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- 01 Mar 2011
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Tax and Grow
“excess” cash holdings. The definition of excess cash holdings will be critical. But such levels easily could be defined relative to industry benchmarks from periods that featured more standard corporate savings behavior. Implementing a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Research Brief: As the Wind Blows
While bold, innovative public policy played an important role in fostering success, the level of policy consistency was just as important, Jones discovers. “There’s a Janus face of public policy, particularly in the United States, where... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Chinese Premier Speaks at HBS
475baf4874c54b74d6872cb82ffdcb34 Amid the backdrop of U.S.-Chinese relations — tension over trade issues and Taiwan’s independence on the one hand, cooperation on terrorism and North Korea on the other — Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao spoke at HBS during a four-day trip to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Levitt Brand
A consultant and professor with a Ph.D. in economics from Ohio State University, Ted Levitt had already published two articles in the Harvard Business Review when he joined the HBS faculty in 1959. One year later, observed HBS marketing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions
income to achieve desired levels of redistribution without harming saving; and a carbon tax to correct for externalities associated with energy consumption. In short, no tax expenditures that litter the code with preferences and that... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
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Turning Troubled Schools into High-Achievers
process of transforming troubled schools—and the net results. “I founded and now run an organization, a nonprofit called UP Education Network. We are an organization that focuses on turning around the most chronically underperforming district schools in the View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
particular medical conditions. A recent report shows that Medicare costs for identical conditions vary greatly from state to state, and even within states, with no apparent difference in the quality of care. How do you explain those... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
Returns is a way for me to state my deep conviction that any organization, even a tax collection agency, can serve its stakeholders at higher levels than it ever imagined — if its leaders resolutely and... View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World
of the first women officers, and the first African-American woman, to work on a United States Navy submarine, Tabitha Strobel (MBA 2018) was more focused on serving her country and doing her job than blazing trails. “I knew the position... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Carnival Queen
In Chicago, Desirée Glapion Rogers (MBA '85) is known as a hardworking executive at Peoples Energy, a diversified energy company, and as the former head of the Illinois State Lottery. But ask folks in New Orleans about her and you'll get... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan
governmental entities, she is contemplating where she can make her biggest impact. Positions in Washington may be sexier, but it’s the ability to make a difference at the state and local level that she finds... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
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Strengthening Ties with Executive Education Graduates
entire spectrum of manufacturing and service enterprises in the United States and upward of 100 other nations. Executive Education alumni are different from MBA alumni in important ways. Unlike the MBA Program, Executive Education... View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
An Unfinished Story
In 1961, at the age of eight, Elaine Chao (MBA 1979) traveled to the United States from Taiwan with her mother and two sisters aboard a cargo ship. It was a harrowing 37-day journey to reunite with her father, who had come to the country... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
state legislatures, and governorships to sign the pledge. Today, 222 members of the House, 46 senators, the President, more than 1,200 state legislators, and 6 governors all have signed. And that has changed... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Dec 2013
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Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
Image by Jezper by Regina E. Herzlinger Health care now represents some 18 percent of the American economy. With its costs continuing to rise, and with tens of millions uninsured, we in the United States are understandably preoccupied... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
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Carbon Neutral
would not only create a level playing field, but also incentivize other countries to follow suit. “If they are going to pay the fee anyway, why not collect a fee themselves rather than have their exporters pay it to the United View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
governance models, and their integrity.” Immelt, CEO of GE, described his outlook as generally optimistic. Once the crisis is resolved (and, he remarked, “the government always wins” in these situations), the United States can expect at... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Making the Case for Maine: HBS Club and State's CEO Discuss Business Issues
to work on making a difference. Energized by the event's success, Lane-Merrill is planning future meetings to discuss common business goals at the state level and to stimulate networking among HBS alumni. In... View Details
Keywords: Janine Brunell Looker
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
fifteen years ago, as a doctoral candidate in Harvard’s Economics Department, Lerner was collecting data on the role of VC funding in the biotechnology industry. Before long, he also became intrigued by the concept of intellectual property and concerned about the sad... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
ranges from $0.05/kWh to more than $0.15/kWh. Solar power, meanwhile, rings in at $0.02 to $0.03/kWh in most parts of the United States and is approaching a mere $0.01/kWh elsewhere. Wave and tidal energy producers are doing everything... View Details