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  • 2021
  • Book

Time for Reparations: A Global Perspective

By: Jaqueline Bhabha, Margareta Matache and Caroline M. Elkins
In this sweeping international perspective on reparations, Time for Reparations makes the case that past state injustice—be it slavery or colonization, forced sterilization or widespread atrocities—has enduring consequences that generate ongoing harm, which... View Details
Keywords: Reparations; Slavery; Colonization; Structural Racism; State Injustice
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  • 09 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

proposals, and quality evaluations for more than 12,000 evaluator-proposal pairs. The analysis shows that solicitations offering a personal reward for top submissions boost participation rates without affecting submission quality. We show that this is due to workers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 May 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

Elusive Safety: The New Geography of Capital Flows and Risk

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Ester Faia, Ruth Judson, and Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr
  • March 2005 (Revised June 2005)
  • Background Note

Arbitration between Foreign Investors and Host Governments

By: Louis T. Wells Jr. and Regina Garcia-Cuellar
Explains the emergence of international arbitration as an option for foreign investors with disputes with governments of emerging markets. Presents issues about whether arbitration will remain acceptable to countries and governments. View Details
Keywords: Conflict and Resolution; Foreign Direct Investment; Globalized Markets and Industries; Emerging Markets; Government and Politics
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  • Web

Business Economics - Doctoral

Econometrics Economic History Economic Theory Economics of Organization Entrepreneurship Finance Industrial Organization International Economics Labor Economics Macroeconomics Political Economy Public... View Details
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Labor Market Shocks and the Demand for Trade Protection: Evidence from Online Surveys

By: Rafael Di Tella and Dani Rodrik
We study preferences for government action in response to layoffs resulting from different types of labor-market shocks. We consider the following shocks: technological change, a demand shift, bad management, and three kinds of international outsourcing. Respondents... View Details
Keywords: Labor; Markets; System Shocks; Trade; Attitudes; Surveys
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  • August 2023 (Revised October 2023)
  • Case

Beyond the Barricades: Chile 2023

By: Debora Spar, Willis Emmons, Leonard A. Schlesinger and Ruth Costas
Chile, often considered among Latin America's greatest economic success stories, suffered a shocking wave of protests in October 2019, as its citizens demanded reforms across healthcare and education systems, and protested inequality and rising costs of living. As... View Details
Keywords: Government Administration; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Public Opinion; Equality and Inequality; Public Administration Industry; Chile; Latin America; South America
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  • 05 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

resulting contract disputes were not supposed to happen. The 1980s saw the growth of protections for foreign investors. Official insurance agencies, such as the U.S.'s OPIC, provided political risk coverage that would reimburse investors... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities
  • February 2010
  • Case

Real Blue? Viagra and Intellectual Property Rights Law in China

By: Regina M. Abrami and Tracy Manty
On July 5, 2004, Pfizer's China team received disappointing news. China's patent review board just invalidated the company's existing patent on one of its most successful drugs, Viagra. Making matters worse, a Guangdong-based pharmaceutical company laid claim to... View Details
Keywords: Trade; International Relations; Patents; Trademarks; Lawsuits and Litigation; Rights; Business and Government Relations; Pharmaceutical Industry; China
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    Samuel L. Hayes

    Samuel L. Hayes holds the Jacob H. Schiff Chair in Investment Banking Emeritus, at the Harvard Business School.  He has taught at the School since 1970, prior to which he was a tenured member of the faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He... View Details

    • Research Summary

    Overview

    Inside the State: Bureaucratic Norms and Primary Education in Rural India (Book manuscript in progress)

    When and how do poor democracies implement primary education effectively? India has earned accolades for its robust democracy. Yet the state’s historic... View Details
    Keywords: Education Reform; Bureaucracy; Policy Implementation; India
    • 17 Apr 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds

    Keywords: by Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner & Antoinette Schoar; Financial Services
    • January 2013
    • Article

    Payout Taxes and the Allocation of Investment

    When corporate payout is taxed, internal equity (retained earnings) is cheaper than external equity (share issues). If there are no perfect substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may therefore have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor... View Details
    Keywords: Taxation; Investment; Equity; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation
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    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    Lobbying Behavior of Governmental Entities: Evidence from Public Pension Accounting Rules

    By: Abigail Allen and Reining Petacchi
    We examine the lobbying behavior of state governments in the development of recently issued public pension accounting standards GASB 67 and 68. Consistent with opportunistic motivations, we find that states' opposition to the liability increasing provisions embedded in... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Accounting Industry; United States
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    • 12 Nov 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Facing the New World Order

    to the study, Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter and Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Center for International Development at Harvard University. In the edited remarks below, they discuss the findings and implications of... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff

      George Serafeim

      George Serafeim is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he co-leads the Climate and Sustainability Impact Lab in the Digital, Data, and Design Institute. He teaches the course "Risks, Opportunities and... View Details

      Keywords: asset management; insurance industry; automobiles; industrial goods; fashion; food; green technology
      • 16 Mar 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: March 16

      pricing mechanism, capitalism must have the administrative capability to regulate the behavior of economic actors within those markets and the political capability to redesign their institutions; regulation and the design of market... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 15 May 2015
      • Blog Post

      How to Get a Global Perspective at HBS

      look to them for insights into international cases, foreign affairs and US diplomatic interactions. They have fostered in me an “ask first, answer second” approach to learning about their cultures, politics... View Details
      • Web

      Required Curriculum - MBA

      the implications for their companies. Students will learn the impact of: National income and balance of payment accounting Exchange rate theory Political regimes An examination of both the gains and problems arising from regional global... View Details

        Clayton S. Rose

        Clayton Rose is Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice. He currently teaches the course Accountability in the Advanced Management Program. His research is focused on the how leaders can manage the challenges created by the intense, varied and often... View Details

        Keywords: financial services