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John Oxtoby

triumphs and the compromises of the public sector firsthand. “It’s a roller coaster of emotions,” John says, reflecting on the challenges the Obama Administration faced governing in turbulent times. “I feel very fortunate to have served... View Details
  • December 2006 (Revised April 2008)
  • Case

China and the WTO: What Price Membership?

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Julia Galef
China has been a member of the WTO for more than five years. Its implementation of requirements has been a mixed bag. While China's growth is still spectacular, many institutional problems remain. And there is a new problem--a spectacular trade asymmetry with the... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Governance Compliance; International Relations; Problems and Challenges; China; United States
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  • 06 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?

this all in perspective. His recent book, Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures—and Yours, published by Harvard Business Press, looks at the growing global influence of China and India as they emerge into View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2006
  • News

The Governor’s Admission

John Lynch (MBA ’79), New Hampshire’s Democratic governor, stepped away from the State House last February to teach a case about globalization at the University of New Hampshire. A UNH graduate who majored in English, Lynch confessed that his only formal college... View Details
Keywords: Government; Government; Government
  • 03 Oct 2005
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?

objectives on which these kinds of actions should be based? Can organized labor form the necessary kinds of alliances with business and government that might be necessary to, in Pinel's words, "address the contemporary issues of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 2010
  • Article

International Trade and National Security in Historical Perspective

By: Sophus A. Reinert
Keywords: Trade; National Security
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  • August 1988
  • Article

Credibility, Real Interest Rates, and the Optimal Speed of Trade Liberalization

By: K. A. Froot
Keywords: International Trade; Trade Policy; Trade; Policy; Interest Rates
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  • Article

Tariff Passthrough at the Border and at the Store: Evidence from U.S. Trade Policy

By: Alberto Cavallo, Gita Gopinath, Brent Neiman and Jenny Tang
We use micro data collected at the border and the store to characterize the price impact of recent US trade policy on importers, exporters, and consumers. At the border, import tariff passthrough is much higher than exchange rate passthrough. Chinese exporters did not... View Details
Keywords: Trade Policy; Tariffs; Exchange Rate Passthrough; Economics; Trade; Policy; Currency Exchange Rate; Price; United States
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  • April 1990 (Revised February 1994)
  • Case

Standard Fruit Co. in Nicaragua (A) (Abridged)

By: James E. Austin
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Developing Countries and Economies; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Nicaragua
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  • September 2022
  • Article

Regulatory Spillover and Workplace Racial Inequality

By: Letian Zhang
This paper suggests that affirmative action bans in the U.S. public sector may influence racial inequality in the private sector. Since the 1990s, nine states have banned affirmative action practice in public universities and state governments. Though these bans have... View Details
Keywords: Inequality; Regulation; Law; Organizational Norm; CEO; Affirmative Action; Organizations; Private Sector; Equality and Inequality; Diversity; Race; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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  • 06 Dec 2013
  • Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela

Editor's note: With the death of Nelson Mandela, the words of the Roman poet Horace (65 - 27 BC) seem particularly appropriate in celebrating his life and achievements in freeing South Africa from the oppression of apartheid and leading his country into a new era of... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Linda Hill, Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Gautam Mukunda
  • March 1982 (Revised October 1984)
  • Case

Carter, OPEC, and Big Oil

By: Richard H.K. Vietor
Keywords: Trade; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry
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  • Web

Improving the Local & Regional Business Environment - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Creating Shared Value CSV Creating Shared Value CSV Explained Emerging Topics CSV in Practice Published CSV Cases CSV Explained CSV Explained The Three Levels of CSV Adding a Social Dimension to Strategy Redefining Capitalism The New Role for View Details
  • Web

Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library

Global Impact of the Collapse Great Recession After Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy in September 2008, approximately twenty-six thousand of the firm’s employees worldwide lost their jobs, and investors suffered immense losses, fueling the country’s greatest View Details
  • March 2002 (Revised March 2008)
  • Case

Saudi Arabia: Getting the House in Order

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Rebecca Evans
Provides a vehicle to explore Islamic development and political issues within BGIE (business, government, and international economy). Set in early 2002, the case focuses on Crown Prince Abdullah's efforts to liberalize a failing rentier state, that had been dependent... View Details
Keywords: Disruption; Development Economics; Non-Renewable Energy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; International Relations; Leading Change; Saudi Arabia; Middle East
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  • 29 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

level of economic inequality within Western societies is at its highest in almost a century; in the U.S., for example, inequality is at its highest peak since before the Great Depression (3–5). Furthermore, the incomes of the top 1% in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jan 2006
  • News

Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969

Chairman, Social Investment Task force, Bridges Community Ventures, & The Portland Trust Cofounder & Former Chairman, Apax Partners L.P. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Oxford University, 1967 M.A., Philosophy, Politics, and View Details
  • December 1994 (Revised January 1996)
  • Case

Constructing a Nation: The United States and Their Constitution, 1763-1792

By: David A. Moss
Examines the founding of the United States of America during the second half of the eighteenth century. Focuses on: 1) the reasons why the American colonists rebelled against Britain (1763-1774); 2) the problems the new nation confronted during the War of Independence... View Details
Keywords: History; Economic Systems; Laws and Statutes; Property; Government Administration; United States
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  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Comeback Trail

Edited by Dan Morrell; illustrations by David Plunkert According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the United States’ current recession began in February, just as the first impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic began to slow... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan

prevent a new disease from becoming endemic to a region. It raised the profile of public health and brought the importance of international cooperation in health to new heights. SARS — severe acute respiratory syndrome — caused enormous View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Government; Government; Government