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- 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
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future
in California, too. From our perspective as an investor, capital flows will follow structural reform." How much of a deterrent are shape-shifting regulations to MNCs who want to invest in Asia, wondered HBS assistant professor Mihir A. Desai. "Government... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Finding the Confidence to Apply to HBS
how crucial his intervention was. One of the reasons I wanted to write this is to assuage the fears of other prospective applicants who are going through the same thing. Many of the doubts that you have about your abilities are truly... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
constrained resources, and are facing high job demands—three factors that predict lower engagement and greater burnout. Low-cost, light touch interventions can improve conditions for employees. Such View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
investment banking--give their points of view. Joseph Bower, Baker Foundation Professor The GM IPO represents the beginning of the end of a remarkable piece of intervention by the Obama administration. The government's involvement in the... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
dramatically." According to Christensen, none of these changes will take place without staunch resistance from the medical establishment. Even federal regulators are being asked to enter the fray, recalling previous cries for government View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
the regular rules apply: a data-driven fact base establishing both need and demand for your project, a clear rationale for why and how your intervention will create the social impact you’re promising at scale, trends and competitive... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA
MS/MBA program as an opportunity to make a career change. Adam felt it would supply the necessary venue to inform and test his specific career hypothesis. He explained, “I wanted to understand why we have climate change and what I can do to mitigate, particularly the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
remedies that would make things worse, but were against any 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... View Details
- 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
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
Fellow at HBS, were fortunate to have access to the family leadership and archives of the Koç group through the intervention of the late former Dean of the School, John H. McArthur, who sat on the Board of the holding company. The career... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018
Gone Too Far When Ethan Bernstein used wearable technology to track workers around their open office, he discovered many were trying to avoid collaboration rather than engage in it. How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit Reshmaan Hussam and colleagues used... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
dollar is not going to have $1 of impact,” Kluender says. “We were optimistic that it could nevertheless have a cost-effective impact given the low cost of the intervention and the fact that patients are ultimately on the hook for the... View Details
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
generations of the same family may even cease to regress towards the mean. Moreover, we demonstrate that government interventions intended to ameliorate inequality may in fact lower intergenerational mobility—even when they do not... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
sponsor. In response to the financial crisis, the federal government has substantially increased its intervention into the financial markets. Although such intervention is justified in certain cases, federal... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
AI Enhances Diagnostic Care
likelihood of an illness, and precision imaging that can detect abnormalities not visible to the human eye. Tantawy says that MRC, founded in 1989, uses advanced technologies to deliver the highest standards of health care in the field of radiodiagnosis, nuclear... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
use three detailed case studies of state-owned oil companies-Brazil's Petrobras, Norway's Statoil, and Mexico's Pemex-to examine how our theory fares in practice. Overall, we show how mixed enterprises have made progress to solve some of their agency problems, even as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne