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- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
value-added tax. We're the only developed economy that doesn't do it. We have state and local sales taxes, but we don't have any broad-based value-added tax. I think most tax economists have long thought it's a strange arrow to have kept... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
Four 1971 classmates — three who serve on the front lines of corporate leadership in the 1990s and one learned observer of the changing role of the senior executive — comment on the complex task of running a successful company in an View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
while the Explorers Club expedition formed, so had its geopolitics. At home, any hope that the American economy would rebound after Black Tuesday had disappeared as wages declined and unemployment grew, plunging the nation into what would... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
religious cultures - with the expectation that they will share their perspectives in the classroom." As students mull over cases in class and present their ideas for potential solutions, says Reiling, they and the faculty often find that... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
uncertainty, and the development of specialized expertise, while the benefits of greater breadth are linked to the economies of scope achieved by sharing common resources, such as advertising or production... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
Recession did not alter the relationship between the coincident index and IVF use. Conclusions: Our study demonstrates a positive relationship between the economy and IVF use, with greater magnitude in states with insurance mandates. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
balance of strengths, weaknesses, and interests worked out pretty well. I had some experience in strategy before HBS but not so much in finance, so I benefited from sharing in Amyn’s experiences at Goldman Sachs. This was really useful... View Details
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
huge impact on the economy of Peru, where so many people work in the industry. If you want to have that kind of impact, it's not enough for people to admire and appreciate what you are doing—you have to have the numbers. HBSWK: What would... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
“We, along with our companies, are making our plans in several different subjects.” FEBRUARY 15 Ebru A. Kohen and Ozgur Firtina (both OPM 43, 2013) are sharing their perspective on the disaster and are offering advice on how to help in an... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
of the inner city (lack of health care and substandard housing, for example) are important, they do not get at all the root causes. "To build healthy and sustainable inner-city communities, it is necessary to create healthy economies in... View Details
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
We find that location fundamentals including market access and comparative advantage and agglomeration economies including capital-good market externality and technology diffusion play a particularly important role in multinationals'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
must disrupt the way we think about social change. The author suggests how this can be done by sharing stories and case studies focused on innovative approaches to large-scale social change. Operating Model Canvas: Aligning Operations and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
of women being admitted to the School's full-time MBA Program, we invited the HBS alumni community to identify alumnae who stood out as leaders, mentors, and role models. From several hundred suggestions, we asked a cross section of women to View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
first vaccine doses administered in the West, and saved thousands of lives in the UK as new variants struck. In The Long Shot, Bingham shares an insider’s view into how the Vaccine Task Force beat the odds, and delivered a scientific... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
revenues. Those are generally backward-looking measures. Then there are share prices and market capitalization, which are forward-looking measures that anticipate the value of a firm. There may be some debate over what is important at a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
of those, much to the shame of this country.” When approaching a project, Singer says he first takes in an event’s or a life’s full span through extensive reading, research, and interviews, cherry-picking moments that tell the story with the greatest View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
its no-frills offering. LAN came to that insight by analyzing the major assets that the models share and the compatibility of the models' operational resources and capabilities. It recognized that the more the models have in common, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
political economy more generally), there is a danger that historical inferences from theory may infect historical tests of theory. It is imperative, therefore, that historical tests always involve a vigorous search not only for confirming... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
the United States, remittances have become an expected supplement to many family incomes, even as the U.S. economy worsens and many immigrants return. Toting sleeping bags and a change of clothes, we set out on foot to explore the... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
to generate profits, he threw them out. To be clear, large German firms definitely do not move as quickly today as many American firms. The German economy is going through fundamental structural changes because of Europeanization and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne