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- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
San Diego—brings “significant and long-lasting” benefits, including greater economic growth, global talent, and even more invention to these regions, write William Kerr, the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
allowing bonds to be rolled over into private sector retirement accounts; and generally making it easier to purchase bonds by expanding distribution to outlets such as the post office and Wal-Mart. "The federal government spends $350 billion each year on asset... View Details
- 09 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel
to be so close to the steel production process, and it provided valuable insight about what makes the process so challenging and yet high priority to decarbonize. Perhaps most interesting was the role that policy played in the outlook of... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
institutional theory, and economic theory. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-025.pdf Broadening Focus: Spillovers and the Benefits of Specialization in the Hospital Industry Authors:Jonathan R. Clark and Robert S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
vantage point, not in sight here. I don’t see it. And I’m most troubled by that. Push and pull marketing to build public support John A. Quelch, Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration and professor in health policy and... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- Web
2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
she earned a double major in Psychology and Economics and served as a two-time co-captain of the Varsity Tennis Team (1990); an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School (1994); and a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior / Social Psychology... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
policy issues remained strong. He enrolled at HBS because he believes that, more so than policymakers, “managers who lead health-care systems are the ones today who are introducing needed changes.” At the School, Jain has done three... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
significant differences between industries with limited and high private equity activity. It is hard to find support for claims that economic activity in industries with private equity backing is more exposed to aggregate shocks. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
paper called, "Asset Allocation and Asset Location: Household Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances," published by the Journal of Public Economics in August, 2004. Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF),... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
from mistakes we learned a long time ago not to make. Why would we now repeat the mistake of banking on a nuclear option that simply makes no economic sense? Michael Hogan (MBA ’88) Sunapee, NH Priorities Trump Prescriptions Your December... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
PublicationsWhen Does a Platform Create Value by Limiting Choice? Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Hanna Hałaburda Publication:Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (forthcoming) Abstract We present a theory for why it... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
Publications August 2013 American Economic Review Private Equity, Jobs, and Productivity By: Davis, Steven J., John Haltiwanger, Kyle Handley, Ron Jarmin, Josh Lerner, and Javier Miranda Abstract—Private equity critics claim that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
transitions, it helps to temper the need to look decisive and have policies with the desirability of asking lots of questions. "The task of a new leader is to shift the cycle from losers’ dysfunctions to the unified team that is able to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2011
- News
Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project
RELATED LINKS Video: Dean Nohria introduces the Project U.S. Competitiveness home page HBS Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness The Path to Economic Revival Made in America — Making Their Way How Boeing Competes — James McNerney Jr.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
mitigation. And because cities are discovering that the greener they are, the better their quality of life and the greater their competitive advantage, they have by necessity become innovative, reality-based drivers of environmental View Details
- 24 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach
Starting this past fall and continuing through the coming year, Dean Srikant Datar is traveling to meet with alumni around the world. On Thursday, February 23, more than 60 alumni and guests gathered in Florida to celebrate and connect with each other at "HBS in Palm... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
process? I think that these sorts of scenarios, along with doubts about the effectiveness of recent US foreign policy decisions regarding Syria and Iran, have had a negative effect on how we're viewed by business and government leaders in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
affects emotions. Finally, work in economics on the design of monetary policy makes several assumptions (e.g., a representative agent, a summary measure of emotions akin to utility exists and that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
bring a gentler capitalism to post-apartheid South Africa. Like her other colleagues on the Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Commission, Charnley believed that each black business executive had a responsibility to effect positive change... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
Research: Past, Present, and Future by Boris Groysberg and Paul M. Healy (Stanford Economics and Finance) Professors Groysberg and Healy discuss the analysts who do equities research and demonstrate how their roles have evolved, what... View Details