Campaign Finance Reform - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2008
News

Students Win Energy Competition

In October, a team of five HBS students won the National Energy Finance Challenge at the University of Texas’s McCombs School of Business, the Harbus reported. Marwan Chaar, Puja Jain, Anh Pham-Vu, Ravi Sarin, and Christine Telyan (all... View Details

Keywords: contests; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

01 Dec 2013
News

14 for '14

and 13 drift leftward. We will see what works. A controlled experiment in governance." —Grover Norquist (MBA 1981), president, Americans for Tax Reform "TV networks and streaming providers will experiment more with 'weekly installments'... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance

01 Mar 2009
News

It’s the Economy

If you hadn’t already noticed, we did something different with this issue’s cover. We typically pick one story for cover treatment. But this time, we picked a topic — the global financial crisis — to highlight five related stories. Why the change? The answer is... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Finance; Finance

20 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 20

rights on firms' external finance constraints via generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation of an augmented investment Euler equation developed by Whited and Wu (2006). Using a large sample of U.S. firms during the period from 1995... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2017
News

Bringing Out the Best

and remembering what I said.’ ” Curry was more interested in finance then, but after 25 years in commercial real estate, she now sees that the professor was right. “It all comes down to organizational behavior,” she says. “You have more... View Details

17 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

development agencies toward reforming the legal system or improving the court system. There is nothing wrong with that, but what if the real agents of change were the corporations themselves—their founders or their current shareholders?... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

23 Jun 2020
Book

Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System

Katherine M. Gehl, founder of Institute for Political Innovation, and Harvard Business School strategy expert Michael E. Porter. Among the reforms put forward by Gehl and Porter is a nonpartisan congressional legislative system that rises... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Oct 2008
What Do You Think?

Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?

down" response of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation of the Depression era rather than the "bottom up" strategy (involving the purchase of individual properties) of the Resolution Trust of the 1980s. The former returned 100 percent of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Mar 2009
News

Just Keep Our Money

© politicalcartoons.com The government’s ever-evolving rescue of the financial sector has already demanded enormous sums, and President Obama’s economic stimulus package will require many billions more. While a stimulus plan would lead to spending that boosts the... View Details

Keywords: Peter Tufano; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance

26 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

Yet there is a real danger that regulatory reforms will be rooted in outdated ideas. As the financial crisis has shown, neither traditional market-failure models nor public-choice theory, by themselves, sufficiently inform or explain our... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Profile

Andrew Goldin

experience prepared him for yet another transition. "The education reform 'buzz' was all about applying lessons from the private sector," says Andrew. "As I became interested in how the school district was managed, I wanted... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Research Is the Foundation

heuristics used by early-stage investors in high-potential ventures,” says Professor Ramana Nanda, who serves as the project’s co-director with finance professors Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner. The work will catalyze a range of... View Details

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

volunteer as poll workers. Facilitate political engagement. Look to online platforms that have simplified small contributions to political campaigns and increased the diversity of donors, as well as efforts to encourage employees and... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

August 13, 2001
Article

New Purchase, Goodwill, and Intangible Asset Rules Explained

By: David F. Hawkins

Keywords: Assets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Finance

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28 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor

to Chu, himself a Wall Street refugee with grounding in consulting and buy-outs, microfinance has "a double bottom-line." It brings above-average returns for first-movers who tap into what finance specialists see as a new... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2003
News

Books

investment (FDI) in China has been viewed both as evidence of a Western desire to gain a toehold in the country and as confirmation that China’s economy presents increasingly sound investment opportunities. But in his new book, Selling China: Foreign Direct Investment... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

22 Dec 2016
Op-Ed

The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth

the government should not be in the business of helping some small businesses and not others. The editorial writers reinforced their view of SBA by pointing to President Obama’s proposed reorganization of federal economic agencies in 2012. However, that reorganization... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills

Web

Research Links: Records of Railroad Companies & Personal Papers - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Railroads Finance Management Business Analysts Mass Distribution Mergers & Syndicates Research Links Railroad Records Photographs Research Collections Secondary Sources Related Sites Research Links: Records of Railroad Companies &... View Details

February 2006
Article

Writing the Rules of Global Finance: France, Europe, and Capital Liberalization

By: Rawi Abdelal

Keywords: International Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Capital; France; Europe