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- 01 Sep 2009
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Over the Top
function,” said Roundtable president John Castellani. Skeptics of government intervention are quick to point out that more than two decades of well-meaning attempts to constrain ever-soaring corporate pay and to reform governance through...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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The Devil You Don’t Know
Fed’s rather unorthodox intervention had largely solved the problem. I remember talking with people at the time and saying, “Look, something similar happened in 1930—a temporary pause in the crisis. Maybe we better be cautious about...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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Christina Ehrenberg: The Examined Life
Ehrenberg decided at an early age that she wanted to be a doctor. “I was very concerned about sick people,” she says, “and I thought medicine was the greatest job in the world.” In 1997, she graduated from medical school in Munich and started specializing in View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
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Beating Pain with Brain Power
in Palo Alto, California. There was this very scared young Vietnam veteran whom one could even get on the table. That’s when I saw the first time how a quick hypnotic intervention could make a difference. “I built a research program...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
have control over that. When employees don’t have control over something that matters to them, this usually points toward potential policy interventions and also naturally occurring interventions that we can...
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- 28 May 2019
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Research Brief: Field Research
intervention that amounted to less than $10 per person (but at no cost to the farmer). Even more encouraging to Cole was news that another colleague, Harvard economics professor Michael Kremer, had seen similar results in Kenya. “We were...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
delivery systems of both developing and advanced countries: fragmentation, inefficiency, and organization around discrete interventions (such as delivering drugs or screening) rather than integrated care. Porter and his colleagues aim to...
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- 10 Aug 2015
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Support for the Healers
health,” says Sandford, who joined Point of Care in 2014. “Their burn-out rates are high and getting higher.” Recent breakthroughs in life-saving medical interventions mean that “more patients are living longer with chronic conditions,”...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
the regular rules apply: a data-driven fact base establishing both need and demand for your project, a clear rationale for why and how your intervention will create the social impact you’re promising at scale, trends and competitive...
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- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Fellowship Enables Opportunity in Africa
operations head at Peak Investment Capital, an SME investment platform in Accra. Doha Tantawy (MBA 2019), a native of Cairo, Egypt, will work as a strategy and business development associate at Misr Radiology Center in Cairo. The chain of radiology centers offers...
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- 21 May 2019
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Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
intervention at the national, regional or state levels. Increased consumer concern about climate change is also putting pressure on brands and retailers, which will continue to drive change throughout the food supply chain. Impact...
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Agriculture
- 31 Mar 2023
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How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we're going to highlight another one of the great podcasts here at HBS: Managing the Future of Work, hosted by professor and visiting fellow at the...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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America the Unequal
whether different forms of wealth redistribution — for example, raising the minimum wage, or longer-term interventions like reducing disparities in education — are less likely to evoke heated opposition and perhaps increase advocacy for...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Social Investing Pioneers
simple enough. Investors fund nonprofit social ventures whose interventions result in a measurable social benefit as well as a financial savings to the government. (Government saves money, for example, when fewer people are homeless or...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
voluntary. They are the kinds of ideas that, if they are in the interest of the lender and borrower, should be done anyway. The result of this too cautious intervention on the part of the government is that we will see a wave of...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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The Myth of Laissez-Faire
Even as government intervention and regulation are looming large in the United States, one is still pulled up short on encountering Jeff Madrick’s new book, The Case for Big Government (Princeton University Press). And when he says big,...
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- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
program became a HBS case study, published by professors Gary Pisano and Robert Austin. It was also honored by the United Nations on World Autism Day. Fieldhouse is currently piloting a work-experience initiative for college students on the autism spectrum and a...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
Democrats don’t like ‘standards.’ ” Ignore history at your peril: HBS professor Niall Ferguson, an economic historian, declared that a global economy is more likely to create economic crises than a nonglobal one, and that government View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
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Alumni Books
Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson (MBA ’73) (Wiley) The authors show how modern finance combined with easy money threatened to cripple the world financial system. They...
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- 10 Aug 2015
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A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
Morales, who now serves as marketing and communications manager at Year Up in the Bay Area, and Michelle Smith-Howard, who worked as director of early learning at DC Promise Neighborhood Initiative and is now director of early childhood development and View Details
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Jill Radsken