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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses
some immigrants could add billions to government coffers rather than be a drain on the economy. Nor have fears of immigrants as national security threats been borne out. See Also Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014 Revised immigration policies would boost the View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
different. The urgency, though, wasn’t due solely to the cultural imperative. “We teach, we give lessons to people of all ages,” says Reeks. “We do so many other things that affect the economy of the city.” Within a few days of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
Americans—especially those in the business community—do to increase the ability of firms to compete successfully in the global economy while raising US living standards? This is one of the most important questions facing the nation and... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
traces the evolution of the Internet from government ownership to privatization to the commercial Internet we know today. This is a story of innovation from the edges. Greenstein shows how mainstream service providers that had traditionally been leaders in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Terence P. Stewart
these are grievances that demand redress," he emphasizes, "not deferential surrender to 'market forces.'" Seated at a conference table in his downtown office, the tall, soft-spoken Stewart explains, "Some people believe that if a segment of the View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Going Against the Flow
startup evolve into Banco Pactual, which today is a full-service investment bank with a net worth of $700 million. Jakurski has found contrarian skepticism useful for analyzing emerging-market turbulence. "The government will enact a policy and you know from View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
Apparel and Textile Industries is based on eight years of study. The keys to success in an age of product proliferation, the authors found, are no longer economies of scale and cheap labor but an up-to-the-minute knowledge of what is... View Details
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
of people living in poverty at the bottom of the wealth pyramid, versus the relative handful at the pyramid's peak, represents what is potentially the most explosive socioeconomic challenge facing the world. Now, with markets in the developed View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
thought experiments designed in his executive MBA classes, he challenges readers to explore their cognitive blind spots, identify any salient details they are programmed to miss, and then take steps to ensure it won’t happen again.... View Details
- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
manufacturing. . . . To that extent service sector workers are persuaded, by their own concern for self-respect and appreciation, to perform optimally." Several trends are clear. As economies develop, they generate proportionately... View Details
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
of tomorrow's innovative new products, arguing that companies must reinvest in new product and process development in the U.S. industrial sector. Only by reviving this "industrial commons" can the world's largest economy build... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
name servers host typosquatting domains as much as four times as often as the web as a whole. Download the paper: http://www.benedelman.org/typosquatting/typosquatting.pdf Working PapersLocation Strategies for Agglomeration Economies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
Christine Keung (at podium) and Reginald Smith (both MBA 2020) present recommendations for economic development to the West Virginia State Senate in May 2022. How did you meet? Reggie Smith: "We first met before classes started RC year at a big social event in... View Details
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
U.S. frontier. To address reverse-causality concerns, reduced-form specifications exploit exogenous changes in U.S. immigration quotas. Consistent with a model of sector reallocation, output growth in less developed economies is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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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 2005
- News
Campaign Ends, Exceeds Expectations
With the creation of Hawes Hall and the renovation of Aldrich Hall, all classrooms are now wired with state-of-the-art technology. Walking through HBS today, visitors experience a school that has been transformed. Spangler Center, home... View Details
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
economy of more impacted areas slowed down because: Chinese workers were concentrated in key sectors, such as railroads, manufacturing, and mining. It was difficult and costly to quickly substitute Chinese workers with other workers in... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 03 Apr 2018
- News
Taking Frontier Markets to the Next Level
opportunities for positive social impact. “I came to HBS from the Marine Corps. In my Marine Corps experience, I spent several years in Iraq working in counterinsurgency, and from those experiences I became very interested in economic... View Details
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
that reduce administrative burden and allow for the introduction of novel cancer therapies. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53706 Credit Supply Shocks, Network Effects, and the Real Economy By: Alfaro,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne