Economic Measurement - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2006
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HBS Honors Four Alumni

“What is wisdom?” With Burden Hall packed with an audience of first-year MBA students, the honorees at the September event rose to the challenge and did not disappoint with their responses to that and other related questions. Couching their remarks in equal View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2011
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James McNerney Jr.

McNerney: It’s all about being globally competitive and creating U.S. jobs. Illustration by Andy Friedman Related Links The Path to Economic Revival Making Their Way Squawk Box at HBS - Jim McNerney, Dean Nitin Nohria, and University... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; interview; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Air Transportation; Transportation

02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?

also an economic consideration. Because you have to have a whole measurement and verification process that says, yeah, in fact, you did capture these set of molecules. You actually did move them someplace... View Details

25 Aug 2015
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Sunset in the East?

prices leading to an economic collapse? —Bruce Johnstone (MBA 1966) KIRBY: Unlikely. Prices have fallen considerably in secondary and tertiary cities but are firm in the first tier. Property is, of course, a speculative investment in... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs

01 Sep 2005
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One-on-One with Thomas Riley

to win hearts and minds, we must reach the people at the bottom of the economic pyramid. What role can business play in helping Morocco’s development? We just concluded a free trade agreement with Morocco, our first with an African... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance; Government

01 Sep 2024
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market and created a new profit... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Meyers

01 Jan 2009
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Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985

Jorge Paulo Lemann, Carlos Sicupira, and Marcel Telles have been primary figures in Brazil’s economic development for more than 30 years. The three friends and business partners have much in common: remarkable business acumen, a strong... View Details

01 Dec 2004
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The Future of Stem Cells

research management, to pay more attention to achieving results rather than expanding knowledge for its own sake,” Van Etten says. “In part, we’re encouraging academics to team up with industry in the hopes that the private sector’s focus on View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

10 Oct 2018
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Building Paths to Success

team with 100 people, SVA partnered last year with 17 nonprofits focused on reducing economic and educational disadvantage among Australia’s neediest populations. Traill, who details his personal transformation and SVA’s rise in his new... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Dec 2008
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Lesson from the Fall

The awarding of “up-front” bonuses — before cash and profits from commercial endeavors — invites employees to maximize their short-term interests while compromising the company’s long-term interests. Systems of reward that ignore comparative View Details

Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Mar 2013
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A Healthy Profit

organizations with which Antares has partnered). The goal is to significantly improve the delivery of such products and services by achieving a commercially robust, self-sustaining footing, thereby ensuring lasting social and economic... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jan 2003
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Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.

marketing group, hammering out goals and determining resources, work assignments, measures of success, and even rewards and recognition for a job well done. "It is the only method that works if you want to move in parallel paths and not... View Details

01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives

developing economic powerhouse. In the evening light, silhouettes of high-rises under construction punctuate the modern skyline, and a gleaming urban mall stands ready to serve Mumbai’s growing, consumer-oriented middle class. This is the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2018
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Averting Crisis

Project (BFFS), conceived at HBS and launched in July 2016, aims to use data to predict—and maybe prevent—future financial crises. A database of financial stability and investor sentiment measures is published in real time on the BFFS... View Details

01 Mar 2006
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One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan

prevent a new disease from becoming endemic to a region. It raised the profile of public health and brought the importance of international cooperation in health to new heights. SARS — severe acute respiratory syndrome — caused enormous View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Government; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2017
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A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System

leaders in this field. The BFFS Project is helping us disseminate knowledge that could help prevent a lot of economic misery.” Learn more by visiting alumni.hbs.edu/BFFSproject. photo by Russ Campbell “If beliefs and expectations can be... View Details

01 Sep 2009
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Over the Top

right to nominate directors into something that is real — and has a real chance of holding boards of directors accountable to company owners.” Major business groups lost no time denouncing the reform measures as vehicles for ceding... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Government

01 Jun 2013
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Five Bright Ideas

learn (or review) and then points to what the student should next master to proceed most efficiently to his or her knowledge goal. FAST FACT: Knewton was named a 2011 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. DATA POINT: In a... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2004
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One-on-One with Robert McNamara

economics major at the University of California at Berkeley, McNamara discovered at HBS “a field of specialization he would make his own and use to change three institutions and, arguably, the United States,” writes journalist Deborah... View Details