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  • 2022
  • Working Paper

THEMIS: A Framework for Cost-Benefit Analysis of COVID-19 Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions

By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Michael Lingzhi Li and Saksham Soni
Since December 2019, the world has been ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, with over 150 million confirmed cases and 3 million confirmed deaths worldwide. To combat the spread of COVID-19, governments have issued unprecedented non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs),... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Policy; Framework; Cost vs Benefits; Outcome or Result; United States; Germany; Brazil; Singapore; Spain
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    Making Meritocracy

    How do societies identify and promote merit? Enabling all people to fulfill their potential, and ensuring the selection of competent and capable leaders are central challenges for any society. These are not new concerns. Scholars, educators, and political and economic... View Details
    • January 2021
    • Case

    Digital Transformation 2.0: CEO Elie Girard at Atos

    By: Tsedal Neeley and James Barnett
    Elie Girard has taken the helm as CEO of Atos—multinational IT giant—to lead the company into the next era of digital transformation. Noticing that customers’ digital needs were evolving to become even more specialized and global in scope, he made a bold first step as... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Change; Leadership; Technology Industry
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    Hiring Organizations

    National Basketball Association - NBA National Football League - NFL Nelo Netflix Neuberger Berman New Balance New England Innovation Academy New Fortress Energy New Mountain Capital New Politics New York City Economic Development... View Details
    • July – August 2009
    • Article

    The Descent of Finance

    What if the current recession turns out to be like the Great Depression of 1929-1933? Four years from now, the United States might find itself with a still-shrinking economy, half as many banks as in 2009, a third as many hedge funds, and retail banking resembling a... View Details
    Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry
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    • 01 Jul 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: July 1

    comparison concerns a central activity of citizenship, which is participation in the political and legislative processes. Publisher's link: http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15241.html August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics The... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 2016
    • Book

    Strategy Beyond Markets

    By: John de Figueiredo, Michael Lenox, Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Rick Vanden Bergh
    Strategy beyond markets has been an active area of research inquiry since the early 1990s. Since its inception, the scholarship emanating from this research stream has grown substantially in quantity, quality, and breadth. Likewise, firms across the world have... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy
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    • August 2018
    • Case

    Christine Lagarde

    By: Julie Battilana, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Vanessa Ampelas and Noemie Assenat
    For a modular presentation of the same material, please see “Christine Lagarde (A): A French Prime Minister Calls” (HBS No. 419-017), “Christine Lagarde (B): Being a Public Servant” (HBS No. 419-018), and “Christine Lagarde (C): Managing the IMF” (HBS No. 419-019).... View Details
    Keywords: Change; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Leadership; Gender; Leading Change
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      Rakesh Khurana

      Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is also Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, co-Master of Cabot House at Harvard College, and the Danoff Dean of Harvard College. 

      Professor... View Details

      Keywords: executive search
      • 23 Jul 2009
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Informed and Interconnected: A Manifesto for Smarter Cities

      Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Stanley S. Litow; Technology
      • 05 Dec 2013
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

      Keywords: by William R. Kerr
      • July 2015
      • Background Note

      The State of U.S. Public Health: Challenges and Trends

      By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Howard Koh and Pamela Yatsko
      The World Health Organization defines health as "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity." For many Americans, the World Health Organization's definition of true health seems unattainable, given... View Details
      Keywords: Public Health; Public Sector; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
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      • 12 Oct 1999
      • Research & Ideas

      It Came in the First Ships: Capitalism in America

      deprivation confronting New World opportunity. Demand, which had been pent up for centuries, suddenly encountered plentiful supply. The settlers' hunger for more and more territory thrust them relentlessly westward, where they could... View Details
      Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
      • 21 Mar 2014
      • Blog Post

      East Asia MBA Market Update

      Over the past several months I have engaged with organizations across East Asia regarding job opportunities for MBA candidates. While economic growth has slowed in the region, the job market is still good overall for MBA graduates and... View Details
      Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail
      • Working Paper

      The Returns to Skills During the Pandemic: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

      By: Livia Alfonsi, Vittorio Bassi, Imran Rasul and Elena Spadini
      The Covid-19 pandemic represents one of the most significant labor market shocks to the world economy in recent times. We present evidence from a field experiment to understand whether and why skilled and unskilled workers were differentially impacted by the shock, in... View Details
      Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; System Shocks; Labor; Competency and Skills; Development Economics; Uganda
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      • 24 Feb 2015
      • First Look

      First Look: February 24

      adequacy, actuarial standards, accounting standards, and auditing practice. In these areas, corporate managers and financial experts such as auditors and bankers possess the technical expertise necessary for informed regulation, enjoy strong View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 11 Jul 2006
      • First Look

      First Look: July 11, 2006

      hair care. By 1980 there remained strong differences between consumer markets. Although American influence was strong, it was already evident that globalization had not resulted in the creation of a stereotyped American blond and blue-eyed beauty female ideal as the... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 07 Aug 2018
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

      or partners whose nonverbal behavior was unknown; these expectations of cooperative intent increased negotiators’ own cooperation. Study 4 uses an economic game to demonstrate that handshaking increased cooperation even when handshakes... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • 22 Mar 2016
      • First Look

      March 22, 2016

      forthcoming World Scientific Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets By: Iyer, Lakshmi Abstract—Emerging markets play an increasingly important role in the global... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • Web

      Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

      fueling the country’s greatest economic downturn since the crash of 1929. On September 16, 2008, one day after Lehman’s collapse, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York lent $85 billion to the global insurance company American International... View Details