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  • 04 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Navigating Consumer Data Privacy in an AI World

be forgotten.” So, if someone asks a company to delete their records because they don't want to be part of any data analysis or algorithms, the company needs to act fast and get it done. Sticking to the usual way of doing things isn't a... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
  • Web

Business History - Faculty & Research

multinational enterprises (MNEs) in host countries over time. We argue that a change in the policy environment in a host country presents an MNE with two sets of interrelated decisions. First, the MNE has to... View Details
  • 27 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

depend on the circumstances and, if so, how?” Drawing on 138 interviews with FBI officials and an analysis of 45 congressional testimonies from 2001 to 2013, the paper details the ways in which design change and identity change interacted... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Moving to the Adjacent Possible: Discovering Paths for Export Diversification in Rwanda

By: Ricardo Hausmann and Jasmina Chauvin
How can Rwanda, which currently has one of the lowest levels of income and exports per capita in the world, grow and diversify its economy in presence of significant constraints? We analyze Rwanda's historical growth and trade performance and find that Rwanda's high... View Details
Keywords: Export Diversification; Industrialization; Economic Complexity; International Trade; Rwanda; Diversification; Trade; Transportation; Developing Countries and Economies; Rwanda
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  • 06 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 6

ownership and control of 3,694 firms in 22 Western European and East Asian countries during the period from 1996 to 2008, we find that the cost of debt financing is significantly higher for companies with a wider divergence between the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 24

economies. We propose that firms' corporate governance and firms' strategic business activities within an industry are interlinked. By conducting a simultaneous economic analysis of business strategy and corporate governance, scholars can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

natural gas market. Diversification into water utilities and broadband soon followed, as did expansion to other countries that promised to deregulate and privatize energy production and distribution. Unfortunately, applying the company's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • 24 Oct 2023
  • Research & Ideas

When Tech Platforms Identify Black-Owned Businesses, White Customers Buy

Generations of Black business owners have had to fight discrimination to prosper in America, but a new study suggests that these entrepreneurs are now gaining more support in parts of the country when they make their presence known. The... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Food & Beverage
  • Web

Data - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

regional economic development initiatives. Visit the U.S. Cluster Mapping website Other Cluster Mapping Projects The Institute has worked with partner institutes in many countries around the world to develop cluster mapping projects based... View Details
  • 26 May 2022
  • HBS Case

Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?

and telecom corporations. The shocking revelations caused many consumers, businesses, and governments to take their business away from US tech companies; A New America analysis estimated the loss to US cloud computing over the Snowden... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

EMEs and COVID-19: Shutting Down in a World of Informal and Tiny Firms

By: Laura Alfaro, Oscar Becerra and Marcela Eslava
Emerging economies are characterized by an extremely high prevalence of informality, small-firm employment and jobs not fit for working from home. These features factor into how the COVID-19 crisis has affected the economy. We develop a framework that, based on... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Emerging Economies; Informality; Firm-size Distribution; Health Pandemics; Developing Countries and Economies; Economy; System Shocks; Latin America
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  • 05 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 5

and Finance Hypothesis Pass the Test of History? Authors:Musacchio, Aldo, and John D. Turner Publication:Business History Abstract For the body of work known as the law and finance literature, the development of financial markets and the concentration of ownership... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

of the business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this definition enables the analysis of business models through the analysis of individual firm choices. We situate negotiation... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Innovation & Innovative Capacity - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

capacity of both countries and regions. Using data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and emerging nations over the past quarter century, their findings show the striking degree to which location matters for... View Details
  • Web

Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

significant discretion. Corporate philanthropy is our setting to study how a differentiated structural element—the corporate foundation—constrains the influence of individual senior managers and directors on corporate strategy. Our View Details
  • Web

Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets

intermediaries , financial reporting , financial statement analysis Interviews Kutayba Alghanim Nien-he Hsieh Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration Research Interests : corporate accountability , corporate governance ,... View Details
  • Web

Globalization - Faculty & Research

competition, and earnings management affect mean reversion in accounting return on assets. Using a sample of 48,465 unique firms from 49 countries, we find that accounting returns mean revert faster in countries where there is more... View Details
  • 2010
  • Book

The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal

By: Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu
On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal was officially opened for business, thus changing the face of both world trade and military power and playing a pivotal role in the rise of the United States on the world stage. Today we view the creation of the Panama Canal as a... View Details
Keywords: Political History; For-Profit Firms; Development Economics; Infrastructure; State Ownership; Ship Transportation; Panama; United States
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  • June 2022
  • Case

Business Implications from Regulating Carbon Emissions in the EU

By: George Serafeim and Benjamin Maletta
In the beginning of the 21st century, the European Union (the EU) had led the global fight against climate change with a wide array of policy measures. The EU’s primary approach to climate policy had been taxation via the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU... View Details
Keywords: Regulation; Carbon Emissions; Trade; Sustainability; Decarbonization; Performance; Climate Change; Analysis; Strategy; Taxation; Policy; Environmental Regulation; Industry Structures; European Union
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  • 23 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 23

comparative historical analysis of consumer lending in the United States and France, I argue that national differences in the regulation of consumer credit had their roots in the historical conditions by which the small loan sector came... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne