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  • 30 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 31, 2006

contingent claims analysis (CCA). We illustrate how to use the CCA approach to model and measure sectoral and national risk exposures, and analyze policies to offset their potentially harmful effects. This new framework provides economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2012
  • Book

Strength in Numbers: The Political Power of Weak Interests

By: Gunnar Trumbull
This book investigates the sources of interest group influence on public policy. Trumbull argues that diffuse groups like consumers are more influential, and industry less influential, than we commonly assume. View Details
Keywords: Government and Politics; Interests; Power and Influence; Demand and Consumers; Policy
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  • Profile

Vivek Garg

Right out of college, Vivek Garg was directly exposed to difficult health-care policy issues. As part of Congress's Medicare Payment Advisory Council (MPAC), Vivek reviewed the coordination of policies and... View Details
  • 14 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery

geographical area are asking lots of questions about the policy on taking gifts from certain ministers, then this would help compliance leaders appreciate that maybe it’s time to go back and make sure people understand our gifts View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 13 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Hidden Market for Babies

just simply that it exists, and that society needs to understand how it works. Ultimately, she concludes, government has a regulatory role to play in the baby trade. We asked Spar to discuss her research. Manda Salls: Why did you want to... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls; Biotechnology; Health; Technology
  • 02 Mar 2018
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Trump’s Tariffs Could Harm Allies as Much as Opponents

likely to have broader negative consequences. If the president’s goal was to impact China, which produces over half the world’s steel and aluminum, this policy might not succeed. China is only the eleventh biggest exporter of steel to the... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini; Steel; Manufacturing
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Three Promoted to Full Professor

examining how firms compete in foreign markets and how government policies shape and constrain their options. She is also writing a book about information-based industries, such as media and entertainment,... View Details
  • 19 Aug 2013
  • News

Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers

with a growing middle class in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi. We hope to become the world's newest 'tiger states.' Bureaucracy and lack of appropriate infrastructure are challenges, but most African countries are now committed to View Details
Keywords: Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Creating the Market for Organic Wine: Sulfites, Certification, and Green Values

By: Geoffrey Jones and Emily Grandjean
This working paper examines the history of organic wine, which provides a case study of failed category creation. The modern organic wine industry emerged during the 1970s in the United States and Western Europe, but it struggled to gain traction compared to other... View Details
Keywords: Product Launch; Failure; Problems and Challenges; Complexity; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Alumni Books

Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson (MBA ’73) (Wiley) The authors show how modern finance combined with easy money threatened to cripple the world financial system. They... View Details
  • 11 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

for idiosyncratic products that features the optimal stopping structure and a seller that learns about item-specific demand through the selling process. The model is estimated using novel panel data of a leading used-car dealership. View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407028 Embrapa Harvard Business School Case 507-019 Brazil's national agricultural research corporation, Embrapa, has developed an integrated crop and livestock production... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 1995
  • Chapter

Pharmaceutical Companies and Health Care Reform

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 24 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

introduces the product in China, he wonders if the product will be as successful as InMobi anticipates. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516030-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 617-020 Indigo Agriculture... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 1984 (Revised July 2005)
  • Case

Burnet vs. Logan

By: Henry B. Reiling
The taxpayer sold mining company stocks and was to be paid royalty as ore was extracted from the corporation's mine. Because the factual issues of whether ore would be extracted and, if so, how much and when were so indeterminate, the court held that the contract right... View Details
Keywords: Taxation; Law Enforcement; Asset Management; Valuation; Policy; Mining Industry
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  • August 2006 (Revised August 2007)
  • Case

Revenue Recognition Problems in the Communications Equipment Industry

By: Paul M. Healy and Arjuna J Costa
Designed to explore recognition issues in the context of a potential market downturn. In late 2000, Lucent Technologies reports multiple revisions to its recent financial results due to revenue recognition problems, leading to a dramatic decline in its stock price.... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Revenue Recognition; Policy; Supply and Industry; Performance; Communications Industry
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  • Forthcoming
  • Article

An Anatomy of Crypto-Enabled Cybercrimes

By: Will Cong, Campbell Harvey, Daniel Rabetti and Zong-Yu Wu
The advent of cryptocurrencies and digital assets holds the promise of improving financial systems by offering cheap, quick, and secure transfer of value. However, it also opens up new payment channels for cybercrimes. Assembling a diverse set of public on- and... View Details
Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Crime and Corruption; Technology Adoption; Currency; Policy
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  • November 23, 2021
  • Article

The Nasdaq Mandate Will Expand Diversity in Business—and That’s Good for Business

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Andrea Silbert
As The Boston Club’s corporate census has identified, Massachusetts is moving the needle on the advancement of women and people of color in the business community. In our work, we measure this data year after year, and we are seeing incremental progress, but it is... View Details
Keywords: Women; Equity; Board; Diversity; Race; Gender; Measurement and Metrics; Policy; Massachusetts
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  • 10 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54331 forthcoming American Economic Journal: Economic Policy Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending By: Cutler, David, Jonathan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Of Dugouts and Sweatshops

In 1993, as President Clinton's newly sworn-in Secretary of Labor, Robert B. Reich had hoped his first formal public policy decision would be a veritable home run. Instead, he found himself dealing with what appeared to be a no-win... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey