Campaign Finance Reform - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

Group, Inc. in 2015: Celebrating 40. Co-written with HBS finance professor Adi Sunderam along with Allison M. Ciechanover (HBS MBA 2002), director of the HBS California Research Center, the case looks at the current state of Vanguard,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

building an electrical component. This information instructs local engineers and other local skilled workers concerning key elements of the firm's technology. The reforms we studied appear to be effective because they were sustained,... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

26 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

Yet there is a real danger that regulatory reforms will be rooted in outdated ideas. As the financial crisis has shown, neither traditional market-failure models nor public-choice theory, by themselves, sufficiently inform or explain our... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Dec 2016
Op-Ed

The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth

the government should not be in the business of helping some small businesses and not others. The editorial writers reinforced their view of SBA by pointing to President Obama’s proposed reorganization of federal economic agencies in 2012. However, that reorganization... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills

02 Oct 2008
What Do You Think?

Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?

down" response of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation of the Depression era rather than the "bottom up" strategy (involving the purchase of individual properties) of the Resolution Trust of the 1980s. The former returned 100 percent of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

25 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help

$16 billion, and nearly 20,000 jobs could be attributed to campaign staffing, consulting, and lobbying. The political media also benefitted, with most major news outlets posting record advertising revenues last year as a result of... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

13 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative

As health insurance reform is hotly debated in Washington, DC, what strategies should be central for the benefit of patients' health? HBS faculty with expertise in business administration, economic development, and operations strategy... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

25 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Planning for Surprises

finance reform in this country. Until this occurs, special interest groups will continue to cost society in terms of the loss of jobs and the growth of the deficit, and by extension in the lives of citizens. View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

Five-Minute Discussion Change Your Mind? A Countrywide Experiment on Voter Choice in France By: Pons, Vincent Abstract—This paper provides the first estimate of the effect of door-to-door canvassing on actual electoral outcomes, via a countrywide experiment embedded in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Max Bazerman

branch dominates? Does this structure preclude us from ever seeing the kind of reform you advocate? A: We strongly believe in the importance of the checks and balances, particularly as a means of curbing corruption. But inefficiencies are... View Details

Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman

28 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

supporters note a number of reforms over the past two decades, including a current review of the Bank's information disclosure policy, and a series of "safeguards" on sensitive issues such as environmental impacts and effects on... View Details

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim

01 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation

How politics cuts across business Written with Margarita Tsoutsoura, an associate professor of finance at Washington University in St. Louis, the analysis draws from data such as executive surveys, voter registration lists, View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

03 Apr 2019
Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

firm with fewer than 500 employees, in my book I focus on three kinds: sole proprietorships, Main Street businesses, and suppliers. All three groups seek financing from loans and have traditionally used banks as their source. Of the 30... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services

03 Feb 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Competition in Pricing Algorithms

Keywords: by Zach Y. Brown and Alexander MacKay

October 16, 2000
Article

New Asset Impairment Rule Proposal

By: David F. Hawkins

Keywords: Assets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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December 13, 2000
Article

More New Financial Instrument Rules Proposed

By: David F. Hawkins

Keywords: Financial Instruments; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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08 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

reforms seem unlikely, but we are missing a large opportunity by avoiding them. In general, I hesitate to pass judgment on our tax system as a whole. My intuition is that tax theorists have as much or more to learn from existing policies... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore

Fans of the television show Mad Men are well acquainted with the mystique of the advertising business, circa 1960s, where relationships were consummated over martinis and campaigns fashioned through the wizardry of creative director Don... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

12 Jul 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Sticky Capital Controls

Keywords: by Miguel Acosta-Henao, Laura Alfaro, and Andrés Fernández

11 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections

estimated likelihood that they will flee and then offering incentives to a core group of customers at the top of the churn ranking. Gupta says these traditional methods are flawed. The two steps are not set up to maximize bottom-line profit of the retention View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Service

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