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01 Dec 2015
News

Multimedia Simulation Provides Real-World Reality Check

and ways in which the brewery compares to the competition. Team members then have an hour to digest the information and formulate a new strategy. At the end of eight rounds, industry winners are selected based on their overall... View Details

25 Mar 2021
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Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy

Administration Marco Iansiti and Charles Edwin Wilson Professor of Business Administration and Dorothy and Michael Hintze Fellow Karim R. Lakhani). Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire—this recent book... View Details

November 2010
Supplement

Lessons Learned? Brooksley Born & the OTC Derivatives Market (B)

By: Clayton S. Rose and David Lane

This (B) case provides the 2009 reflections of former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt on CFTC Chairman Brooksley Born's 1998 efforts to consider regulating the OTC derivative market. It also provides a summary of the aspects of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act that regulate these... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government Legislation; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; District of Columbia

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January 2007 (Revised April 2007)
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Note on Lobbying

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Libby Cantrill and Patricia Wu

Describes how companies engage the political and legal system and the rules and ethics associated with doing so. Focuses on the U.S. political and legal system, but also seeks to familiarize readers with lobbying norms and structures in the European Union and Japan. View Details

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Ethics; Labor Unions; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States; Japan; European Union

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November 1990 (Revised February 1991)
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L. William Seidman and the Resolution Trust Corp.

By: Richard H.K. Vietor

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Organizational Design; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry

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A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library

Collection, b. X.650, f. 1. When Morse began her career at Polaroid in the mid-1940s, the numbers of women who held jobs in industry had decreased dramatically as men returning from the war reclaimed their positions in the workforce.... View Details

2025
Working Paper

Extractive Taxation and the French Revolution

By: Tommaso Giommoni, Gabriel Loumeau and Marco Tabellini

We study the fiscal determinants of the French Revolution, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in the salt tax—a large source of royal revenues and one of the most extractive forms of taxation of the Ancien Régime. Implementing a Regression Discontinuity... View Details

Keywords: Extractive Taxation; Regime Change; French Revolution; State Capacity; Taxation; History; Government Administration; Attitudes; Public Opinion

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23 Jul 2024
In Practice

The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities

administration and is a reaction to the Chinese Communist Party’s own perception of insecurity at home and in the global economy. Increasing restrictions to transnational commerce in and with China are best understood in terms of security... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Industrial Products; Industrial Products; Industrial Products; Industrial Products; Industrial Products; Industrial Products; Industrial Products; Industrial Products

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AOM Ethno PDW 2009-2014

AOM PDW 2014: Being There/Being Them: Entry, Exit, and In-Between in Organization Ethnography

Co-Organizers: Michel Anteby, Harvard; Curtis K. Chan, Harvard; Julia DiBenigno,... View Details

01 Oct 1997
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After 27 Years at HBS, Shapiro Shifts Professional Focus

Shapiro taught a wide variety of MBA courses, among them Industrial Marketing, Sales Management, Creative Marketing Strategy, and Integrated Product Line Management. He also taught in many Executive Education programs and held various... View Details

10 Feb 2016
Working Paper Summaries

Land Institutions and Chinese Political Economy: Institutional Complementarities and Macroeconomic Management

Keywords: by Meg Rithmire; Public Administration; Public Administration; Public Administration

25 Apr 2014
News

Strategists analyze market forces—great strategists also look beyond the market

Traditionally, corporate strategists define industry structure, competitive positions, resources, and knowledge flows as the key sources of competitive advantage. Within these sources, they look for areas of opportunity in the market that... View Details

01 Jun 1996
News

Four Professors to Retire

has also written articles for many publications, including Management Science, Public Administration Review, Annals of the History of Computers, and the Harvard Business Review. A 1952 graduate of Purdue... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

29 Feb 2016
HBS Case

Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can

administrative support, all available via subscription through the cloud. A Chicago citizen enjoys the benefits of a Bigbelly trash compactor. Source: Kevin Zolkiewicz Getting to SaaS is complicated enough as a strategy... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

05 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities

contributed 50 percent to 70 percent of distributions in the industry in the past ten to fifteen years. With so much global liquidity, he added, it will become even more difficult to earn a respectable rate of return as too many dollars... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Hanna; Financial Services

26 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

passed, often twelve to twenty-four months. Such a clause, for instance, sparked a public legal battle two years ago when Google hired away a top Microsoft executive, Kai-Fu Lee. But disputes and tensions over noncompetes are not isolated... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Feb 2001
News

The Doctor Is In

ramifications that need to be dealt with as public policy. As for the notion that private-sector efficiency automatically reduces costs, consider that most private health insurance companies spend 10 to 30 percent on View Details

Keywords: healthcare; Health, Social Assistance

2013
Working Paper

From Green Users to Green Voters

By: Diego Comin and Johannes Rode

We estimate the effect of the diffusion of photovoltaic (PV) systems on the fraction of votes obtained by the German Green Party. The logistic diffusion of PV systems offers a new identification strategy. We take first differences and instrument adoption rates (i.e.... View Details

Keywords: Voting; Political Elections; Technology Adoption; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Germany

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2012
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A Study of Economic Impact of Cloud Computing

By: Marco Iansiti and Gregory L. Richards

In this paper we find that advances in cloud computing likely will extend the IT induced economic growth in developed economies and foster growth in economies where IT penetration is not yet fully mature. We conclude that governments should work together to take... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Economies and Regions; Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Economic Growth; Cooperation; Government and Politics; Innovation and Invention; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry

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Summer 2019
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The Political Influence of Voters' Interests on SEC Enforcement

By: Jonas Heese

I examine whether political influence as a response to voters’ interest in employment levels is reflected in the enforcement actions of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). I find that large employers are less likely to experience SEC enforcement actions.... View Details

Keywords: SEC Enforcement; Government Preferences; Voters' Interests; Political Influence; Employment; Public Opinion; Government Administration; Governance Compliance; Political Elections

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