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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
explanations about the development of the United States’ Federal Reserve System, which was created in 1913 in direct response to the Panic of 1907; and an engaging and entertaining account of a fascinating period in financial and economic... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
also decided early on to be a catalyst and facilitator of change rather than actually providing programs. Working in partnership with city, county, state, and federal government officials and a multitude of... View Details
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
of industries can't be managed as "silos," tucked away in corporate, university, or government research labs, in incubators, or within venture capital funded entrepreneurial start-ups. Access to the marketplace is needed to help... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
state-by-state basis, and many have funds or other programs in place that could help policyholders get some form of reimbursement. "But these account for only a small part of the risk; the rest is kind of gray," says Froot. "We don't know what would... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
to standardize their products and helped establish brand identities through consistent appearance. By 1938, food dyes had achieved such widespread use, and had raised such public concern, that the federal View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
individuals and organizations. For example, while footwear-and-apparel giant Nike is famous for its multimillion-dollar endorsement contracts with individual athletes such as Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, the company also recently made a big investment in the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
a number of modifications to the current set of risk-based capital requirements, to the leverage ratio, and to the Federal Reserve’s stress-testing framework. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53243... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
Federal Express, OPEC, Russia's Communist Party, and Harvard Business School. The War that Changed the World When alumni were asked the "most significant event/development for business" over the last 75 years, the top votegetter among all... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Werker Abstract Using rainfall, public relief, and election data from India, we examine how governments respond to adverse shocks and how voters react to these responses. The data show that voters punish the incumbent party for weather... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
1933-1945; the Federal Republic (West Germany) or German Democratic Republic (East Germany) 1945-1989. In terms of political or economic history, these divisions make a lot of sense, but in terms of individuals' experiences or business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
Floor hand Ray Gerrish works to make repairs on a drilling rig outside Watford City. Employees work around the clock at Raven Rig No. 1, one of more than 150 oil rigs in the Bakken. (photos by Jim Gehrz/Minneapolis Star Tribune/ZUMA Press and Jacob Ehrbahn/Polfoto/ZUMA... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
decision; we have to look at our values and find the right course based on that.” The board of directors and executive team have been chipping away at a list of commitments designed to strengthen governance and build in mechanisms for... View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
policies can be partially explained by respondents' low trust in government and a disconnect between concerns about social issues and the public policies meant to address them. Publisher's link: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710463-PDF-ENG Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2001 (Abridged) Jan W. Rivkin and Michael A. RobertoHarvard Business School Case 710-450 This is an abridged version of "Federal Bureau of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
States. Survive or Sink by Naina Lal Kidwai (MBA 1982) Rupa Kidwai underscores the role that citizens, industry, civil society, media, and the government need to play in collaboration with each other to address poor sanitation, water, and... View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
from the rise in copper prices, which had more than tripled since 2003. Copper revenues translated into greater income for the government as Chile's biggest copper producer, Codelco, was a state-owned enterprise. Velasco had chosen to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
constitution, restricting tribal citizenship to those listed in the "Cherokee by Blood" section of the Dawes Rolls. That set off a series of lawsuits, with a federal court ruling in favor of the Freedmen in 2017, a decision reaffirmed in... View Details
- 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
between tax brackets within a state-year cell and which absorb heterogeneity and contemporaneous changes in economic conditions; ii) an instrumental variable approach, which predicts changes in an individual or firm's total tax rate with changes in the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
Applied Corporate Finance When One Size Doesn't Fit All: Evolving Directions in the Research and Practice of Enterprise Risk Management By: Mikes, Anette, and Robert S. Kaplan Abstract—Enterprise risk management (ERM) has become a crucial component of contemporary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne