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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: Globalization; Market Transactions; Foreign Direct Investment; Government and Politics; Risk and Uncertainty; Networks; Culture; Complexity; Public Administration Industry
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  • February 2009 (Revised September 2009)
  • Supplement

Yahoo! in China (B)

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Daniel Baer
Describes the actions that Jerry Yang took to manage the aftermath of the Shi Tao incident following the 2007 Congressional hearing. View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Policy; Government Legislation; Crisis Management; Business and Government Relations; Internet; Information Technology Industry; China; United States
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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

The Impact of Private Equity Ownership on Portfolio Firms' Corporate Tax Planning

By: Brad Badertscher, Sharon P. Katz and Sonja Olhoft Rego
This study investigates whether private equity (PE) firms influence the tax practices of their portfolio firms. Prior research documents that PE firms create economic value in portfolio firms through effective governance, financial, and operational engineering. Given... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Governance; Taxation; Ownership Stake; Value Creation
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  • January 1997
  • Case

World Bank (A1): Rural Development (Revisited)

By: George C. Lodge
Begins with a brief description of the World Bank and its commitment to rural development. Discusses the bank's Northeast rural development program in Brazil, outlining its failure, success, and structural design. The questions raised by the project are left for the... View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Development Economics; Rural Scope; Policy; Problems and Challenges; Government Legislation
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  • 07 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase

America small-business owners moved quickly when COVID-19 started shuttering shops in March. Fine dining restaurants shifted to takeout. Book shops introduced curbside pickup. Gyms offered classes online. Business owners, it seemed, just needed to face this... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage; Service
  • January 1999 (Revised October 2010)
  • Background Note

Accumulated Earnings Tax and Personal Holding Company Tax

By: Henry B. Reiling and Mark Pollard
Identifies Congress's concerns and objectives in adopting the Accumulated Earnings Tax and the Personal Holding Company Tax. Also describes the provisions' mechanics and some of their practical implications. View Details
Keywords: Business Earnings; Taxation; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Public Administration Industry; United States
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  • September 2017
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The Real Effects of Capital Controls: Firm-Level Evidence from a Policy Experiment

By: Laura Alfaro, Anusha Chari and Fabio Kanczuk
Emerging-market governments adopted capital control taxes to manage the massive surge in foreign capital inflows in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Theory suggests that the imposition of capital controls can drive up the cost of capital and curb... View Details
Keywords: Capital Controls; Discriminatory Taxation; International Investment Barriers; Exports; Debt; Cost of Capital; Taxation; Investment; Borrowing and Debt; Equity; Brazil
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  • 04 Apr 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets

reform. Any initiative to develop emerging economies must acknowledge that the business groups themselves may want to maintain the status quo. Those groups wield considerable economic and political power that can be used not only to block... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu
  • Profile

Paul Wang

researchers was not always as great as that of politics and business. I figured I should jump into the business arena to see what it was like.” Paul joined McKinsey in Chicago, where he worked on projects “with relevance to developing... View Details
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News sources- India

style="font-size: 11.808px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif;">Economic & Political Weekly Publication of the Sameeksha Trust, features research and comentary on contemporary Indian... View Details
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Bibliography - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Division I, Political and Personal Satires, v. 5–11. London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1870–1954. Hollstein, F.W.H. Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, ca. 1450–1700. Amsterdam: Herzberger, 1949. Klein, Gottfried.... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

Immersion Program Digs Deep

part of it,” remarks Moshkovich, a native of Israel. “In less than two weeks I was able to upgrade my understanding of business, cultural, and political issues — not just in China and Vietnam but in other countries as well.” Despite her... View Details
Keywords: immersion; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • Profile

Bei Guo

bring 90 students from different backgrounds into one place where it's safe to speak freely? Right away, we talked about the most sensitive topics: race, ethnicity, political correctness. After going through that, we felt we had nothing... View Details
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Strategic Leadership in ... How Americans from All Walks of Life Can Thrive in an Era of Political Polarization Sol Erdman 11 May 2017 Politicians are experts at selling emotionally-charged slogans as solutions for our country’s tro...... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

It’s the Economy

order of appearance, they begin with an overview of the big impact the crisis has already had on HBS cases, courses, and faculty research. see article Challenge magazine editor Jeff Madrick’s (MBA ’71) new book, The Case for Big Government, upends a generation of... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

The Deleterious Effects of Dirty Money

law when you can make a reasonable profit by abiding by the law? Are you hopeful that things will get better? Part of the reason I’m optimistic is that the illegalities I write about can be curtailed merely with the application of View Details
Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Finance
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

A Man of Influence

encompass political consulting. After doing some work for LBJ, the vice president asked Valenti to run President Kennedy’s reelection campaign fundraiser in Houston — hardly friendly territory for an Irish-Catholic Yankee. Pleased with... View Details
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Speculation and Credit - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Vanity and Virtue Misers, Moneylenders, and Thieves Money Devil Biblical and Mythological Scenes Love and Money Politics and War Louis-Philippe Speculation and Credit Bankers, Financiers, and Statesmen Stock Exchanges printer-friendly... View Details
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Europe - Global Activities 2020

found itself “in a world of politically independent yet economically interdependent states,” the case explains. The country was on track to join the European Union (EU), but it also had ties with Russia and China. “Brnabic maintained,... View Details
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Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog

generalists? Spirit : How do scaling ventures design culture? How do they assimilate hires who are less mission-driven and more political than the first wave of recruits? How do ventures mitigate friction between the old guard and new... View Details