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- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
policies that encourage the provision of venture capital? Or is the world really flat? Do the "techno-nationalists" have it right? What do you think? To read more: Amar Bhidé, The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
prosperity that has been generated by the functioning of market capitalism. Across the board, however, the primary concern was that the way the system currently functioned was associated with a great disparity of wealth and income in many... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 28 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms
iPhoto Marketplace lending platforms such as LendingClub and Prosper have made significant competitive inroads against traditional banks in recent years by bringing together people who want to borrow with investors ready to bankroll them.... View Details
- 19 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature
Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By... View Details
- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
assets, something that has gone on for centuries? Is it better to have the available money, regardless of origin, invested in assets located in free market democracies than somewhere else? Will this help insure the world's long-run View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
economically self-sufficient and prosperous through entrepreneurship, the event was the seventh in a nationwide series. I think we need people with that kind of courage and vision, and they need those of you who have capital to invest.—... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
were going to succeed and prosper needed to manage risks better, have a stronger sense of purpose to motivate their employees, and satisfy a public already agitated about scandals such as Enron in the corporate world. What I didn't see... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit
out the costs of leaving the EU, citizens have not heard a forward-looking plan on how the country could leverage EU membership more effectively in the future, if the country would decide to stay. The country needs to get on with taking steps to raise productivity and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive
results of surveys of global business leaders and the general public, says the US is “failing the test of competitiveness.” Overall prosperity may be growing slowly—but only for a small slice of the population. Large companies and highly... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
regarding herbal patents. (They explain their findings in the paper Bio-Piracy or Prospering Together? Fuzzy Set and Qualitative Analysis of Herbal Patenting by Firms.) A win/win situation is one in which the patentee successfully makes... View Details
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
energy business, for instance. In the end, the class did not come up with a clear solution—because there isn't one. Societies persuade institutions to solve one set of problems. If the institutions are successful, more prosperity is... View Details
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States
more from shopping malls, they have shown little interest in building affordable apartments. Government policies have favored home ownership, and today's interest rates are low. Finally, the rising prosperity of Israel has exacerbated... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
with discrete transfers. Structural Transformation: A Competitiveness-based View By: Ketels, Christian H.M. Abstract—Competitiveness research aims to enhance our understanding of the drivers of prosperity differences across locations and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
the macro reforms don't actually do well in the end. Their prosperity really doesn't come. You need to do both together. You can't just kind of do the grand sweeping macro reform. You've got to do the hard, gritty work of kind of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
unemployment, but such measures are needed when lending money to a government with a very poor track record in managing the government budget for the prosperity of its citizens. Nor are those measures the cause of the inability of Greece... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
now formally elected as head of state, considers an economic strategy to meet Rwanda's current challenges and increase the country's prosperity over the next decade. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
many times in the past, it will prosper by creating a distinctly Japanese approach. If you have read my other work, you know that I believe that the U.S. is far from perfect. For example, many U.S. companies suffer from a short time... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
have it all figured out except the money." I'm not talking about rapacious financial manipulators making trading profits like Michael Lewis' Flash Boys. I'm talking about using the tools of finance to build subways, water treatment plants, bridges, efficient roads—all... View Details
- 24 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers
prosperity it lost over the recent past. The difficulties will not disappear—much of the continent still faces massive problems of disease, conflict and resource depletion—but the world is turning its attention back to Africa, and there... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell