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    Rose M. Knox

    Knox built the largest gelatin distribution company in the U.S. After her husband’s death, Knox directed advertising to women, published recipes and financed constant research on gelatin usage. Through diversification efforts, Knox lessened the company’s dependence on... View Details
    Keywords: Food & Tobacco
    • 17 Oct 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Reserve Bank Governor Discusses India’s Financial Opportunities

    not central to the big problem we're facing now," he said. Instead, he placed much of the blame on global investment cycles created by the Federal Reserve Board's stimulus policies in the wake of the global financial crisis.... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 12 Jul 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Sticky Capital Controls

    Keywords: by Miguel Acosta-Henao, Laura Alfaro, and Andrés Fernández
    • January 2024
    • Article

    Fencing Off Silicon Valley: Cross-Border Venture Capital and Technology Spillovers

    By: Ufuk Akcigit, Sina T. Ates, Josh Lerner, Richard Townsend and Yulia Zhestkova
    The treatment of foreign investors is a contentious topic in U.S. entrepreneurship policy. We model a setting where foreign corporate investments in Silicon Valley may allow U.S. entrepreneurs to pursue technologies that they could not otherwise, but may also lead to... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Corporate Venture Capital; Knowledge Spillovers; Foreign Direct Investment; Innovation and Invention; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Policy
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    • October 2023
    • Case

    Taiwan After Globalization: Twilight of the Developmental State?

    By: Debora L. Spar and Julia M. Comeau
    In the last 70 years, the small island of Taiwan has achieved what many believe to be a “miracle”: its economy has grown at a record-setting pace, driven and guided by one of the world's most successful set of industrial policies, and it has become one of the richest... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Growth; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Trade; Policy; Government and Politics; Semiconductor Industry; Technology Industry; Taiwan; China; Asia; United States
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    • May 2022
    • Article

    Complex Disclosure

    By: Ginger Zhe Jin, Michael Luca and Daniel Martin
    We present evidence that unnecessarily complex disclosure can result from strategic incentives to shroud information. In our lab experiment, senders are required to report their private information truthfully, but can choose how complex to make their reports. We find... View Details
    Keywords: Disclosure; Experiments; Naiveté; Overconfidence; Corporate Disclosure; Policy; Information; Complexity; Strategy; Consumer Behavior
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    • 2011
    • Chapter

    The Economics of Housing Finance Reform

    By: David S. Scharfstein and Adi Sunderam
    This paper analyzes the two leading types of proposals for reform of the housing finance system: (i) broad-based, explicit, priced government guarantees of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and (ii) privatization. Both proposals have drawbacks. Properly-priced... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Housing; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government and Politics
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    • April 2011 (Revised December 2012)
    • Supplement

    South Africa (B): Getting Unstuck?

    By: Richard H. K. Vietor and Diego Comin
    15 years after ending apartheid, formal unemployment in South Africa was still at 24%. While the country had grown at 4 to 5% annually during the 2000s, the financial crisis set it back by 1 million more unemployed. Moreover, it seemed as if the nation were stuck... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Inflation and Deflation; Policy; Employment; Wages; Competition; South Africa
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    • June 2003
    • Module Note

    Control in Inter-organizational Settings

    By: V.G. Narayanan
    Describes the main themes of the module on control in interorganizational settings, which instructors can teach as part of a second-year MBA course on control. Identifies the root causes of control problems in interorganizational settings and identifies principles for... View Details
    Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Governance Controls; Policy; Organizational Design; Problems and Challenges
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    Visit & Study | Baker Library

    available. Access & Use Policies Information on how to visit and use Baker library. Study Spaces Learn more about Baker's reading rooms and study spaces. Events Explore w orkshops, tours, exhibits, and other library programming. Still... View Details
    • Web

    Support for Students with Disabilities | MBA

    found on myHBS (login required) . Students are encouraged to make initial contact with the Disability Coordinator upon admission or as soon as mental or physical health-related concerns arise. Any student experiencing issues with their approved accommodations should... View Details
    • November 1989 (Revised April 2018)
    • Case

    Automation Consulting Services

    By: Robert Simons and Hilary Weston
    Illustrates the management control challenges that are associated with rapid growth and geographic expansion. Situated at an offsite Executive Committee Retreat. The three founding partners of a specialized consulting firm are grappling with several difficult questions... View Details
    Keywords: Geographic Location; Governance Controls; Policy; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Expansion; Consulting Industry
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    • 17 Aug 2021
    • Blog Post

    New Associate Director: Courtney Fairbrother

    Massachusetts Water Resource Authority, installing and maintaining renewable energy systems across the state. I also worked for a non-profit think tank, the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), on renewable energy policy and convening of... View Details
    • Web

    HBSGrid Terms of Service - Research Computing Services

    Usage and Policies HBSGrid Terms of Service 7ms To obtain access to Harvard Business School’s technology resources through Research Computing Services (RCS), you must acknowledge this agreement either electronically, on paper, or via... View Details
    • 01 Jun 2011
    • News

    The Future of Cities

    practitioners from business, government, and academia convened at HBS in March for a conference hosted by the School’s Business and Environment Initiative. Participants at the event, titled “Investing in the Cities of the 21st Century: Urbanization, Infrastructure, and... View Details
    • Web

    2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

    Gender and Work Research Symposium: Virtual Edition Gender and Work Research Symposium: Virtual Edition 6 MAY 2021 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Danielle Allen Danielle Allen is James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University. She is a political... View Details
    • 24 Jul 2019
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

    choices are presented—can encourage people to change their behavior in pursuit of policy goals, says Michael Luca, the Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Luca has been bringing... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • Mar 2012
    • Article

    Choosing the United States

    share of location decisions, even for high-value business activities such as R&D that it has traditionally been able to attract. In part, this is because U.S. policy makers are not addressing weaknesses in the national business... View Details
    • Web

    Preqin | Baker Library

    Education & Fellows Remote access available HBS Alumni In person access only Harvard Faculty, Students, and Staff Remote access available Visitors In person access only Additional Information Read and comply with Baker Library's Use of Electronic Resources View Details
    • 06 Mar 2006
    • What Do You Think?

    The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?

    choice of resisting or leaving, as we will be inevitably be the next victims of the repressive policies we did not confront but ended up supporting by complying." Some offered more highly-textured advice. Saurabh Gautam said,... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology