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- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
raising taxes. With the Pledge, we branded the Republican Party at the national level as the party that will not raise your taxes. What are your tax reform priorities for the second Bush administration? Year one, kill the “death” estate... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
skills, and the host country’s needs. Why is Morocco so important? Morocco straddles the West and the Arab world and is a longtime ally of America — it was the very first nation to recognize our fledgling, newly independent View Details
- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
from investment opportunities in developed countries. Nari Kannan suggests that it is a product of "thoughtless consumerism ... (the thirst for cheap Chinese goods) ... and dependence on foreign oil," particularly in the United... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 24 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost
and national security issues worsened in part by migration out of newly unlivable situations. How can investors, businesses, and global society face these issues? Governments and development finance... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
is the Bakken formation, a 25,000-square-mile underground deposit that—thanks to a rise in fracking and new oil extraction technologies—has produced as much as 1 million barrels of oil and gas a day, or about the production equivalent of the View Details
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- 30 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Searching for Professional Passion Through My VC Summer Internship
resume, practice for potential interviews, identify open internships, and search the alumni network to connect with key leaders at these companies. I ultimately landed an investment internship with In-Q-Tel (IQT), a venture capital entity affiliated with the U.S. View Details
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
on mainframes. DEC moved up-market with a much lower cost structure and eventually attacked IBM. In the newspaper industry, we saw that firms can overcome this resource commitment problem by recognizing the challenge and framing the disruption as a threat to the core... View Details
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
assistance, the Treasury should contribute capital by purchasing common shares. As a result, the Treasury is likely to hold a majority ownership of the bank's common shares, while the ownership interests of other shareholders will be reduced. This is not permanent... View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
gap in that architecture. The organizations we examined included governmental and intergovernmental organizations—foreign aid agencies, development banks, the United Nations and its specialized agencies,... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
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Policy - Business & Environment
HBS MBA 1966 (R) “The most effective way to address the climate crisis is with national legislation that would impose a significant fee on carbon where it enters the market. Only by pricing in external costs can we eliminate existing... View Details
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
including several instances where the highest rated securities (AAA) defaulted. The resulting financial meltdown pushed the US and the rest of the world economy into recession. In the recent case "Kroll Bond Rating Agency," Bo... View Details
- 09 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm
is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: scyther5] Related Reading Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation? Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
associated with anti-dumping petitions among upstream companies. It also weakens downstream companies lobbying in favor of the general protection of highly integrated conglomerates. In the steel industry, by contrast, national industrial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data to better... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
this is one aspect that the good design of policies on the extraction of oil and mineral resources should take into account. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-035.pdf PublicationsEntrepreneurial Ventures and Whole-body Donations: A Regional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
of all, the studies show. The findings are detailed in the paper Investors Prefer Entrepreneurial Ventures Pitched by Attractive Men, published in the March 2014 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Our paper provides... View Details
- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
rupiah and the Brazilian real. A common cause of these price movements is shifts, or expected shifts, in US monetary policy. The United States is still the big gorilla in the global currency field, and when policies are tightened at home,... View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
or Politics? Harvard Business School Case 708-053 On March 21, 2008, the U.S. government secured an agreement from two leading sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) to adopt a new set of investment principles to govern the Funds' activities.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne