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- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
direct investment (FDI) flows arise endogenously when monitoring is nonverifiable and financial frictions exist. The mechanism generating MNC activity is not the risk of technological expropriation by local partners but the demands of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability
about real estate, urbanization, sustainability, and infrastructure. LEED-ing by ExampleWhen a local government decides to pursue environmentally aware construction policies for its own buildings, the... View Details
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Standards Board (GASB) required local governments to publicly report their OPEB liabilities. But GASB did not require cities to fund their OPEB shortfalls. As a result, even the worst funded city pension... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
looked for a solution to the lack of multilateral institutions to govern trade by creating GATT—the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade—which later became the WTO. Reinert: One thing we keep relearning is that gains from trade do not... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
sector. But this research leads me to believe that the right kind of regulatory framework and institutional policies are fundamental to making it possible. Shon R. Hiatt, Assistant Professor Of Business Administration In the US, states and View Details
- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
portfolio—like in nature and somewhat footloose and fancy-free. Q: What are some of the causes of the decline that are specific to India? A: Due to large-scale economic liberalization since 1991, India has had a nice long run of reforms that drove increased investment,... View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
clamped down. A lot of constraints were put on growth of companies, until Rajiv Gandhi became prime minister in 1984. Before that, a lot of multinationals—Coca Cola, Pepsi—decided to leave because the government wanted them to give a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?
businesses often answer unmet wants and needs that they see on a local level." Gopal Padinjaruveetil asked " where is the wealth created? In the case of small business the wealth is created in the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature
Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By... View Details
- March 2010 (Revised June 2010)
- Case
The Greening of DUMBO
By: Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson and Abhijit Prabhu
The Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass (DUMBO) has seen a revitalization since the late 1970s. The neighborhood's business improvement district (BID) is charged with supplementing New York City's efforts in several areas, including... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Local Range; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Wastes and Waste Processing; Urban Development; Public Administration Industry; New York (city, NY)
Eccles, Robert G., Amy C. Edmondson, and Abhijit Prabhu. "The Greening of DUMBO." Harvard Business School Case 410-079, March 2010. (Revised June 2010.)
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
pursued flexible business strategies beyond its "core" business, even distributing condoms. It maintained a high standard of corporate ethics. It was effective at building contacts with local business and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2013
- Op-Ed
Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again
Critics have denounced this proposal as yet another government intrusion into the market and a futile attempt to "pick winners." What these critics ignore is that the US government has a long... View Details
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
The view that "monetary sovereignty" independence could be used wisely does not take into account that the type of government that has driven Greece to the edge of the cliff is not the type of View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
modified to incorporate quasi-hyperbolic preferences. For reasons of political economy or aggregation of citizens’ preferences, government preferences are present biased, resulting in an over-accumulation of debt. Calibrating this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
the 1990s involved traditional Indian medicine, and many lawsuits ensued. But it was difficult to invalidate the novelty of any given remedy without published proof of prior use. To that end, the Indian government spearheaded an effort in... View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
their work experience better performance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51712 Harvard Business School Case 617-007 Building Smart Neighborhoods at Bouygues Can a consortium of 16 organizations, including multinational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
this month's column. Bruce Bockmann stated the case for the "flat-worlders" in reminding us that "it is the responsibility of government to support technology in its own country. If government... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit
operations. The problem, according to Harvard Business School professors Allen Grossman and V. Kasturi ("Kash") Rangan, rests in inevitable tensions and battles for power that arise between national headquarters and local... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
closed question–based surveys. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50727 June 2016 Journal of Finance Local Currency Sovereign Risk By: Du, Wenxin, and Jesse Schreger Abstract—We introduce a new measure of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
Some may shrug at the inevitable passing of the local newspaper, writing it off as a dinosaur that doesn’t have much to offer in our modern world of blogs, social media sites, and streamed soundbites. But no news is not necessarily good... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman