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  • 12 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

Administration guidance documents, public statements, and workshops, U.S. policy makers and regulators have recently accelerated efforts to clarify policies and foster innovation around software-driven... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Heterogeneity in Preferences and Optimal Redistribution

By: Benjamin B Lockwood and Matthew Weinzierl
The prominent but unproven intuition that preference heterogeneity reduces redistribution in a standard optimal tax model is shown to hold under the plausible condition that the distribution of preferences for consumption relative to leisure rises, in terms of... View Details
Keywords: Spending; Policy; Taxation; Theory; United States
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  • March 2001
  • Case

Corruption in International Business (A)

By: Robert E. Kennedy and Rafael M. Di Tella
Explores various aspects of corruption in international business, in two sections. The first section provides a broad discussion of the ethical, business, and legal aspects of corruption. The second section provides a series of "caselets" that are designed to promote... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Emerging Markets; Policy; Globalization
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  • 05 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

subnational regions have gained increasing attention both as a level of analysis and as a level for policy making. This chapter aims to explore what this new context implies for the role of regional governments. It is motivated by a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

organizational action."3 By the 1960s, classroom discussions in the business policy course focused on matching a company's "strengths" and "weaknesses"—its distinctive competence—with the "opportunities"... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • Web

Privacy Statement (English) - Global

PRIVACY POLICY OF HBS ERC 1. INTRODUCTION This is the privacy policy of Centre de Recherche Européen de la Harvard Business School (HBS Europe Research Center), located at 62 rue François 1er, 75008 Paris,... View Details

    Raymond A. Kroc

    Kroc capitalized on America’s “eat on the run” society. Believing in the real profits of fast food, he bought out the McDonald brothers and developed a restaurant empire. By the 1960s, he had 228 restaurants with annual sales totaling $37 million. Kroc emphasized... View Details
    Keywords: Restaurants & Lodging
    • March 2014
    • Teaching Note

    Uptake of Rapid Diagnostic Tests: A Development Challenge

    By: Nava Ashraf, Andrew Boozary and Kristin Johnson
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Health Pandemics; Technology; Health Care and Treatment; Policy; Behavior; Prejudice and Bias; Zambia
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    • February 1997 (Revised September 2000)
    • Case

    3M: Negotiating Air Pollution Credits (B)

    By: Michael A. Wheeler and Thomas Dretler
    Supplements the (A) case. View Details
    Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Negotiation Types; Pollutants; Negotiation Participants; Laws and Statutes; Policy; Government and Politics; United States
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    • 09 Aug 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Speed Up Energy Innovation

    Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
    • Web

    Impact Stories - Business & Environment

    both great financial and environmental returns." Angela Amos MBA 2014 | Shaping the Big Picture “I believe stakeholder engagement is necessary to address climate change. At work, I evaluate diverse perspectives to craft legally sound, fact-based View Details
    • November 2017 (Revised August 2018)
    • Case

    Fair Value Accounting at Noble Group (A)

    By: Siko Sikochi, Suraj Srinivasan and Quinn Pitcher
    Noble Group was a large commodities trader based in Hong Kong and listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange. In 2012, Noble shifted its business strategy towards an asset-light model. Under this model, Noble did not own mines or farms to produce commodities but built... View Details
    Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Policy; Goods and Commodities; Contracts; Valuation
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    • 1999
    • Chapter

    The Limited Financing of Catastrophe Risk: An Overview

    By: K. Froot
    Keywords: Catastrophe Risk; Corporate Finance; Cost Of Capital; Banking And Insurance; Asset Pricing; Hedging; Banking; Natural Disasters; Insurance; Risk Management; Financial Markets; Policy; Insurance Industry
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    Partners - Managing the Future of Work

    Partners Partners The Managing the Future of Work project thanks our partners, who play a key role in supporting our research helping business leaders, policy makers, and education and workforce institutions better navigate the unique... View Details
    • 01 Sep 2003
    • News

    The Power of National Identity

    hundred miles east of Moscow, then Lithuania cannot be the geographical center of Europe. But in the post-Soviet era, beliefs about national identity don’t necessarily have to be true to be powerful.” Abdelal asserts that the remarkable variety of foreign economic... View Details
    Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; National Security and International Affairs; Government
    • 08 Mar 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

    went into a downward spiral as nitrate prices collapsed. It became highly inward looking and had one of the slowest rates of growth in Latin America for decades. Argentina’s fall from grace was less immediate, but more prolonged. Populist and often value-destroying... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Satisfactory Academic Progress | MBA

    from the MBA Program. Review Grading, Satisfactory Academic Progress, and Academic Review/Withdrawal policies for more details: Grading Satisfactory Academic Progress Academic Review and Withdrawal View Details
    • Web

    FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    HBS ISC About the Institute About the Institute Contact Us Faculty & Staff Institute Associates Ludcke FAQs FAQs FAQs What is the Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness, and what does it do? The Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC) is a nonprofit... View Details
    • 25 Sep 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: September 25, 2007

    organizational change an actor may undertake. Entrepreneurial Theory and the History of Globalization Authors:G. Jones and R. Daniel Wadhwani Periodical:Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade 7, nos. 3-4 (December 2007): 143-323 Abstract Does U.S. government View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 02 Jan 2019
    • What Do You Think?

    SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?

    people.” He goes on to describe what we need in a LinkedIn article that he wrote. In his words, “we need policies to guide us on how AI is used. Policies that are shaped by well-informed debate, following... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology