International Politics - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Mar 2012
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Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

too-commonly used term, not mine) are tradable on international labor markets. They especially follow the migration of manufacturing activity involving jobs requiring lower skills and compensation. Efforts to revive high value-added... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

September 1992 (Revised July 1998)
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Germany in the 1990s: Managing Reunification

By: George C. Lodge and James W. Ragsdale

In October 1990, eastern Germany was incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany. The German people rewarded the architect of these changes, Helmut Kohl, with an enhanced majority in national elections. But only two years later it was hard to remember these heady... View Details

Keywords: Economy; Inflation and Deflation; Central Banking; Interest Rates; Political Elections; Situation or Environment; Integration; Europe; Germany; Italy; United Kingdom

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18 Aug 2010
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The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring

Keywords: by Lamar Pierce & Michael W. Toffel

21 Jul 2009
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communication but also to less experimentation and less information collection. When two firms that are each internally homogenous but different from each other, merge, the above results translate to specific predictions how the change in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Organizing the Family-Run Business

Family companies that progress to the Cousin Consortium stage, where two or more cousins control the company, can have bloated, highly political boards. But over time many family businesses learn the value of a well-composed and well-run... View Details

August 2018
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Christine Lagarde (B): Being a Public Servant

By: Julie Battilana and Carin-Isabel Knoop

This case covers the career of Christine Lagarde from 2005 to 2011 after she joins the French Government. After serving several grueling years as Finance Minister during the financial crisis that started in 2007/2008, she is being considered as the next Managing... View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Government and Politics; Financial Crisis; Power and Influence

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04 Nov 2014
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now own over 80% of banking assets in Mexico, and we show how, using a political economy model and a series of econometric tests, this has helped to stabilize the system and reduced non-performance loans, but it has also increased the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Aug 2011
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Partners: Evidence from China Authors:Crystal X. Jiang, Roy Y.J. Chua, Masaaki Kotabe, and Janet Y. Murray Publication:Journal of International Business Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate trust relationships between senior... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 1992 (Revised March 1993)
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Empresas ICA and the Mexican Road Privatization Program

By: Willis M. Emmons III and Monica Brand

Mexico's largest construction company, Empresas ICA, makes an initial public offering to international equity investors in April 1992 to help fund its participation in an ambitious new private-sector approach to highway development. Under the new program, launched by... View Details

Keywords: Construction; Transportation Networks; Infrastructure; Privatization; Private Equity; Investment; Initial Public Offering; Private Sector; Government and Politics; Policy; Construction Industry; Mexico

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06 Jul 2016
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How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?

political process.(including Marco’s comment that “political campaign financing is a related issue”). Those proposing remedies implicitly seemed to agree with RCW’s comment that, “Historic thinking seems to be: ‘It will all work itself... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Manufacturing

11 Feb 2014
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which are situations where information, supplies, or equipment needed for patient care are insufficient. However, little is known about underlying causes of operational failures and what hospitals can do to reduce their occurrence. To address this gap, we examined the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Apr 2008
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market looked behind "the thin film of gold." Our results point to a dichotomy: whereas country-risk premia fell after gold adoption in developed countries, there were no credibility gains in the volatile economic and political... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?

are already seeing higher prices at the pump, for one thing—and in some areas, those prices could spike even higher, says Harvard Business School Professor Rawi Abdelal. Abdelal, HBS’s Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Energy

August 2019
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Huawei and the U.S.-China Trade War

By: Elie Ofek and John Masko

In 2019, Chinese smartphone maker and telecommunications empire Huawei was preparing to launch its new flagship smartphone series, the Mate 30. After years of explosive growth, the previous 18 months had been a challenge for the company. In early 2018, Huawei’s planned... View Details

Keywords: Trade; Global Strategy; International Relations; National Security; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Information Infrastructure; Volatility; Adaptation; Telecommunications Industry; China; United States; European Union

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07 Sep 2011
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out-of-sample firms. We consider and reject several alternative explanations of our findings. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-107.pdf The International Politics of IFRS Harmonization... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

November 2021
Article

Making Industrial Policy Work for Decarbonization

By: Jonas Meckling

Industrial policy has begun to move into the center of debates on climate policy. This represents a shift away from climate policy as we know it—as classic environmental policy. Industrial policy and environmental policy differ in their policy goals, policy... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Regulation; Policy; Government and Politics; Climate Change

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14 Jul 2015
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the effects of various political campaign activities on voter preferences in the domain of U.S. Presidential elections. We construct a comprehensive data set that covers the three most recent elections, with detailed records of voter... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2021
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How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security

political commentators and elected officials continue to debate not only the implications of institutional racism, but its very existence. Tabellini’s study shows how racial injustice reverberates far beyond its seemingly local source,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

29 Sep 2009
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Policymakers tend to do just enough to satisfy political demands but not enough to solve the real problems, and they wait too long to act. The resulting policies are overly reactive, enacted once damage is already done, and they are too... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

August 2023 (Revised September 2023)
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T.G.S. Transportation: Battery Electric or Hydrogen?

By: Willy C. Shih

Peter Schneider, the President of T.G.S. Transportation, Inc., faced a choice. His company operated drayage trucks that moved containerized cargo between the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Oakland to customers across the State of California, with a focus on the... View Details