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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
I Gave at the Office
some of these short-term nudges or interventions affect outcomes beyond the immediate ask. For example, when people feel tricked into giving, does that make them less likely to donate to that charity in the future? Both this and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
assistance of coworkers. The changes were designed to enhance safety and reliability, but the intervention had the unintended consequence of changing the way many of these men behaved and thought about themselves. In your paper, you use... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
Alchemists of Loss: How Modern Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson (MBA ’73) (Wiley) The authors discuss modern finance as a U.S. invention, the theories and practices... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
necessary paperwork had taken another two months and intervention by Theodore Roosevelt Jr., then the governor-general of the Philippines. Any further delay, in the treacherous cold of late October miles above the clouds, could be deadly... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
program became a HBS case study, published by professors Gary Pisano and Robert Austin. It was also honored by the United Nations on World Autism Day. Fieldhouse is currently piloting a work-experience initiative for college students on the autism spectrum and a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
Democrats don’t like ‘standards.’ ” Ignore history at your peril: HBS professor Niall Ferguson, an economic historian, declared that a global economy is more likely to create economic crises than a nonglobal one, and that government View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
remedies that would make things worse, but were against any intervention by business because business had no legitimacy—“it’s above my pay grade.” Still others thought that business should use its influence to activate government. A final... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
AI Enhances Diagnostic Care
likelihood of an illness, and precision imaging that can detect abnormalities not visible to the human eye. Tantawy says that MRC, founded in 1989, uses advanced technologies to deliver the highest standards of health care in the field of radiodiagnosis, nuclear... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
Americans.’” —Sheryl WuDunn (MBA 1986), coauthor (with Nicholas D. Kristof) of Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, forthcoming in January MUST READ Start at the End: How to Build Products that Create Change by Matt Wallaert “I love this book because Wallaert’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
major financial firms to fall into bankruptcy at the same time, no matter how streamlined the process. As both the Bush and the Obama administrations proved, the fear of financial Armageddon is too great. In fact, federal interventions in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
ensures an intervention reaches all those who need it, at the lowest price and in the shortest amount of time." Could a similar, market-driven approach be enlisted in the world's fight against disease and illness? As Chu notes, commerce... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
the case that the Clinton and Bush administrations and members of Congress of both parties pursued an extreme affordable-housing agenda that led to the failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. If Fannie and Freddie had not failed, requiring government View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
therapy, before he unfortunately passed away early this year. Recently, our field study team was looking to interview cardiologists. After a few e-mails, we found ourselves at Brigham and Women’s Hospital yesterday, talking to the director of the View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
that money. Kanter: When that kind of intervention takes place, however, we hear cries that the tax system is being used for social engineering. But I certainly have the sense now that without some degree of public and social engineering,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
apart, and that's been both a sort of macro issue but also in so many of our personal lives as well. Morrell: Casey, part of this intervention and this conversation that you're starting with this book comes from your experience, and these... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
function,” said Roundtable president John Castellani. Skeptics of government intervention are quick to point out that more than two decades of well-meaning attempts to constrain ever-soaring corporate pay and to reform governance through... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
but I would say that early intervention about the proper role of technology is important. And I think kids are super receptive to it, because what I have seen is that they watch their parents and they take cues and they're like, "You know... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
Fed’s rather unorthodox intervention had largely solved the problem. I remember talking with people at the time and saying, “Look, something similar happened in 1930—a temporary pause in the crisis. Maybe we better be cautious about... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
to call out perhaps two or three states that are doing some interesting, compelling things, certainly Texas on data systems, on employer alignment, some of the things they’ve done with how they fund technical colleges and community colleges. Virginia around targeted... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
villages across ten countries and measure our results in each of those key intervention areas. We raised about $130 million from 64 angel investors in our first round of funding and have been on the ground for four years. Since then we’ve... View Details