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- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
opportunity to drive innovative environmental policy, Professor Michael W. Toffel told an audience of HBS and Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) alumni at the University Club of Washington DC, on February 12, 2020. “The traditional approach... View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- February 2024
- Teaching Note
Fusion Industry Association: Igniting the Future of Clean Energy
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 624-064. This Teaching Note explores the Fusion Industry Association's efforts to advance commercial fusion energy, highlighting challenges in innovation, regulation, market structure, and financing within the emerging technology sector... View Details
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
care. The paper contains an interview with Kaplan and Porter about their experiences with improving the measurement of health care outcomes and cost. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52117 forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Growth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
became securities-trading companies more than money-raising companies. Meanwhile, an ideological war was developing in the country between those who believed government was largely the cause of the economic problems that bedeviled the... View Details
- 22 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability
about real estate, urbanization, sustainability, and infrastructure. LEED-ing by ExampleWhen a local government decides to pursue environmentally aware construction policies for its own buildings, the private sector follows suit,... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Ideas with Economic and Social Impact
While many countries are facing mounting economic, social, and political challenges, Karen Wilson (MBA 1991) says that “there’s a lot of potential in leveraging private sector approaches to address these challenges in new ways. The interest and willingness to View Details
- Web
Zad Chin | MBA
Zad Chin Computer Science/Mathematics Adams 2024 Cohort 5 The productization of a technological innovation is dependent on so many factors such as the culture and governance of a society; this unfortunately... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
Associate Professor Willis Emmons's work in the area of government policy and business. In Praise of Predictability "It used to be that if you worked hard and kept your nose clean, you'd enjoy a good career," says Howard Stevenson, the... View Details
- August 2022
- Case
SuperRare: Turning an NFT Marketplace into a DAO
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Scott Duke Kominers and Amy Klopfenstein
In June 2021, John Crain and Jonathan Perkins, the founders of SuperRare, a marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), contemplate whether to transform their company into a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). Crain and Perkins founded SuperRare in 2018 to... View Details
Keywords: NFTs; Crypto Economy; Alternative Assets; DAOs; Arts; Governance; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Disruptive Innovation; Finance; Currency; Investment; Markets; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Demand and Consumers; Network Effects; Market Design; Market Transactions; Market Timing; Web Services Industry; North and Central America; United States
Bussgang, Jeffrey J., Scott Duke Kominers, and Amy Klopfenstein. "SuperRare: Turning an NFT Marketplace into a DAO." Harvard Business School Case 823-027, August 2022.
- 01 Oct 2015
- News
The Rise of the Angel Investor
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
create a bigger problem going forward. Anytime the government manages a risk, it must also manage the moral hazard, and the current crisis is no exception," Moss concluded. Innovation Will Continue... View Details
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Michael Chen | MBA
Michael Chen Applied Math in Economics, Secondary in Government Mather 2023 Cohort 4 The best innovations come when new technology meets a fundamental human need. The chance to work on these sorts of View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
again: As the very first person to enroll in an innovative new health-care program in Massachusetts, she may be leading the way to medical coverage and care for the 47 million Americans who are currently uninsured. Rhenisch’s experience... View Details
- July 2010
- Article
The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and U.S. Ethnic Invention
By: William R. Kerr and William F. Lincoln
This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on U.S. technology formation. We use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Higher H-1B admissions increase immigrant science and engineering (SE) employment and... View Details
Keywords: Engineering; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Immigration; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Business and Government Relations; Science; United States
Kerr, William R., and William F. Lincoln. "The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and U.S. Ethnic Invention." Journal of Labor Economics 28, no. 3 (July 2010): 473–508. (Winner of H. Gregg Lewis Prize for Best Paper in Journal of Labor Economics 2010-2011.)
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Far-Reaching Impact
Above: Teachers in India's daycare system draw on Rocket Learning's digital platform to enhance learning. Photo courtesy Rocket Learning When the news reached Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) as her HBS graduation was approaching that she would receive financial assistance to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
not to mention our own self-esteem — are on the line.” Kanter’s recommendations, which span economic, social, and government concerns, include securing the country’s future by nurturing innovation; getting the work-family balance right;... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
into the hectic new year, news broke of an unusual cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China. On January 11, 2020, the Chinese government posted the genetic sequence of what it had identified as a novel coronavirus. Moderna had its test,... View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
incrementalism and convention. But to convert these new ideas into real alternatives, the world's governments need to go even farther. They must provide the nuclear regulatory redesign and physical facilities for prototype evaluation that... View Details