United States Treasury - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President

Harris on immigration The findings reflect the constantly changing state of politics and voter behavior. In a separate piece of new research, Pons considers the array of voter participation barriers that have changed in recent years,... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement

of 40-55 across the United States (U.S.), including different racial and ethnic groups. The report showed that a lack of support from employers and health plans is negatively affecting women at the height of... View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

Banishing Balkan Ghosts

was spotted in 1986 by Alain Gomez (20th PMD), the charismatic chairman of the French electronics giant Thomson, who tapped him as his special assistant. In 1988, Djelic went to the United States to help... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

When you think about which countries have produced the greatest management innovations, the United States and Japan are likely to top your list. But it was Germany in the late 1800s and early 1900s that was... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Jun 2014
News

Turning "Black Gold" to Green

calling for using city investments in energy efficiency to generate savings that would be reinvested in solar power. Inspired by their success, Dawe took an 80 percent pay cut and moved to Colorado to work on green-power initiatives there. In 2004, voters made Colorado... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

01 Dec 2003
News

The Next Big Thing

prominence to the role of dynamic clusters as a key to regional and national economic success. He defines clusters as geographic concentrations of interconnected companies and institutions in a particular field. At the summit, Porter noted that many countries and more... View Details

Keywords: life sciences; Scientific Research and Development Services

17 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Reserve Bank Governor Discusses India’s Financial Opportunities

question is: are you going to raise rates or cut them?" Rajan said at the beginning of his lecture. "The answer is: I'm not going to tell you. But what I will talk about is the state of the Indian economy." Rajan said that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2024
News

INK: Taking Care

The sad and unfortunate fact is that one in every two people will develop cancer in their lifetime, Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) writes in her new book, Fatal to Fearless: 12 Steps to Beating Cancer in a Broken Medical System. It first happened to her more than 25 years... View Details

Keywords: Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

18 Sep 2017
Blog Post

Applying HBS Lessons in an African Context

I was born and raised in Dakar, Senegal and moved to the United States for high school and college. Upon graduating from Northwestern University, I moved to Dubai and worked as a Management Consultant. I... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

The Well-Healed Athlete

science, but there are tools out there that, if applied to this area of research, can lead to major breakthroughs.” That’s why she and her husband donated $220 million to launch the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance, a collaborative network of six research programs... View Details

Keywords: April White; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

01 Apr 1999
News

Time to Vote in University Elections

Executive Officer, Telemundo Group, Inc., Los Angeles, Calif. Sheila James Kuehl, JD '78; AB '62, University of California at Los Angeles. State Assembly member, 41st District; Chair, Assembly Judiciary Committee, Santa Monica, Calif.... View Details

22 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 22

vulnerabilities that left Mexico exposed to a sudden change in investor appetite for Mexican securities in 1994. Political violence in Mexico and changes in monetary policy in the United States then led to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2005
News

Online Job Bank Debuts

Services. She notes that as of mid-December, the job bank had posted more than 1,000 positions in 47 geographic regions (primarily in the United States), representing 61 industries and 34 functional areas. Of its strong portfolio of job... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

08 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 8

Elena CorsiHarvard Business School Case 312-108 The head of Denmark's largest energy group pondered how to use their limited resources to advance the delivery of clean and reliable energy. The Danish State owned DONG Energy had started... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2019
News

The Race Against Resistance

warning that antibiotic resistance presents one of the greatest threats to health, food security, and development worldwide. And according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each year in the United View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

07 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits

This is partly because the relationship between infrastructure spending and economic growth, if focused only on the United States, has been hard to update. The US Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, after all, was signed into law... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Construction

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

in its marketing. In the period since the Internet boom, there have been a large number of very conspicuous successes.—John A. Deighton Physical distribution of groceries in the United States is a marvel of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

01 Dec 2000
News

New Economy Theme of HBS African-American Alumni Conference

encourage an exchange of knowledge and experience. "The finalists were chosen from among three hundred entries sent in from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States," said HBSAAA president Kenneth A. Powell (MBA 1974). "Playing an... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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... View Details