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    W. Carl Kester

    Carl Kester is a Baker Foundation Professor and the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Finance Unit. He served as Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs (2006-2010), Chairman of the... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; banking; education industry; financial services; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds)
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Trade Policy in the Shadow of Conflict: The Case of Dual-use Goods

    By: Maxim Alekseev and Xinyue Lin
    Policymakers increasingly use trade instruments to address national security concerns. This paper studies optimal policy for dual-use goods, items with both military and civilian applications. We begin by documenting that regulation and trade flows of dual-use goods... View Details
    Keywords: Policy; National Security; Trade; Taxation; Financial Instruments; Macroeconomics
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    Alekseev, Maxim, and Xinyue Lin. "Trade Policy in the Shadow of Conflict: The Case of Dual-use Goods." Working Paper, October 2024.
    • 06 Oct 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Edward Fertik, Yale University

    • 25 Feb 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: February 25

    in the country's economy during the past two decades, have brought together a group of economists and political scientists to systematically examine the impact of a wide range of factors affecting the economy's collapse, from the cost of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 26 Jan 2016
    • First Look

    January 26, 2016

    Political corruption governs the efficiency with which tax revenues are translated into infrastructure. The model predicts an inverted-U relationship between taxation and growth, with corruption reducing the optimal taxation level. We... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Placement - Doctoral

    School Dissertation: Contests for Consumption: Empirical evidence from professional sports on contest theory” Advisors: Dennis Campbell (Co-Chair), Karim R. Lakhani (Co-Chair), and Srikant M. Datar Alexandra... View Details
    • Web

    Curriculum - Case Method Project

    Confederation—including debt, contraction of trade, recession, inflation, and Shays’ Rebellion—and how those problems informed key features of the U.S. Constitution. Coverage: 1763 – 1787; American Revolution; Articles of Confederation; the ‘Critical Period’; Shays’... View Details
    • 28 Feb 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance

    cross-border finance and in patterns we have seen before. In his new book Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance, Abdelal documents the waxing and waning of international capital controls in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and the View Details
    Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal
    • 06 Aug 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal

    to prevent them. "The main conclusion from this whole stream of research is that investing in poverty reduction strategies not only has direct economic benefits but also political benefits," says Lakshmi Iyer, a Harvard Business... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 25 Apr 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, April 25

    industry also grew as the means out of poverty for many women who worked as sales consultants and in salons. Winning beauty contests became the equivalent to winning a lottery. In this respect, the impact of the beauty industry was... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 Sep 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: September 12, 2006

    power in Ghana's history. Focuses on Ghana's long history of poor economic performance and intractable poverty, highlighting the challenges of economic development in Africa and in other low-income countries. Provides a brief political... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Business History - Faculty & Research

    and traces the evolution of their environmental strategies in response to growing evidence of pollution and resulting political pressures. The variety of capitalism literature has suggested that the German coordinated market economy model... View Details
    • 04 Nov 2009
    • What Do You Think?

    What is the Role of Government Vis-à-Vis Capitalism?

    the classic "invisible hand" that Scott claims leads at times to a "free-for all," like an athletic contest without rules. What's to be done about it? That's where a political authority... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • 30 Nov 2021
    • In Practice

    What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

    The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
    Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
    • 22 Feb 2018
    • Book

    The New History of American Capitalism

    Desan look to how scholars in history, law, and political science are redefining capitalism in light of the American experience. Essayists write on such diverse subjects as markets, selling of slave clothing, the Gilded Age, women’s... View Details
    Keywords: Manufacturing
    • 04 Feb 2022
    • Book

    Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries

    Although many view socialism through the rigid lens of Soviet orthodoxy, it has always been a work in progress and an evolving and adaptable ideology on a global scale, says Harvard Business School Marvin Bower Associate Professor Jeremy Friedman. In his new book, Ripe... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 19 Nov 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: November 19

    share of female candidates from major political parties in the subsequent election. This stems mainly from an increased probability that previous women candidates contest again, an important margin in India... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 05 Feb 2018
    • What Do You Think?

    Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

    own case and determine where to draw the line." That raises the question: How should the line be drawn on pay transparency? What do you think? Original Column Organizational transparency is a much contested topic in boardrooms and... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services
    • 09 Oct 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

    all. Everyone would act as a free agent in a winner-take-all contest. Opportunism and selfish political behavior would be rampant. A great deal of frantic effort would be expended—but little of it would be the kind of coordinated effort... View Details
    Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
    • Web

    Published Materials - Creating Emerging Markets

    Contesting Gender and Skin Color Stereotypes in the Film Industry in India, 1947–1991 By: Sudev Sheth, Geoffrey Jones and Morgan Spencer 23 APR 2021 Working Paper Faculty Research Spiritual Philanthropy in Emerging Markets By: Valeria... View Details
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