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- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
When Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) first read of Amazon’s search for a second headquarters in the Wall Street Journal, he was certain the newspaper had made a typo. The online retailer couldn’t be talking about creating 50,000 jobs. Moret’s years in View Details
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
of large banking institutions. "Systemically significant" banks are now required to hold an extra layer of capital and undergo regular and more extensive stress tests to see if they can withstand a significant economic and... View Details
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
Thirty (G30) issued a reform blueprint that endorsed the idea. Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve and now a top economic adviser to President Obama, led the committee that wrote the report.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
rebuilding.” Since becoming law in 2006, reform in Massachusetts has meant coverage not only for Madelyn Rhenisch but also for all except a tiny percentage of the state’s residents. Rhenisch’s story, and thousands of others like it in... View Details
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
studying the broader consequences of reform. We have some preliminary evidence that reforms provide multinationals with assurances that encourage the use of more efficient global production arrangements. In developing countries that... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Books
firm. China and Globalization The Social, Economic, and Political Transformation of Chinese Society by Douglas Guthrie (Routledge) This book is about the economic reforms sweeping across China over the last... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
people will stop investing if the capital gains tax rate is 30 to 40 percent, the same as upper-income tax rates. Check your economic history books, folks. Did anyone stop investing when tax rates reached 70 percent under Eisenhower? I... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
right to nominate directors into something that is real — and has a real chance of holding boards of directors accountable to company owners.” Major business groups lost no time denouncing the reform measures as vehicles for ceding... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Poverty and Security
At the IMF and World Bank Group annual meetings in October, World Bank president James Wolfensohn (MBA ’59) declared that along with its fight against terror, the global community must also address the longer-term issues of “poverty, frustration, and lack of hope” that... View Details
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
Japan's economic recovery. "It is clear that something is wrong in Japan from an economic point of view," Porter stated, as a means of setting the stage. "The persistent depression, recession,... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
In just 15 years, Greece managed to seesaw from one economic extreme to the other, from almost breaking the eurozone at the depth of its debt crisis to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Europe in 2023, according to the IMF. Now wages are rebounding,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
Reforms Set the Stage for Growth When Deng Xiaoping came to power in 1978, he set China on a new course by making economic growth a top priority, even if that meant relinquishing state control over markets.... View Details
- 23 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19
yet. “Seeing the breadth of different policies and the different stakeholders that they touch was surprising." Cavallo, in searching for a way to explore a once-in-a-lifetime global event like the worldwide economic response to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- Web
Driving Social Change | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
develop a “third model.” The challenges they face are very exciting, especially at a time when we are looking at reforms in our economic system. My question is, “Under what conditions can these hybrid... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
best shot at preventing a future financial meltdown is to be honest about the inevitable risk posed by our biggest financial institutions, and to impose tough and targeted regulation in response. This very conclusion was reached by the Treasury Department in its... View Details
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
less burdensome for all citizens. "While the idea of a height tax follows directly from the standard economic framework for tax analysis, most people find the idea crazy," allows HBS professor Matthew C. Weinzierl, an economist... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
US Competitiveness Report Sees ‘A Nation Divided’
fact-based, nonpartisan effort to understand what makes the US economy competitive. In 2016, with US economic performance lackluster and the public discourse in this critical presidential campaign muddled, the Project’s lead faculty... View Details
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
found that natural resource exports were a crucial driver in 17 of the incidents of high growth, while 13 were pushed along by political reforms or economic diversification, most of which were temporary.... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 19 Aug 2011
- News
Starting Up America
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
Focused and pragmatic, she is deeply committed to across-the-board success at a school where 93 percent of students are African American, and 65 percent are from economic backgrounds that qualify them for free or reduced school lunches.... View Details