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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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    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 1986
    • Chapter

    Investing in the Defense Workforce: The Debt and Structure of Military Pensions

    By: Dutch Leonard
    Keywords: Human Capital; Compensation and Benefits; Borrowing and Debt; Sovereign Finance; National Security
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    Complementarity between Audited Financial Reporting and Voluntary Disclosure: The Case of Former Andersen Clients

    By: Richard Frankel, Alon Kalay, Gil Sadka and Yuan Zou
    Prior literature presents various perspectives on the role of financial reporting. One view is that mandatory periodic reporting disciplines managers and encourages timely voluntary disclosure. We examine this "confirmation hypothesis" using the shock to financial... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Disclosure; Mandatory Reporting; Reliability; Voluntary Disclosure; Financial Reporting; Quality; Corporate Disclosure
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    • 21 Jan 2021
    • Blog Post

    How I Used the HBS Community to Hone My Professional Goals

    development rotational program. My time at Cardinal Health exposed me to the health care world and gave me the chance to work functionally in Corporate Finance View Details
    • June 2008 (Revised July 2008)
    • Case

    How Serial Entrepreneurs Build and Manage a Board of Directors in a Venture-Backed Start Up

    By: Michael J. Roberts, William A. Sahlman and Sasha Novakovich
    This case includes structured interviews with four serial entrepreneurs about the way in which they built and used their boards in each of their companies and what they have learned through that process. These entrepreneurs were asked similar questions, such as "How do... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards
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    • January 2010 (Revised April 2011)
    • Case

    Google Inc.

    By: Benjamin Edelman and Thomas R. Eisenmann
    Describes Google's history, business model, governance structure, corporate culture, and processes for managing innovation. Reviews Google's recent strategic initiatives and the threats they pose to Yahoo, Microsoft, and others. Asks what Google should do next. One... View Details
    Keywords: Digital Marketing; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Network Effects; Mission and Purpose; Expansion; Internet and the Web; Information Technology Industry
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    • October 2004 (Revised July 2005)
    • Case

    Kinetic Concepts, Inc.

    By: Jay W. Lorsch, Dwight B. Crane and Ashley Robertson
    Raises issues about how the nature and function of a board changes as a company moves from ownership by its employees, including the founder, to ownership by a private equity firm, Fremont Partners, culminating in a highly successful IPO. Gives students the opportunity... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Governing and Advisory Boards; Initial Public Offering; Behavior; Organizations; Employee Ownership; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States
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    • March 1995 (Revised April 1995)
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    Scope of the Corporation, The

    By: David J. Collis
    Describes analyses that determine the appropriate limit to the scope of the firm. Examines both the production cost justification for firm diversification--economies of scope and shared resources, and the governance cost justification for including transactions inside... View Details
    Keywords: Cost; Agency Theory; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion
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    • June 2009 (Revised May 2010)
    • Case

    BlackRock Money Market Management in September 2008 (A)

    By: Kenneth A. Froot and David Lane
    This case highlights the issues around money market mutual funds in the financial crisis of 2008. View Details
    Keywords: BlackRock; Mutual Funds; Money Market; Investment Management; Bank Runs; 2008 Financial Crisis; Government Intervention In The Markets; GRG; Financial Management; Investment Funds; Crisis Management; Government and Politics; Financial Crisis; Financial Services Industry
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      Guhan Subramanian

      Guhan Subramanian is the Joseph Flom Professor of Law and Business at the Harvard Law School and the Douglas Weaver Professor of Business Law at the Harvard Business School.  He is the first person in the history of Harvard University to hold... View Details

      • 06 May 2025
      • Video

      Harvard’s Jason Furman on Big Tech Regulation

      • 05 Oct 2016
      • What Do You Think?

      Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?

      he said "our best policy is to promote economic liberty so that individuals and corporations can adjust to changes in society, technology, the economy, the environment and... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett

        “Managing for Organizational Integrity”: My Take After Three Decades

        This chapter revisits core ideas from my 1994 article “Managing for Organizational Integrity” and explores a critical issue not discussed in the article: the role of corporate boards. In the chapter, I first re-examine the article’s ideas about the origins of... View Details
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        Reflection

        By: Joseph L. Badaracco

        Corporations as Critical Social Institutions

        My current research examines the extent to which corporations are emerging as critical social institutions. Over the past century, and especially in recent decades, firms have taken on... View Details

        Keywords: Reflection
        • 01 Mar 2012
        • News

        Capitalism’s New Agenda

        degradation; failure of the rule of law; failures of education and public health; state capitalism; radical movements and terrorism; and pandemics. But the business leaders... View Details
        Keywords: Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine; social activism; Occupy Wallstreet; Corporate Services; Corporate Services
        • February 2014 (Revised August 2016)
        • Case

        Strava

        By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, William A. Sahlman and Sid Misra
        Strava is a new fast-growing social network for the avid cyclist and runner. The Strava case traces the entrepreneurial journey of two serial entrepreneurs who have been co-founders in a prior venture, and who have co-founded Strava 3 years ago. The protagonists must... View Details
        Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Cycling; Biking; Running; Sports; Technology; Mobile App; Mobile; GPS; Motivation; Behavioral Science; Founders; Term Sheet; Investment; Terms; Silicon Valley; Lifestyle; Strava; Financing; Fundraising; Angel; Valuation; Growth; Forecast; Business Startups; Business Plan; Trends; Forecasting and Prediction; Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Institutional Investing; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Management Succession; Growth Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Timing; Bicycle Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Technology Industry; Sports Industry; Web Services Industry; California; New England
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        Overview

        By: Mattias E. Fibiger
        Professor Fibiger conducts research on twentieth-century international history, focusing primarily on political economy and international relations in Southeast Asia.

        Professor Fibiger's first book is entitled Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast... View Details
        Keywords: Authoritarianism; Political Economy; Foreign Aid; Foreign Direct Investment; Foreign Policy; Southeast Asia; United States; Finance; International Economy; International Capital Markets; History; International Relations; National Security; Government and Politics; Development Economics; Southeast Asia; United States; Indonesia; Philippines; Malaysia; Singapore
        • 04 Dec 2008
        • News

        Since Enron, Little Has Changed

        • 01 Dec 1998
        • News

        Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All

        mix-ups. The situation has given birth to a burgeoning industry of Y2K debuggers, along with articles, books, and Web sites proposing likely scenarios and possible safeguards. View Details