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  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

Ask the Expert: Capital Architect

high consideration. Spiritual and ethical factors are often viewed as separate “silos,” but these core values pervasively shape, bind, and energize the economic culture. Long-term policy and growth must... View Details
  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

The conventional view is that political actors, like economic actors, pursue their self-interest, and that special interest groups dominate the policy making process by satisfying View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

improve. But we have a political system that's increasingly about today's news. This mismatch has probably gotten worse in the last 10 or 20 years. The politics of economic policy is never easy, but we used... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
  • Profile

Doha Tantawy

"first reality check. I saw how economics play out in a real marketplace, how all the constituents – business, customers, legal context—work together." The experience awakened a passion to "serve consumers, to see change... View Details
Keywords: Retail/Hospitality; Consulting
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

The End of Cows?

today: It may have unpredictable economic outcomes, but that shouldn’t mean we reject innovation. “We need to be aware from a public policy perspective what all the ramifications are going to be for the... View Details
Keywords: Jason Feifer; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade; Scientific Research and Development Services
  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

The Long View

PROFESSOR DAVID MOSS As a graduate student in history and economics at Yale, John G. McLean Professor David Moss struck up a friendship with the late Nobel laureate James Tobin that changed his perspective. Again and again, Professor... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Bozidar Djelic

relentless pressure from various political parties,” he says. “But that has not happened, in part I think because my team moves so fast. It's important to be in the driver's seat when you propose measures and set the economic View Details
  • 01 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

rate is relatively higher, leading to lower economic growth. Our findings have implications for policy setters. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52971 Rethinking... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Profile

Sorina Casian-Botez

building something lasting: helping my consulting clients thrive in an exceptionally changing economic environment, nurturing new players in the young markets that need them the most, and one day contributing to the trends of thoughts and... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit / Government; Consulting
  • Fast Answer

Managing & Investing in a Fast-Growing Emerging Market: India

build a custom report. Government of India: Department of Economic Affairs Ministry of Statistics and Programme... View Details
  • 19 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

fewer corporate profits being channeled into subsequent domestic investments when the U.S. tax rate is relatively higher, leading to lower economic growth. Our findings have implications for policy setters.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • January 2011 (Revised April 2014)
  • Case

Uptake of Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests

By: Nava Ashraf, Natalie Kindred and Richard Sedlmayr
This case describes barriers to adoption of malaria rapid diagnostic tests in Zambia and highlights the importance of understanding end users in promoting product adoption. Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are simple, easy-to-use tools that provide a relatively reliable,... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Health Pandemics; Technology; Health Care and Treatment; Policy; Behavior; Prejudice and Bias; Health Industry; Zambia
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  • October 1998 (Revised June 2002)
  • Case

Austin, Texas: Building a High-Tech Economy

By: Bruce R. Scott and Srinivas Sunder
Members of the community decide to try to diversify the economy of Austin, Texas, by welcoming high-technology firms and by augmenting the electrical engineering faculty at University of Texas--Austin. View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Diversification; Information Technology; Policy; Government and Politics; Engineering; Technological Innovation; Competitive Advantage; Higher Education; Texas
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  • 17 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 17, 2015

shifts in trade theory and policy as well as economic benefits and disadvantages associated with trade liberalization. The note also discusses the advantages and disadvantages of multilateral vs. bilateral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 5, 2006

challenges of economic development in Africa and in other low-income countries. The case provides a brief political and economic history of Rwanda, but focuses on the country before and after the genocide. A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

large-scale corporations and free competition, American Fair Trade argues that trade associations of independent proprietors lobbied and litigated to reshape competition policy to their benefit. At the turn of the 20th century, this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive

The American economy is a mess, and our broken political system is largely to blame, according to a Harvard Business School US Competitiveness Project report released today. Harvard’s Michael E. Porter, Jan W. Rivkin, and Mihir A. Desai say American View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

Documenting the actual levels of inequality within and across countries is generally considered a critical input to the design of economic and social policy (7–10); we suggest that assessing laypeople’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative

As health insurance reform is hotly debated in Washington, DC, what strategies should be central for the benefit of patients' health? HBS faculty with expertise in business administration, economic development, and operations strategy... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Health
  • Profile

John Oxtoby

Many young people have watched “The West Wing;” John Oxtoby is one of the few who has actually worked in it. In a political career that began with Barack Obama’s Senate race in 2004, and culminated with policy responsibilities in the... View Details