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Climate Change Is Going to Transform Where and How We Build
By: John D. Macomber
As fires, floods, and droughts increasingly threaten homes, businesses, and other institutions, climate risk has become financial risk. This implies that homeowners and investors have been making location decisions without properly pricing the cost of potential peril,... View Details
Macomber, John D. "Climate Change Is Going to Transform Where and How We Build." In Climate Change: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review. Vol. 12. HBR Insights Series. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2020.
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
herding behavior in anonymous risky environments. In an experiment similar to information cascade settings, but with no private information, we find no evidence for conformity. On the contrary, we observe a significant amount of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
views of how foreign direct investment works. "I think a glimpse into private sector flows has shown that our conventional wisdom might not always align with the reality on the ground," he says. He chose to write on foreign... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
$15 Billion in Five Years: What Data Tells Us About MacKenzie Scott’s Philanthropy
$25,000 of annual revenue Private foundations After removing these and a few other special cases for which tax data were not available, we were left with 1,625 organizations. Of these, 1,190 organizations disclosed the size of their... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
In the early 1790s, a flood of newly issued public and private securities sparked an investment boom in the nascent United States. In New York, the bustling commercial district along Wall Street emerged as the center of the city's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
Specifically, we examine the impact of the annual July turnover of residents in American teaching hospitals on levels of resource utilization and quality relative to a control group of non-teaching hospitals. We find that, despite the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
technology. Private capital flows—debt finance, equity capital, and foreign direct investment (FDI)—became larger than current and past official capital flows. This new era of foreign capital mobility has also been characterized by low... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Research Summary
Capitalism as a System of Governance
My research interest is in further exploration of the analytic utility of an original conception of capitalism as an indirect, three level system of governance for the economic relationships within political entities, and mostly within nation states. This three level... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
effective in publicly soliciting donations to a range of charities than confederates seated in a regular chair. In Experiment 2, whites changed their private attitudes more following face-to-face appeals from black than white... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?
the population uninsured,” Chandra’s research says. In a new working paper, Chandra and fellow researchers suggest a potential solution: creating a basic bundle of publicly funded health insurance that would protect every citizen while allowing people to access... View Details
- 12 Apr 2022
- Book
Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence
counts, number of soldiers on the ground, official reports. But all evidence is subjective, particularly that which is mediated through state bureaucracies. Junod is a case in point. He privately told Kenya’s governor that detainees... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
shantytowns. But in an effort to grow her organization and help more people, she eventually began courting private donors, public authorities, and the general public. By 2016, her nonprofit had helped 70,000 people. As her own position of... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 17 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally
services. Institutional investors, such as endowments and pension funds, often have “vice clauses” prohibiting investments in Schedule I industries. Even private investors are dissuaded by the industry’s lack of access to bankruptcy... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
in markets, they argue, some are not. Take accounting standards, for example. While it's essential from a standpoint of complete knowledge to have everyone calculating their financials in a comparable and consistent manner, there is no profit motive for a View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified
familiar arguments both for and against. Private developers and other supporters argue that new restaurants and retail shops, high-rise housing, and other spruce-ups revitalize communities by attracting outside investment and luring new... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
and residences with proximity at least as convenient as current bus stops, and a quality of service far above what buses can offer. Right now, the field is wide open. Companies with existing transit experience are certainly watching PRT.... View Details
- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
for this trend is that citizens may be unaware of both the services provided by government and the impact of those services on their lives. In an experiment, Boston-area residents interacted with a website that visualizes both service... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.
promotion. A government can carry out investment promotion itself, but this approach has the disadvantage that the government organization may be unable to acquire skills that are required if the activity is to be managed properly. The required skills may View Details
Keywords: by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint
- 09 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration
and race of its residents. "The more time they expect to spend at a landmark, the more they concentrate other Whites around that landmark." The researchers found that White participants indicated a distinct preference for bringing other White View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald