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  • 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007

factories, a retail franchise, a cattle ranch, a 5,000-acre plantation, a sawmill, and an exporting business before the end of British colonial rule in 1960. Seizing business opportunities as he saw demand, Odutola moved between markets... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

other distortions measured in the literature. The second uncertain policy we consider concerns marginal tax rates. We obtain similar results once we adjust for the impact of tax rates on income. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-083.pdf On The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6

foreign-born financial specialists-immigrants-solved the fiscal crisis and set the United States on a path to long-term economic success. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas K. McCraw analyzes the skills and worldliness of Alexander... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

rethink the entire traditional higher education model. Private universities without national recognition and large endowments are at great financial risk. So are public universities, even prestigious ones such as the University of California at Berkeley.... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

Subramanian Abstract We measure the value of shareholder proxy access by using a recent development in the ability of shareholders to nominate candidates for board seats. We use the SEC's October 4, 2010 announcement that it would significantly delay implementation of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15

major trading partners. Entering office in January 2011, Rousseff had the opportunity to outline a new agenda for international trade. Specifically, she had to decide whether to seek completion of the Doha Round, which was in a stalement due to disputes over global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down

through his own leadership of the meeting. The purpose of these rules was to introduce new standards of interpersonal behavior and, in the process, to combat several dysfunctional routines. One serious test of Levy's ability to reinforce... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
  • 01 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 1

Foods (B) John Coates, Clayton Rose, and David LaneHarvard Business School Supplement 312-004 The (B) case describes Laster's ruling and thoughts. Del Monte's board had violated its fiduciary duty to shareholders by allowing Barclays to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

networks or manufacturers to procure goods across complex global supply chains. These standards-shaped by standard-setting organizations (SSOs) and participating engineers, academics, lawyers, and executives-in turn shape how new technologies evolve, specifying View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Oct 2013
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Time that Government Reopens for Business

Competitiveness Project. Titled "Government Debt and Competitiveness," the paper asserts that "The United States federal government's current and projected fiscal deficits are not sustainable. No country can continue to run... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 02 Sep 2013
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The Curse of Double-Digit Growth

after the country's civil war ended in 2002. Still, Werker says, Angola is one of the world's most poorly run governments, with its ruling power controlling most of its resources. Although Nigeria's oil boom from 1968 to 1976 created many... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

democracies. While all governments have monetary and fiscal tools, such as the manipulation of interest rates, exchange rates, and government spending, at their disposal to manage and smooth business cycles, they employ these tools in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2014
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Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers

protect local businesses from the crushing competition of "big-box" stores. But it turns out such rules often backfire, according to research by Raffaella Sadun, an assistant professor in the Strategy unit at Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7

sociologists present a clear analysis of Cuba's economic and social circumstances and suggest steps for Cuba to reactivate economic growth and improve the welfare of its citizens. These authors focus first on trade, capital inflows, exchange rates, monetary and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

and how much, to use fiscal stimulus to resuscitate the economy. To help students understand Obama's options, the case reviews both the recent tax cuts under President George W. Bush, including the supply-side and demand-management... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008

especially as the government did not want a rate hike that could potentially hinder economic growth and increase its already large fiscal debt burden. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Apr 2007
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All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

attractive for investors. Jensen: Similarly, voters in Finland decided to oust the ruling Social Democrats in favor of parties promoting tax cuts in response to the attraction of neighboring Estonia's flat tax. Most recently, the United... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 02 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

will be a natural counterbalance to the slowdown in industry. Second, China is in good shape from a fiscal standpoint. They have a budget deficit target of 2.3 percent this year, but are currently in surplus. Third, they still have... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services
  • 14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14

are the emerging clusters of multinational production the rule or the exception? What drives the offshore agglomeration of multinational firms in comparison to the agglomeration of domestic firms? Using a unique worldwide plant-level... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24

during and after World War I, as well as demonstrating the rapidly changing market for dental hygiene in the interwar period. New marketing strategies based on psychological science and consumer protection agencies changed the rules of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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