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- 07 Oct 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Companies Can Make Up with (Very) Unhappy Customers
JetBlue today is considered one of the top airlines in the world, and its customer ratings are as high as its airplanes. But not that long ago JetBlue was a prime business school example of a nightmare scenario displacing 130,000...
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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
directors, we often discussed the reality that pushing rates up too precipitously would risk cutting off the recovery before we’re at full employment. I think Boston Fed economists would say that it would be...
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- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
immediate impact of the financial crisis on small business and, second, driving economic recovery in the years following. Together, the three-the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery...
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- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
suspend the emissions reduction law until the state's unemployment rate falls below 5.5 percent for four consecutive quarters. "The cost curves you see in renewable energy are falling fairly predictably," Lassiter says....
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- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
forecasted GDP growth rates for Japan by 0.5% for the first quarter of this year, and by more than 1.5% for the second quarter. The financial consequences are equally alarming. The Nikkei 225 Stock Average plunged 6.2% at the market's...
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- 14 Dec 2010
- Op-Ed
Tax US Companies to Spur Spending
how sensitive corporations are likely to be to facing a negative rate of return on their cash holdings. But the goal would be more to trigger behavior that feeds that economy rather than raising revenue for the government. Ideally, firms...
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by Mihir A. Desai
- Profile
Zihan Lin
Medical. In collaboration with three engineering colleagues and a cosmetic surgeon, Zi designed a superior, post-surgery "splint" to improve rhinoplasty recoveries and reduce revision rates. Heal Medical has already moved beyond...
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- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
and residential real estate, which represent two-thirds of the assets of small-business owners and are often used as collateral for small-business loans, were decimated during the financial crisis. On the supply side, banks remain more risk averse in the View Details
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
then Liberia would be unlikely, in our opinion, not to grow at double-digit rates from the moment that the ore is exported in quantity, so long as market conditions for natural resources remain strong," the report concludes. But...
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by Kim Girard
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
How DC is Taxing the Country
(photo by Brooks Kraft/Getty) Sunny jobs reports and shrinking unemployment numbers might give the impression that the US economic recovery is complete. Scratch beneath that surface, though, and a much bleaker trend emerges, says a new...
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Francis Storrs
- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
Co-op is experimenting with a transactive energy rate that will enable members to partner with the co-op, supplying energy from their EV batteries when it is most needed, and charging up when demand — and prices — are low. The technology...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In the Zone
million relief and recovery fundraising effort to a $50 million goal that will aid partner organizations in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis, Newark, and Oakland. (Thanks to Owusu-Kesse’s seven-minute TED talk, HCZ raised $26...
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- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
engine for innovation and job creation to drive competitiveness, while also providing a path to a prosperous lifestyle for countless American families. But today, small businesses are not creating these jobs at the rate that we need. The...
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- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
high grade to several of the countries in East Asia. It puts technology at the center of the story. The real winners, in our view, over the long term are those countries that are able to sustain high rates of innovation. For middle-income...
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by Staff
- 02 Sep 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?
witnessed, but NO VIRGINIA, the business cycle is not dead.” Others cited forces that, by implication, appeared to weight more heavily as influences on expansion. They included continued reasonable increases in business earnings in relation to seemingly sustainable...
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- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
startup in the face of fierce competition. From 2011 through 2016, the business evolved from a hobby to a startup with $22 million in revenue and 45 employees, all of whom worked remotely from home. Customer acquisition was becoming more difficult and repeat purchase...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
attainment outcomes (measured primarily by students' completion rates at various grade levels). Deals with outcome trends within the general U.S. school-aged population and covers educational outcomes in various subpopulations of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
that the markets expect strong deregulation, and that impacts every other sector that is highly regulated in the economy. So you saw the rising stock prices of financials, for example, as well as energy stocks. The second effect comes from promises to reduce tax View Details
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by Jim Aisner
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
Rate, Innovation and Productivity: Regional Heterogeneity, Asymmetries and Hysteresis By: Alfaro, Laura, Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger, and Yanping Liu Abstract—We evaluate manufacturing firms' responses to changes in the real exchange View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
and thereby decrease the interest rates on their municipal bonds. Health care obligations to retired employees are the hidden bombshells of municipal finance. Any changes in such obligations will be politically controversial. Be that as...
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