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- 20 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak
Mills says. “If small businesses can stay solvent, then we have a greater chance for a recovery after the virus threat subsides,” she says. The grim reality is sinking in. About 77 percent of small business owners say they’re “very... View Details
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
good thing?" Tabellini asks. "Or is it something that eventually might, because of this multiplier effect, harm the local labor market even more, slowing down its recovery relative to what would have happened?" Tabellini, who specializes... View Details
- 27 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: HBS Visits Jindal Steel Works (JSW) Steel Dolvi Plant
plan, the company is taking on green initiatives only if they are financially viable. Examples include recovery and reuse of waste heat to power different plant operations, use of byproducts such as slag at JSW cement, and electric... View Details
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Global - Global Activities 2020
Business Administration, spoke with Fiba Group executives Hüsnü Özyeğin (MBA 1969) and Murat Özyeğin (MBA 2003) about opportunities that a post-pandemic recovery may present. And in July, Linda Hill, the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
Abdulkadiroglu, Atila, Yeon-Koo Che, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth, and Oliver Tercieux Abstract—In 2012, New Orleans Recovery School District (RSD) became the first U.S. district to unify charter and traditional public school admissions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
patch from her eye in the recovery room, just for a second. “Soledad turned toward me and said, ‘I can see you! Normally I wouldn’t be able to see you. Now I can, with colors and all!” Excited about her new lease on life, Soledad began... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
Recovery Act of 1981, Congress increased (from 5% to 10%) the allowable corporate tax deduction for charitable contributions (Mills & Gardner, 1984). And even as a majority of states were adopting "other constituency... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
micro-economic strategies that give small businesses and entrepreneurs the resources they need to grow and create more well-paying jobs. One of the most critical of these is capital. As the pace of the recovery continues to be slow, we... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
Many observers say that job creation is the key to economic recovery in the United States. Can government investments in entrepreneurial ventures succeed in creating jobs? A number of variables need to come together to make it happen.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
day were joined by another emotion - the determination of New Yorkers to see their city back on its feet again. In this metropolitan area that is home to more HBS graduates than any other, the School’s alumni have played a leading role in the View Details
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
domains. Later in the article, I will discuss the role of different theories from social science in the policy formulation process. "Against Desperate Peril: High Performance in Emergency Preparation and Response." In Communicable Crises: Prevention,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: From Trash to Treasure: Inside a Waste Management Site in Mumbai
its role in the crisis, bringing forward investments, commitments, and partnerships that steer the industry toward a greener future. Among these include a $1 million early commitment to help build Dalmia Polypro’s material recovery... View Details
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
surgical team, the overall care cycle is crucial. Unless the patient's problem is accurately diagnosed, the patient is properly prepared, and recovery and rehabilitation are managed well, patient results will suffer. Indeed, the impact of... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
and HBS graduate, Popik is acutely aware of the challenges of profit-making enterprises. “The current system of grid security often results in unfunded mandates for utilities, and that’s why industry often opposes common-sense fixes,” he explains. “Cost View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
design changes. It describes trade-offs associated with several major policy decisions, including whether to hold firms physically or financially responsible for the recovery of their products, when to impose recycling fees, whether to... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
certainly a cause for concern and something about which we should do something. But with one of the longest recoveries in history upon us, the US economy as a whole appears to still be in a growth mode. Our biggest challenge today is... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
nations, says Greyser. In 1964, Japan made a similar overture with the Tokyo Games to point to its recovery from defeat in World War II. China used the Beijing Games in 2008 to showcase itself as an economic and political superpower. "The... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
unhappy organization is unhappy in its own way, but once we set aside the details, the fundamental dynamics of decline—and recovery from it—in these three companies turn out to be remarkably similar. Indeed, across a wide variety of... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
different view on valuation. How much were Sabine's oil and gas reserves worth today? How much were they worth at the time Sabine filed for chapter 11? And, based on these valuations, what was a fair recovery for Sabine's creditors?... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman