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- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
period. However, the Global Competitiveness Report does include an analysis of the short- or medium-term economic impact of these tragic events and it is cut with a number of specific policy recommendations. I wanted to draw your... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy Abstract We conducted an analysis that explores the merits of a low-carbon development strategy for Liberia. This chapter describes both our cost-benefit analysis initiative and a plausible... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
Africa and as a Bain consultant. She is still actively involved with a Johannesburg home for abused children as a member of its management committee. At HBS, as copresident of the Africa Business Club, Mahlare has become interested in how countries and businesses... View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
Abstract—We build a tractable growth model where multi-product incumbents invest in internal innovations to improve their existing products, while new entrants and incumbents invest in external innovations... View Details
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Visionary, Innovator, Educator - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
new and adventurous attitude on the part of the business community." 67 In 1987, Doriot died at the age of 87. From an era of conservative investment and large corporations, the patient visionary and calculated risk taker paved the way... View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
its commitment to the Paris Agreement, which is to reduce 2030 emissions to 50 percent of 2005 emissions. Importantly, the IRA, IIJA, and CHIPS Act together represent a return to industrial policy in the US, with significant direct View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
about the future of lighting. That’s not their business. But that’s a challenge, and that’s the complexity of this. It also suggests a role for public policy in terms of making sure the country is maintaining a broader set of... View Details
- 06 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows
training, and college and career prep programs. Over the past two years, she also worked as an investment associate at ICA Fund, a nonprofit venture capital fund that uses investments to address the gender... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
Challenge Indeed, the Bank's stated mission is to reduce poverty and improve living standards by promoting sustainable growth and investments in people. To those ends, it provides loans, technical assistance, and View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
rupiah and the Brazilian real. A common cause of these price movements is shifts, or expected shifts, in US monetary policy. The United States is still the big gorilla in the global currency field, and when policies are tightened at home,... View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
experiment required virtually no investment or additional cost—apart from minor website design changes—it can be done by almost any e-commerce business, with significant impact to the bottom line. How can what we’re learning about... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
John (“Bo”) Kemp
policies concerning take-home exams, feedback from faculty on student grades, and the disclosure of grades to prospective employers. In addition, he chaired the committee organizing Class Day, a pre-Commencement celebration at HBS for... View Details
- September 2010 (Revised March 2012)
- Teaching Note
China "Unbalanced" (TN)
By: Diego A. Comin and Richard H.K. Vietor
Teaching Note for 711010. View Details
- 21 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 21, 2007
decisions confronting the founding management team of a new online financial services company. Prosper Marketplace is an internet-based market for individuals to borrow money from other individuals who wish to invest in such loans.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Euro Vision
cities American startups are often geographically sorted by sector. Tech is in San Francisco, public policy is in DC, medical is in Orlando. And for a time, Europe was like that too, Rimer says: Israeli startups focused on security and... View Details
Keywords: Jason Feifer
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Latin American Conference Highlights Region's Diversity
discussed the Argentine crisis that began late last year. A professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Hausmann described the economic factors leading to the fiscal collapse and suggested policy implications for the future.... View Details
- September 1992 (Revised March 1993)
- Case
Empresas ICA and the Mexican Road Privatization Program
By: Willis M. Emmons III and Monica Brand
Mexico's largest construction company, Empresas ICA, makes an initial public offering to international equity investors in April 1992 to help fund its participation in an ambitious new private-sector approach to highway development. Under the new program, launched by... View Details
Keywords: Construction; Transportation Networks; Infrastructure; Privatization; Private Equity; Investment; Initial Public Offering; Private Sector; Government and Politics; Policy; Construction Industry; Mexico
Emmons, Willis M., III, and Monica Brand. "Empresas ICA and the Mexican Road Privatization Program." Harvard Business School Case 793-028, September 1992. (Revised March 1993.)
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Competing platforms are affected negatively because more information intensifies price competition. Publisher's link: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2360263 Working Papers Monetary Policy Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks By: Campbell, John... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
University. As a junior, he was elected student-body president, a role that included serving on a state government reform commission tasked with understanding how public policy decisions had limited Louisiana’s potential. When he applied... View Details