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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
He’s got a superhero’s name, and he’s shining a light on enduring wrongs here at home while confronting challenges in the Third World as well. Meet Richard America, who sees policy analysis and quality management as keys to development... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
or cease to exist,” she says. Some people aren’t even aware that they’ve been auto-enrolled, according to the Association of British Insurers and the Pensions Policy Institute, which recently found 1.6 million unclaimed pension funds,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
was known as the “sick man” of Europe, with lumbering state-owned enterprises, high unemployment, and a crushing top marginal tax rate of 93 percent. In an ominous sign of the times, the day after Cohen launched what was to become known... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
Deserve Gender Equity campaign in New York City, an effort to shift the harsh disciplinary policies that have disproportionately led to girls and gender-nonconforming students of color being pushed out of schools. In Massachusetts, the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
afloat, but just barely. The banks were recapitalized three times, and Greece lost a full quarter of its GDP, which—like the brain drain of about 420,000 Greeks who left the country to seek employment elsewhere—has yet to come back. Those who stayed suffered through... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
it could create—again, we haven’t tested this—distrust among employees. But, in general, having employees with the right ethics and values, who come forward when they see something, can actually help companies overall. How could these statutes and View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
and, as he puts it, "get reality on the table." Since 1996, as a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and, currently, as a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington, D.C., Baker has conducted research on and... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
policy has largely played out is that companies have fought for something very narrow that they want out of government—one particular industry gets one specific tax consideration, for example. It’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
exemplifies energetic government and vigorous federal programs for economic growth. Gallatin symbolizes low taxes and less intrusion by government." Not surprisingly, the two men (after whom two HBS buildings are named) were political... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
part, Chinese reformers who negotiated the terms of the WTO agreement made a calculated gamble that it would provide the necessary leverage to force policy changes necessary for homegrown businesses — including SOEs and TVEs — to adapt... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
mitigation. And because cities are discovering that the greener they are, the better their quality of life and the greater their competitive advantage, they have by necessity become innovative, reality-based drivers of environmental View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
sciences, climate, biology, and human development. While we focus on research goals, our advice is tied to major policy issues as well. For example, the commission advocates ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
from wind, and realistic predictions indicate the average will reach 20 percent by 2020. “The progress we’ve seen in Texas itself is a combination of good resources, good infrastructure, and friendly permitting policies,” he stresses. “And it’s supported by national... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
finance. Wilson then addresses issues central to the present-day political discussion, such as the fairness of US tax policy, the social safety net, health care, and income inequality. Faculty Books Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
developed an important insight into why the owners of small businesses typically wait until the last minute to update their books and file tax forms. Most people would say they are just lazy or undisciplined. But Cook observed what was... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
Image by John Ritter It’s not just that Americans can’t find a middle ground on tax policy or abortion rights anymore—political polarization has sunk to a depth from which Americans can no longer see eye to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
They already have, to some extent, in the United States. The Inflation Reduction Act increases certain tax credits for direct-air capture and California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard enabled the creation of what is essentially a carbon... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
than address specific policy proposals, HBS professor Rakesh Khurana, who has written extensively on leadership, sees a problem with the larger system within which boards and executives function. Writing in the Washington Post, he and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
lived there. I spent a couple of months immersed in that community, with our mandate being to figure out how to move them. “We started investigating what their right was to be there in the first place,” he says. “Most had been paying View Details