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  • April 2011 (Revised April 2012)
  • Case

Angels in British Columbia

By: Josh Lerner, Thomas Hellmann and Ilkin Ilyaszade
The case study provides an overview of the angel investment practices and describes government policies towards angel and venture capital investing in British Columbia, Canada. It focuses in particular on the Equity Capital Program (BCECP henceforth), which provides... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity; Investment; Policy; Taxation; Performance Improvement; Programs; British Columbia
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  • 17 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

  Working PapersFemale Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines Authors:Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan, and Wesley Yin Abstract Female 'empowerment' has increasingly become a policy goal, both as an end to itself... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses

the cash flow edge. One aspect of this cash flow formula is the extent of time that small businesses wait for or don’t receive payment from the companies they supply. Insufficient or delayed financing is the second-most common reason for... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
  • May 2020 (Revised March 2022)
  • Case

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic and the Global Economy (A)

By: Alberto Cavallo and Christian Godwin
In April 2020, the world struggled to contain the exponential escalation of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Dozens of countries had imposed restrictions on travel, work, and social gatherings. A large share of the global population was under lockdowns and... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Finance; Central Banking; Financial Markets; International Finance; Globalization; Government and Politics; Health Pandemics; Decision Making; Macroeconomics; Employment; Crisis Management; Supply Chain; Risk and Uncertainty; Air Transportation Industry; Banking Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Employment Industry; Financial Services Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Public Administration Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Shipping Industry; Tourism Industry; Travel Industry; Asia; China; Europe; Latin America; Africa; United States
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    Lynda M. Applegate

    Lynda M. Applegate is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS and is Chair of the Advisory Committee for Harvard University’s Masters Degree of Liberal Arts in Finance and Management at the Harvard University Extension School.  She has also played a... View Details

    • October 2002 (Revised March 2009)
    • Background Note

    Foreign Direct Investment

    By: Laura Alfaro and Esteban Clavell
    Briefly reviews motivations and trends behind foreign direct investment and multinational corporations as well as the policy debate that surrounds them. View Details
    Keywords: International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Policy; Business and Government Relations
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    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    Customers and Investors: A Framework for Understanding Financial Institutions

    By: Robert C. Merton and Robert T. Thakor
    Financial institutions have both investors and customers. Investors, such as those who invest in stocks and bonds or private/public-sector guarantors of institutions, expect an appropriate risk-adjusted return in exchange for the financing and risk-bearing that they... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Institutions
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    • 29 Jan 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: January 29, 2008

    1,582 loans financing private equity-sponsored leveraged buyouts between 1993 and 2005, we find that bank relationships explain cross-sectional variation in the loan interest rate and covenant structure. Our results indicate that two... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • June 2013 (Revised August 2013)
    • Background Note

    Note on Pension Guarantee Funds

    By: Robert C. Pozen and Patricia Bissett Higgins
    The United States and the United Kingdom both had quasi-government agencies that provided back-up insurance for individuals participating in defined benefit ("DB") pension plans. This note compares and contrasts the United Kingdom's Pension Protection Fund ("PPF") with... View Details
    Keywords: Pensions; Pension Guarantee Funds; Pension Protection Fund; Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; Employee Retirement Income Security Act; PBGC; ERISA; MAP-21; Legislation; Insurance; Saving; Retirement; Labor; Labor and Management Relations; Employees; Insurance Industry; United States; United Kingdom
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      Gunnar Trumbull

      Gunnar Trumbull is the Phillip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

      Professor Trumbull’s primary area of expertise in political economy, with a focus on consumer and regulatory politics. His book Strength in... View Details

      Keywords: agribusiness; consumer products; credit card; financial services; food; food processing; grocery; microfinance; retail financial services; retailing
      • November 1985 (Revised July 1989)
      • Supplement

      Signode Industries, Inc. (B)

      Describes whether the company adopts the price-flex policy discussed in the (A) case. Price increase in steel strapping raw materials is rescinded by steel industry. View Details
      Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Price; Policy; Steel Industry
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      • August 1985 (Revised February 2003)
      • Case

      Paul Volcker and the Federal Reserve: 1979-1982

      Describes three years of the Volcker monetary policy experiment. The Federal Reserve changed the focus by its operating procedure from an interest rate instrument to a reserve instrument and it reaffirmed its commitment to hitting its preannounced monetary growth... View Details
      Keywords: Policy; Financial Institutions; United States
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      • 02 Jan 2020
      • Op-Ed

      Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?

      offer insurance at genuinely lower prices, but only if it is implemented without the financing gimmicks that have artificially lowered the costs of Medicare at the expense of future generations. The pricing of the public option must... View Details
      Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace; Health; Public Administration
      • Fall 2013
      • Article

      Shifts in U.S. Federal Reserve Goals and Tactics for Monetary Policy: A Role for Penitence?

      By: Julio J. Rotemberg
      This paper considers some of the large changes in the Federal Reserve's approach to monetary policy. It shows that, in some important cases, critics who were successful in arguing that past Fed approaches were responsible for mistakes that caused harm succeeded in... View Details
      Keywords: Central Banking; Policy; United States
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      • 13 Feb 2017
      • News

      People Trying to Save Prefer Accounts That Are Hard to Tap

      • 24 Sep 2016
      • News

      Popular acceptance of inequality due to brute luck and support for classical benefit-based taxation

      • 2008
      • Casebook

      The Rules of Globalization: Case Book

      By: Rawi Abdelal
      This is a book about the politics of the global economy — about how firms prosper by understanding those politics, or fail by misunderstanding them. Understanding the politics of globalization may once have been a luxury; it is now, for most high-level managers, simply... View Details
      Keywords: Trade; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations
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      • 15 Nov 2012
      • Research & Ideas

      Funding the Design of Livable Cities

      active engagement with the Real Estate Academic Initiative (REAI) at the GSD, and his appointment at the GSD teaching the jointly listed course "Sustainable Cities: Urbanization, Infrastructure, and Finance," Macomber is keenly focused on the critical connection... View Details
      Keywords: by Lisa Chase; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities
      • 2023
      • Article

      A Review of Commercialisation Mechanisms for Carbon Dioxide Removal

      By: Conor Hickey, Sam Fankhauser, Stephen Smith and Myles Allen
      The deployment of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) needs to be scaled up to achieve net zero emission pledges. In this paper we survey the policy mechanisms currently in place globally to incentivise CDR, together with an estimate of what different mechanisms are paying... View Details
      Keywords: Carbon Dioxide Removal; Climate Change; Markets; Cost; Policy; Environmental Regulation
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      • April 1981 (Revised January 1987)
      • Case

      Atlantic Aviation Corp.: Westwind Division

      Raises issues on monitoring and controlling flight demonstration costs for the Westwind business jet. Atlantic's marketing vice president is concerned about rising demonstration costs, but doesn't wish to deny solid prospects an evaluation ride. He asks the general... View Details
      Keywords: Cost Management; Product Marketing; Air Transportation Industry
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