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- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
this one addressing a white audience, telling them exactly what they could be doing to help support the Black community. The positive response to that episode led Rogers, a retired senior lecturer to write his recent book, A Letter to My... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Tales, author and retired group vice president of General Motors John Smith tells the story of how he and his team sprouted new life and purpose into the storied Cadillac―once the quintessential expression of accomplishment and success in... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
boost earnings to meet earnings benchmarks. We estimate that marketing actions can be used to boost quarterly net income by up to 5% depending on the depth and duration of promotion. However, there is a price to pay, with the cost in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
Participation of Disability Insurance Applicants By: Shu, Pian Abstract—Using panel data from the RAND Health and Retirement Study, I show that rejected applicants for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) possess significantly more... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
little or no control over which companies the fund manager or plan fiduciary selects for the portfolio. Indeed, managers of pension funds subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
and Brooke Barton, 309-320. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007 Abstract After thirty years of development, commercial microfinance in the developing world—the provision of financial services to low income populations on a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
hyper-connected global economy, including deeper cross-border integration, the rise of emerging economies, technological change, and growing wealth and income inequality within countries. These interrelated dynamics were playing out... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
income remained relatively stable, about 3 to 1. Over the last 20 years, however, the financial markets that financed the housing system in the United States changed remarkably. Local markets once dominated by tightly regulated savings... View Details
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
there'll be a lot of entrepreneurs who'll create these markets. The analogy is in the mutual fund market. Vanguard came along with the 401(k), and John Bogle, the amazing man who created Vanguard, knew that consumers were going to have to shop for View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
lateral career move. There are benefits to being a working parent, of course—not only for family income and personal fulfillment but also potentially for children’s choices as adults. Research by Kathleen McGinn, Cahners-Rabb Professor of... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
offset by a tax on noncorporate business income and an expansion of taxable income. Topics include tax-avoidance techniques, globalization, repatriation taxes, corporate social responsibility, and U.S. workers. Graphs are included, which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
Asian countries have made spectacular advances. These include post-WWII Japan and more recently Singapore, China, India, South Korea, and Taiwan. Nevertheless most Africans were better off forty years ago than they are today. Average per capita View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
the most likely to oppose its increase. Similarly, in the General Social Survey, those above poverty but below median income support redistribution significantly less than their background characteristics would predict. Publisher's link: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
to apply to HBS, launching a career that would include executive roles at McKinsey, Citibank, and Union Texas Petroleum, as well as board service for General Mills, Hewlett-Packard, Stanley Black & Decker, and UnitedHealth. From 1993 until his View Details
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
few natural resources, a small, destroyed manufacturing base, and income per capita less than a quarter of Britain’s to one of the most prosperous nations on Earth. By 2015 its GDP per capita was over 40% higher than Britain’s. How did... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
long before she had exhausted her retirement savings. “I never thought I’d be on the needing end,” says Rhenisch. “I was living a good, solid, confident middle-class life until I got sick. Then the foundation of everything I had built... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
same department in my new dealership. He did, until he retired for the second time. The great lesson learned for me was, anyone can go fire someone. It takes more effort, but the rewards are so much greater, to solve the problem that... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
look at its purpose and what it was giving back to the public,” says Lewis Braxton III (PMD 66, 1993), who recently retired as deputy director of NASA’s Ames Research Center and is now pursuing a position with a space startup. Over the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
adopt third-degree price discrimination based on the income of different consumer classes while foreswearing third-degree price discrimination based on differences in the elasticity of demand. It can also explain why prices seem to be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace