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Lucasz S. Babiarz
intends to fulfill his residency in radiology or interventional neuroradiology—"a nice combination of the medical and surgical worlds"—then pursue his interests in health care management and administration while balancing his... View Details
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
Insights Team (BIT), which became the world’s first government organization dedicated to incorporating behavioral economics into policy. BIT saw the tax letter as an opportunity to test the value of behavioral interventions in a context... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
discussed supporting innovation through a range of additional policy interventions, including tax credits, loan guarantees, IP policy, regulatory mandates, codes, and standards. It is critically important that these kinds of interventions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
recession. The financial crisis opened the door to massive public interventions in the world's economies, in which the government served as venture capitalist. But these efforts focused on the most troubled and poorly managed firms in the... View Details
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RoGME: Role of Government in Market Economies - Course Catalog
role of government as it plays out in the real world, using vivid case studies from many countries, decades, and policy angles. At the same time, we align these cases with a rigorous theoretical framework that clarifies the circumstances under which government View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson (MBA ’73) (Wiley) The authors show how modern finance combined with easy money threatened to cripple the world financial system. They... View Details
- 23 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
crucial for managers to openly express support for wellness initiatives and encourage people to use them, Whillans says. For example, managers can ask their staff to block off one hour every week during office hours to work on their own wellness—whether it’s using an... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
the University of Pennsylvania’s Behavior Change for Good Initiative to test new ways to nudge members to exercise. Researchers found that while all of their interventions yielded an initial surge of activity, many of those gains waned... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
addresses interventions that firms, governments, and other parties deploy to shape household financial outcomes: education and information, peer effects and social influence, product design, advice and disclosure, choice architecture, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
we are facing today is a result of previous government actions, and today’s government actions will give rise to future problems as well. The lesson should be that we need to get to a point where we don’t need to intervene in the future, because we realize that View Details
- 28 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
States," Jones says, adding that many of the economies went through transition periods that involved a high degree of state intervention and hyperinflation. Then, by one means or another, the businesses in those economies came out of that... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
for any teaching apprenticeship—and use that to build out real-time data analytics for states, so that they can see, "If we've identified we still have these gaps in the labor market, what interventions should we put in place?" And then... View Details
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
intervention by business because business had no legitimacy—"it's above my pay grade." Still others thought that business should use its influence to activate government. A final group said that companies were the only ones that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
Alchemists of Loss: How Modern Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson (MBA ’73) (Wiley) The authors discuss modern finance as a U.S. invention, the theories and practices... View Details
- 30 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Compensation Game
continue to enjoy broad freedom to unload options, a practice that enables executives to benefit from increases in short-term stock prices that come at the expense of long-term value. That the market for CEOs has not been operating like other markets does not mean that... View Details
Keywords: by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
delivery systems of both developing and advanced countries: fragmentation, inefficiency, and organization around discrete interventions (such as delivering drugs or screening) rather than integrated care. Porter and his colleagues aim to... View Details
- 04 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Advice from a Career Switcher: The Value of Informational Conversations with Alumni
In the fall of 2019, Adam entered HBS in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program ready to test a career hypothesis. “I wanted to understand why we have climate change and what I can do to mitigate it,” Adam recalled. “What are the technical View Details
- 07 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
The JD/MBA Seminar: The Perfect Practice Ground
business and legal topics of the presenter’s choice. This year, we have presented and engaged with our peers on a wide variety of topics—ranging from the college admissions scandal to state intervention in low-income housing to the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
America the Unequal
whether different forms of wealth redistribution — for example, raising the minimum wage, or longer-term interventions like reducing disparities in education — are less likely to evoke heated opposition and perhaps increase advocacy for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
simple enough. Investors fund nonprofit social ventures whose interventions result in a measurable social benefit as well as a financial savings to the government. (Government saves money, for example, when fewer people are homeless or... View Details