Federal Government - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

best value is achieved when everyone is part of the system. Coverage: To resolve ongoing debates regarding exactly what is and is not covered, one national list of minimum necessary coverage is required. The list provided by the Federal... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

22 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?

happens to them, and they don’t have the ability to make their rental payment. I think landlords are going to be pretty cut and dried about just saying, “You’re out.” Remember, landlords were getting some COVID relief benefits, as well as tenants. The View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

14 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

debt, which means the loan repayments must come from project cash flows only. In municipally financed or public financed projects, a government entity is the borrower or the debt is backed by a government... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

and the latest example of zero-sum competition. If drugs are too expensive, let's get the government to pay more. Now that healthcare costs have gotten so high, it is squeezing consumers, employers, state governments, and View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

24 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?

insurance, CDs, and transaction accounts for the poorest families are difficult to build and scale to the many millions of families who live below the poverty line. Let's use the dot.com dividend to solve this problem.— Peter Tufano Difficult, but doable, with... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

31 May 2016
HBS Case

Who Owns Space?

case entitled Blue Origin, NASA, and New Space, which he uses as part of his course in the MBA elective curriculum, The Role of Government in Market Economies. In that course, Weinzierl and his students investigate when and how View Details

Keywords: Re: Matthew C. Weinzierl; Aerospace

30 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 30

government bond yields, stabilized until the fall of 2008, when they showed dramatic declines. The paper asks to what extent short-term real interest rates, bond risks, and liquidity explain the trends before 2008 and the unusual... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

owned homes or could borrow under such conditions. As a response, the modern housing finance system undergirded by the federal government arose during the New Deal to make credit and liquidity available to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

22 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

that small businesses spend on filling out paperwork at an average of three conventional banks before securing some form of credit, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Fall 2013 Small Business Credit Survey. Upon filling... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

20 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 20

the different agendas of the federal and state governments increase ambiguities in state-firm relations and how states are interested actors in creating opportunities for firms to navigate the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

When Reputation Trumps Regulation

the most serious governance cases filed in U.S. courts by private shareholders against foreign cross-listed firms. Second, even if the SEC had the resources required to fully investigate the potentially false disclosures and statements by... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

22 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'

A year ago, most experts thought the US economy was thundering headlong toward recession, as the Federal Reserve moved at a historic pace to slow inflation by bridling interest rates. Yet, despite recent tremors in the stock market, no... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Banking

23 Jan 2008
Op-Ed

A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?

places on peripatetic journeys: People summered in Newport, wintered in Manhattan, or toured Europe, moor-less, for years. If you had asked an Edith Wharton matron where home was, she would have asked what you meant. Home As Anchor When the View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Banking; Construction; Real Estate

26 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

The Irrational Economist: Making Decisions in a Dangerous World, edited by Erwann Michel-Kerjan and Paul Slovic, 151-160. New York: Public Affairs Books, 2010 Abstract Particularly since the 1960s, the federal View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Apr 2020
Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But it’s not a simple calculation.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

25 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela

of traffic, pollution, and greenhouse gases). And third, government logjams: federal governments are stuck and can't take long term action on these problems—stuck in the US or... View Details

Keywords: by John D. Macomber; Construction; Real Estate

28 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business

minimum wage remains intense. Advocates for higher wages for the country’s lowest-paid workers argue that businesses should provide a livable wage for their employees. Activists have pushed to increase the minimum pay to as much as $15 an hour, more than twice the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

16 Feb 2016
First Look

February 16, 2016

new collaborative efforts with government agencies, including the Department of Commerce and the Federal Trade Commission. Both the private and public initiatives at industry rationalization challenged... View Details