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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India is more Transparent
First, as a result of a legal system derived from the common-law tradition, annual reports provide the basic rudiments of information that Western observers expect, and familiar rules govern corporate disclosure. Real-time stock market... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Instilling Production with Principles
dyeing, knitting, and weaving cotton and manufacturing garments and accessories. Every step is governed by Yang’s E-Culture—ethics, environment, exploration, excellence, and education—which has earned the company the accolades of its... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
industries in different ways. Venture capital, for example, was once mostly reserved for institutional investors backed by endowments and pension funds. Today, it increasingly includes individual investors who are using technological tools and View Details
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Historical and forecasted economic statistics
inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;">IMF DATA. See section for Data by Indicator,... View Details
- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
specialized intermediaries emerges over decades to address these issues. There might be auction houses for the wholesaling of goods, companies that specialize in gathering price data for various commodities, others that authenticate the... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
The Oxford Handbook of Business History edited by Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin (Oxford University Press) This handbook surveys research in business history, a broad area of study generating empirical data that have sometimes... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change
They also cite Pew Research Center data showing that trust in the federal government has gone from 77 percent in 1964 to 17 percent in 2019. But even in the face of these difficult odds, Gehl and Porter... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations
counterintuitive driver: the fact that in the US, pharmaceutical companies subsidize the purchase of their drugs. Medicare, the government insurer for elderly or disabled people in the US, encourages patients who can’t afford their drug... View Details
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Revolutionizing digital medical records
A two-time entrepreneur at 79 years old, Merle Bushkin (MBA 1960) created MedKaz, a unique system that encapsulates a lifetime of medical data on a keychain device. It gives patients control over their complete medical record from all... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
awareness to the needs of these families. To date, the foundation has provided $33 million in support to 1,600 students. Kim wants to reach all students, but concedes they can be difficult to find. “The government tracks some of that... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
case protagonist recently joined a new data science team at the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), a government agency, and needs to evaluate and recommend one of several alternative... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Faculty Books
Business Press) Professors Khanna and Palepu argue that the main exploitable characteristic of emerging markets is the lack of institutions (credit-card systems, intellectualproperty adjudication, data research firms) that facilitate... View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
highlighting the work performed by the government of an archetypal American town—from building roads to ensuring food safety—increased trust in government and support for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
Zealand government instituted free breast cancer screenings for women ages 50 to 64, later extended to 45 to 69. The foundation is currently working to extend those screenings to women up to the age of 74. View Details
- 02 Sep 2016
- Op-Ed
The Twitter Election
data analytics. Many commercial marketers, Coca-Cola for example (with more than 99 million Facebook likes), are leveraging social media much more effectively than Trump to better understand their customers.At the same time, Trump has... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira
- 02 Feb 2002
- What Do You Think?
Will the Societal Effects of Enron Exceed Those of September 11?
and related fees more willingly paid by anxious directors. Insurers too will enjoy increased business and higher rates. But will we see other positive fallout from Enron? If so, what form will it take? Will investors finally gain access to the kind of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
PublicationsCapitalism: Its Origins and Evolution as a System of Governance Author:Bruce R. Scott Publication:Springer-Verlag, 2011 Abstract Two systems of governance, capitalism and democracy, prevail in the world today. Operating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- May 2024
- Article
Housing Policies and Energy Efficiency Spillovers in Low and Moderate Income Communities
By: Omar Isaac Asensio, Olga Churkina, Becky D. Rafter and Kira E O'Hare
Housing policies address the human dimensions of increasing urban density, but their energy and sustainability implications are hard to measure due to challenges with siloed civic data. This is especially critical when evaluating policies targeting low- and... View Details
Keywords: Energy Efficiency; Public Policy; Climate Change; Energy Conservation; Housing; Analytics and Data Science; Policy; Income; Environmental Sustainability; Real Estate Industry; United States
Asensio, Omar Isaac, Olga Churkina, Becky D. Rafter, and Kira E O'Hare. "Housing Policies and Energy Efficiency Spillovers in Low and Moderate Income Communities." Nature Sustainability 7, no. 5 (May 2024): 590–601.
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Once in a Lifetime Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
effectively and efficiently measure the impact of Acumen’s portfolio companies. “We developed Lean Data as a smart way to listen to our customers and understand the impact of our products and services on their lives,” Kasia says. In the... View Details