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- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
a circular carbon economy using humankind's CO2 emissions or the CO2 that's already in the air. DM: The aspirations and energy are important. But getting these big plans into action requires not just new ideas or the capital to support... View Details
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
international competition means we should expect industries to come and go. Even if this is sometimes painful, it is, in fact, a healthy process by which resources flow to their most productive uses. When a commons erodes, however, it... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
of the inner city (lack of health care and substandard housing, for example) are important, they do not get at all the root causes. "To build healthy and sustainable inner-city communities, it is necessary to create healthy economies in... View Details
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
could reshape capitalism and its relationship to society. It could also drive the next wave of innovation and productivity growth in the global economy as it opens managers' eyes to immense human needs that must be met, large new markets... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5
political economy more generally), there is a danger that historical inferences from theory may infect historical tests of theory. It is imperative, therefore, that historical tests always involve a vigorous search not only for confirming... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19
uncertainty, and the development of specialized expertise, while the benefits of greater breadth are linked to the economies of scope achieved by sharing common resources, such as advertising or production capacity, across activities.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
the economy or the taxpayer.” Finding a Middle Path Neither has to happen, says Moss, who ardently believes that his approach finds a middle ground between the harm and moral hazard extremes foreseen by Sununu. Today, financial... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
different economies that you're selling into," he continues. "For example, no one was able to foresee the recession in Asia. On the supply side, oil production has a very long lead time, particularly the big fields." Stobaugh also notes... View Details
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
believe to be systemically significant. Neither is a good or appropriate outcome for the economy or the taxpayer." Finding A Middle Path Neither has to happen, says Moss, who ardently believes that his approach finds a middle ground... View Details
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
and business problem. Design of market-based systems to reduce carbon emissions has proven difficult. More broadly, national attempts to comply with the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol present both governments and firms with significant challenges. The design of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
addition to monetary and physical donations, our companies and our foundation launched several campaigns to provide and transfer the urgent needs (shelter, food, heating, transport, hygiene, etc.) of the people in the area. Our foreign companies and our View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
He’d had a passion for art since his youth, and it continued during the 30-plus years he worked for Holcim, an international cement firm. He began to decorate the firm’s bare cement walls with art and held little art exhibitions at the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
was trying to fix prices. This is antithetical to how most Americans think of the US market operating,” says Sawyer, an assistant professor in the Business, Government and the International Economy unit who... View Details
- 06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6
workers, the middle class, and the nonpolitical rich, jeopardizing the nation's security in the process. The authors contend that this usurpation is the source of America's economic decline and fading international power and provide an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
countries generally lack a solid technology base of trained scientists and world-class research universities. 2. Companies in developing countries must manage to eke out a profit while serving customers with low disposable income; per capita gross domestic product in... View Details
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Unpacking Hidden Risk in the Trusted Treasury Market | Working Knowledge
the sense that we do want to move risk away from these large, systemically important banks. On the flip side, the bad part is when you move it away from the regulated sector to non-bank financial intermediaries. Because they're unregulated, they can take more risk and... View Details
- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
for a company that's hiring like crazy More than a year into the pandemic, as the economy improves and recruiters begin to ramp up hiring again, Ng advises job seekers to zero in on companies that are advertising multiple openings.... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
Four 1971 classmates — three who serve on the front lines of corporate leadership in the 1990s and one learned observer of the changing role of the senior executive — comment on the complex task of running a successful company in an View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
of simple quantitative forecasting techniques—share similar consequences: both can result in an increase in internal costs and in the uncertainty and volatility of the system's replenishment orders. Further results of this paper provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
symbiotic economic relationship that has developed between the People's Republic of China and the United States of America. The entry of Chinese labor into the world economy has significantly boosted the returns on capital relative to the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace