American Economy - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

where I sit as an economist, it's still all about the economy and the long-term impact of the problems laid bare by the Great Recession. During the financial crisis, the world came to the apparently shocking realization that debt... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

April 2010
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Managed Globalization: Doctrine, Practice, and Promise

By: Rawi Abdelal and Sophie Meunier

Two alternate visions for shaping and explaining the governance of economic globalization have been in competition for the past 20 years: an ad hoc, laissez-faire vision promoted by the United States versus a managed vision relying on multilateral rules and... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Trade; Globalized Economies and Regions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competition; European Union; United States

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Podcast - Business & Environment

helps brands run their own resale channels, and how AI and automation are reshaping their operations. James also describes related public policies like extended producer responsibility (EPR) and provides advice for those pursuing careers in circular View Details

21 Sep 2018
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America traded one recession for a far more serious one

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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

economies in an effort to understand why much of the decrease in investment that occurred during the 1997-1998 crisis has persisted in the years between 1998 and 2014. Unlike Latin American View Details

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Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work

2019 | VOA: Press Conference USA An Economy of Talent: Harvard’s Bill Kerr On ‘Talent Immigrants’ Jeff Cunningham 29 Jan 2019 | Chief Executive Thinkers50: William Kerr 21 Jan 2019 | Thinkers50 The Stealth Productivity Drain on View Details

22 Oct 2014
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Koleman Strumpf, University of Kansas School of Business

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Business, Ethics and Institutions. The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in a Comparative Perspective

By: Asli M. Colpan and Geoffrey Jones

This chapter offers a survey of the evolution of Turkish capitalism from the 19th century Ottoman Empire until the present day. It shows that Turkish business over the last century and a half was shaped in an institutional context similar to those in many developing... View Details

Keywords: Business Groups; Capitalism; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Government and Politics; History; Religion; Business History; Turkey; Central Asia; Middle East

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20 Mar 2017
News

Why Trump’s Experiments With Fascism Will Fail

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FAQs - Alumni

like to discuss your accommodations. Please share requests for American Sign Language interpreters and / or CART providers at least three weeks in advance. Please note that HBS will make every effort to secure services, but services are... View Details

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Research - Managing the Future of Work

The American Opportunity Index By: Joseph B. Fuller, Matt Sigelman, Nik Dawson, Alex Martin, and Gad Levanon Oct 2024 Report Hidden Workers: The Case for Caregivers By: Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman, & Francis Hintermann FEB 2024 Report... View Details

06 Jul 2017
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How to teach civics in school

09 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Unilever—A Case Study

free-market economy, and proclivity toward trade protectionism, the United States has always been a major host economy for foreign firms. It has certainly been the world's largest host since the 1970s, and probably was before 1914 also. 6... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail

07 Aug 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism in Historical and Global Perspective

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones

22 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China

however, that a number of factors should be considered in the "brain drain" versus "brain gain" debate, for which I do not think there is a clear answer today. Q: Where does China stand in relation to some of the classic tiger View Details

Keywords: Re: William R. Kerr; Technology; Computer

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

Crossroads.” HBS research associate Julia M. Comeau contributed to the study, along with the School’s Europe Research Center. While the country’s well-paid, high-tech economy is humming, and the country continues to generate an outsized... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Faculty & Research - Business History

Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) was a joint venture between Toyota and General Motors. It was an opportunity for GM to learn about the Toyota Production System, which was quite different from the mass production processes American automakers... View Details

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Business History - Faculty & Research

and traces the evolution of their environmental strategies in response to growing evidence of pollution and resulting political pressures. The variety of capitalism literature has suggested that the German coordinated market economy model... View Details

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Skydeck - Alumni

excerpt from Managing the Future of Work , Mallory Dwinal-Palisch (MBA 2015) offers a lesson plan for the American education system Carbon's Second Act A startup employing nature's C02 recycling model—and the necessity of sweeping, speedy... View Details

February 2011
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Dividend Taxes and International Portfolio Choice

By: Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala

This paper investigates how dividend taxes influence portfolio choices, using the response to the distinctive treatment of a subset of foreign dividends in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (JGTRRA) of 2003. An open-economy after-tax capital asset... View Details