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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions
income to achieve desired levels of redistribution without harming saving; and a carbon tax to correct for externalities associated with energy consumption. In short, no tax expenditures that litter the code with preferences and that... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Beyond Case Writing
policy, officials asked Ashraf to conduct research on how to change men’s preferences for having more children. “So I’m piloting projects on that right now,” she said. Ashraf is one of a small number of HBS faculty who pursue experimental... View Details
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
marketplace-mode) or by the intermediary (the reseller-mode). Whether the marketplace- or the reseller-mode is preferred depends on whether independent suppliers or the intermediary have more important information relevant to the optimal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
very long trips, he preferred to go by rail. He did not board his first airplane until 1937, flying from an academic meeting in Chicago to Miami for a midwinter vacation. He wrote from Miami that he half-expected the plane to crash during... View Details
- Portrait Project
Tamara Lynn Nall
great-grandchildren can learn how a petite woman survived in the deep South Spend more time with my mother learning how to bake the same sweet potato pie that we left Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, "since Santa preferred that over... View Details
- Portrait Project
Ed Kennedy
teenager, and preferred quiet evenings at home with the family. The homes he built and the lives they changed were topics he never discussed. Family and friends sometimes ask what I want to become. They throw out big words like CEO, board... View Details
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Judging | New Venture Competition
address and can be sustained for a period of time consistent with achieving the desired social impact. (If growing the organization is not the preferred strategy, the program is transferable and replicable.) Concept (35% of score)... View Details
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Robert Higgins | Baker Library
realized he preferred working with small teams. He then led various foundations, including the Florence Burden Foundation, the Robert S. Clark Foundation, and the John A. Hartford Foundation. During those years, he developed an interest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Faculty Research Online
fundamental ways. In his blog on marketing issues, Professor John Quelch discusses why marketers must start planning today to reach consumers after the recession. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6139.html. Professional Networks in China and America While American... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
RallyPoint a Winner
in which "introducing themselves and creating a network aren't necessarily skills they've cultivated." A free-to-veterans service, RallyPoint is also good news for the Defense Department—which annually reimburses states some $1 billion for veteran unemployment... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Feedback
position to compete online in the early stages of Netflix, but preferred to focus on improving traditional services rather than look into new distribution channels and to follow consumer preferences. —Ayuna Badmaeva (GMP 12, 2012) via... View Details
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
firms face market uncertainty about consumers' preferences for innovation on two product attributes and technology uncertainty about the success of their R&D investments. Firms can conduct costly market research before setting R&D... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Potential Downside of Win-Win
Consider this real-world social negotiation. On a Friday night, a husband and wife are trying to decide where to eat and which movie to see. Al prefers restaurant A, and Marie prefers restaurant C. Marie... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
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Bloomberg: keyboard
windows; double click on a panel to resize screen. PFD Yellow Preferred Shares EQUITY Yellow Equity Shares CMDTY Yellow Commodity Markets INDEX Yellow Indexes CRNCY Yellow Currency Markets PgUp/PgDn Green Moves up and down through... View Details
- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
office. An executive search professional refuses the headaches associated with leading a practice area. Information technology consultants resist management assignments, for fear they'll become "administrators." Aggressive investment bankers View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace
in a summertime interview in her temporary office space in northern Virginia, preferred not to reveal too much about the thirteen-member operation. But the excitement of running her own firm with a first-rate crew of employees was... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Feedback
Editor’s note: You can now download the Bulletin on your smartphone, too. As with the tablet edition, just go to your preferred app store and search for “HBS Alumni Bulletin.” Credit Due Re: Creating Change On page 14 of the June issue,... View Details
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
people regard renting as an acceptable option. But I saw another survey recently that concluded that two-thirds of American families preferred to own. I edited a book 15 years ago, Low income Home Ownership: Examining the Unexamined Goal,... View Details
- 17 May 2016
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May 17, 2016
subsumes as special cases many-to-many matching markets and buyer/seller markets with heterogeneous and indivisible goods. In our setting, substitutable preferences are sufficient to guarantee the existence of stable outcomes; moreover,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
Luck and Support for Classical Benefit-based Taxation By: Weinzierl, Matthew C. Abstract—U.S. survey respondents' views on distributive justice differ in two specific, related ways from what is conventionally assumed in modern optimal tax research. When expressing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne