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- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
specifically economic knowledge, in twentieth century America. We use the Wharton School as an illustration of the earliest trends and dilemmas (c. 1900-1930), when business schools found themselves caught between their business View Details
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Anna Secino
- 28 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home
Connection is an example of one step in the right direction. Initiated last spring, IBM has brought together an initial consortium of seven major companies, including Caterpillar, Pfizer, Bank of America, Citibank, and AT&T, to...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
utilization of ground forces—the personal selling and get-out-the-vote strategy.” "I think this research connects beautifully with a normal business operation within a corporation," says Doug J. Chung, an assistant professor in the...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
congressional committee chairmanships? Joshua Coval: Our original goal was to investigate how politically connected firms benefit from increases in the power of their representatives. A benefit in focusing...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and...
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- Student-Profile
Filippo Mezzanotti
research interests are broadly focused on corporate finance and political economics. Motivated by my interest in both of these fields, I am currently working on a project with a fellow student that will employ Italian data to understand...
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- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
school system—and to take action to improve it. There has been much work to do, as Harvard Business School's Stacey Childress details in two case studies. According to Childress, "The New Orleans public school district was already in crisis before Katrina due to...
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- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Homeland Security: A Ready-made Market
weren't connected before 9-11; there was no mechanism to do so." Creating change in the government sector, however, requires grappling with a deeply entrenched culture. "Democracy is the worst form of government, apart from all...
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- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
reduced tax evasion and, in connection with other reforms, brought about high and sustainable economic growth. And the situation kept evolving throughout the course of writing the case; in 2006, the Slovaks elected a new government. In...
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Reserve Bank Governor Discusses India’s Financial Opportunities
issues, human capital, and regulatory issues. He acknowledged that all three affect economic health. Regarding infrastructure, the national power grid is on track to be connected to the central power grid within a matter of months, he...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
cost-plus contracts to fixed-price ones. Companies are willing to accept worse contracting terms in an effort to rebuild trust with the government,” says Perez Cavazos. To find out whether a company’s political View Details
- Portrait Project
Michael Nkansah
that I may yet owe death a life. I was never a pan-African before that day—my mind teemed with tired tales from my father of Nkrumah's utopian vision. But capitalism could well succeed where decades of post-independence politics failed—in...
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- 09 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit
Professor at HBS. Far from a drag, he argues, being part of Europe was a key competitive advantage for Britain. Its economy benefitted more from EU funding than it contributed, even as a net contributor to the EU budget. Immigration was a positive, not the negative...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change
Professor Michael Porter and Katherine Gehl, Photo credits: Stu Rosner, Neal Hamberg The American political system, contend Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter (MBA 1971), is broken. Their evidence: a 2019 HBS US Competitiveness Project...
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Young, Susan
- Profile
Jacob Meiner
Jacob Meiner has always been attracted to the difficult. As an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania he initially studied Near East languages and civilizations. "It intrigued me from an interdisciplinary perspective, as a way to draw history, religion,...
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- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
downs of their companies, and the ability of those enterprises to create jobs. “Before this, the most prominent source of information we had was self-employment statistics,” says Kerr. Self-employment, however, can mean many things and is frequently not View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
International Political Economy in Post-Soviet Eurasia," nationalism powerfully influences the world economy, particularly in post-imperial societies. National identities can—and in the case of the former Soviet Union, did—affect...
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by Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
precipitates joblessness, which leads to more addiction and disorder—the quintessential vicious cycle. The Kabul of the pre-1970s Soviet onslaught was the Paris of Central Asia, successful in agriculture, tourism and hospitality. Post-war Kabul of the future could be...
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by Tarun Khanna
- 28 Sep 2018
- News
Pushing Progress at Panasonic
spent the next two and a half decades at HBS, BCG, Apple, and Microsoft, Panasonic fell into steep decline. Now Higuchi is back, leading the connected solutions business, and Panasonic is pursuing a new path: one that focuses on corporate...
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- 14 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism
What does nationalism mean for the world economy? And what does it have to say in a world of ever-increasing globalization? We recently put those questions to political scientist and HBS professor Rawi Abdelal. His new book, National...
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by Martha Lagace