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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

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

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

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

02 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity

George Floyd’s murder last year forced many people to recognize the systemic racism that pervades American institutions, from law enforcement to health care. Even so, identifying those inequities is different than fixing them. “I don’t... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

12 Jan 2023
News

‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data

Seke Ballard (MBA 2010) says he owes the inspiration for BetaBank, his small business-focused digital-banking venture, to his father—and not just as a person, but also as an archetype for every minority entrepreneur who has struggled to find capital in a banking View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Best Paper Prize in Asset Management from the Midwest Finance Association for "The Market for Sharing Interest Rate Risk: Quantities and Asset Prices" with Umang Khetan, Jane Li, and Ioana Neamtu. 2024 Elisabeth Kempf : Winner of the 2024... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

New Urban Order

surface, a green roof, or supporting solar panels or wind turbines when possible,” Carty says. “And building wastewater can be treated and reused for flushing toilets and watering plants, for example, which has the added benefit of diverting water discharge from... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

Fundamentally, they aim to improve the overall health of their ecosystems by providing a stable and predictable set of common assets—think of Wal-Mart's procurement system and Microsoft's Windows operating View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

25 Apr 2024
News

Origin Stories

Beauty and Fashion Fair Cosmetics. And while she’s lived in Chicago for decades now, Rogers continues to draw on the powerful spirit of community that shaped her childhood as she looks for ways to amplify her work with Black Opal by focusing on issues like the breast... View Details

17 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 17

more lucrative, but we find that the effect of performance-based pay rates on dishonesty depends on how readily people can compare their pay rate to that of others. In Experiment 1, participants were paid 5... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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

24 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

soap before meals can dramatically reduce rates of both diarrhea and acute respiratory infections. To that end, major health organizations have poured a lot of money into handwashing education campaigns in the developing world, but to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Feb 2021
What Do You Think?

Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?

wage rates and inflation, and therefore low unemployment and inflation. One way to think about the model is that nirvana is the point at which the economic benefits of lower unemployment no longer exceed the economic penalties of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

Benioff has long espoused the need for a more equitable economic system and has stated that the current pandemic “is a tremendous opportunity for all CEOs and all businesses to really put their resources right out there and say, 'We're... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Enron’s Lessons for Managers

Salter said Enron's legacy of corporate reforms in the U.S. since its fall is deep and wide and not necessarily reassuring. Steps to curb Enron-like corporate abuses, such as the shift from a principles-based corporate governance system... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Aug 2021
Book

Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO

marketing was dreadful, and its finances would have collapsed had it not been for CFO Fred Anderson’s work. The world of computers was dominated by Microsoft, especially after the introduction of its breakthrough product, Windows 95, in August of 1995. Apple went... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

27 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 27, 2009

prices for future consumption volatility but implies much greater predictive power of stock prices for future stock return volatility than is found in the data. Neither calibration can explain why movements in real interest rates do not... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

exports provide positive externalities and thus should be encouraged by government, the policy question is how to do so most effectively. One large body of thinking is devoted to identifying general barriers to exports that reduce trade below its socially optimal... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

January 2023 (Revised April 2024)
Case

First to Fight? Culture, Tradition, and the United States Marine Corps (USMC)

By: Ranjay Gulati, Akhil Iyer and Joel Malkin

Over a history of more than 240 years, the United States Marine Corps has forged a distinct culture and institutional identity centered on its “warrior ethos.” In the wars of American history, Marines fought with uncommon valor, rising to international prominence for... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Government Administration; Management Practices and Processes; Management Systems; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; United States

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

communication techniques 6-8 hrs Module 4 Leader as Architect: Designing to Deliver Value Understand the critical design choices to align the people, systems and structure, and culture in your division, unit, or organization to deliver... View Details

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

Frontier (218084) by Shawn Cole and Caitlin Lindsay Reimers Brumme FEBRUARY 2018 In 2015 Root Capital, a pioneer in the impact investing space, began to explore how to more systematically integrate impact and financial management. After much deliberation, Root Capital... View Details

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