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Latin America - Global

globalization affect vote choices? Conventional wisdom holds that voters who lose from economic integration support parties that propose expanding the welfare state. However, in the Global South, where the state is frequently weak or... View Details

2013
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These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System

By: Stephen Haber and Aldo Musacchio

In 1997, the Mexican government reversed long-standing policies and allowed foreign banks to purchase Mexico's largest commercial banks and relaxed restrictions on the founding of new, foreign-owned banks. The result has been a dramatic shift in the ownership structure... View Details

Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Balance and Stability; Foreign Direct Investment; Banks and Banking; Society; Economics; Banking Industry; Mexico

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Ray Kluender is an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit, teaching Entrepreneurial Finance to second-year MBA students.

He studies the causes of financial distress among American households and how public policy,... View Details

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A New Vision – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

School Rakesh Khurana is Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Introduction The Hawthorne Plant Employee Welfare Illumination Studies and Relay Assembly Test Room Enter Elton Mayo Human Relations and... View Details

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The Women in the Relay Assembly Test Room – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us A New Vision An Essay by Professors Michel Anteby and Rakesh Khurana Introduction The Hawthorne Plant Employee Welfare Illumination Studies and Relay Assembly Test Room Enter Elton Mayo Human Relations and... View Details

01 May 2025
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Dan Iancu, Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Research - Global

welfare state. However, in the Global South, where the state is frequently weak or under-resourced,... February 13, 2025 Article Harvard Business Review Digital Articles Research: The Costs of Circumventing Tariffs By: Jaya Y. Wen , Ebehi... View Details

01 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner

Business Administration. The detrimental health impacts of pressure-filled professions are increasingly getting the attention of business leaders, who are not only concerned about the welfare of their workers, but also have an eye on... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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Human Relations and Harvard Business School – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us A New Vision An Essay by Professors Michel Anteby and Rakesh Khurana Introduction The Hawthorne Plant Employee Welfare Illumination Studies and Relay Assembly Test Room Enter Elton Mayo Next Human Relations... View Details

18 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent

Burnout, retention, and renewed labor organization are critical challenges for leaders, especially amid COVID-19 and a looming recession. Leaders must ask themselves: What is it about my organization’s culture that is contributing to such a high level of mental stress... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson

12 Apr 2022
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Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence

Britain’s 20th century empire was the largest in human history, with a quarter of the world’s land and nearly 700 million people. Yet the empire drew its strength from violence. That’s the conclusion Harvard Business School Professor Caroline Elkins draws in her new... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

14 Feb 2023
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Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis

policy: An active national government with a desire to achieve an equitable distribution of income and wealth; a generous social welfare system financed by taxes; and a shared structure of corporate control by business, labor, and the... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

12 Dec 2023
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COVID Tested Global Supply Chains. Here’s How They’ve Adapted

be warranted. Alfaro suggests that what is missing amid current debates is the need to evaluate these welfare tradeoffs. While there is a popular perception that the pandemic highlighted the problems with far-flung global supply chains,... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

quantitative implications match a range of moments not targeted in the estimation quite well. We then characterize the optimal policy path implied by the model and our estimates. Optimal policy makes heavy use of research subsidies as well as carbon taxes. We use the... View Details

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Profiles - MBA

Good last spring, I led a team of engineers and designers that worked with an experienced civic technologist to create a web app comparing the effectiveness of child welfare policies in all 50 states. This web app used both data... View Details

21 May 2024
Research & Ideas

What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year

redistributive policies and a stronger welfare state support parties that have the opposite political agenda. “This is a factor that has led to the erosion of the link between economic need and support for left wing parties.” Layne: Your... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

20 Jan 2012
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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials

Keywords: by William R. Kerr

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Fairness and Efficiency in Resource Allocation

In studying the relationship of fairness and efficiency, Professor Trichakis takes the novel approach of looking at varied industries for unifying factors, and he pays special attention to inequities by incorporating both quantitative work in social welfare and the... View Details

Fiscal Development Under Sovereign and Colonial Rule

Dominant theories of state formation and nation-building lean heavily on the classic European tale of the simultaneous development of a ‘fiscal state’ and a ‘nation state’. However, this Euro-centered narrative does not factor in that more than two-thirds of the... View Details

April 1993 (Revised May 2009)
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Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, India: In Service for Sight, The

By: V. Kasturi Rangan

Starting as a modest 20-bed hospital, Aravind had grown into a 1,400-bed hospital complex by 1992. It had by then screened 3.65 million patients and performed 335,000 cataract surgeries, nearly 70% of them free of cost for the poorest of India's blind population.... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Social Marketing; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Welfare; Expansion; Health Industry; India

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