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  • 10 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy

own business—even if that business may have failed." Nanda and Sørensen control for the possibility that former and aspiring entrepreneurs are more likely to cluster together at a company with an entrepreneurial culture,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 24 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital

economy of the '90s brought a golden age and aura to VC firms in the United States. In 1999, venture capitalists controlled more than $46 billion, with skyrocketing returns to match the risks of their early-stage investments. Europe,... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Financial Services
  • 06 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

WHY WE STARTED THE HBS BLACK INVESTMENT CLUB

owned by women and minorities control less than 1% of total industry assets. Less than one percent. This is the problem that our club has set out to address. “The industry’s reliance on personal relationships perpetuates a system of... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • Web

The Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration: 1956 - 1962 | Baker Library

full-year courses in marketing, control (accounting and statistics), production, human problems in administration, finance, and economics. (2) The well-known Written Analysis of Cases course was also added. The HRPBA curriculum had many... View Details
  • 02 Jun 2019
  • News

A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy

Christopher Poliquin (now assistant professor of Strategy at UCLA Anderson School of Management), were at first unsure about how they could have an effect on a dire statistic: Nearly 40,000 gun-related deaths occur annually, almost 15,000 of which are homicides,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government
  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

Patrick Moreton

An expert on competition in telecommunications and new technologies, Patrick S. Moreton (MBA ’91) takes the long view. Despite congressional efforts to tighten controls over media ownership and the current public outcry against media... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Telecommunications; Information
  • 01 Jan 2007
  • News

Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965

fixation of broken bones had been produced in Switzerland by a separate manufacturing company and distributed in the United States. Wyss undertook a vigorous change of direction, first building a manufacturing plant in Colorado to establish View Details
  • 19 Sep 2016
  • News

The Real Meaning of Love

people’s awareness of the warning signs of abusive and controlling relationships. “The One Love Foundation in Honor of Yeardley Love was started in 2010 after Yeardley, who was a University of Virginia fourth year, was beaten to death by... View Details
  • 06 Nov 2009
  • News

Health Reform Paths Not Taken

For workers at firms that didn’t offer health insurance, any amount they spent on health insurance also would be tax-free. Herzlinger contends that extending the health-care tax exemption to workers would be relatively easy to implement, help View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Health, Social Assistance
  • November 2009 (Revised March 2010)
  • Case

Managing Drugs on the Forefront of Personalized Medicine: The Erbitux and Vectibix Story

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Raju Kucherlapati and Rachel Gordon
In May 2007, Amgen Inc. (Amgen) received disappointing news from the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) that its drug Vectibix, developed to fight metastatic colorectal cancer, had been rejected. This was especially surprising news given that a similar rival drug had... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Testing and Trials; Marketing Strategy; Product Positioning; Genetics; Biotechnology Industry; Europe; United States
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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Spanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment

By: Juan Alcacer and Paul Ingram
Global economic transactions such as foreign direct investment must extend over an institutional abyss between the jurisdiction, and therefore protection, of the states involved. Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), whose members are states, represent an important... View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Governance Controls; International Relations; Social Issues
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  • 13 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought

If the COVID-19 crisis lasts four months, 65 percent of small retailers say there’s a good chance they’ll be forced to close permanently by the end of the year. Among restaurants and bars, 70 percent expect to go out of business if social-distancing orders last into... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services
  • May 28, 2019
  • Other Article

How Russia Found a Disinformation Haven in America

By: Rawi Abdelal and Galit Goldstein
The Mueller Report established that “the Russians” undertook information operations campaigns to meddle in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Though this has been clear for a long time, Americans continue to discuss Russian information operations in the wrong way.... View Details
Keywords: Elections; Donald Trump; Political Elections; National Security; Information Technology; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Social Media; Russia; United States
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  • April 2010 (Revised January 2013)
  • Case

California's Budget Crises, Tax Reform, and Domestic and International Tax Competition

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl and Jacob Kuipers
How do (and how should) governments design fiscal policies to compete in a globalized economy while meeting internal policy priorities including redistribution? In 2009, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger repeatedly declared fiscal emergencies as California's state budget... View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Economy; Globalization; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Taxation; Competition; California
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  • April 2008 (Revised May 2011)
  • Case

Leading Citigroup (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Aldo Sesia and Carin-Isabel Knoop
The (A) case describes a series of controversial events and alleged misdeeds that placed Citigroup in the public spotlight and launched investigations into the company's business practices by regulators in Japan and Europe in the fall of 2004. CEO Chuck Prince must... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Leadership; Organizational Culture; Business and Government Relations; Reputation; Japan; Europe
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  • April 2008
  • Teaching Note

China Resources Corporation (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Dennis Campbell
Teaching Note for [107013] and [107015]. View Details
Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Governance Controls; Performance Productivity; Problems and Challenges; State Ownership; Strategy; China
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  • 2006
  • Working Paper

Too Motivated?

By: Eric J. Van den Steen

I show that an agent's motivation to do well (objectively) may be unambiguously bad in a world with differing priors, i.e., when people openly disagree on the optimal course of action. The reason is that an agent who is strongly motivated is more likely to follow... View Details

Keywords: Governance Controls; Employees; Wages; Measurement and Metrics; Outcome or Result; Performance; Agency Theory; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 1995
  • Chapter

Pharmaceutical Companies and Health Care Reform

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 02 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

source software (OSS) over proprietary software in an attempt to reduce costs creating an unexpected demand shock for OSS. Analysis using the rest of the EU as controls via difference-in-differences and synthetic View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

Freezeout Structure and Outcomes: Evidence on the Unified Approach By: Subramanian, Guhan, and Fernan Restrepo Abstract—Historically, Delaware corporate law provided different standards of judicial review for buyouts by controlling... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne