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    Reinventing State Capitalism

    In this book we study the evolution of corporate governance arrangements that governments have adopted for their state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the last 20 years. We show that the process of privatization and liberalization of the 1990s and early 2000s created... View Details

    • February 2006 (Revised November 2012)
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    Corporate Responsibility & Community Engagement at the Tintaya Copper Mine (A)

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Brooke Barton and Ezequiel Reficco
    Located in the highlands of Peru, the Tintaya copper mine has long been a source of intense conflict between local community members and mine operators. The mine, which was owned and managed first by the Peruvian state and later by BHP Billiton, stands on 2,300... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Multinational Firms and Management; Agreements and Arrangements; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Non-Governmental Organizations; Conflict Management; Mining Industry; Australia; Peru
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    • 04 Feb 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

    rules and thus on capital markets, observes Karthik Ramanna, an associate professor and Henry B. Arthur Fellow in the Accounting and Management unit at Harvard Business School, where he studies the political economy of corporate... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting
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    Managing the Future of Work (MBA Education—Elective Curriculum)

    By: Christopher T. Stanton

    The nature and scope of work is changing rapidly, creating massive business challenges in the shadow of broader political and social shifts.  HBS launched a major initiative in 2017 on Managing the Future of Work to define these workplace issues and... View Details

    • 01 Oct 1997
    • News

    High Fives

    father-in-law said it would be in the new CEO's interest to make sure that my career was successful also. I took the job.” Investment outlook over the next five years: “I'm bullish. We're in a world of low inflation. Market economies and... View Details
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    Professor Begenau’s research agenda is directed at better understanding how financial markets work and how they affect the real economy. She uses quantitative analysis to build both prescriptive and descriptive models concerning financial risk in banking, and she also... View Details
    • 14 Jul 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

    As economies reopen after forced shutdowns caused by COVID-19, managers around the world are faced with a dual challenge: keep the workforce safe while preserving business viability in an evolving and volatile market. How should... View Details
    Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa
    • 22 Jul 2019
    • Book

    How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

    becomes, which lowers the likelihood of a winner-take-all outcome. Lastly, the truly successful firms in a platform world tend to have meaningful supply-side scale economies. Markets with large economies of scale generally have higher... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 2012
    • Discussion Paper

    Labor Productivity and Quality Change in Singapore: Achievements in 1974-2011 and Prospects for the Next Two Decades

    By: Koji Nomura and Tomomichi Amano
    Labor productivity growth in Singapore that has grown at a rate of over 3.0 percent per year since 1970s considerably slowed down to 0.5 percent on average per annum in the latter half of the 2000s. The purpose of this paper is to ask, first, to what extent Singapore’s... View Details
    Keywords: Labor; Performance Productivity; Quality; Economic Growth; Singapore
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    By: Regina E. Herzlinger
    Course Requirements

    Students are required to prepare a business plan, which employs the framework of this course, to explore an entrepreneurial opportunity in health care, and to evaluate their classmates' plans.

    Career Focus

    For... View Details
    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    Zig-Zagging Your Way to Transformative Impact

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Tricia Gregg
    Achieving transformative impact has been much discussed by social entrepreneurs, funders, and consultants. These discussions have focused on issues of increasing impact and scale, but often with no clear distinction between the two terms. In order to provide clarity,... View Details
    Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Performance Efficiency; Growth and Development; Outcome or Result; Strategy
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    Renovating Democratic Capitalism

    By: Malcolm S. Salter

    This in-process work focuses on how best to address the declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider to be a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? While the answer to this question is not entirely clear, I... View Details

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    By: Vincent Pons
    Professor Pons studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved.

    He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details
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    By: Matthew C. Weinzierl

    My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details

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    By: Debora L. Spar

    Managing International Trade and Investment

    Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details

    • 01 Mar 2003
    • News

    Post-Soviet Purpose

    of Slavic Studies. The book describes how national identities influence the world economy and explains patterns of economic disintegration and reintegration among Russia and the other fourteen states that composed the Soviet Union View Details
    Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
    • 01 Dec 1998
    • News

    Africa's Way

    Each day the global economy becomes more and more like an African weaving - dozens of different, colorful, and previously isolated threads woven together, gradually becoming more tightly intertwined. Africa, newly rising from years of... View Details
    Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
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    The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management

    In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details

    • 06 Nov 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

    case capturing some of the dilemmas faced by African economies. South Africa is the largest economy in Africa by quite a distance, and is an illustration of the macro determinates of foreign direct investment, he said. Werker, whose... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 21 Sep 2015
    • News

    Helping Japan Build a Strong Economic Future

    senior fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry; and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. She has written and lectured on Japan’s Asia policy and Asian economic integration. Her 2006 book, Transforming East Asia, analyzes the... View Details