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- 01 Sep 2012
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Rebel with a Cause
environmental activist and ran for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts (he lost). HBS attracted Massie after he realized that business could be a powerful agent for shaping public policy and creating social good, “the most potent force...
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- 11 Jul 2012
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A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
built his family’s New Jersey–based industrial distribution business over 15 years (to sell to a Fortune 50 company), and then as a consultant to family businesses and international investors. “We’ve witnessed countries mount concerted...
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- 04 Nov 2016
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The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
HBS Duch worked on independent research with Professor Michael Porter, who had just published his landmark book, The Competitive Advantage of Nations. “It was a great opportunity,” Duch says. “Porter’s work on the capacity of government to create View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Apr 2000
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Books
affect the decision to go public. As the authors shed light on the structure and operations of venture capital firms, three major themes emerge. First, all venture capitalists confront tremendous incentive and information problems, in part because they work with View Details
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Amy E. Dean
- 18 Nov 2020
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Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar
with the event. We will definitely be hosting more networking events in this format, as it looks like we’ll be virtual into 2021.” The HBS Club of South Florida welcomed 10 alumni to a virtual discussion about the Future of Work, sharing their insights from their...
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Margie Kelley
- 28 May 2019
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A More Perfect Union
policy has largely played out is that companies have fought for something very narrow that they want out of government—one particular industry gets one specific tax consideration, for example. It’s...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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Faculty Research Online
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6156.html. The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation The notion of levying higher taxes on tall people — an idea offered largely tongue in cheek — presents an ideal way to highlight the shortcomings of current tax View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
created an industrial empire in Hamilton, Ohio, that employed thousands, including hundreds of poor whites who came from Kentucky to southeastern Ohio to find work. And it’s the story of three of his sons, who went on to run Fortune...
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- 23 Oct 2019
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A Bid for the Future
University. As a junior, he was elected student-body president, a role that included serving on a state government reform commission tasked with understanding how public policy decisions had limited Louisiana’s potential. When he applied...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Saving Grace
or cease to exist,” she says. Some people aren’t even aware that they’ve been auto-enrolled, according to the Association of British Insurers and the Pensions Policy Institute, which recently found 1.6 million unclaimed pension funds,...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2009
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Letters to the Editor
reflects the same flawed assumptions shared by many otherwise astute individuals having no experience or expertise in the power industry. I am an energy industry professional of 28 years, one who has no quarrel with nuclear in principle....
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- 17 Nov 2015
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Carbon Neutral
as well as reduce the corporate tax rate, a longtime goal of congressional Republicans. The idea was the brainchild of Eacho and George Frampton, a lawyer who worked on environmental issues at Covington & Burling and former environmental View Details
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Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2006
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One-on-One with Carter Roberts
wide array of projects, but their work wasn’t at all connected. What I saw as the institution’s greatest strength was its combination of field-based conservation work and policy work, but it was dispersed across 100 countries. We decided...
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Roger Thompson
- 01 Sep 2012
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What’s the Big Idea?
(PhDBE 2009) and HBS assistant professor George Serafeim, the trio studied data from a matched sample of 180 companies over 18 years. Organizations that had adopted environmental and social policies by 1993 (described as...
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- 17 Feb 2015
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The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
was clear: launching this project became my priority. “We definitely need these types of initiatives! The policies required to address climate change require broad support to be implemented. That is impossible when only 16 percent of the...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change
health-care reform in this country, we have to frame it as a managerial challenge. It’s not simply a policy issue. We won’t improve the system as a whole until we’ve improved the performance of individual health-care delivery...
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- 01 Jan 2004
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Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
positions. In 1973, Franklin left the White House to become one of the first commissioners of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. She focused on society's most vulnerable consumers—children—introducing the first child-resistant caps to medication bottles and...
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- 22 Oct 2018
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Capital Murder
a think tank. I understand you were also Newt Gingrich’s Spanish tutor? Yes—there are few weirder experiences than sitting in the green room of the O’Reilly Report trying to teach Newt Gingrich the difference between the preterite and imperfect tenses in Spanish. But...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2006
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Academic Cross-Pollination
at Hewlett-Packard for seven years and holds two patents in integrated-circuit testing, admits it was anything but inevitable that he would end up at HBS. “I was interested in science and technology policy at the Kennedy School, and I...
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- 01 Jun 2003
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Bottom-Line Discrepancies
Desai, who is studying the gap between book income — what companies report to shareholders — and tax income — what companies report to the IRS. In a paper titled “The Divergence between Book and Tax Income” published in the forthcoming volume 17 of the National Bureau...
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