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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Meet the Oligarchs: Business Legitimacy, State Capacity and Taxation

By: Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra and Alejandro Lagomarsino
We analyze the role of people’s beliefs about the rich in the determination of public policy in the context of a randomized online survey experiment. A question we study is the desirability of government-private sector meetings, a variable we argue is connected to... View Details
Keywords: Business Legitimacy; State Capacity; Meetings; Taxes; Top 1%; Regulation; Prejudice and Bias; Values and Beliefs; Taxation; Business and Government Relations
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  • 12 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

power in Ghana's history. Focuses on Ghana's long history of poor economic performance and intractable poverty, highlighting the challenges of economic development in Africa and in other low-income countries. Provides a brief political... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

future others will share their view than to believe that future others will have an opposing view (e.g., opposition to President Trump). Six studies demonstrated this belief in a favorable future (BFF) for political views, scientific... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Article

Spanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment

By: Juan Alcacer and Paul Ingram
Global economic transactions such as foreign direct investment must extend over an institutional abyss between the jurisdiction, and therefore protection, of the states involved. Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), whose members are states, represent an important... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Market Transactions; Foreign Direct Investment; Government and Politics; Risk and Uncertainty; Networks; Culture; Complexity; Public Administration Industry
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  • January 2016
  • Case

Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
This case study examines a market-based approach to economic development through the eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a US$9.5 million five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Economic Development; Corporate Social Responsibility; Emerging Country; Teaming; Public-private Partnership; Inter-organizational Relationships; Collaboration; Strategy Implementation; Agricultural Commodity; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Public Sector; Supply Chain Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Learning; Partners and Partnerships; Private Sector; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Enterprise; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Haiti
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  • 16 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 16

Technical Note 713-090): 1. To describe what tax havens are and the mechanics of how these jurisdictions operate. 2. To evaluate tax havens as a model for country development. 3. To examine the economic and political benefits of the tax... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2023
  • Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

politics is downstream from culture. And culture is downstream from psychiatry and theology and all kinds of things. But what what do you think is going on in in America right now to cause this this level of dissatisfaction or... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
  • 04 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating

Got a problem? Throw some collaboration software at it. It's a common strategy among today's managers: Organizations spend a lot of money on technology that enables employees to tackle problems collectively. Hence, the market is rife with View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Video Game; Web Services
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

The Cost of Banking Deserts: Racial Disparities in Access to PPP Lenders and their Equilibrium Implications

By: Jeffrey Wang and David Hao Zhang
Many government support programs for small businesses are designed to pass through banks and credit unions. However, this poses barriers for minority communities that are less connected to financial institutions for obtaining this support. Using the latest program for... View Details
Keywords: Banking Deserts; Minority Communities; Paycheck Protection Program; Banks and Banking; Small Business; Demographics; Race; Government and Politics; Programs
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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Spanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment

By: Juan Alcacer and Paul Ingram
Global economic transactions such as foreign direct investment must extend over an institutional abyss between the jurisdiction, and therefore protection, of the states involved. Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), whose members are states, represent an important... View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Governance Controls; International Relations; Social Issues
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  • 07 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

awareness. We use a network approach to demonstrate that the connections between two countries through joint-membership in the same IGOs are associated with a large positive influence on the foreign direct investment that flows between... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2024
  • HBS Case

Banned or Not, TikTok Is a Force Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore

recombining elements of existing content. The system enables an explosion of new content without requiring content creators to have exceptional talent or commit significant time. TikTok has been able to forge a deep connection with users.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology
  • 06 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 6

company contemplating an investment to produce forest products in Indonesia. The primary case decisions are 1) how to assess political and operating risk, 2) how to integrate economic and political risk... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jul 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Informed and Interconnected: A Manifesto for Smarter Cities

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Stanley S. Litow; Technology
  • 30 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

inferences are formed as a function of what is chosen. Specifically, when observers encounter someone else's choice (e.g., of political candidate), they use the chosen option's attribute values (e.g., a candidate's specific stance on a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 15

That They Are Now Losing Authors:Michael I. Norton and Samuel R. Sommers Publication:Perspectives on Psychological Science (forthcoming) Abstract Although some have heralded recent political and cultural developments as signaling the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

Political connections and family control are more common in Asian businesses than in the United States. In addition, says HBS professor D. Quinn Mills, American CEOs tend to use one of five leadership... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
  • 01 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 1

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/14-090_9901a957-a740-47b2-abce-4f93070d21fe.pdf   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 714-432 Emirates Airline: Connecting the Unconnected Narrates the story of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2018
  • Book

The New History of American Capitalism

seemed to neatly divide politics and markets, states and economies. "The new history of American capitalism targets the lived experience of people and groups as they assimilate—and reshape—the political... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
  • 03 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa

members—Deepak Malhotra, an authority on negotiation strategy; Noel Maurer, an expert on the politics and economics of the energy business; and Magnus Thor Torfason, an authority on how behavior is influenced by the social structures of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Deepak Malhotra; Energy; Utilities

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