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  • October 2020
  • Article

Patronage and Selection in Public Sector Organizations

By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Mounu Prem and Edoardo Teso
In all modern bureaucracies, politicians retain some discretion in public employment decisions, which may lead to frictions in the selection process if political connections substitute for individual competence. Relying on detailed matched employer-employee data on the... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Selection and Staffing; Political Elections; Public Sector; Brazil
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  • 12 Sep 2007
  • Op-Ed

Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure

"bailout"—an understandable conundrum, since government is sailing between Scylla and Charybdis as it plots "solutions." Tighter credit will eliminate the shakiest loans, but will shut off many credit-impaired... View Details
Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Banking; Construction; Real Estate
  • 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
  • Career Coach

Pamela Harder

Pam (HBS / HKS ‘13, Stanford ‘08 Economics) has spent the last 12 years working at the nexus of business and government. Currently, she runs Virginia's state-wide economic development talent investment strategy. As a Managing Director... View Details
Keywords: Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government
  • 13 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 13

unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location, ownership, and operation information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index of agglomeration and investigate the patterns and determinants underlying the global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

Warren Buffett Speaks at HBS

from his Burden Hall audience. Asked about outsourcing and whether the U.S. government should offer tax inducements to counter it, Buffett replied that he saw outsourcing as “a small part of a much, much bigger problem.” He explained that... View Details
Keywords: Warren Buffett; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 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
  • 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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  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

Sahlman Heads External Relations

contributed important ideas to the study of business. But the manifestation of those ideas is in what the alumni and the people touched by our alumni end up doing with that knowledge.” Sahlman (MBA ’75), who assumed his new role July 1, holds a Ph.D. in business View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 2014
  • Case

Tommy Koh and the United States–Singapore Free Trade Agreement (B)

By: James K. Sebenius and Laurence A. Green
This case details the efforts of Singapore Ambassador-At-Large Tommy Koh to forge a free trade agreement between Singapore and the United States following both nations' support for the initiation of negotiations on a USSFTA. Examining the various barriers and fronts of... View Details
Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; International Relations; Trade; United States; Singapore
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  • May 1988 (Revised November 1990)
  • Case

Airbus vs. Boeing (B): The Storm Intensifies

By: Malcolm S. Salter
Discusses the growing competition faced by U.S. producers of civil aircraft due to the success and expanding product line of Airbus Industries. Designed to foster discussion of international trade policy as it affects producers in the industry and to encourage firm... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Policy; Negotiation; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Aerospace Industry; United States
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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
  • 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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  • Profile

Doha Tantawy

"first reality check. I saw how economics play out in a real marketplace, how all the constituents – business, customers, legal context—work together." The experience awakened a passion to "serve consumers, to see change... View Details
Keywords: Retail/Hospitality; Consulting
  • 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 Feb 2001
  • News

Books

economics are different, and all the wheels must turn a lot faster, but the problems of leadership, organization, and change are similar to those we have experienced for decades. So even as this book breaks new ground in examining a set... View Details
Keywords: books; research; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 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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  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Tickling the Ivories

producer (sex, lies, and videotape), and is a prolific author. Founder and chairman of the San Francisco–based Institute for Large Scale Innovation, he advises corporations and governments on innovation, organizational transformation, and... View Details
Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 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