United States Treasury - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite

We are on the cusp of a new millennium; yet the face of corporate power in the United States remains overwhelmingly white. People of color hold less than 1 percent of all senior executive posts. But what... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

21 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 21, 2010

welfare. We attempt to insert the desires of "regular" Americans into these debates by asking a nationally representative online panel to estimate the current distribution of wealth in the United View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 1/5

January 27, 2020 – the beginning of my second semester here at HBS: January 28, 2020: Constructing a Nation: The United States and Their Constitution February 10, 2020: Donald Trump and the Tax Cuts and Jobs... View Details

01 Jan 2003
News

Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.

poverty level. As a result, about 1 million participants in the United States alone receive a 25 to 40 percent discount on their prescriptions for a wide variety of illnesses. Internationally, the company... View Details

May 2020 (Revised December 2022)
Case

Soofa: Displaying the Right Path?

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Amy Klopfenstein and Amram Migdal

In November 2019, Sandra Richter, co-founder and CEO of Soofa, a network of advertising-supported digital bulletin boards, must decide between two different fundraising and expansion plans for her company. One plan entails raising $15 million in a Series A round and... View Details

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08 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How to Hire a Millennial

program offers newly minted MBAs the opportunity to oversee a $50 million unit as a field operations director responsible for finance, strategy, and marketing. Yet all the mentoring and flexible schedules won’t matter if a company is... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller

01 Jun 2004
News

Massport, Back on Course

recognition program. The fundamental premise of the program is that people who are about to do bad things act differently from people who are doing normal things. And as a result, we’ve caught several people who have been either fugitives or involved with drugs. We... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Massport; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

01 Dec 2008
News

A Force for Good

$100 million a year, and that he wanted a speedy resolution. “Speedy” turned out to be the better part of a decade. For much of the 1970s, McArthur fielded an all-star team (including future Secretary of State Warren Christopher and... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Wood Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

16 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters

Physicists tell us entropy is the natural state of the world, and that law seems especially true in today's multidivisional company. "When you create organizational subunits of any form, they'll have a tendency to focus internally on... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

29 May 2006
What Do You Think?

How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?

motives, our paradigms, and what we are willing to accept and ignore to get what we think that we need." C. J. Cullinane was concerned that "This trend (service sector relative growth) will indeed catch up with the United View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

04 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy

the bursting of the dot.com bubble, Yoffie asked, will the future be much less rosy? An often-used comparison with the tulip mania that overwhelmed Holland in the seventeenth century, he asserted, is not the right way to think about the Internet fever that began... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

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FAQs | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

exception to the rule that LRAP will only pay on the regular repayment schedule, as this Federal cancellation requires that participants put their loans on an "Income Based Repayment plan (IBR)" during their required service period. I'm an employee of a local, View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

Case Study: Something New

Anomalie offers brides a new way to buy a wedding dress—custom designed, online, and at a reasonable price. That makes the company, well, an anomaly in the $55 billion United States wedding industry, which... View Details

Keywords: April White

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

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

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

21 Nov 2017
News

Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy

Justin Dawe (MBA 2007), president, Scoot Networks (photo courtesy of Scoot Networks) What do you think the state of the energy industry will be in 2030? HBS students in the Energy and Environment Club asked alumni working in the field to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; solar power; wind power

26 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities

all out, you discover that it’s not the right technology for the problem.” Academic researchers are “almost too married to their ideas and technologies, but I don’t blame them,” says Maria Roche, assistant professor in the Strategy Unit... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Biotechnology; Health

26 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 26

international trade. The empirical analysis has three comparative advantages: including emerging and advanced economies, isolating panel variation regarding the link between productivity and exports, and exploiting heterogeneous technology diffusion from immigrant... View Details