Publications

spring 2006
Article

All's Fair in Love, War, & Bankruptcy: Corporate Governance Implications of CEO Turnover in Financial Distress

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

Prior discussions of management turnover during financial distress have examined bankrupt and non-bankrupt firms as distinct groupings with little overlap. Separately investigating rates of turnover in-bankruptcy and out-of-bankruptcy, without a direct comparison... View Details

Keywords: CEO Turnover; Bankruptcy; Restructuring; Shadow Of Bankruptcy; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Financing and Loans; Corporate Governance; Finance; Theory; Markets; United States

2017
Casebook

Public Health Preparedness: Case Studies in Policy and Management

By: Arnold M. Howitt, Dutch Leonard and David W. Giles

This book provides detailed accounts of a range of public health emergencies. Topics range from natural disasters, to infectious diseases, to pandemics, and more. With chapters on Superstorm Sandy, H1N1, the Ebola virus, and bioterrorism, these cases cover major areas... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Natural Disasters; Safety; Public Sector; Policy; Management

1973
Chapter

National Policies in an International Industry: The Europeans and Automobiles

By: Louis T Wells Jr

Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations; Auto Industry; Europe

08 Dec 2014
News

Democratic Capitalism Needs Design Thinking

Keywords: design process; public policy; government innovation; government legislation; education; infrastructure; healthcare; Government

March 2009
Teaching Note

Upgrading the Economy: Industrial Policy and Taiwan's Semiconductor Industry (TN)

By: Willy C. Shih

Teaching Note for [609089]. View Details

Keywords: Design; Policy; Globalization; Research and Development; Information Technology; Commercialization; Semiconductor Industry; Taiwan

11 Nov 2016
News

The Fortune 500 Can’t Go Along with a Rollback on Climate Policy

02 Apr 2020
News

What policy makers are missing from coronavirus — data

January 2015
Case

Cresud and Argentina

By: David E. Bell and Mary Shelman

Argentina-based Cresud managed 1 million hectares (2.5 million acres) of land in South America. For 20 years, the publicly traded company's strategy had been to acquire underutilized properties and turn them into productive farmland for cattle and crops. In 2014,... View Details

Keywords: Argentina; Farmland Ownership; Farming; Government Agricultural Policy; Agribusiness; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Argentina; South America

Educators

15 Jul 2020
News

The Impact of Public Policy on Health Care Innovation

September 2017
Article

The Real Effects of Capital Controls: Firm-Level Evidence from a Policy Experiment

By: Laura Alfaro, Anusha Chari and Fabio Kanczuk

Emerging-market governments adopted capital control taxes to manage the massive surge in foreign capital inflows in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Theory suggests that the imposition of capital controls can drive up the cost of capital and curb... View Details

Keywords: Capital Controls; Discriminatory Taxation; International Investment Barriers; Exports; Debt; Cost of Capital; Taxation; Investment; Borrowing and Debt; Equity; Brazil

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2008
Working Paper

The Contingent Nature of Public Policy and Growth Strategies in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Banking Industry

By: Christopher Marquis and Zhi Huang

While effects of public policy are one of the foundations of organizational theory, less explored is how these effects may depend on other external environmental factors. We focus on how policy is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition to understand the growth... View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Business History; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; United States

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24 Apr 2014
News

A reformed fiscal policy is vital to renewing US productivity

education while increasing spending on entitlement programs. The corporate tax code, mortgage-interest deduction, and absence of a value-added tax all contribute to the problem. These policy failings are evident in the rising federal... View Details

fall 2002
Article

Policy Activism in a Globalized Economy: France's 35-hour Work Week

By: Gunnar Trumbull

Keywords: Policy; Globalization; Economy; France

February 2015
Supplement

The Affordable Care Act (J): Healthcare.gov

By: Joseph L. Bower and Michael Norris

In the fall of 2013, Healthcare.gov launches as an insurance exchange for consumers to buy health insurance. The launch is filled with glitches, and some worry if it will imperil the fate of the entire ACA. View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Policy; Government And Politics; Health; Policy; Health Industry; United States

February 2015
Supplement

The Affordable Care Act (I): The Supreme Court

By: Joseph L. Bower and Michael Norris

In the spring of 2012, the Supreme Court hears arguments and releases its decision on the constitutionality of the ACA. View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Policy; Government And Politics; Health; Policy; Health Industry; United States

1999
Chapter

Courting Disaster: The Transformation of Federal Disaster Policy since 1803

By: David A. Moss

Keywords: History; Natural Disasters; Policy; United States

February 2002
Article

Endogenous Policy Decentralization: Testing the Central Tenet of Economic Federalism

By: Koleman Strumpf and Felix Oberholzer-Gee

Keywords: Policy; Economics