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- 20 Oct 2009
- News
On healthcare reform, carrots work better than sticks
- 26 Mar 2020
- News
Managing Through Crisis: Let's Talk About Small Business
- 26 Mar 2020
- Video
Managing Through Crisis: Let's Talk About Small Business
- 14 Sep 2017
- News
Our Political System Is Failing. Michael Porter Has Solutions.
- 17 May 2013
- News
Making the United States Competitive
- March 2009
- Background Note
Note on the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA)
By: Stuart C. Gilson
In 2005, new legislation was passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by the President that introduced a number of major amendments to U.S. bankruptcy law, affecting both business and consumer bankruptcies. This legislation, called the Bankruptcy Abuse... View Details
Keywords: Government Legislation; Restructuring; Personal Finance; Laws and Statutes; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Corporate Finance
Gilson, Stuart C. "Note on the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA)." Harvard Business School Background Note 209-133, March 2009.
- 30 Dec 2010
- News
A New Model for Corporate Boards
- 09 Jul 2009
- News
Systemic Risk and the Fed
- 10 Nov 2016
- News
What the Trump Administration Needs to Do About Health Care
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
biggest financial institutions sounds familiar, you're right. [Editor's note: On June 16, 2009, the Obama administration released a five-point proposal for overhauling the U.S. system of financial regulation; the first item is "Promote... View Details
- September 2006 (Revised August 2007)
- Case
The Dubai Ports World Debacle and its Aftermath
By: Julio J. Rotemberg
Describes the political ramifications in the United States of Dubai-based DP World's acquisition of London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O). Because P&O operated some port terminals in the United States, DP World obtained clearance from the... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; National Security; Business and Government Relations; Ship Transportation; Dubai; United States
Rotemberg, Julio J. "The Dubai Ports World Debacle and its Aftermath." Harvard Business School Case 707-014, September 2006. (Revised August 2007.)
- November 2001
- Background Note
Global Approaches to Anti-Corruption
By: Joseph Hinsey, Guhan Subramanian and Michelle Kalka
In the 1970s, a series of unpleasant revelations about corporate conduct, culminating in the public disclosure about unsavory business practices abroad by more than 400 U.S. corporations, jarred popular perceptions concerning business ethics. Congress responded by... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Globalization; Developing Countries and Economies; Laws and Statutes; Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Information Industry; United States
Hinsey, Joseph, Guhan Subramanian, and Michelle Kalka. "Global Approaches to Anti-Corruption." Harvard Business School Background Note 902-062, November 2001.
- 27 Jul 2021
- News
Senate’s Semiconductor Aid May Be Opening Bid in Global Race
- March 2025
- Supplement
No One Left Behind (D)
By: Lynn S. Paine, Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard, Max Hancock and David Lane
In September 2021, the board of directors for the nonprofit No One Left Behind (NOLB) faced a crucial decision. Since its 2013 founding, NOLB had helped resettle in the United States thousands of Afghans and Iraqis who had assisted U.S. forces as combat translators;... View Details
- January 2023
- Article
Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences: The Great Migration and Civil Rights
By: Alvaro Calderon, Vasiliki Fouka and Marco Tabellini
Between 1940 and 1970, more than 4 million African Americans moved from the South to the North of the United States, during the Second Great Migration. This same period witnessed the struggle and eventual success of the civil rights movement in ending institutionalized... View Details
Keywords: Civil Rights; Great Migration; History; Race; Rights; Prejudice and Bias; Government Legislation
Calderon, Alvaro, Vasiliki Fouka, and Marco Tabellini. "Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences: The Great Migration and Civil Rights." Review of Economic Studies 90, no. 1 (January 2023): 165–200. (Available also from VOX, Broadstreet, and VOX EU.)
- February 13, 2023
- Editorial
The Secret Tax on Women’s Time
By: Lauren C. Howe, Lindsay B. Howe and Ashley V. Whillans
When studies revealed the so-called pink tax, showing in 2015 that personal hygiene products “for her” cost 13% more than similar products for men, it caused outrage and action. The irony that women, despite generally having fewer financial resources than men, are... View Details
Howe, Lauren C., Lindsay B. Howe, and Ashley V. Whillans. "The Secret Tax on Women’s Time." Time 201, nos. 5-6 (February 13, 2023): 29.
- 15 Oct 2015
- News
Bonding with Infrastructure
- March 2025
- Supplement
No One Left Behind (C)
By: Lynn S. Paine, Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard, Max Hancock and David Lane
In September 2021, the board of directors for the nonprofit No One Left Behind (NOLB) faced a crucial decision. Since its 2013 founding, NOLB had helped resettle in the United States thousands of Afghans and Iraqis who had assisted U.S. forces as combat translators;... View Details
- March 2025
- Supplement
No One Left Behind (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine, Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard, Max Hancock and David Lane
In September 2021, the board of directors for the nonprofit No One Left Behind (NOLB) faced a crucial decision. Since its 2013 founding, NOLB had helped resettle in the United States thousands of Afghans and Iraqis who had assisted U.S. forces as combat translators;... View Details