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October 2011 (Revised July 2012)
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Mike Mayo Takes on Citigroup (B)

Mike Mayo takes on Citigroup (B) is a supplementary exercise to go along with Mike Mayo takes on Citigroup (A) case and is designed to give students an opportunity to understand the creation of deferred tax liabilities (DTLs) and the life cycle of a DTL using an... View Details

Keywords: Taxation; Accounting; Banking Industry

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September – October 1984
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Revamping the Business of National Defense

By: J. Ronald Fox

Keywords: National Security

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1988
Other Unpublished Work

Structure of the U.S. Government Decision Making Process - HBS Technical Note - See professor

By: J. Ronald Fox

Keywords: Decision Making; Government and Politics; United States

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1994
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Critical Issues in the Defense Acquisition Culture: Government and Industry Views from the Trenches

By: J. Ronald Fox

Keywords: War; Government and Politics

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2010
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Engineers and the State in Modern China

By: William C. Kirby

Keywords: Government and Politics; Leadership; Engineering; China

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January 26, 2010
Article

An Agenda Disrupted: Obama after Year One

By: Bill George

Keywords: Disruption; Government and Politics

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1 Jul 2003
Conference Presentation

Friendly Fire and National Security

By: Scott Snook

Keywords: National Security

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November 2000 (Revised January 2002)
Case

Perspectives on Globalization

Conventional wisdom holds that globalization of an unprecedented size and scope is at hand. This case presents a number of perspectives on this issue. View Details

Keywords: Globalization; Government and Politics; Economics

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12 Jul 2011
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will do so, which results in market inefficiency. Second, the model provides a new argument for why it is usually entrants, not incumbents, who bring major technological innovations to the market. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-080.pdf The... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

28 Feb 2012
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PublicationsThe Power of Political Voice: Women's Political Representation and Crime in India Authors:Lakshmi Iyer, Anandi Mani, Prachi Mishra, and Petia Topalova Publication:American Economic Journal:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters

envy and imitate. Unfortunately, that's no longer the case. Increasingly, outsiders view our political system as riven by politicians preoccupied with their own reelection, resulting in a tragic stalemate. Long before Occupy Wall Street... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria

09 May 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Keywords: by Aaron Chatterji, Edward Glaeser & William Kerr

29 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums

An old adage says that it's not what you know, it's whom you know. But outsiders can take heart: even for those who don't belong to a high-power social network, there's power in simply keeping track of who went to school with whom. Associate Professors Lauren H. Cohen... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

16 Jul 2008
Op-Ed

What Should Employers Do about Health Care?

In the United States, employers have often treated health benefits as a necessary evil. They have focused on the rising cost of providing health insurance benefits and taken aggressive steps to bring costs down, or at least to slow the rate of increase. In many other... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth O. Teisberg & Scott Wallace; Health

12 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors

The American regulatory agencies, described by Henry Kaufmann as "...less than robust... Understaffed, under-funded, and badly fragmented," have been, in his words, "slow to recognize some of the more serious abuses" in the financial markets.70... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

2022
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Prioritarianism and Optimal Taxation

By: Matti Tuomala and Matthew Weinzierl

Prioritarianism has been at the center of the formal approach to optimal tax theory since its modern starting point in Mirrlees (1971), but most theorists’ use of it is motivated by tractability rather than explicit normative reasoning. We characterize analytically and... View Details

Keywords: Prioritarianism; Optimal Taxation; Utilitarianism; Redistribution; Inverse-optimum; Taxation; Theory; Policy

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