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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
soars GI Bill Influence: Medium-Low 50 1950 s 19 Social conformity McCarthyism Membership in organized religion soars Brown v. Board of Education desegregated public schools> Influence: Medium-High 60 1960 s 19 Civil rights movement gain... View Details
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
examination of the business history of commodity chains: it is a first step in this direction through an analysis of the relationship between two nodes of the rubber chain. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-089.pdf View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
in common? Why do their extraordinary stories continue to amaze and inspire? In delivering the answers to those questions, I offer a remarkable template by which to judge those in our own time to whom the public has given its trust. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
lending portfolio would have to move to the productive sector of the Bolivian economy by 2018, and these loans would have a controlled interest rate of 11.5%. How would BancoSol meet these targets, fulfill its mission, and remain... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
structures and systems, moving beyond macroeconomic, economy-wide, or single-factor microeconomic explanations of prosperity and development. But the analysis also reveals meaningful differences between the two: Most fundamentally, the chapter argues, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Partners & Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Corps Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research Millennium Challenge Corporation New Profit New Sector Alliance NewSchools Venture Fund New York City Public Schools New York View Details
- 08 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees
have a career that spans the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Through the joint degree program, I am building skills that will allow me to leverage the strengths of each sector to drive economic and social impact. How have you... View Details
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Fast Facts - Health Care
Mentoring 220 MBA health care students mentored by alumni working in health care in the 2022-2023 school year Alumni 8,487 Active alumni in the health care sector in 1,300 cities around the globe Research 3,851 Faculty View Details
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Rafaella Sadun | About
and across countries, and how this affects productivity at the micro and macro level. Sadun currently co-leads the Digital Reskilling Lab at HBS, where she studies the effectiveness of large-scale digital training investments made in private and View Details
- 26 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India
provide USD 6.6 trillion, leaving a substantial investment gap of USD 3.5 trillion. To bridge this gap, India requires investment support worth USD 1.4 trillion until 2070, with an annual average of USD 28 billion over the next 50 years. Key View Details
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2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
5). Figure 4: Will any of the Following Intermediaries be at the Center of a Financial Crisis, Within 10 Years? Figure 5: Most State Pensions are Underfunded Sources: Data from Pew Charity Trusts review of financial reports and public... View Details
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
describe organizations that have successfully implemented their strategies. They operate in varied regions and industries, including manufacturing, financial services, consumer services, nonprofit, educational, and public sector. Their... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Innovation: Evidence from China By: Fang, Lily, Josh Lerner, Chaopeng Wu, and Qi Zhang Abstract—: Governments are important financiers of private sector innovation. While these public funds can ease capital... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
WTO, World Bank, and the OECD. Or they could be related to lagging capabilities of domestic companies, either in understanding foreign markets or in their own products, services, or value chains. Another large body of thinking is devoted to identifying specific View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
(RRP). By expanding the overall supply of safe short-term claims, the Fed can weaken the market-based incentives for private sector intermediaries to issue too many of their own short-term liabilities. And crucially, we argue that the Fed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
History Matters
a big lesson of this crisis: Several leaders in the New York financial sector stepped forward to rally a response. They included John Pierpont Morgan; James J. Stillman, who led City National Bank; and George F. Baker of the First... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
public companies, which enabled family ownership and control and most of the past traditions of the former partnerships to continue with little hindrance. This was not exceptional in the corporate context of Britain of this period — the... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 21 May 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
wanted to leverage my knowledge & experience in finance to focus on making a difference in my home region of Asia through impact investing. In China, for example, the sector lacks quite a bit with regards to human capital and... View Details
- 21 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?
With an election looming and the economy continuing to struggle, the effectiveness of government regulation has become a political football. While advocates hold regulations up as necessary to protect public health and safety, critics see... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
the same time," Ebrahim notes. "Delivering emergency relief and basic services in sanitation, water, and housing is easier to measure than impacts on public policy or on good governance, freedoms, and rights. Societal transformations—such... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna