details
- 07 May 2024
- Blog Post
Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria
high standards and criteria on climate, health, and equity. As an example, offsetting the emissions of an economy flight from San Francisco, CA to Boston, MA would cost $13.50 To meet those goals, CNaught curated a project portfolio with 99.5% of the carbon credits... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
cost. By 1940, America's national income was around 4 percent higher than it would have been without the canal—a very large gain from a single infrastructure project. Moreover, by keeping the Panama Canal in American hands, the United States ensured that transit View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
now own over 80% of banking assets in Mexico, and we show how, using a political economy model and a series of econometric tests, this has helped to stabilize the system and reduced non-performance loans, but it has also increased the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
changes in the minimum wage at the city level. The evidence suggests that higher minimum wages increase overall exit rates for restaurants. However, lower quality restaurants, which are already closer to the margin of exit, are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
the height of this health crisis. You know, It's this big hospital system and this powerful-but-frustrated employee group, and these are conversations that are, like, prone to paralysis. One thing that kept coming up were these broken... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
On the Radar
Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Our planet is teeming with trillions of viruses and bacteria, most of which are innocuous or even helpful, but some pose a significant risk to public health, animals, and crops. In recent decades,... View Details
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
left many with no options. In China, large call centers invested massively in IT equipment and systems to allow their employees to work from home and to ensure the security of client information. Our discussion with local executives in... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
employee departure rates in stores where the manager is likely to be more informed than headquarters (e.g., in stores that are far from headquarters or that serve repeat customers). Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne