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  • June – July 2008
  • Article

A Better Approach to Foreign Aid

By: Justin Muzinich and Eric D. Werker
Frustration with U.S. foreign aid is widespread. At the same time, flows of private development finance—including foreign direct investment and remittances—have begun to dwarf official aid. We suggest a new approach that harnesses the power of private development... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Foreign Direct Investment; International Relations; Taxation; Welfare or Wellbeing; United States
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  • 12 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

subgroup? How does the formal decision-making and governance process differ from the informal one? The broader economic and political context for negotiation as well as salient "comparable" deals.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Sep 2021
  • News

Back to School

operations, drawing him to HBS. After receiving his MBA, Simmons took a job in Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont’s office as policy advisor and director of strategic initiatives, with a focus on education equity, workforce development, and View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 24 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 24

trust and liking. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45471 August 2013 Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Investment Incentives in Open-Source and Proprietary Two-Sided Platforms By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2009 (Revised March 2011)
  • Background Note

The Rejuvenated International Monetary Fund

By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Jonathan Schlefer
The International Monetary Fund was dismissed as almost irrelevant to the global economy, but during the 2008 financial crisis, it returned to center stage, providing financial rescues for developing countries. View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Crisis; Financial Management; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; International Relations
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  • 08 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 8, 2016

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50690 2016 Handbook of Media Economics User-Generated Content and Social Media By: Luca, Michael Abstract—This paper documents what economists have learned about... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Mar 2012
  • Article

Green Rules to Drive Innovation

increasing carbon charge; this would help internalize environmental costs, drive investment in energy efficiency, encourage innovation in renewable power, and raise substantial revenues that could reduce the national debt. Second, they say, the View Details
  • 04 Nov 2016
  • News

Could Kurt Summers Jr. Be Chicago’s Next Mayor?

of the city’s most pressing issues, Crain’s writes. “Ask him about Chicago's pernicious problem with gun violence, and he will tell you the city doesn't have a crime problem. ‘We have an economic problem.’” Summers’s mantra is “How do you... View Details
  • 01 Jan 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?

gain admission to the US. He describes the arcane system that puts a limit on the number of H-1B visas issued each year. Demand fluctuates from year to year depending on economic conditions and other factors, but in most recent years... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

government before discussing the country’s founding economic and political principles, as espoused by Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. He goes on to... View Details
  • 2009
  • Other Unpublished Work

Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

By: William R. Kerr
This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The developed panel includes both emerging and advanced economies, and particular attention is devoted to the variation exploited in empirical tests. The elasticity of export... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Immigration; Competitive Advantage; Integration; Technology; United States
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  • December 2017
  • Response

Reply: Do Powerful Politicians Really Cause Corporate Downsizing?

By: Lauren Cohen, Joshua D. Coval and Christopher J. Malloy
While we commend the initiative of Snyder and Welch (2017), we lay out in this short reply why we remain highly confident in our results and our interpretation thereof. We welcome authors to continue to explore the data for themselves and look forward to the new... View Details
Keywords: Spending; Private Sector; Taxation; Interest Rates; Business and Government Relations; Investment; Employment; Power and Influence
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  • March 2006 (Revised June 2010)
  • Case

Eldeco: Playing in the Big League

By: Arthur I Segel, Nicolas P. Retsinas and Siddarth Yog
In 2001, Pankaj Bajaj is considering whether to go forward with a residential development outside New Delhi. Facing an uncooperative local authority, he must determine how to evaluate the risks of proceeding against the potential loss of a golden opportunity to bring... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Construction; Government and Politics; Risk Management; Emerging Markets; Business and Government Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Real Estate Industry; New Delhi
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  • December 2006 (Revised December 2007)
  • Case

The Convention on Biological Diversity: Engaging the Private Sector

By: David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was a U.N. treaty that by 2006 had been signed by virtually every country in the world except for the United States. The treaty established three main goals: the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Private Sector; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Genetics; Environmental Sustainability
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  • Profile

Vivek Garg

industries. "They bring ways of thinking about organizational issues from a variety of economic perspectives," says Vivek. "Their lessons can be applied to health care as well." Specifically, Vivek wants to accumulate... View Details
  • August 2023
  • Article

Surveying the Landscape of Labor Market Threat Perceptions from Migration: Evidence from Attitudes toward Sub-Saharan African Migrants in Morocco

By: Matt Buehler, Kristin E. Fabbe and Eleni Kyrkopoulou
Morocco, once primarily known as a country of emigration and transit to Europe, has become a destination country for migrants, the majority of whom are from sub-Saharan Africa. Using an original nationally representative survey of 2,700 respondents, together with data... View Details
Keywords: Migration; North Africa; Morocco; Sub-Saharan African Migrants; Middle East; Immigration; Perception; Developing Countries and Economies; Labor; Morocco
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  • 26 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Transparency Improves For Foreign Firms in U.S. Markets

are negatively associated with the disclosure scores. Our results are broadly consistent with the hypothesis that cross-border economic interactions are associated with similarities in disclosure and View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Faculty Retirements

One of them, "Managing Our Way to Economic Decline," a 1980 piece coauthored with the late William Abernathy, became a classic for its warnings about the dangers of sacrificing long-term technological competitiveness in favor of... View Details
  • 23 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Globalization: Little Impact on the Continent

percent of the world's economic output, and only 1 percent of the investment. "Africa has still not played the role we'd expect it to play in this messy phenomenon of globalization," Spar said. Pandora's Box Mark Shuttleworth,... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
  • 01 Jun 2016
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

challenging, and what leaders can do to help. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets by Lakshmi Iyer (World Scientific) This series of HBS case studies on emerging markets answers to the following... View Details