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- 01 Mar 2016
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Off Script
according to one study—and the limited lifespan of patent rights. What can the pharmaceutical industry and government regulators do to improve conditions? We put your queries to Fred Hassan (MBA 1972), a managing director at Warburg...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Where Are They Now?
the current economic turbulence. “People talked about a real-estate bubble, but nobody foresaw a collapse in home prices on the scale that has occurred,” with the potential for nearly a 30 percent drop nationally, he says. Pointing to...
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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
in the oil patch during that boom—that’s how I put myself through college. But once the price of oil dropped in 1982 and 1983, then that boom went bust because it was no longer cost effective to extract the oil. It was a very painful...
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- 15 Oct 2019
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Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective
opinion and climate policies, and the relative cost of various energy sources. “There is always lively classroom discussion about whether industries that pollute are paying a high enough price for their trans- gressions and whether...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Back to the Future
$4 a gallon, stunning American motorists. The results were predictable: Prices for everything skyrocketed, and an already recessionary U.S. economy, soon to be slammed by the mortgage and credit crises, began slouching toward the 1930s....
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- 01 Mar 2023
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The Latest Model
Prysm Group Cofounders Hurder (left) and Barrera: bringing an industry-agnostic approach to helping business leverage emerging technologies Prysm Group cofounders Hurder (left) and Barrera: bringing an industry-agnostic approach to helping business leverage emerging...
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- 01 Dec 2007
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Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
No sector of our economy is more in need of innovation than health care, yet its many regulations handcuff entrepreneurs. A consumer-driven health-care system will unlock these shackles to bring about a much-needed entrepreneurial...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
appeal of anonymity seems inherently flawed for storing large values in an age when the threat of identity theft through electronic eavesdropping and in-person, gun-to-the-head demands for access and asset transfers are a growing menace. Will anonymity be relinquished...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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An Economy Undermined
anger, and shifting ideologies. Then, in 1982, the bull market in stocks began. It changed the way companies were managed. CEOs focused on getting the stock price up. There was a takeover movement, then junk bonds, and then leveraged...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
global CO2 emissions. They also remain the hubs and engines for the world’s economic, political, cultural, and social development. Fortunately, because of their legislative power to regulate buildings, density, energy use, and...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Hard Choices
directions. Fads can be mistaken for trends; the flavor du jour can masquerade as a time-tested recipe. An ephemeral stock price can be made to seem a permanent achievement, an unwavering final verdict. The temporary opinion rendered by...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Apr 1996
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Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
countries around the globe as governments have sought to spur competition, innovation, and reduction in prices to consumers," notes Emmons. "The term 'deregulation,' however, often obscures the complexity of the shifting role played by...
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- 14 Feb 2019
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Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
need new technology, Perry said—we need to apply capitalism and government regulation to these problems to provide incentives to farmers or convince consumers they should pay for this change either through higher View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
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Summit Sound Bites
Numenta, Inc. “Given how instantaneously information moves, regulators can never possibly move fast enough to create real change.” —Jim Breyer (MBA ’87), Partner, Accel Partners “If you have fifty scientists, you don’t need 150 projects....
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis
of telemedicine. At MGH these virtual visits skyrocketed, allowing patients and doctors to reduce the risk of spreading the virus. How did that change come about so suddenly, after years of existing on the fringes? Robert Huckman: What we’ve seen is at least a...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Letters to the Editor
international banking, I am familiar with “the old shell game” of tax evasion via the transfer pricing mechanism. Differentiating between tax avoidance and tax evasion in this area is often very difficult indeed. But very big money is...
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- 01 Dec 1997
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Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
their own assessments of his contributions to the field. Andre F. Perold, Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management and chair of the School's Finance unit, noted, "Bob has pioneered the use of sophisticated stochastic calculus for View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
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Short Takes
Reinhardt writes that for a company to be sustainable, it must have a strategy or development path that maintains an undiminished level of net assets. He argues that if the prices in the firm's accounting systems are the correct ones, the...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2018
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Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
Ickis (MBA 1971, DBA 1978) REISNER: One of the hottest areas of investment growth is in cross-border shipping, but there are two core problems: In an age of terrorism, customs are commercial constraints and also valuable public safety services. The other is View Details
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2009
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Letters to the Editor
word for it: Numerous sources over the past several years have documented the actual costs of the new generation of nuclear plants, including testimony to regulators by many of the utilities proposing to build them. According to these...
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