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- 23 Mar 2023
- News
SVB Crash Analysis
Global Banking Turmoil Harvard professor and economist Kenneth Rogoff says it's far better to sell a bank than to bail it out. Bailouts for Everyone? Harvard Law School professor Daniel Tarullo, who served as Fed regulator, talks about the moral hazard and the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Plan B: The Brick Bank
the target household’s average savings capacity was $1 per month, that local annual inflation was nearly 20 percent, and that home repairs usually cost about $300.” While that environment was not conducive to the savings program, the team... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Giving Hope and Comfort
bigger challenge today is sourcing these vital products in the face of inflation and snags in the supply chain. Today, Hope and Comfort is still one of the few nonprofits distributing hygiene products, says Feingold, who retired from his... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
contemplating our 25th Reunion isn't so much our two years in those United NationsÐlike Aldrich classrooms, or the upcoming reunion itself, but how much has changed in the interim. We have gone from the days (begun with that awful vending-machine coffee) of pocket... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 30 Mar 2022
- News
Giving Hope and Comfort
sourcing these vital products in the face of inflation and snags in the supply chain. About 25 percent of Hope and Comfort’s inventory comes through direct donations—from corporations, from hygiene drives hosted by schools, religious... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
GE's Jeff Immelt
discussion. Even so, he continued, it's good to keep the situation in perspective. When he graduated in the early 1980s, unemployment was around 12 percent, inflation was close to 15 percent, and interest rates were in double digits. “I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
afterward, which only had the effect of inflating subsequent bubbles, most notably the housing bubble that came as a result of the easy money. So he’s just been unaware of the impact of his encouragement, and his inaction got us into the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
fact, stocks on average did not rise at all in the 1970s. Productivity grew more slowly in the ensuing thirty years than it had for any prolonged period since the 1800s. My class’s first decade out from HBS was marked by economic and financial pain, high View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Last Look
rowdy. Reports Golding, “This annual event took place in the spring, usually early May, and involved a transit of the waters between the Weeks and Larz Anderson bridges (and back) in craft that were entirely homemade. That means wood, beer kegs, Dole pineapple store... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
government support as well, with the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act creating new tax credits for carbon capture. And, in December, the Department of Energy announced $3.7 billion worth of prizes and programs meant to further kick-start the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
transition. [Mandela awarded honorary degree from Harvard.] Mandela and his colleagues have emphasized deficit reduction, privatization, and fiscal conservatism, and the results of their policies are now beginning to bear fruit. Since 1993, for example, GDP has grown... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
We are in a unique moment in time, where the United States’ chance to make a difference on climate is greater – and more necessary – than ever. With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in August, business leaders have a... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Creating a mathematical method to understand consumer behavior in a digital world
influence by controlling for those “birds-of-a-feather” tendencies. The findings show that social influence accounts for more than 25 percent of all mobile app adoptions. The research also highlights an important risk: If homophily is not removed as a factor, it can... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Going Against the Flow
Brazil was defaulting on its overseas debt and hyperinflation was running rampant. Somehow, amid the country's financial fracasso, Jakurski sensed opportunity. "With inflation at times increasing 2 percent daily," he recalls, "we would... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Just Rewards
increasing executive remuneration. “It seemed the payouts at the top were massive and they weren’t warranted,” he says. “Meanwhile, 95 percent of the workforce was getting an annual salary increase of inflation plus one percent.” When he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Research Brief: Developing High-Tech Talent
“Many of these jobs are in high demand,” says Fuller, “which means that apprenticeships play a critical role in training workers for the jobs of the future and providing businesses with a ready-made talent pipeline.” The second report explores the increase in academic... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Exploring the Galápagos
Galápagos Islands. Cameras are pointed at blue beaks and red gullet sacks, inflated like birthday balloons. Unfortunately, Martin Marks (MBA 6/’47), Esther’s companion of 25 years and an avid birder, is back on the ship, resting. It’s Day... View Details
- 25 Jan 2018
- News
Investing in India’s Nonprofits to Overcome Poverty Sustainably
right. If you see the kind of jobs they've been trained for, though the income level will almost remain the same, the inflation will grow faster than that. So as the time progresses, within a year or two or three, they will fall back into... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
7 percent, with lots of appreciation on top of that. Do you have concerns about Japanlike deflation in the United States? Some fear that with a very low inflation rate of 1.5 percent, the United States is in danger of following Japan into... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
red tape to approve drugs? What is the drug industry’s own view on why there is this constant inflation in the cost of prescription drugs? —Etienne Locoh-Donou (MBA 2002) HASSAN: Governments are not good at managing markets or driving... View Details