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  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Daniel Vasella

sales of $37 billion. The company’s aggressive investment in research has made it an industry leader in new drug approvals. And when opportunity knocks, Vasella doesn’t hesitate to broaden Novartis’s business mix through acquisitions. He... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; multinational pharmaceutical company; prescription drugs; vaccines; Medicare; generics business; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Clearing the Air

2022, it was heralded as a landmark investment in the environment. “This bill is the biggest step forward on climate ever,” President Joe Biden said when he signed the legislation, which included $369 billion for efforts such as advancing... View Details
Keywords: April White and Dan Morrell; Illustrations by Richard Borge
  • 04 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

productivity, how many people they see. They have lousy information systems to back them up. And then they have a public policy establishment that more or less continuously deprecates their ideas and squeezes down their income. Not a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health
  • 12 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

responsible" investments as well as some consumers, activists, and potential employees. Unfortunately, there is little evidence about the validity of these ratings. We examine how well two of the most widely used ratings—those of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

The House that Howard Built

Policy at the School during the late 1960s. In 1970, he took a leave of absence to join Matt Simmons’s (MBA 1967) Boston investment bank, then returned to the School the following year to teach courses in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

Africa's Way

Development: The African Renaissance." The conference, to be held in Cape Town in March, will be a two-day intensive seminar on the economics, politics, and investment opportunities of southern Africa. It will also provide a chance to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

removing the middlemen and creating jobs at the same time. Sahel Consulting Agriculture & Nutrition partners with governments, funders, and private companies to shape policy and implement new ventures. For example, we founded Nourishing... View Details
  • 08 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 8

Matthew, and Michael Ewens Abstract—This paper investigates whether individual venture capitalists have repeatable investment skill and to what extent their skill is impacted by the VC firm where they work. We examine a unique dataset... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

collaboration, believing that innovation could be managed much like production and partners treated like "suppliers." And third, they didn't invest in building collaborative capabilities, assuming that their existing people and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

average under FFS. Conclusion: Prospective bundled payments were successfully implemented in this pilot. Additional pilots should study this payment method in higher-volume cancers. Robust systems are needed to automate patient identification, enrollment, billing, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

plants, cities for the workers, and so on. Massive investment — rather than consumption — drove the economy. Consumption in China is still only about a third of GDP versus some 70-odd percent in the developed markets. China kept buying... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

Alumni Books Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk by Gary Antonacci (MBA 1978) (McGraw-Hill) Antonacci explains his investing method, which combines U.S. stock, non-U.S. stock, and aggregate... View Details
  • 08 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

Direct Investment in Times of Crisis Authors:Louis T. Wells Publication:Chap. 12 in The Yearbook on International Investment Law and Policy 2009-2010, edited by Karl P.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

Settings with Technology Choice and Foreign Production Cost Advantage By: Drake, David F. Abstract—Emissions regulation is a policy mechanism intended to address the threat of climate change. However, the stringency of emissions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

compete” and engaging in competitive actions (refer to I Hereby Resign for helpful guidance). Policy is culture. The only aspects of corporate culture that will survive extended remote work are those embedded in View Details
Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel
  • 07 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

colonialism, European integration, and violent territorial expansion within Europe itself. Using the debate as a lens to understand the connections between a wide range of policy responses, this article argues that efforts to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 12, 2016

I show that these policies made families with foreign-born members 21% less likely to have uninsured children compared to the pre-policy baseline. These households were also 20% more likely to be self-employed and 28% more likely to own... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

Authors:Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf Publication:NBER Innovation Policy & the Economy (MIT Press) 10 (2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://www.nber.org/books/lern09-1   Working PapersInternational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

I’m not going to say those standards are arbitrary, but they contribute to an artificial shortage of qualified candidates that employers complain about despite policies creating that shortage. A second is, understand that all your... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
  • 06 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 6

sample of 180 U.S. companies, we find that corporations that voluntarily adopted sustainability policies by 1993-termed as High Sustainability companies-exhibit by 2009 distinct organizational processes compared to a matched sample of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne