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  • 25 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

More Proof That Money Can Buy Happiness (or a Life with Less Stress)

life and make people happier impacts not only the poor, but also more affluent Americans living at the edge of their means in a bumpy economy. Indeed, in 2019, one in every four Americans faced financial scarcity, according to the Board of View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding

    Heating Sector Transformation in Rhode Island

    In a heating transformation study presented to Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo,... View Details

    • January 2014 (Revised February 2014)
    • Case

    Japan: Betting on Inflation?

    By: Julio J. Rotemberg
    The case focuses on the challenges still confronting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the end of 2013, a year after he has been in office. It also gives an overview of Japan's earlier economic performance, focusing primarily on the period after it suffered a stock market... View Details
    Keywords: Quantitative Easing; Debt Sustainability; International Relations; Borrowing and Debt
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      Wenxin Du

      Wenxin Du is a Professor of Finance and the Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management at the Harvard Business School. She studies global currency and fixed income markets, central banking, financial... View Details

      • 14 Jun 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      Four Steps to Building the Psychological Safety That High-Performing Teams Need

      lockdown. When workers stayed silent due to feeling unsafe or undervalued, disaster struck: Consider the spectacular implosion of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration after it came to light that people were concealing the... View Details
      Keywords: by Kara Baskin
      • Winter 2020
      • Article

      The Sky above and the Mud below: Two Books about Steve Jobs

      By: Richard S. Tedlow
      Steve Jobs was the most charismatic businessperson in the modern era. When he died, on October 5, 2011, Apple was inundated with condolence messages from all over the United States and from around the world. These notes were sent not only to Apple headquarters in... View Details
      Keywords: Steve Jobs; Impact
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      • 12 Oct 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: October 12

      municipalities more generally. In February 2009, in the midst of a recession, recently appointed Governor Quinn had to lay out his budget for the coming fiscal year and tackle the state's underfunded public pension, its largest liability.... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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      The Diamond Model - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

      business environment improves to enable increasingly sophisticated ways of competing. Related Resources 09 Sep 2008 Harvard Business School Publishing On Competition, Updated and Expanded Edition by Michael E. Porter 26 Feb 2011 National View Details

        Paul W. Marshall

        MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Management, Paul W. Marshall, is affiliated with the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager in the Turnaround Environment. This Elective Curriculum course focuses on the role of... View Details

        Keywords: aerospace; banking; brokerage; computer; consulting; defense; management consulting; manufacturing; metals; professional services; retail financial services; retailing; steel
        • 2017
        • Working Paper

        Cluster Mapping as a Tool for Development

        By: Christian H.M. Ketels
        This report builds on the foundational work on cluster mapping that Prof. Michael E. Porter has led at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC), Harvard Business School over the last two decades. He launched the U.S. Cluster Mapping Initiative in the late... View Details
        Keywords: Industry Clusters; Development Economics
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        Competitiveness & Economic Development - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

        2011 National Governors Association Winter Meeting State Competitiveness: Creating an Economic Strategy in a Time of Austerity by Michael E. Porter 04 May 2012 BusinessWeek “Why America Needs an Economic Strategy” by Michael E. Porter... View Details
        • March 2025
        • Case

        Sarojini Naidu: Courage of the Nightingale

        By: Ranjay Gulati, Malini Sen and Anjali Raina
        Indian poet and freedom fighter and mother of four, Sarojini (Chattopadhyay) Naidu, could not hold back. As the protestors marched ahead without retaliating against the police’s blows, she stepped forward to join them. A British officer approached Naidu and touched her... View Details
        Keywords: Gender; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Motivation and Incentives; Power and Influence; Government and Politics; India; Asia
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        • February 2017 (Revised December 2018)
        • Case

        From Start-Up to Grown-Up Nation: The Future of the Israeli Innovation Ecosystem (Abridged)

        By: Elie Ofek and Margot Eiran
        In June 2016, Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, wrestled with how to sustain Israel’s strong innovation track record and the country’s reputation as the “start-up nation.” Despite the economic miracle the country had wrought since its founding, he... View Details
        Keywords: Innovation and Management; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Government and Politics; Economy; Equality and Inequality; Israel
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        • 12 Apr 2022
        • Book

        Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence

        Britain’s 20th century empire was the largest in human history, with a quarter of the world’s land and nearly 700 million people. Yet the empire drew its strength from violence. That’s the conclusion Harvard Business School Professor Caroline Elkins draws in her new... View Details
        Keywords: by Avery Forman
        • Web

        Economic Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

        Economic Policy: Aligning Public Policy with the New Economics of Competition” by Michael E. Porter 26 Feb 2011 National Governors Association Winter Meeting State Competitiveness: Creating an Economic Strategy in a Time of Austerity by... View Details
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        Klarman Hall | About

        connection between the interior of the building and the campus, inviting community members and visitors to enter a shared gathering area. Two additional entrances face south, embracing the Boston area and Harvard’s future—including the science and engineering complex... View Details
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        Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work

        increase Matt Parke 16 Jan 2019 | Working Nation New Research Reveals Caregiving for Elders Impacts Employee Performance 16 Jan 2019 | Senior Safety Reviews New Hampshire, Vermont Governors Pitch Two-State, Voluntary Paid Family-Leave... View Details
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        Exchange rates: current & historical

        menu, choose Exchange Rate Indices. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Statistical Release - Foreign Exchange Rates:  Exchange rates against the U.S. dollar and several countries back as far as the 1970s in some cases. View Details
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        Lehman Brothers Family Partners | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

        the public sector. Herbert H. Lehman left the firm in 1928 for politics, serving as governor and senator of New York State. Irving Lehman, who never entered the partnership, was a lawyer and chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals.... View Details
        • 27 Jan 2020
        • Research & Ideas

        Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge

        eyesight at age 8 to retinoblastoma, has done. When he ran for lieutenant governor of Washington in 2016, well-meaning friends expressed concern about whether the blind man could handle door-to-door canvassing. Habib responded by telling... View Details
        Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman