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- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
officials, and food companies. In an increasingly industrializing and urbanizing society, such information translated into consumer decisions that had both economic and cultural antecedents and consequences.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
something that will take years.” Home Ownership: Back to Basics HBS lecturer Nicolas Retsinas, who before arriving at Harvard served as assistant secretary for housing in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, offered a... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
many new banks. There was no telling what the economic impact of the bill's special bank note provisions would be. Once the bill passed the legislature, Governor Marcy had to decide whether to sign this radical proposal into law. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
Abstract—With a young, urbanizing population, abundant natural resources, and a growing middle class, Africa seems to have all the ingredients necessary for huge growth. Nevertheless, a number of multinationals have recently left the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
many households, the most important symbol of their place and economic possibilities was where they lived. Before World War II, about 40 percent of families owned their own home. In 1970, a firm majority — 62 percent — did. By the late... View Details
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create deep economic and social change, NBA Africa is shooting for a continental shift in basketball Singing to the Corn Taylor Keen’s Sacred Seed project shows how a Native American approach to agriculture can protect the planet’s... View Details
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
convinced him that he needed more management skills. By his own recollection, he was virtually "clueless" about the very special place to which he was heading. His application to the MBA Program caught the attention of Managerial View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
study this question in the context of the first Great Migration (1915–1930), when 1.5 million African Americans moved from the U.S. South to urban centers in the North, where 30 million Europeans had arrived since 1850. We test the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
development and real estate have become synonymous with economic growth and prosperity. Tracking land reforms and urban development nationally and in three cities in one Chinese region, the study reveals... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
departure of more than 200,000 Huguenots at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes was a well-documented economic disaster for the kingdom of France, but the importance of these refugees to the countries where they settled is less known.... View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
equity-bondholder conflicts are economically important, determine capital structure choices, and affect welfare. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-070.pdf The Many Faces of Nonprofit Accountability Author:Alnoor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
team, an experience that convinced him that he needed more management skills. By his own recollection, he was virtually “clueless” about the very special place to which he was heading. His application to the MBA Program caught the attention of Managerial View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
Institute estimating that autonomous vehicles will exert a global economic impact ranging from $200 billion to $1.2 trillion by 2025, there ought to be plenty of new players on the horizon. Moreover, ridesharing makes the cost easier to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
explanations about the development of the United States’ Federal Reserve System, which was created in 1913 in direct response to the Panic of 1907; and an engaging and entertaining account of a fascinating period in financial and economic... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
cancer still progressing, he and his wife decided it was time to stop treatment. At the age of 74, Sato-san settled in for his final stages in the heart of his home—the altar to his ancestors to his left, oxygen machine to his right—secure in the knowledge that the... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
going to get cheaper, and storage is going to get cheaper. “Coal is not going to get developed, because it will be more costly than the alternatives. Greenhouse gases are going to be an issue, but economics will be the primary factor... View Details
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
proxy for inflation and economic uncertainty. A decomposition of bond betas into a real cash flow risk component and a discount rate risk component shows that yield spreads have offsetting effects in each component. A widening yield... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
private capital sources," says Dubrowski, a founding partner of The Lionstone Group, a Houston-based investment firm. They took big risks and hoped for big rewards. The 1980s brought additional players to the table, none driven by purely View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half century, capitalism has created... View Details
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
believe it is not only of profound importance to contemporary readers, but also will be seminal secondary source for economic and political historians for generations to come. If you own a copy, keep it. A scholarly grandchild will thank... View Details