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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
major challenge in the race to stop global warming is storage and network management. Hydrogen is likely to be the major source of storage. Industry will hopefully have a cost-effective renewable energy storage technology within 10 years, which will cause coal and gas... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
London School of Economics. After stints as a researcher and analyst at investment bank EFG Hermes and the International Finance Corporation, she was recommended for a role at Egypt’s Ministry of Finance in 2010, working in the Macro Fiscal Policy Unit with a focus on... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Service Leadership Fellows
The School's inaugural group of Service Leadership Fellows gathered for a Class Day breakfast celebration. For students interested in working in social enterprises after graduation, the new program matches them with nonprofit and governmental entities and provides... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Make or Break
assignment from the White House: reverse the decline of American manufacturing. As the New York Times (September 9, 2010) noted, Bloom’s tools, “apart from his persuasiveness,” are effectively limited to tax credits and subsidies for new... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 06 Nov 2009
- News
Health Reform Paths Not Taken
rationing.” The system works because the government requires Swiss insurers to offer coverage to everyone, regardless of medical history. And everyone is required to buy insurance, with government subsidies to those for whom health... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Faculty Books
government subsidies for banks, and support for entrepreneurial culture, affect this industry and the impact that entrepreneurs have on growth in emerging economies. The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
on such funding will no doubt raise another discussion point,” Vietor says, adding that federal subsidies will expire in 2012. Students will tackle these dilemmas and many others when the case is used in a fall MBA elective, The Energy... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Web Exclusive: Behind the Scenes with Karen Tumulty
scoop: Naomi Wolf and the alpha male The Better Half 12/28/98 Hillary Clinton shines as husband declines Let's Play Doctor 7/13/98 Politicians and health care Why Subsidies Survive 3/25/96 Congress and corporate welfare Man with a Vision... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
for itself.” Let all political leaders worldwide pledge to end government subsidies that promote the overconsumption of hydrocarbons. Stephen M. Batty (MBA 1977) Newport Beach, CA Spangler Tribute The September Bulletin article “The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
include: Agriculture, which receives massive government subsidies. Universities, which enjoy tax-exempt status and direct subsidies through government research grants. Health care, which receives a huge tax break (employer-sponsored... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
disabilities, and lower-wage workers, the cost to build simply cannot be covered by the rents they can pay—there has to be a subsidy of some kind. In regions like the Bay Area, middle-income rents can’t cover the cost to build either, so... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
cross subsidies and charity. The cost of moving to universal insurance will be less than sometimes supposed because much is already being spent on care for the uninsured, and there will be savings from providing preventive care and... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Improving Wellness Through Better Nutrition
dignity and independence of living at home. The Iowa-based company’s heat-and-eat meals are delivered in 48 states by its own trucks or third-party carriers. Medicaid or other government subsidies generally pay for the meals, explains... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
reform’s biggest downside to date as the negative financial impact on the traditional “safety-net providers” — hospitals whose business models depended on subsidies they received for handling a high volume of uninsured, low-income... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
inclusive viewpoint, observing, "There is no inherent conflict between capitalism and the needs of society." More specifically, he continued, the inner city must be brought into the mainstream economy, not classified as an area in need of View Details
- 06 Aug 2008
- News
Caution to the Winds
private-sector industries (e.g., oil and gas, automobiles) and their lobbyists and water carriers in Washington ensured that fledgling alternative-energy industries, perhaps America’s best hope for a manufacturing future, would not get the tax, public policy, and View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morell, host of Skydeck. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 67% of two-parent families with children, both parents worked, which was up from 59% in 2013.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
base rate of just under 8 cents is about a quarter of what used to be the market norm. Both Go-Jek and Grab defend these discounts and the related subsidies to drivers as a necessary marketing expense but recognize that it’s not a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
It was not easy.... How does one rebuild in a setting like that? It was here where I began to see that the cow program had a part to play in this story. A program rule in many places was that the first calf of the cow must be given to a neighbor. In this way, the cow... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Finance Corporation, she was recommended for a role at Egypt's Ministry of Finance in 2010, working in the Macro Fiscal Policy Unit with a focus on energy subsidies and state debt. Enan, then 24 years old, leapt at the chance to work for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance