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- 16 Oct 2012
- News
On Marriage, Kidneys and the Economics Nobel
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
Relief Program (TARP). It was a losing battle. Over the course of an hour, he fielded a half-dozen urgent calls from his staff regarding a draft version of a report on TARP expenditures due to Congress the next day (December 10). Silvers’s formative experience with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
asset allocations to commercial property holdings. Until recently, says Dubrowski, institutional investors limited their commercial real estate allocations to between 3 and 5 percent of their portfolios.... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
practice and Joseph L. Rice III Faculty Fellow. It wasn’t until the idea of “lean” corporations came into vogue that companies began to treat employees as just another resource to be allocated as needed. In the decades since, layoffs have... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Markets’ Moral Limits
affects social attitudes about altruism. And since markets may not be the best allocators of goods “on grounds of either efficiency or fairness,” Sandel called for broad debate on “where markets belong, and where they don’t.” View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
published by the Brookings Institution in the fall of 2020, predicted that business bankruptcies in the United States could increase as much as 140 percent that year, clogging courts and causing confusion in the allocation of capital. “We... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid
dedicated solely to international development. This has given them the breathing room to devise their own allocation strategy and be more creative with the programs they fund. Not coincidentally, my current work in Liberia is funded by... View Details
- 02 Dec 2017
- News
Helping HBS Make Big Bets
how her unrestricted contributions allow the School to allocate resources where they are most needed. “I admire and trust the HBS leadership team, and I support their efforts to experiment and make big bets,” she says. It’s also important... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
customers, in other words — and its position vis-à-vis competitors. If an enterprise had different lines of business, it might view these in historical terms — “First we got into radio, which led us into television” — or as a capital View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
industry during the previous decade, the company posted its first losses ever, and for the last five years, American has strived to trim some of its excess growth. Donald Carty, American's president since March 1995, says that dealing with the ramifications of... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
government is trying to open them to well-controlled commercial logging but most of the companies entering Liberia’s forests today are unqualified and unscrupulous. Bribery drives the allocation process. The government is not yet capable... View Details
- 26 May 2022
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Bidding Up
subject and then later became the world’s expert on auctions. So when the FCC was going to consider the possibility of an auction as a way of allocating spectrum licenses, Pacific Bell hired me as a consultant, and then I brought along... View Details
- 12 Oct 2020
- News
MBA/DBA Alum Wins Nobel Prize in Economics
moment that was shared around the world on Twitter. The pair’s work has had far-reaching practical applications for complex situations; for example, governments around the world now rely on one of their auction formats to allocate radio... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
be rectified.” Major changes included individualizing resource allocation and basing it on a child’s educational needs (“In Seattle, the schools with the smallest classes, the most teachers, and the most resources are the ones with the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
“Each corporate partner donates a certain number of pro bono hours to Endeavor a year, and our offices allocate them to the entrepreneurs,” says Ko, who worked as an analyst at Goldman Sachs before heading to HBS in 2003. “It’s a win-win... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Rx for Too Big to Fail
basic idea is a good one, but will not end too big to fail. We desperately need to streamline the process of allocating losses when a large financial institution fails. But it’s simply unrealistic to believe that in the heat of a... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
180, 2011) “I work more, but it’s more efficient. I don’t allocate so much time to commuting or traveling, so I have more for kids, family, exercise, and sleep. Overall, it feels more balanced. That said, I miss having a raucous... View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- News
A Big Bet
person’s social capital,” Chertavian told the New York Times. Palandjian’s Social Finance hopes to add more training partners this year; an independent research firm, MDRC, will evaluate the performance of the initiative. Over time, Google hopes to fuel total wage... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
pour Entrepreneurs by Fabrice Cavarretta (MBA 1996) Plon Yes, France is a paradise for entrepreneurs, Cavarretta writes. The country has one of the best opportunity ecosystems in the world and the drawbacks—for instance, the cost of labor... View Details