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  • 23 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 23

nurtured and maintained. Publisher's link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0415783135 2013 pub The Welfare State as an Investment Strategy: Denmark's Flexicurity Policies By: Daemmrich, Arthur, and Thomas Bredgaard... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 30 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Looking Behind Bad Decisions

other through these welfare payments. People do not choose less for themselves. Q: In this working paper it is stated that, ". . . nationalism may be the last type of prejudice to be widely... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • September 1988 (Revised January 1990)
  • Case

Federal Assistance to the Farm Credit System: The Road to Recovery?

By: Ray A. Goldberg
Keywords: Agribusiness; Welfare; Government and Politics; Credit; Business and Government Relations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States
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  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

University Elections

International, Ltd. London, England. Candidates for HAA Director The purpose of the Harvard Alumni Association is to promote the welfare of Harvard University and to establish a mutually beneficial relationship between Harvard University... View Details
  • 25 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 25, 2006

premia, real interest rates and inflation. The variation in investment opportunities is captured by a flexible vector autoregressive parameterization, which readily accommodates a large number of assets and state variables. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 4

Delphi debt, or to speculate on future Delphi bond prices. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210002-PDF-ENG Denmark: Globalization and the Welfare State Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Building a Strong and Prosperous Society

Professor Rebecca Henderson, Photo credit: Susan Young Rebecca Henderson is worried about the current state of capitalism in America. The noted economist says that increasing global crises and challenges to democracy are posing some of... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

HBS Faculty Member Honored

Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility,” the coauthors propose a way for firms to contribute to social welfare without sacrificing corporate success. Porter was also honored (with coauthor Elizabeth Olmsted... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 19 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

history, HBS assistant professor Noel Maurer considers these questions and opens the door to other queries involving issues of economics and governance that reach well beyond the United States and its neighbor to the south. Mexico makes a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • Portrait Project

Nick Gerry-Bullard

and that slowing the pace of drastic climate change is one of the great tasks my generation must embrace. Recognizing too, the broad advances in human welfare that commerce enables, I want to work in business and government to further an... View Details
  • 01 Apr 1999
  • News

Time to Vote in University Elections

Executive Officer, Telemundo Group, Inc., Los Angeles, Calif. Sheila James Kuehl, JD '78; AB '62, University of California at Los Angeles. State Assembly member, 41st District; Chair, Assembly Judiciary Committee, Santa Monica, Calif.... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

Faculty Books

Herzlinger exposes the motives and methods of figures in the insurance, hospital, employment, governmental, and academic sectors that have crippled the U.S. health-care system. She proves how the current system, organized around payers and providers rather than users’... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

welfare enhancing. In this case, the net cost of both contracting directly on an aggregate measure and exploiting career incentives based on disaggregated measures is smaller than the cost of contracting directly on disaggregate measures.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Dec 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?

and importing unskilled workers to keep costs low takes away the initiative for technological advances ." And Sam Heffner, invoking the noted economist, Milton Friedman, pointed out that "before he died, the great Dr. Friedman acknowledged that in a (more or... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • November 2015 (Revised January 2016)
  • Teaching Note

McDonald's Corporation: Managing a Sustainable Supply Chain—From Amazon Soya to Cage Free Eggs

By: Michael W. Toffel
This case provides an opportunity for students to consider how large, multinational corporations should respond when targeted by activists regarding environmental and social concerns in their supply chains. Greenpeace targeted McDonald's because its chicken supplier... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Welfare; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Service Industry; Brazil; United States; United Kingdom
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  • August 2023
  • Article

Impact of Social Needs Case Management on Use of Medical and Behavioral Health Services: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial

By: Mark D. Fleming, Crystal Guo, Margae Knox, Daniel M. Brown, Elizabeth A. Hernandez and Amanda L. Brewster
Social needs case management is an increasingly common strategy used by health care organizations to address integrated health and social needs. These programs connect patients to resources such as food assistance, housing, transportation, or income benefits, in... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Programs; Human Needs; Welfare; Health Industry; California
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  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014

growth. Four of the five papers in this year’s volume highlight the increasing role of the Internet and digitization in our understanding of the changing nature of innovation and entrepreneurship and the impact of innovation policy. Consumer Lending in France and... View Details
Keywords: faculty research; Alumni Research
  • 06 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

size of its welfare state and perception of new immigrant behavior. First, the welfare state today in Europe is larger, and native-born... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
  • 2007
  • Working Paper

A Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and Individualism

By: Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra and Robert MacCulloch
We study the correlation between a belief concerning individualism and a measure of luck in the US during the period 1983-2004. The measure of beliefs is the answer to a question related to whether the poor should be helped by the government or if they should help... View Details
Keywords: Energy; Price; Policy; Government and Politics; Poverty; Welfare; Energy Industry; United States
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  • Portrait Project

Mickey Millar

roach. Each incident left a stain on my spirit. While studying social welfare at HKS, I worked part-time so my pregnant sister wouldn't become homeless after she lost her job while on bed rest. During pharmaceutical case discussions at... View Details