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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Action Plan: Casting Call
market over the years. While the company continues to make envelopes and printed products, it also produces packaging for pharmacies and other e-commerce mailing needs. With 9 manufacturing facilities and more than 20 sales offices in the View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
Children) continues to be designed based on the best health research. “At the state level, our researchers and staff have worked to ensure states adopt policies that allow maximum food and other basic needs... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 02 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison
reluctant to morph into landlords, but they already own millions of empty units. At least the rental units will be generating revenue. Sometimes goals dovetail: in this case, the country needs rental housing as much as underwater owners... View Details
- 01 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?
unreported numbers said. It’s startling to find that managers are not even neutral; they’re somewhat negative.” RESEARCHERS CREATE FORECASTING MODEL To test their ideas, the researchers studied 50 big-box retailers in the United States,... View Details
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
Working PapersDo Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States Authors:David H. Autor, William R. Kerr, and Adriana D. Kugler Abstract Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
result of the IRA alone across manufacturing, onshoring, installation, and maintenance. As a venture investor focused on climate, I see the IRA as an inflection point for inclusive growth here in the United View Details
- 19 Nov 2014
- News
The Power of Yes
and share them with the world to inform new ways of attacking these perennial problems.” Dichter’s paternal grandparents escaped the Holocaust by fleeing from Poland to Shanghai and then to the United States; his father was born in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
nonetheless. She cofounded Minds Matter, a now-nationwide mentoring and college preparatory nonprofit that launched her on a lifelong mission to improve public education. Named Woman of the Year by the California State Assembly in 2014... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
states across the country and in some cases abroad (Canada, the Caribbean, Europe). Expansion to markets like California—which has five times the solar capacity of New Jersey—is potentially very lucrative. But we’ve been hesitant to take... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Winter Break Just Got Educational
different parts of the United States, focused on learning about an industry and job opportunities. “What’s different about the Immersion Programs is that they have a significant faculty-led educational component,” said HBS professor... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
7 percent, with lots of appreciation on top of that. Do you have concerns about Japanlike deflation in the United States? Some fear that with a very low inflation rate of 1.5 percent, the United View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
company Long-Stanton and a 2013 Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard, has been promoting competitiveness-based ideas to improve the regional economy. During the past 18 months, he’s given dozens of talks about US competitiveness to state... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
and point them to other team sports that are relatively collision-free? How will die-hard football fans in the United States react if safety concerns and rule changes create a watered-down, less-attractive... View Details
- 28 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business
which was last raised in 2009. Twenty-nine states and 41 cities have increased the minimum wage above that federal level. “The minimum wage is a big issue, and this is one piece of the puzzle” Opponents counter that government-mandated... View Details
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
cross-occupational survey (Study 1), we found that idle time occurs frequently across all occupational categories; we estimate that employers in the United States pay roughly $100 billion in wages for time... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
institution’s patient portal. Conclusions. As healthcare costs continue to rise in the United States and around the world, a value-based approach with explicit, transparently reported patient outcomes will... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
2018 Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism American Capitalism: New Histories By: Beckert, Sven, and Christine Desan, eds. Abstract—The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its... View Details
- 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
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
fifteen years ago, as a doctoral candidate in Harvard’s Economics Department, Lerner was collecting data on the role of VC funding in the biotechnology industry. Before long, he also became intrigued by the concept of intellectual property and concerned about the sad... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
Asia, but it wasn’t being reported in the United States that literally countries were shutting down their schools physically. And I said, wow, if this thing actually spreads, this could happen everywhere,... View Details