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- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
Monroe Abstract— Why do regimes allow some low-income business owners to avoid taxes by operating informally? Electoral incentives are central to prevailing explanations of governments’ forbearance of informal enterprise. Yet many... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
209-111 This note briefly describes bankruptcy regimes and out-of-court restructuring in five countries: the U.S., the U.K., Germany, France, and Japan. Purchase this note: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209111 View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Sister Soldier
What really strikes me is how enduring the governmental institutions they helped create have been. Raqqa, for example, still has a women’s council, and women co-lead every civil council (the governing body of each town), even though in theory the Syrian View Details
- 29 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 29, 2006
patent holder are zero, and an "aggressive" form where they are strictly positive. Even though the patentee's profits are protected with the lost profits damage measure, innovation incentives are reduced relative to a regime... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2011
- What Do You Think?
What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?
result, it relies heavily on partnering with others in the development of application software. Its product development is organized around sometimes competing teams operating under a regime with the philosophy that "The system is,... View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
Working Papers Debt Redemption, Reserve Accumulation, and Exchange-Rate Regimes By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—Foreign participation in local-currency-bond markets in emerging countries has increased dramatically over the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?
action. Q: You recently wrote about the writings of Mandarin Yung Wing, a senior bureaucrat during the time of the Manchu regime and the first Chinese national to graduate from Yale. What did he accomplish, and does his story hold... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Patrick Chun
you invest in regimes that are out of favor, what issues do you need to think about? This is a relevant topic that will become more relevant as economies and companies continue to become more global." The second study, a venture... View Details
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
to corrupt behavior. Working Papers Carry Trade, Reserve Accumulation, and Exchange-Rate Regimes By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—Carry-trade activity and foreign participation in local-currency-bond markets in emerging... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
computational algorithmic problem. Participants were divided into two groups with identical skills distributions and exposed to the same competitive institutional setting. The "sorted" group was composed of individuals who preferred the competitive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
wreaked by Pol Pot and his followers (the Khmer Rouge regime killed nearly 2 million Cambodians), the next generation was building a new society. Their idealism and their hopes were palpable, and their enthusiasm was contagious. I wanted... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Realities of the Refugee Crisis
how long they thought they were going to be gone, most of them said three to six months. Now, most of them have actually been displaced for three years. But if you ask the same people whether or not they would have stood behind the principles of the uprising against... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
4 Advantages of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
Originally from Bulgaria, I was one of the last children born under Communism. With the 50-year regime collapsing a month after I was born, my parents sought out the American dream for our family by immigrating to the U.S. to finish their... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Turning Point: Dream Weaver
HBS research project, and he referred me to a job in distribution, before I was able to move into production. Unfortunately, Hollywood studios have much in common with politics, and after 13 films, I was swept away as part of a regime... View Details
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
majority of investors in U.S.-listed foreign firms from the protection of the U.S. civil liability regime and cast at least partial limitations on the SEC's regulatory authority. This event nonetheless was met with positive abnormal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
find that being tied through elite sociopolitical networks to the regime in power significantly increased the rate at which South Korean companies formed cross-border strategic alliances, but also that being tied through elite... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
business environment. Whereas twenty years ago the appropriability regime of an industry was exogenous and given, today they are often the product of conscious strategies of firms. And as open source software and other industries show,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
talk of a "Wall Street-Treasury Complex" or a "Wall Street-Treasury-IMF Complex" that has vigorously promoted a liberal international financial regime because such a regime benefits U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
are discussed. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-080.pdf Turning Waste into By-Product (revised) Author:Deishin Lee Abstract We determine, in a competitive setting, the optimal operating regimes for a firm that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
hardest days don't seem as long as they would if you were working for someone else." He especially relished his relationship with SABO's employees, and during his regime the company was one of only a handful of nonunionized manufacturers... View Details