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Angela R. Hicks Bowman

school-like grading system of A-F based on a variety of criteria including punctuality, professionalism, price, quality and overall performance. Though the ratings system has... View Details

20 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018

organizations is based on value, on average. While three-quarters of their revenue remains fee-for-service, we see a remarkable change to a reimbursement system that was static for decades. In particular, survey respondents’ organizations... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2006
News

Back to School

working with leadership teams from nine urban school districts over the course of three annual sessions to coordinate research and create coherent, scalable systems for education reform. Two cases written for PELP and taught by HBS... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2010
News

Rent Out Your Ride

fleet. A users’ rating system encourages owners to keep cars clean and running well. To date, the service is available only in Boston and Cambridge. Said one owner, who makes about $200 a month from renting... View Details

Keywords: car sharing; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

29 Jun 2015
HBS Case

Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records

solutions, but which type of organization will take the lead on a patient-data integration system that enjoys widespread success: hospitals, insurance providers, medical equipment suppliers, consumer tech companies, or some other entity?... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Technology

03 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

trillion mandate and no assurance of reversing the inexorable rise in health care costs. Paradoxically, although America has the most technologically advanced and expensive health care system in the world, its citizens continue to get... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health

01 Sep 2020
News

Building a Strong and Prosperous Society

book, Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire, Henderson says that we have failed to reenvision capitalism. It must be not only an engine of prosperity, she offers, but also a system that is in harmony with environmental realities,... View Details

December 2010
Article

Nominal versus Indexed Debt: A Quantitative Horse Race

By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk

The main arguments in favor of and against nominal and indexed debt are the incentive to default through inflation versus hedging against unforeseen shocks. We model and calibrate these arguments to assess their quantitative importance. We use a dynamic equilibrium... View Details

Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Motivation and Incentives; Inflation and Deflation; System Shocks; Taxation; Risk and Uncertainty; Framework; Problems and Challenges; Interest Rates; Cost; Developing Countries and Economies; Service Operations

15 Aug 2024
Blog Post

Navigating the Future of Renewable Energy at Port Esbjerg

lower operational costs. This transition is abundant with innovative solutions. The heat pumps used to extract energy from sea water and inject it into the town’s district heating system are custom designed and constructed. They utilize... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

A bold experiment in education

college acceptance rate and sent the highest percentage of its graduates to college in the city, excluding selective-admissions schools. Most recently, in 2013, NOCP took over the operation of the lowest-performing elementary school in... View Details

01 Sep 2011
News

The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS

well-being without degrading the natural systems that are also critical to our well-being is one of the great challenges — and great opportunities — facing business and business leaders today.” The BEI aims to accomplish its goals through... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

14 Dec 2010
Op-Ed

Tax US Companies to Spur Spending

"repatriation taxes" that occur under the US system of worldwide taxation. Simply put, multinational firms currently have an incentive to keep money abroad. A temporary holiday of the repatriation tax coupled with the tax on... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai

24 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

tax system can help us get there" On a recent and unexpectedly warm day for a New England fall, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge sat down to discuss tax policy in general and reform in particular with Professor Matthew C.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

for our tax system. For example, we might want to split the costs of government equally among all taxpayers, letting each of us keep whatever income we earn above our fair share. Or, we might want our tax system to reinforce social and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2011
News

Making Their Way

know we have the capability in McHenry to fix any problem and make that product work.” CGM has some twenty full-time U.S. employees. Although the global recession brought about downsizing at the company in 2009, it was also an opportunity to invest in state-of-the-art... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

18 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 18, 2007

Working PapersHappiness, Contentment and Other Emotions for Central Banks Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch Abstract We show that data on satisfaction with life from over 600,000 Europeans are negatively correlated with the unemployment View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jan 2020
What Do You Think?

Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?

Laurence Dutton SUMMING UP How Should America Admit Talented Workers of the World? The notion of attracting talented workers to the United States deserves support, especially at times when the unemployment rate is low. But the H-1B... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

01 Oct 2000
News

Raymond A. Baxter: Sweet Smell of Success

operational systems has resulted in a 99.9 percent compliance rate in order fulfillment; it is also the only baking company in North America to be registered ISO 9001, the highest standard for quality View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients

condition—to patients and society—than it should be.” By some estimates, about 10 percent of costs in the health care system are due to diabetes-related procedures. “If you had a diabetes center giving patients a diabetes boot camp and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

01 Sep 2005
News

Making History, Starting Over

was known as the “sick man” of Europe, with lumbering state-owned enterprises, high unemployment, and a crushing top marginal tax rate of 93 percent. In an ominous sign of the times, the day after Cohen launched what was to become known... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

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