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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
Scharfstein: “Whenever you mix government guarantees with private, for-profit entities, those private entities put the government at risk.” Reforming the U.S. housing finance system remains perhaps the largest piece of unfinished business... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- News
Can Brian Shortsleeve Fix the MBTA’s Budget Woes?
officials and transit advocates. Shortsleeve said his goal is to balance the agency’s books for the first time in 15 years, even if that means taking on sacred cows. He said any savings will be reinvested in the system to make it run more... View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
Energy Efficiency as a Common Purpose
electrical systems went all the way back to my childhood. I think I bumped my knee one time, and my grandfather used an ohmmeter as a faux healing tool and said, ‘see when that needle moves, that’s going to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Running on empty
Does an invention that would guarantee motorists they'd never run out of gas sound like a good investment? Hundreds of venture capital firms didn't think so, but that didn't stop Maryland retiree William Hubbard (MBA '49), a former... View Details
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts
in the air, Lerner initially found the results surprising. But not for long. "When you consider why so many initial public offerings do poorly, much of the failure is due to the poor preparation of many firms prior to going public. They simply do not have the... View Details
- Jul 2012
- Article
A Better Way to Tax U.S. Businesses
one might think higher rates lead to higher revenues, the U.S. actually collects less in taxes (as a percentage of GDP) than most other developed nations. Desai, a professor at Harvard Business School and Harvard Law, believes a handful... View Details
- 16 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Insights and Inspiration: A Look Back at the Summer Venture in Management Program
Tony Nguyen is an Accounting and Management Information Systems student at the University of Houston, and a Summer Venture in Management (SVMP) 2022 alum. Why did you want to attend SVMP? I am a huge advocate for diversity and inclusion,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
You’re an Old Fuelie
but not widely understood. “It’s a beautifully engineered system that I think was maybe more like a solution looking for a problem,” Hyde explained to the New York Times (December 2, 2007). After a career in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Decisions through the Ages
WATANABE: A primer for all ages on how to think entrepreneurially. Photo Courtesy Portfolio/Penguin Group USA In business and education, Japan and the United States seem to alternate as inspirations for one another, and Ken Watanabe (MBA... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Powering Up
Watertown, Massachusetts. The company builds systems derived from innovative electricity-delivery technology developed by an MIT professor (Boston Globe, February 22, 2010). While initial applications — Giler View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
options. The methodology we developed to solve that original problem, however, gave us an insight into solving a wide range of other problems. I think of the process of discerning other applications as a little bit like peeling an onion:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
education issues, traveling to nineteen states, visiting more than one hundred schools, and speaking with federal and state officials, union representatives, and education think tanks. “I talked to anybody and everybody,” Nielsen recalls.... View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
care system into a consumer-driven model. What, in a nutshell, are the advantages to your proposal? And the risks? Herzlinger: The pros of consumer-driven health care: Unlike today's cookie-cutter insurance policies, under consumer-driven... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss
As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
Tobin’s Q. Collectively, the evidence suggest that current efforts to increase transparency around organizations’ impact on society are effective at improving disclosure quantity and quality as well as corporate value. Effects of an Information Sharing View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 12 May 2015
- Blog Post
"Every Day at HBS is a Gift"
and selfless – each one thinks they were the “admissions mistake.” I love that no matter how busy they are, they’re always willing to help; the way in which the system is set up actually reinforces this:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
by so many financial and regulatory systems that can be invisible or unexpected. If we can inspire more small businesses to stand up, identify the obstacles ahead of them, and work together to change them, then I View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Robin Greenwood, the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking and Anne and James F. Rothenberg Faculty Fellow, saw another catastrophe on the horizon: widespread business failure and a bankruptcy... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
department with the word “strategy” or “strategic” in its name. Hundreds of business books and thousands of articles published over the last six decades include “strategy” in their titles. It has been one of the most significant new ideas in business View Details
- Portrait Project
Dominique Baillet
shut my big mouth once and for all. And I have had to think carefully about tact. The world is bigger than when I was eight years old. I feel more exposed and less sure about weighty issues. But I know View Details