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- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
lock-in in light of hyperbolic discounting, multiple selves, and wise policy design. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-038.pdf The Political Economy of Capitalism Author:Bruce R. Scott Abstract Capitalism is often...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Career Coach
Wendi Zhang
development policies and analysis in the public sector. Wendi attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she received Bachelor of Science degrees in both Mathematics and Management Science, along with minors in View Details
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Democratizing development: Inequality in Latin America | Institute for Business in Global Society
Democratizing development: Inequality in Latin America Global Leadership Roundtable São Paulo, Brazil November 2023 In partnership with the HBS Latin America Research Center Play Video Play Welcome | Bienvenido | Bem-vindo! Latin America has experienced remarkable...
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- 29 Jun 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change
can I do? What are key enterprise risk-management strategies? How Do I Build My Business In This Environment? Building Businesses in Turbulent Times An economic crisis is a charter for business leaders to rewrite and rethink how they do...
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- 16 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters
economic inequality worrisome. They see that US corporations are skittish about making investments in a time of uncertainty about government policy, taxes, and regulations. They hear too many American CEOs talk about choosing to postpone...
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by Nitin Nohria
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
strategies, virtual workplaces, results-only work environments, babies at work programs, and on-ramp and off-ramp opportunities. Get the Job You Really Want by James Caan (AMP 164, 2003) (Portfolio) To land the job of your dreams, Caan explains how to stay positive in...
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- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Trick of Balancing Business and Government
outsiders, including the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, is desired? No country can easily exist in a vacuum and cut itself off from the global economic marketplace, commented Spar. Given the complicated and often tragic...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
One of them, "Managing Our Way to Economic Decline," a 1980 piece coauthored with the late William Abernathy, became a classic for its warnings about the dangers of sacrificing long-term technological competitiveness in favor of...
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- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
levels of economic development, shared a continental European political and social culture, and began regulating consumer markets at nearly the same time. Yet their policy solutions were dramatically...
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- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49804 Economic Transition and Private-Sector Labor Demand: Evidence from Urban China By: Iyer, Lakshmi, Xin Meng, Nancy Qian, and Xiaoxue Zhao Abstract—This paper studies the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Vivek Garg
Right out of college, Vivek Garg was directly exposed to difficult health-care policy issues. As part of Congress's Medicare Payment Advisory Council (MPAC), Vivek reviewed the coordination of policies and...
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- March 2011 (Revised April 2011)
- Case
Gold in 2011: Bubble or Safe Haven Asset?
By: Robin Greenwood and Benjamin Steiner
Case explores the pricing of gold in 2011. Is the pricing justified or are we in a speculative bubble? What data are useful in determining a view on this question?
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Inflation and Deflation;
Money;
Asset Management;
Investment;
Price Bubble;
Policy;
Risk Management
Greenwood, Robin, and Benjamin Steiner. "Gold in 2011: Bubble or Safe Haven Asset?" Harvard Business School Case 211-095, March 2011. (Revised April 2011.)
- Fast Answer
Climate change: facts and figures
includes economic geology, engineering geology, environmental geology, geochemistry, geochronology, geophysics, hydrogeology and hydrology, marine geology and oceanography, petrology, structural geology, and more. WIREs Climate Change is...
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- 22 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 22
potential impact of policies to manage systemic risk. Unravelling in Two-Sided Matching Markets and Similarity of Preferences Author:Hanna W. Halaburda Publication:Games and Economic Behavior (forthcoming)...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
Working PapersFacts and Fallacies about U.S. FDI in China Authors:Lee Branstetter and C. Fritz Foley Abstract Despite the rapid expansion of U.S.-China trade ties, the increase in U.S. FDI in China, and the expanding amount of economic...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
2+2 Admit Experiments with Career Options
Economic Section. Finally, I had the opportunity to pursue my passions at the nexus of business, technology, and policy before my HBS matriculation! While at Post, I contributed to enhancing U.S.-Bulgarian...
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- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
understand how to scale economic mobility and alleviate poverty through state and federal educational policy reform. After graduation, he moved to North Carolina to teach with Teach for America, so he could...
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- December 2010
- Case
Financing Higher Education in Australia
By: David A. Moss and Stephanie Lo
Even before Australian lawmakers abolished university tuition in 1973, students in Australia had long benefited from low tuition and large government subsidies. By the early 1980s, however, the nation's universities faced growing budget challenges and an apparent...
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Economic Slowdown and Stagnation;
Higher Education;
Borrowing and Debt;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Policy;
Education Industry;
Australia
Moss, David A., and Stephanie Lo. "Financing Higher Education in Australia." Harvard Business School Case 711-047, December 2010.
- 2011
- Chapter
Innovations in Governance
By: Raymond Fisman and Eric Werker
In this paper we explore the innovations in governance that have promoted investment and growth. Some policymakers have tinkered with their country's institutions, some have undertaken wholesale changes, while others have attempted to influence the rules in other...
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Economic Growth;
Investment;
Governance;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Policy;
Government and Politics;
Innovation and Invention
Fisman, Raymond, and Eric Werker. "Innovations in Governance." In Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 11, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern. Chicago: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011.