Economic Sanctions - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?

another, the biggest effect of the sanctions will be experienced by Russian citizens. They are the ones who will experience the economic stagnation. They are the ones who don’t have access to some of their... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Energy

05 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

In Praise of Marketing

and deception of consumers by irresponsible marketers is all too common. Absent professional exams and codes of conduct, abusers of the marketing toolkit are subject only to the sanctions of the marketplace and the law. The vast majority... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising

05 Jul 2012
What Do You Think?

Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?

(Hugh Quick); and (8) management that does "not observe sanctions when trust is violated" (Tony Smale). Charles Green added that "We don't have it because we haven't taught it, learned it, practiced it." In fairness,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 May 2014
What Do You Think?

How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

French economist Thomas Piketty. It's being hailed by some as one of a handful of important economic treatises in the last 50 years. Others question it as the work of a naïve academic. But the gist of Piketty's findings, based on... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Web

Globalization - Faculty & Research

competition, and earnings management affect mean reversion in accounting return on assets. Using a sample of 48,465 unique firms from 49 countries, we find that accounting returns mean revert faster in countries where there is more product and capital market... View Details

03 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

Nadja Fidelia aligned the Partnership Solutions Groups' activities with Lehman Brothers' "one-firm" strategy in ways that created economic value for the firm. Delves into the challenges of developing this business in an industry... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa

members—Deepak Malhotra, an authority on negotiation strategy; Noel Maurer, an expert on the politics and economics of the energy business; and Magnus Thor Torfason, an authority on how behavior is influenced by the social structures of... View Details

Keywords: Re: Deepak Malhotra; Energy; Utilities

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

practice; a commitment to use specialized knowledge for the public good, and a renunciation of the goal of profit maximization, in return for professional autonomy and monopoly power; a code of ethics, with provisions for monitoring individual compliance with the code... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

disadvantaged communities. Issues like racial and economic equity are central to this, and this will be the definition used for the purposes of this paper. EJ policy and company practices often uses terms like “communities;” the Justice40... View Details

18 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 18

a purely social act with economic considerations. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-012.pdf Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery Authors:David M. Cutler, Robert S. Huckman, and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 17

expropriated American investments, but in almost every case the U.S. government's employment of economic sanctions or covert action obtained market value or more in compensation-despite the growing strategic... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

propose a general mechanism of partner choice, "screening," that is similar to the economic theory of mechanism design. Imposing the appropriate costs and rewards may induce the informed individuals to screen themselves... View Details

12 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

We all know how political influence works: company X donates money to politician Y, and then that pol leans on regulator Z to go easy on his new best friend. In economic parlance, that circle of back-scratching is known as... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs

will take for us to maintain leadership in the future. What the USTR list did highlight for me is the extent to which supply chains have globalized and intertwined across almost every industrial sector. That means that economic View Details

Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications

08 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 8

complex. Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/x/55314 August 2013 Journal of Monetary Economics Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—In... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Aug 2007
Op-Ed

Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments

African villages, store owners paint Coca-Cola signs on the sides of their tin shacks. These signs are not sanctioned or paid for by the company. They are seen by locals as a sign of credibility. Companies and nonprofits have stronger... View Details

Keywords: by Eric Werker

01 Jun 2007
News

KPMG for Mayor!

villages, store owners paint Coca-Cola signs on the sides of their tin shacks. These signs are not sanctioned or paid for by the company. They are seen by locals as a sign of credibility. Companies and nonprofits have stronger incentives... View Details

Keywords: Eric Werker; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

15 Apr 2017
News

Bringing Markets to Myanmar

Dan Morrell: Talk to me about the situation that you saw when you walked into Myanmar. What was the state of the country? What were the signals that were coming from government at that point? David Brunell: Interesting question. I flew into Myanmar in July 2015. Global... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

14 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 14

Publication:,em>Harvard Business Review 89, no. 6 (June 2011) Abstract The bottom of the economic pyramid is a risky place for business, but decent profits can be made there if companies link their financial success with their... View Details