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- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
advantage in the form of improved profitability by aggressively hiring the excluded group, namely women, in the local managerial labor market. Our results are economically meaningful and realistic in size, in addition to being robust to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
insurance (for such individuals, another function of the Connector is deciding “affordability,” that is, how much those individuals should be subsidized and how much they should pay out-of-pocket). This uninsured-care fund previously had been bankrolled by the state... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
resources to help the government address the needs of the Filipino people while ensuring the safety and well-being of the employees, staff, artists, and journalists of the network. Together with its foundation, the company has raised... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
examine whether it was important that you made the decision to bring the bags as opposed to a store policy that requires it," says Karmarkar, noting that some stores obligate customers to bring their own bags; others charge customers a fee for single-use carryout... View Details
- 05 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Closing the Education Gap with Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022)
focused on building a go-to market strategy for an ed-tech company that had bases in South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria, but was looking to expand to Ghana. “I did a lot of interviews with local teachers and View Details
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
wind? How will local residents feel about windmill farms on their horizon? What effects will regulators have on the energy industry in the future? What unexpected opportunities or obstacles will pop up along the way? The course examines... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
Difference in the World by Russ Banham, Shirley Spence, and Howard Stevenson In his 40-plus years at HBS, Professor Emeritus Howard Stevenson has seen firsthand the countless ways in which alumni have harnessed leadership skills and business expertise to solve problems... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
artists could work part-time in agriculture while keeping time and finding space for art making. “I have begun talking to various organizations, including local governments and dairy farms, in Hokkaido, the... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- Web
Democratizing development: Inequality in Latin America | Institute for Business in Global Society
opportunity," in which individuals and families face barriers beyond their control, preventing them from improving their circumstances. Government policies to address these inequalities have varied widely, from Chile’s Chicago School... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
Crisis By: Becker, Bo, and Victoria Ivashina Abstract—By the end of 2013, the share of government debt held by the domestic banking sectors of Eurozone countries was more than twice its 2007 level. We show that this type of increasing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
were entering India in a more aggressive manner. Some venture firms were purchasing local firms and raising money for dedicated India funds. Others were hiring a team of two or three local investors at one... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
of Buenos Aires’s population was foreign born, and it could be regarded as one of the world’s greatest global cities.” Today, the city is a decaying shadow of itself and Argentina as a whole has fallen prey to ineffective institutions, inconsistent View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Net Gains
of businesspeople and people focused on development of the game," says Tatum. That team works with everyone from sponsors to local governments to set up events and training programs—spreading the game from... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
Rapid Pandemic Response Group, offers end-to-end COVID-19 testing solutions to governments and corporations. Headquartered in Berlin with a footprint across Europe and the Americas via local partners, RPR... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
American mobility, where local leaders shape initiatives without waiting for Congress to act, and ambitious companies partner with governments to tackle projects that serve the public good, create jobs, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
protectionist Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 led to retaliation all over the world, and trade fell into a downward spiral that exacerbated the crisis. After World War II, the world looked for a solution to the lack of multilateral institutions to View Details
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
the boom in LED manufacturing, Chinese local governments would pay for 100 percent of the cost of the metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) tool used to make LEDs, so naturally what followed was a... View Details
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
for peace, justice, and tolerable taxes. This paper defines capitalism as a system of indirect governance for economic relationships, where all markets exist within institutional frameworks that are provided by political authorities,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Development: The African Renaissance." The conference, to be held in Cape Town in March, will be a two-day intensive seminar on the economics, politics, and investment opportunities of southern Africa. It will also provide a chance to meet and network with African... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
better consumption smoothing, issue more foreign-currency debt. We propose that monetary policy credibility explains the currency composition of sovereign debt and nominal bond risks in the presence of risk-averse investors. In our model, low credibility View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne