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- 02 Jun 2019
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A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
federal mandatory waiting period on all gun purchases. The researchers ultimately examined handgun waiting periods, partly due to the potential for enactment. They analyzed data from 1970 to 2014, a time span during which 44 states... View Details
- 16 Feb 2010
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CIT Taps Thain to Run 102-Year-Old Lender
- 30 Sep 2010
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Can’t We All Just Get Along?
coveted Nobel for his work in ending the hostilities between the province of Aceh and the government of Indonesia, a struggle that had claimed 50,000 lives during a 30-year war. Before that, he was a key figure in negotiating Namibia’s... View Details
- 25 Sep 2009
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Are You Being Served?
surprising than my unexpected win was the fact that all through the process, the state — and its oft-reviled bureaucracy — went out of its way to be fair, courteous, and forgiving. It got me to thinking: Has View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
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Shattering Glass
Gender Initiative Director Colleen Ammerman and HBS professor Boris Groysberg ask why. When women made up the majority of college-educated workers in the United States in 2019, why are they still dramatically underrepresented in the ranks... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
insurance (for such individuals, another function of the Connector is deciding “affordability,” that is, how much those individuals should be subsidized and how much they should pay out-of-pocket). This uninsured-care fund previously had been bankrolled by the View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
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Immersion Program Digs Deep
was charged with discovering what happens to all of the uneaten prepared food in the city; they came away with a government incentive scheme to reduce the leakage of untreated food waste into the animal feed supply chain. “International... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
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Chinese Premier Speaks at HBS
475baf4874c54b74d6872cb82ffdcb34 Amid the backdrop of U.S.-Chinese relations — tension over trade issues and Taiwan’s independence on the one hand, cooperation on terrorism and North Korea on the other — Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao spoke at HBS during a four-day trip to... View Details
- 03 Dec 2009
- News
Welcome Low-Skilled Workers?
- 22 Apr 2019
- News
Keeping an Eye on Things
Carol Lucas (GMP 16, 2014) is a strategic planner for the US government, working in the field of biometric identity management. In this interview she discusses her role and the critical nature of the work she oversees. “I work in the area of biometric identity... View Details
Keywords: Biometrics
- 13 Dec 2017
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Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
thinking about my friend Steve McConnell, who lives in Arizona. I mean, that was an enormous moment for them. I wrote to the campaign. I said, don't even go to Arizona. Don't go because everybody is talking about the increases in those rates. And I think that Trump... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
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Thanking Veterans Online
government agency that delivered benefits to veterans through offline channels required a DD 214—and an in-person visit—in order to prove their status and to claim benefits. "The current status quo is horribly unjust to veterans," said... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Leading the way in times of crisis
Joe Lhota (MBA 1980) is the kind of courageous, steady presence you want at your side when crisis hits. Consider Hurricane Sandy in October 2012, when New York City’s streets, tunnels, and subway lines were flooded, and power was cut to many businesses and residences.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
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Eyeing the Dominoes?
Is America ready for another Harvard MBA as president? As the final years of the George W. Bush (MBA ’75) presidency wind down, there seems to be no lack of potential candidates eager to replace him. In the event that the Democrats and Republicans choose candidates... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Gold Mettle
result, the necessary government and corporate support was forthcoming, morale among organizers and volunteers was boosted, and the XIX Winter Olympic Games in February were a rousing success. Romney's star has risen accordingly and with... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)
From 1988 to 1993, Juan Enriquez-Cabot was CEO of SERVIMET, a for-profit urban development entity of the Mexico City government which grew 4,000 percent during his tenure and became the city's largest revenue source after taxes. In 1993,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
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The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
insides of their companies as they do to shaping the institutional context within which the companies operate. That’s because everything is a work in progress. You really can’t throw your hands up and say, “I’ll wait for the government to... View Details