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  • 20 Jun 2022
  • News

Is It More Important To Surround Yourself With Positive Energy or Be the Origin of It?

  • 1970
  • Report

Foreign Investment in Joint Ventures: Some Effects of Government Policies in Less Developed Countries

By: L. T. Wells Jr.
Keywords: Joint Ventures; Foreign Direct Investment; Policy; Developing Countries and Economies
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  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

Replica Bell for Baker Library; Historic Original Returns to Russia

Harvard. A Russian entrepreneur has financed the casting of replacements for Harvard; a ceremony next month will mark the formal installation of the new HBS bell. View Details
Keywords: Soviet Union; cold war; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 11 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

accepting and educating women. Hence, the country sports a large number of highly educated, highly qualified women with advanced degrees in business, engineering, economics, and foreign languages-all useful... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Apr 2014
  • News

Helping developing countries learn how to solve their problems

Catherine Bouvier d'Yvoire (MBA 1982), director of the Global Strategy Advisory of Citi, sees her role as showing developing countries solutions to their problems. (Published... View Details
  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Do Legal Origins Have Persistent Effects Over Time? A Look at Law and Finance around the World c. 1900

By: Aldo Musacchio
How persistent are the effects of legal institutions adopted or inherited in the distant past? A substantial literature argues that legal origins have persistent effects that explain clear differences in investor protections and financial development around the world... View Details
Keywords: History; Law; Development Economics; Investment; Corporate Governance; Finance; Business and Government Relations
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  • 06 Mar 2021
  • News

Poor countries struggling with debt fight to get help

  • April 1985
  • Background Note

Roles and Responsibilities of the Country Manager: MNC Operations from the National Organization's Perspective

By: Christopher A. Bartlett
Keywords: Managerial Roles; Multinational Firms and Management
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  • December 1998 (Revised January 2003)
  • Case

R.R. Donnelley: Country and Opportunity Analysis in Eastern Europe

Examines several market entry options for R.R. Donnelley's expansion into Eastern Europe. Used as an introduction to a Harvard Business School course titled "New Opportunities in Emerging Markets." Asks students to consider the following issues: 1) the impact of... View Details
Keywords: Opportunities; Market Entry and Exit; Emerging Markets; Europe
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  • August 2013
  • Case

The Republic of the Philippines: The Next Asian Tiger?

By: Richard H.K. Vietor, Carol Dominguez and Tully Moss
The Philippines, for long a laggard in Asia, is now growing fast in 2012, with a positive current account balance. While it still exports services, it is increasing its assembly of manufactured products and trying to increase mining. For these activities, however, it... View Details
Keywords: Country Strategy; Asia; Outsourcing; Macroeconomics; Foreign Direct Investment; Country; Asia; Philippines
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  • 12 Mar 2018
  • Working Paper Summaries

Using Online Prices for Measuring Real Consumption Across Countries

Keywords: by Alberto Cavallo, W. Erwin Diewert, Robert C. Feenstra, Robert Inklaar, and Marcel P. Timmer
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

COVID-19, Government Performance, and Democracy: Survey Experimental Evidence from 12 Countries

By: Michael Becher, Nicholas Longuet Marx, Vincent Pons, Sylvain Brouard, Martial Foucault, Vincenzo Galasso, Eric Kerrouche, Sandra León Alfonso and Daniel Stegmueller
Beyond its immediate impact on public health and the economy, the COVID-19 pandemic has put democracy under stress. While a common view is that people should blame the government rather than the political system for bad crisis management, an opposing view is that... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Government Performance; Democracy; Health Pandemics; Government and Politics; Crisis Management; Public Opinion
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  • Book Review

Review of Power Loss: The Origins of Deregulation and Restructuring in the American Electric Utility System, by Richard F. Hirsh

By: Willis Emmons
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Energy; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry
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  • 11 Oct 2010
  • News

It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won't

  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy: Experimental Evidence from Nine Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic

By: Vincenzo Galasso, Vincent Pons, Paola Profeta, Michael Becher, Sylvain Brouard and Martial Foucault
Millions of people refuse COVID-19 vaccination. Using original data from two surveys in nine OECD countries, we analyze the determinants of anti-vax intentions in December 2020 and show that half of the anti-vax individuals were vaccinated by summer 2021. Vaccinations... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Vaccination; Vaccine Hesitancy; Information Campaigns; Health Pandemics; Behavior; Information
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  • March 2008
  • Article

Can Civil Law Countries Get Good Institutions? Lessons from the History of Creditor Rights and Bond Markets in Brazil

By: Aldo Musacchio
Does a legal tradition adopted in the distant past constrain a country's ability to provide the protection that investors need for financial markets to develop? This paper contributes to the literature that studies the connection between law and finance by looking at... View Details
Keywords: Bonds; Financial Markets; Investment; Code Law; Contracts; Law Enforcement; Size; Brazil
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  • January 2006 (Revised March 2006)
  • Teaching Note

Advanced Competitive Strategy, Notes for Educators 4. Key Concepts in a Module on the Origins of Strategy

By: Jan W. Rivkin
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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Anti-Political-Establishment Citizens: An In-Depth Study from Two Latin American Countries

By: Loreto Cox and Natalia Garbiras-Diaz
Building on citizens’ animosity towards politicians, anti-establishment parties and candidates have achieved significant electoral success. While recent studies examine the supply-side, we know little about what drives citizens’ anti-establishment sentiments and how... View Details
Keywords: Political Parties; Political Instability; Democracy; Elections; Electoral Behavior; Election Outcomes; Ideology; Political Elections; Policy; Governance; Government and Politics; Social Issues; Society; Perception; Crime and Corruption; Latin America; South America; Colombia; Peru
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  • September 2023
  • Article

Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy: Experimental Evidence from Nine Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic

By: Vincenzo Galasso, Vincent Pons, Paola Profeta, Martin McKee, David Stuckler, Michael Becher, Sylvain Brouard and Martial Foucault
We study the impact of public health messages on intentions to vaccinate and vaccination uptakes, especially among hesitant groups. We performed an experiment comparing the effects of egoistic and altruistic messages on COVID-19 vaccine intentions and behaviour. We... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Vaccination; Vaccine Hesitancy; Information Campaigns; Health Pandemics; Behavior; Information
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  • 19 May 2016
  • News

Creating a Public Greenway in Northern California’s Scenic Wine Country

Chuck McMinn (MBA 1978) is a man on the move as founder and chair of the Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition, a 47-mile bike and pedestrian route that will connect the entire region by 2020. “It’s very psychically rewarding. The trail will... View Details