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- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
consumers and producers, and such changes typically required the mobilization of political power to overcome resistance to such changes. In order to support such developmental changes, the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2019
- News
Case Study: Beating Bias
school years and more recently at Nickelodeon’s strategy department, Patel realized he (like many others) had been consuming media that only confirmed his own political bias and, in so doing, had failed to...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Mexico Since 1980 by Stephen Haber, Herbert S. Klein, Noel Maurer, and Kevin J. Middlebrook (Cambridge University Press) Associate Professor Maurer and his co-authors address two questions that are crucial to understanding Mexico’s current economic and View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Energy: A Future of Lower Energy Prices
For a long time, the United States was striving to become energy self-sufficient; now the country is self-sufficient and is becoming a net exporter of energy. That has pretty profound global economic and political implications, and we’ve...
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Pre-Industrial Credit in Practice
Economy: The Rise of Credit Reporting Credit in a Consumer Society Research Links Credits “To term an American farmer dilatory in regard to the payment of his bills is arrant flattery.6 — Bookkeeper for the J. I. Case Threshing Machine...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
looks at the emergence of capitalism and democracy as systems of economic and political governance and considers how they may be both mutually supportive and antagonistic. Chapters on the theory and history of these systems challenge the...
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- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
in U.S. politics: CEOs are taking very public stands on thorny political issues that have nothing to do with their firms’ bottom lines. Business leaders like Tim Cook of Apple, Howard Schultz of Starbucks, and Marc Benioff of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Will American Brands Be a Casualty of War?
overseas backlash against U.S. goods? A: Long before the Iraq conflict, the triumphal tone of America's global march set off a backlash. Brands such as McDonald's, Starbucks, and The Gap have become targets for protesters in many parts of the world. But so far...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 16 Oct 2014
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
Can China Lead?
Can China sustain its remarkable emergence of the past 35 years? Surely No, for multiple reasons. China will be a leader, but not the leader. Professor McFarlan will talk about both the challenges and opportunities for those seeking to do business with and within China...
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- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
the sick. The resulting competition for consumers with differentiated products will control costs by increasing quality of care—e.g., integrated teams for congestive heart failure have reduced costs by $8,000 per year per enrollee. This...
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by Martha Lagace
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
employment slowly recovered to pre-recession levels. Now, despite an initial round of federal aid dispersed to cities and states in March, and a considerable bounce-back of consumer spending following the reopening of local economies,...
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by Kristen Senz
- 02 Dec 2009
- What Do You Think?
Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?
way: "We currently have 12 million undocumented Mexicans inside the US and we do not know what to do with them ." Other arguments included those of Tony Eckel that "economic benefits of any worker immigration is limited exclusively to the labor View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
active ingredients for anti-nausea drugs, even the drug inside an EpiPen. There were also more mundane items like milking machine parts and telescopic gunsights for rifles. The careful selection avoided high-profile items like smartphones or shoes, which would have hit...
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by Willy C. Shih;
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- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
transforming locally engaged citizens into viewers consuming programming from distant sources. In response to such concerns, many regulatory agencies, including the Federal Communication Commission in the United States, curtail the...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
might not like particular policies). This will give a big boost to business and consumer confidence. Under Biden and Harris, drama and uncertainty will be replaced by goal clarity and communication transparency. President-elect Biden’s...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
Effective value-based competition will be centered on addressing health conditions over the entire life cycle of care (not the specific components of care such as surgery, office visits, home care, and so on), and competition will shift from local in nature to regional...
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Ignacio Lartirigoyen (MBA 2020) Talks Family Business, Bringing Children to HBS, and Agribusiness - MBA
Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged Goods Education Energy Engineering...
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- 15 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions
restrictions—may need to refine their outreach to a pandemic-weary public, especially when it comes to high-risk activities, such as indoor dining. As vaccine hopes and holiday loneliness make distancing harder, consumers will need more...
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- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
iStock Even as President Donald Trump and Republican leaders seem set on a course to weaken Obama-administration consumer protection regulations, a soon-to-be-published study reports that 7.3 percent of financial advisors in the United...
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- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, may be that they haven't yet been disrupted. As Christensen explained, the debate on mass healthcare reform usually pivots around the same three questions. "Maybe we've just got to get Americans to buck up and View Details