Publications

01 Dec 2006
News

The Hard Way

she set out to find a three- to four-story building. At first, no real estate agent returned her calls. She chalked it up to sexism. “They weren’t taking me seriously,” Russo recalls during a recent visit to Harvard’s Kennedy School of View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Government; Government; Government; Government

April 2022
Article

Going Out or Opting Out? Capital, Political Vulnerability, and the State in China's Outward Investment

By: Meg Rithmire

How do state-business relations interact with outward investment in authoritarian regimes? This paper examines this question in the context of China’s rapid transformation into a major capital exporter. While most political economy scholarship focuses on firms’... View Details

Keywords: Outward Investment; Capital Controls; Corruption; Foreign Direct Investment; Political Economy; State-owned Enterprises; Investment; Global Range; Capital; Globalization; Policy; Government and Politics; China

2021
Working Paper

Going Out or Opting Out? Capital, Political Vulnerability, and the State in China's Outward Investment

By: Meg Rithmire

How do state-business relations interact with outward investment in authoritarian regimes? This paper examines this question in the context of China’s rapid transformation into major capital exporter. While most political economy scholarship focuses on firms’ economic... View Details

Keywords: Outward Investment; Capital Controls; Investment; Global Range; Capital; Globalization; Policy; Government and Politics; China

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Case

Privatizing the Mexican Sugar Industry/Grupo Beta San Miguel

By: Ray A. Goldberg

Keywords: Privatization; Business and Government Relations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Mexico

2018
Book

American Capitalism: New Histories

By: Sven Beckert and Christine Desan

The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising shopkeepers, wildcat banks, violent slave plantations, huge industrial working class, and raucous commodities trade to its world-spanning multinationals, its massive factories, and the centripetal... View Details

Keywords: Economic Systems; History; Finance; Trade; Economy; Policy; United States

June 2011
Teaching Note

Novasys Medical (TN)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh

Teaching Note for 810027. View Details

Keywords: Product Development; Health Care and Treatment; Policy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

December 2002
Article

The Pricing of Event Risks with Parameter Uncertainty

By: K. A. Froot and S. Posner

Keywords: Catastrophe Risk; Corporate Finance; Cost Of Capital; Banking And Insurance; Asset Pricing; Hedging; Banking; Insurance; Decision Choice And Uncertainty; Financial Markets; Policy; Risk Management; Natural Disasters; Insurance Industry

Profile

Sorina Casian-Botez

building something lasting: helping my consulting clients thrive in an exceptionally changing economic environment, nurturing new players in the young markets that need them the most, and one day contributing to the trends of thoughts and View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Nonprofit / Government; Nonprofit / Government

01 Mar 2010
News

Alumni Books

Saturday Evening Post, Sports Illustrated, and other publications to his realistic paintings of all the major game fish in their natural habitats. Rules Are Not Enough: The Art of Good Governance in the Real World by Rupert Merson (PMD... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2010
News

Sole Mates

government is trying to open them to well-controlled commercial logging but most of the companies entering Liberia’s forests today are unqualified and unscrupulous. Bribery drives the allocation process. The View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture

Web

Statista | Baker Library

data and facts from a wide range of sources onto a single platform. Sources of information include market research, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases. Get Access HBS Faculty, Students, and Staff Remote... View Details

24 Jul 2013
Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

Affordable Healthcare Act. Although the federal government offers a range of subsidies for healthcare policies obtained through these connectors, cities would still have to decide who should pay the... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto

December 2018
Case

CIR Group: Passing Wealth through the Generations

By: Lauren Cohen, Christopher J. Malloy and Elena Corsi

Rodolfo, Marco, and Edoardo De Benedetti had received from their father his controlling shares in COFIDE, a publicly listed holding company that held 45.8% of CIR Group, another publicly listed holding. The latter held majority shares in GEDI, Italy’s largest print... View Details

Keywords: Succession Planning; Transferring Shares; Wealth Management; Holding Structures; Family Ownership; Ownership Stake; Management Succession; Governing and Advisory Boards; Policy; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Health Industry; Italy

Educators

01 Dec 2008
News

Back to the Future

ON THE PRIZE: U.S. dependency on Middle East oil will be long term, Stobaugh says; about one-fifth of U.S. imports are from the region. YASSER AL-ZAYYAT/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Energy Future argues that U.S. energy policy should focus on... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

16 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation

In the high-tech industry, it's common practice for a governing body to develop technical standards for any given technology. The goal is to promote widespread adoption and compatibility among various devices. The Bluetooth standard lets... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Legal Services

24 Jul 2014
Op-Ed

Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home

facilitate the expatriation of US corporations. Such transactions reflect the effects of policies and of the changing structure of multinational firms. From a policy perspective, the transactions highlight... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai; Pharmaceutical

March 2024
Article

Medicare Price Negotiation and Pharmaceutical Innovation Following the Inflation Reduction Act

By: Matthew Vogel, Pragya Kakani, Amitabh Chandra and Rena M. Conti

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) requires Medicare to negotiate lower prices for some medicines with high Medicare spending. Using historical data from public and proprietary sources to apply the IRA's negotiation criteria retrospectively, we identify all drugs that... View Details

Keywords: Policy; Government Legislation; Health Care and Treatment; Negotiation; Price; Pharmaceutical Industry