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23 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

award prizes as part of the savings product's return. Rotating Savings and Credit Associations, known as ROSCAs, draw impetus from the spirit of communities and social networks. The varied solutions that Tufano and colleagues have set out... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

are processed through the same United States Bankruptcy Court system, and are overseen by the same pool of federal bankruptcy judges, who currently number about 350 only. The bankruptcy process also requires the active participation of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

declaring they have told the truth. In 2014, the White House assembled a cross-agency group called the Social and Behavioral Sciences Team, tasked with improving the efficacy of federal programs by leveraging the findings of behavioral... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

political system, our review of the literature finds no academic consensus on the consequences of inequality for the health of the economy or the democracy, or for nearly any other macro-level outcome. With the academic community reaching... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

02 Nov 2020
What Do You Think?

Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?

merger of Office Depot and Staples, ending a marriage that would have reduced the number of big box office supply specialty chains to two, the other being Office Max. In seeking to stop the merger, the Federal Trade View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Communications; Communications; Communications; Communications; Communications; Communications

12 Nov 2014
Op-Ed

A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform

Nicolas P. Retsinas is Senior Lecturer in Real Estate, Harvard Business School and former Federal Housing Commissioner. Rob Couch is Counsel, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings and former President of GNMA. Over six years ago, when the View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas Retsinas & Rob Couch; Construction; Real Estate

16 Jul 2014
HBS Case

Marketing Obamacare

important first step. But AHCT's executives also knew if they were going to really be effective, they'd have to make it as easy as possible to sign up. The federal law allowed for commissions for brokers who... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

15 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

involving federal authorities. Process: Structure documentation, processes, and communications to effectively support investigations when errors occur. Ensure there is a way to capture, retain, and document... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch

28 Aug 2014
Op-Ed

Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit

released in May 2013, economists from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis quantified the costs of increased regulation on community banks, modeling the impact of new regulatory costs as the hiring of... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking

25 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help

competition if they don’t serve customer needs, there’s no higher authority lording over the political system. Though the Federal Election Commission is nominally tasked with ensuring that election and... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

08 Sep 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing

corrupt company. Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SECThe United States needs a health care equivalent of the Securities and Exchange Commission to increase transparency and competition. But sometimes a little secrecy wins the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

institutions, in chronological order. The first story deals with a policy-making process at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The second deals with an administrative legal proceeding regarding anti-trust enforcement by the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

permitted by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is realigning media ownership. Among other changes, the Federal Communications Commission recently relaxed restrictions on... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising

04 Aug 2014
Op-Ed

Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering

self-employed person declined 19 percent in real terms between 2007 and 2010, according to the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances. And a survey by the National Federation of Independent Businesses... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

27 Jul 2019
Op-Ed

Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

When the FTC announced in July a $5 billion penalty and other actions against the company over privacy disgressions, the Federal Trade Commission said it well: “ through at least June 2018, Facebook... View Details

Keywords: by George Riedel

27 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

Bill George, Professor of Management Practice Social networking is the most significant business development of 2010, topping the resurgence of the U.S. automobile industry. During the year social networking morphed from a personal View Details

Keywords: by Staff

17 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 17

Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship Authors:Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon, and Felda Hardymon Publication:John Wiley & Sons, 2012 An abstract is not available at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-EHEP002070.html... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?

was what led Ira Fishman in this direction. Fishman worked in the Clinton administration as Counsel and Director of the Task Force on Education at the Federal Communications View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Education

26 Feb 2018
Research & Ideas

The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels

times." Hotels fight back Lodging groups have not taken Airbnb's incursions lightly. Starting in 2016, the American Hotel and Lodging Association backed efforts by the Federal Trade Commission and the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Travel

06 Sep 2005
What Do You Think?

What are the Lessons of New Orleans?

to action. Andrew Williamson sounded a common call for a "blue ribbon committee similar to the 9/11 Commission to study all the sources of the problems that contributed to this disaster." Margaret O'Keeffe suggested that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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