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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
Board of Governors to formulate monetary policy, ensuring that its policies take into account conditions in every state and across all economic sectors. Each Reserve Bank is supervised by a nine-member board of directors. With the Federal... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
Gridlock has unfortunately become a way of political life in the nation's capital. But as of midnight on September 30, things went from bad to worse with the shutdown of funding for the federal government. And as if that weren't... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
States has often turned to cutting-edge technology solutions to solve strategic and operational challenges. “Costs tend to rise in all organizations unless managers and their staffs are skilled in industrial management and strongly... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
profits, as most industrialized countries use. In a pure territorial system, the profits of multinational companies based in the United States would be taxed only by the country in which the profit is earned. But none of our major... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
vanilla milk shake. The Question: With the second product en route to market, the team has decided all funding options are on the table and has considered bridge loans, another round of angel financing, bringing on a new partner willing... View Details
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Arts Focus: Arts Funding Team: Victoria Sung Description: Over the fall term, I worked with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts to conceptualize and create a prototype for Lincoln Center Global Perspectives, an annual publication that... View Details
- 01 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?
certain threshold . . . the state should move to minimize its involvement." Gaurav Goel opined, "I think Galbraith will be more relevant in the first half of this century. . . . For markets to act in coherence with society, it... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Fearless Force for Change
fund research and clini-cal trials. Jen died July 20 at the age of 40. Diagnosed with a soft-tissue sarcoma (a relatively rare cancer) in December 2004, Linn endured chemotherapy and surgeries during the initial phase of her treatment, a... View Details
- 04 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS
United States puts forward a model for lifting families out of poverty that relies on exceptionalism,” he said. “And I believe my mother is exceptional, but that approach cannot work for everyone.” Drawn to a career focused on economic... View Details
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
according to the Nwunelis. Sahel Capital Agribusiness Managers, where Mezuo Nwuneli is the managing partner, provides capital and technical assistance to food and agriculture-focused small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through the View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
company opened a lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant in Livonia, Michigan, thanks in large part to $249 million in financing from President Obama’s stimulus package, with a second plant coming online in Romulus, Michigan. “The interplay of View Details
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
federal help.” A significant number of survey-takers said they would not apply for government loans because they anticipated problems with accessing the funds due to red tape and distrust in the government to forgive the loans. “The low... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
Individuals Seeking Equity (RISE) Fellowships Funding for students who have served marginalized communities in the United States MAKING DREAMS ATTAINABLE Full-Tuition Assistance Enabling Students to Pursue... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 02 Aug 2011
- News
A Fearless Force for Change
founded with her husband Dave Linn (MBA '00) to fund research and clinical trials at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Linn died July 20 at the age of 40. Diagnosed with a soft-tissue sarcoma (a relatively rare cancer) in December... View Details
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
trail running, hiking, surfing, skiing, or mountaineering,” she says. “My husband and I have climbed many of the world’s most beautiful mountains together, including the highest mountain or molehill in each of the 50 states and four of... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: In 2008, Jim Langford (MBA 1984) became the executive director of the Georgia Meth Project, a nonprofit that blanketed his native state with a graphic,... View Details
- 15 May 2019
- Research Event
The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History
Lalocracio In thinking about the current contested state of global capitalism, and what to do about it, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Seeking the Unconventional in Forging Histories of Capitalism, which... View Details
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
organizations such as the International Monetary Fund and World Trade Organization, has increasingly influenced the functioning of nation states to the detriment of labor and society. He argues for a kind of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607083 Punjab and Kerala: Regional Development in India Harvard Business School Case 707-008 Between 2000 and 2004, India's economy grew by 6.35 percent. Focuses on the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
bootstrapped the funds to launch a vocational training program for dental assistants. Revenue from the new business pushed them out of poverty and into the middle class. Olds, a budding economist, was intrigued. “The rate of new business... View Details