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- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
electric vehicles in China and electric buses in Europe and America. It just opened two plants in Michigan, partially funded by a grant from America's stimulus fund. At the same time, the company is expanding its business in large, grid...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
American families and businesses. Whether a new fiscal stimulus is merited or even possible is up for debate, but a fiscal retrenchment in the near term is likely to make things worse. Third, alarms about the long-term fiscal challenges...
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- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
to drag the economy into a recession. The Bush administration approved a fiscal stimulus package exceeding $150 billion. Interest rates had been repeatedly cut at the fastest pace in decades, to 2.25% as of March 2008. The Fed, in an...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
deconcentrate our risk. We may have also missed the chance to put a much bigger stimulus into the system (one-and-a-half to two times more than we did) to fix our broken infrastructure, fund R&D and basic science, address climate...
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- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
we could slip even more, and I think the world would suffer. People used to look to America for leadership, but I'm not sure they do anymore. I think we can bring it back. Q: What is the white-coat economy, and why is it important? A: This, I think, is the leading edge...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
awards relatively modest, they limit efforts to misdirect these funds. Unfortunately, the funding of clean tech innovation under the stimulus program has been characterized by a lack of clarity and consistency. In this uncertain...
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- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
Ghemawat The organizational challenges involved in World War II were a vital stimulus to strategic thinking. The problem of allocating scarce resources across the entire economy in wartime led to many innovations in management science....
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
Funding: Bridging the "Valley of Death" Michael J. Roberts, Joseph B. Lassiter, and Ramana NandaHarvard Business School Case 810-144 The case focuses on the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the $38 billion of stimulus funding...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
finance a $4 billion fiscal stimulus package amid the global economic downturn. Velasco was now Chile's most popular minister. However, the future of Chile's fiscal policy was questionable with the election of a new president, Sebastian...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
Budget Impasse, 2001–2019, draws on recent government documents to explore America's economic performance since 2001, the ideology and effects of the Bush tax cuts, Obama's fiscal stimulus in 2009, the Trump tax cuts in 2017, the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
since the Great Depression. That is why Barack Obama and his team have been looking to Franklin Delano Roosevelt for help. The stimulus measure passed by Congress in February that includes money for building infrastructure, strengthening...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
and how much, to use fiscal stimulus to resuscitate the economy. To help students understand Obama's options, the case reviews both the recent tax cuts under President George W. Bush, including the supply-side and demand-management...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
that, donating a portion of their stimulus checks to food banks or to friends who are out of work. Some are helping others in non-financial ways, including recovered coronavirus patients donating plasma to help the sick. “During this...
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by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
requirements provided a major stimulus for the emergence of local firms in Germany and Spain. U.S. firms were unable to develop internationally competitive products partly because of a rush to capture lucrative contracts dependent on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
companies in at least five ways: as a source of knowledge and expertise, as a sounding board and constructive critic, as a driver of accountability, as a stimulus for innovation, and as a resource for the full board. In an accompanying...
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Carmen Nobel