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Making Meritocracy

How do societies identify and promote merit? Enabling all people to fulfill their potential, and ensuring the selection of competent and capable leaders are central challenges for any society. These are not new concerns. Scholars, educators, and political and economic... View Details

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Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets

Administration Research Interests : consumer finance , consumer goods , consumer policy , government and business , political economy Interviews Anil Jain Marlous van Waijenburg Assistant Professor of Business Administration Research... View Details

01 Feb 1999
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Too Much of a Good Thing?

it's supposed to." Bower continues: "Theoretically, when an industry has excess capacity, prices fall and the least efficient producers can't survive." But, Bower adds, that doesn't always happen. "In many countries, for all sorts of economic and View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2024
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The War Within

When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

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Seminars & Conferences - Faculty & Research

upcoming events The Political Economy of Religion Seminar Series Feb 27 27 Feb 2025 Seminar Paola Sapienza, Northwestern University Alberto Alesina Seminar on Political Economy Time: 4:30 PM – 5:45 PM... View Details

August 20, 2024
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Sexual Assault Victims Face a Penalty for Adjacent Consent

By: Jillian J. Jordan and Roseanna Sommers

Across 11 experimental studies (n = 12,257), we show that female victims of sexual assault are blamed more and seen as less morally virtuous if their assault follows voluntary sexual intimacy, a factor we term “adjacent consent”. Moreover, we illuminate a... View Details

Keywords: Perception; Prejudice and Bias; Moral Sensibility; Crime and Corruption; Social Issues

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2015
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Free at Last, Now What: The Soviet and Chinese Attempts to Offer a Roadmap for the Post-Colonial World

By: Jeremy Friedman

This article seeks to understand the motivations behind the People's Republic of China's attempt to present an alternative development model for the post-colonial world and challenge Soviet leadership in the international communist movement in mid-1960s. When the wave... View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Business and Government Relations; China; United States; Soviet Union

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December 2012 (Revised July 2013)
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The “Chongqing Model” and the Future of China

By: Meg Rithmire

Since opening to the global economy in 1979, but especially since entering the WTO in 2001, China's economy grew at rates around 10% annually by attracting FDI and promoting exports. After the financial crisis that began in 2008 and depressed demand in the United... View Details

Keywords: China; Public Sector; Private Sector; Developing Countries and Economies; Macroeconomics; Public Administration Industry; China

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U.S. states increasingly require identification to vote—an ostensible attempt to deter fraud that prompts complaints of selective disenfranchisement. Using a difference-in-differences design on a panel data set with 1.6 billion observations, 2008–2018, we find that... View Details

01 Nov 2022
What Do You Think?

Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

residing in the US as either undocumented or illegal immigrants. What you call them seems to depend to some extent on your political leanings. Another result are borders—in particular, the Southern border—that are more open than many... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

shortage, and evolving capital markets, amid significant political and global unrest. Please note: This was not an annual summit—this was a one-time opportunity that featured: This energizing, one-time summit will feature: Presentations... View Details

September 2017 (Revised March 2019)
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Henry Kissinger: Negotiating Black Majority Rule in Rhodesia (A)

By: James K. Sebenius and Laurence A. Green

In 1976, a growing crisis in Southern Africa drew the attention of United States Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. White Rhodesian leader Ian Smith's refusal to accede to black majority rule threatened to widen into a regional conflict involving apartheid South... View Details

Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Race; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Participants; Government and Politics; Africa; United States

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2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

participants were next asked to rate several specific threats to the financial system, including market turmoil due to political risk, The Federal Reserve unwinding of its balance sheet, the Federal Reserve's low interest rate policy, the... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Again and Again

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Jason Holley Whenever he’s presenting to a large audience, Professor Michael Norton likes to pose this question to the crowd: After you get up in the morning, do you brush your teeth first and then shower, or vice versa?... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

27 May 2022
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Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023

military experiences into the classroom, and applying to HBS. Katie Brennan (MBA 2023) Hometown: Miami, FL Undergraduate university and major: Florida State University; Political Science/Criminology Military experience: Active-Duty... View Details

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Historical Data & Sources - Business History

Palgrave-MacMillan, 2007 B.R. Mitchell, International Statistics: Africa, Asia, Oceania, 1750-2005. New York: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2007 United Nations, International Trade Statistics, various years Download Data Set in Excel Political... View Details

31 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

democracy as well as its resilience over time. The book adapts the case method to revitalize conversations about governance and democracy and show how the United States has often thrived on political conflict. Each of the book’s nineteen... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Video - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Business School talks about the challenges business in the U.S. is facing, including political gridlock in Washington and an ever-deepening skills shortage. July 2013 Other Publication "American Competitiveness Worldwide: Impacts on Small... View Details

19 Mar 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Beyond Gender and Negotiation to Gendered Negotiations

Keywords: by Deborah Kolb & Kathleen L. McGinn

November 2024
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Preference Externality Estimators: A Comparison of Border Approaches and IVs

By: Xi Ling, Wesley R. Hartmann and Tomomichi Amano

This paper compares two estimators—the Border Approach and an Instrumental Variable (IV) estimator—using a unified framework where identifying variation arises from “preference externalities,” following the intuition in Waldfogel (2003). We highlight two dimensions in... View Details

Keywords: Econometrics; Casual Inference; Marketing; Economics; Advertising; Mathematical Methods