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- 20 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak
data-id=_/CWwxVO0Me28Q0etkq2Sr][/div] The most vulnerable businesses won’t last that long. They’ll need interest-free loans and other cash buffers to pay their workers and keep their storefronts while they wait out citywide lockdowns and school closures. After that,... View Details
- 30 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Looking Behind Bad Decisions
Why is it that the U.S. federal government allows local communities to give tax dollars to wealthy sports team owners rather than to create better benefits for citizens? Why are organ-donor programs constrained to the point where... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
John Read
With a background in government service, truck-parts manufacturing, and private equity, John C. Read (MBA ’71) might seem an unlikely person to run the world’s largest adventure-based educational organization. But about a decade ago, Read... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
Anglo American, one of the world’s largest mining companies, Cynthia Carroll traveled to 14 countries, visiting mines and interviewing staff, meeting with government officials, and talking to miners and local community members. “I needed... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
a handful of wealthy families. That change gave me an extraordinary level of freedom to take part in our daughters’ early lives and to spend time on a number of nonprofit projects, some in Southeast Asia. Then fate intervened again: In... View Details
- 20 May 2016
- Op-Ed
World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics
greater role in WHO governance and if there are guarantees of purchase contracts for new drugs and vaccines at sensible prices. Both seem unlikely, as the WHO's culture has always winced at cooperation with the private sector. WHO's track... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
for corporate boards. The yes answer reflects the fact that many productive aspects of corporate governance and control that have proven effective in the private-equity industry were noticeably absent at Enron. If Enron’s board (which was... View Details
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
when wealth and incomes are increasingly concentrated among very few, it is unfair to let the richest pay so little. Republicans, to put it mildly, disagree. They argue that taxing those with large capital incomes is discriminating against people who chose to save... View Details
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
involvement with the MD/MBA program at Harvard Business School is part of that belief. I personally think HBS has a huge contribution to make, because we spend our time studying how to manage things better to give better outcomes. Q: What... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
for Linux to take over Windows. The questions that we address are: Is Linux's superior demand-side learning sufficient to win out? What is the effect of forced procurement by governments and some large corporations on the long-run... View Details
- 03 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen
student essays that highlight their reflections. After spending the morning at the Royal Flora Holland auction house, we traveled from Amsterdam to Monster where we were welcomed to Van den Ende Rozen by two of the three brothers who run... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
indoor-generated contaminants to maintain good indoor air quality. The IRA will accelerate the adoption of proven technologies like Sorbent Ventilation Technology by providing funding for state and local governments to adopt more... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Cracking Conferences
Margaret Molloy (MBA 2000) came to New York in 1994 for a marketing internship with Enterprise Ireland, a government agency promoting the country’s products in the United States. She had $200 in her pocket and no family connections on the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
spending too much; and the Reagan and Bush administrations’ tax policies and deregulatory environment for encouraging risk-taking. Conard makes the contrarian case for how the economy really works, what went wrong over the past decade,... View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
immediately build in a barrier because then it will only work in those kinds of schools. People also said IBM should spend a whole lot more money. But if you do that, if you look at the results, when you've spent a lot of private money,... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
quickly on the initial steps of the COVID-19 vaccine. The type of research he envisions would require government investment, he says, but not much. “You’re talking $10, $20 million dollars per vaccine preclinical,” he points out. “It’s... View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
2015 Research Handbook on Shareholder Power Thirty Years of Evolution in the Roles of Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance By: Coates, John C. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
Emotional Benefits of Prosocial Spending By: Aknin, Lara B., Elizabeth W. Dunn, Ashley V. Whillans, Adam M. Grant, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—When does giving lead to happiness? Here, we present two studies demonstrating that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne