Publications

March 2007 (Revised December 2007)
Background Note

Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Laura Winig and Kerry Herman

Provides successful models of private-public sector cooperatives in alleviating poverty and malnutrition. View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Nutrition; Cooperative Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Non-Governmental Organizations; Poverty; Welfare

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01 Feb 2002
News

Karen Tumulty Reports on America

issue of media conglomerates, Tumulty says, "I don't worry too much about corporate ownership creating biased reporting or editorial pressure, but I do have concerns about the drive for bottom-line profitability. That's caused the closing... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

February 2014 (Revised August 2015)
Case

The Estate Tax Debate

By: Matthew Weinzierl, Katrina Flanagan and Valerie Galinskaya

Per dollar of revenue, no tax policy generates more sound and fury than the taxation of estates. To supporters, the tax is a break on the concentration of wealth and power and an easy way to fund redistribution. To opponents, the tax is an unjust punishment of the... View Details

Keywords: Atkinson-Stiglitz; Optimal Capital Taxation; Bequest Motives; Taxation; Family and Family Relationships; Property

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Other Unpublished Work

Japanese Corporate Finance and Governance: Implications for the Privatization of Eastern European Economies

By: David S. Scharfstein

Keywords: Privatization; Corporate Governance; Developing Countries and Economies; Corporate Finance; Japan; Europe

01 Dec 1996
News

Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World

in the computer industry, while Professor Malcolm S. Salter's work on corporate strategy, organization, and governance looks at how ownership structure affects organizational performance. Asso-ciate... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

30 Jul 2008
Op-Ed

Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI

emerging markets of China and India—are filled with capital controls and ownership restrictions. How can the United States as a destination end up being so much less attractive despite the relative absence of this usual litany of... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai

Article

Exclusivity, Contingent Control Rights, and the Design of Internet Portal Alliances

By: Josh Lerner and Dan Elfenbein

We explore the relationship between exclusivity and state-contingent control rights using a sample of over 100 Internet portal alliance contracts. We find that stronger exclusivity arrangements are associated with more frequent usage of contingent control rights. For... View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Contracts; Governance Controls; Internet and the Web; Ownership

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June 2000 (Revised June 2000)
Case

Economic Reform in the Czech Republic: Velvet Revolution or Velvet Blanket?

By: Bruce R. Scott and Thomas S. Mondschean

Describes the economic reforms from 1990 to 1998, their success, the subsequent 1997 crisis, and the fall of the Klaus government. View Details

Keywords: History; Sovereign Finance; Development Economics; Privatization; Policy; Government and Politics; Economics; Czech Republic

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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 local View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

March 1999 (Revised August 2005)
Case

Steady Earner, Inc.

By: Henry B. Reiling and Mark Pollard

An employee is permitted to choose any one of three stock option plans. The first involves options that are in the money and must be exercised within 10 years. The second involves options that are at the money and must be exercised within 10 years. The third involves... View Details

Keywords: Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Taxation; Stock Options

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

the authors came to believe, government had inflicted detrimental effects not only on industry but also on the Japanese economy as a whole. Their new book Can Japan Compete? is the result of years of research by Porter, the author of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

July 2003
Background Note

Expropriation in International Business

By: Geoffrey G. Jones and Meghan Gallagher-Kernstine

Covers several important expropriation cases in international business from the 20th century and highlights the legal and political difficulties these companies faced. Serves to explain expropriation, to stress the vulnerability of foreign direct investments to... View Details

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Global Strategy; Government and Politics; Common Law; Risk Management; Property; Risk and Uncertainty

01 Jan 2006
News

William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958

undercapitalized to meet its new demands and why public ownership was an important solution. When our public offering went through, many other firms followed suit.” In 1973, a call from Henry Kissinger, who was about to become Secretary... View Details

14 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

debt, which means the loan repayments must come from project cash flows only. In municipally financed or public financed projects, a government entity is the borrower or the debt is backed by a government... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

01 Jun 2017
News

Supercharged

promise of better charging infrastructure, and evolving trends in foreign markets all indicate that EVs are approaching a global tipping point. But with political winds imperiling government incentives in the United States and China... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn

17 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 17

Working Papers Putting Skin in the Game: Managerial Ownership and Bank Risk-Taking By: Bouwens, Jan, and Arnt Verriest Abstract—This paper examines the relation between managerial ownership and bank risk... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

June 2007 (Revised July 2008)
Case

Kinder Morgan, Inc. - Management Buyout

Kinder Morgan, Inc., was a leader in the transportation and distribution of energy throughout North America, managing a master limited partnership with over $35 billion in infrastructure assets. In the summer of 2006, Richard Kinder, the founder and chairman of Kinder... View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Fairness; Governing and Advisory Boards; Privatization; Partners and Partnerships; Conflict of Interests; North America