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  • October 2003
  • Article

Capture by Threat

By: Ernesto Dal Bo and Rafael Di Tella
We analyze a simple stochastic environment in which policy makers can be threatened by “nasty” interest groups. In the absence of these groups, the policy maker’s desire for reelection guarantees that good policies are implemented for every realization of the shock.... View Details
Keywords: Political Parties; Politicians; Nash Equilibrium; Political Elections
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  • 11 Sep 2013
  • News

How to Create Another Housing Crisis

  • Research Summary

Entrepreneurial Finance

By: William A. Sahlman
William A. Sahlman is examining the investment and financing decisions made at all stages in the development of entrepreneurial ventures. Related lines of inquiry concern the role of financial institutions in providing risk capital, and the role of government policy in... View Details
  • 2022
  • Report

Competitiveness Roadmap for India@100

By: Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels
The Competitiveness Roadmap for India lays out policy principles to guide India's efforts to move towards middle-income and beyond over the next 25 years. It covers a discussion of appropriate outcome ambitions, the underlying development approach, specific policy... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Strategy; Competition; Policy; Government Administration; India
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    Ishita Sen

    Ishita Sen is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Finance Unit, teaching Finance 1 to MBA students.  

    Professor Sen's research studies insurance markets. Her recent research examines the pricing of property insurance and the understudied... View Details

    • September 2019 (Revised December 2022)
    • Background Note

    African American Inequality in the United States

    By: Janice H. Hammond, A. Kamau Massey and Mayra G. Garza
    This note describes how historical and on-going policies and practices that discriminate against African Americans led to present-day inequality. Topics include slavery, segregation, Jim Crow laws, “black codes,” and policies and practices relating to criminal justice,... View Details
    Keywords: African Americans; Justice; Slavery; Discrimination; Race; Equality and Inequality; Prejudice and Bias; Policy; History; United States
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    • Article

    Do Strong Fences Make Strong Neighbors?

    By: Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala
    Many features of U.S. tax policy towards multinational firms-including the governing principle of capital export neutrality, the byzantine system of expense allocation, and anti-inversion legislation-reflect the intuition that building "strong fences" around the United... View Details
    Keywords: International Taxation; Initial Public Offerings; Foreign Portfolio Investment; Policy; Taxation; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Initial Public Offering; Mergers and Acquisitions; Foreign Direct Investment; United States
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    • 04 Jan 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Digital Commons: Tragedy or Opportunity? A Reflection on the 50th Anniversary of Hardin’s Tragedy of the Commons

    Keywords: by Frank Nagle
    • Forthcoming
    • Article

    The Institutional Sources of Economic Transformation: Explaining Variation in Energy Transitions

    By: Jared Finnegan, Phillip Lipscy, Jonas Meckling and Florence Metz
    Why are some governments more effective in promoting economic change than others? We develop a theory of the institutional sources of economic transformation. Institutions can facilitate transformation through two central mechanisms: insulation and compensation.... View Details
    Keywords: Policy; Business and Government Relations; Supply and Industry; Demand and Consumers; Transformation; Economic Systems; Climate Change
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    • 09 Aug 2010
    • News

    Obama acts as clean-tech venture capitalist

    • 11 Apr 2024
    • In Practice

    Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains

    School experts discuss the current quandary and potential policy and corporate solutions. William Kerr: Untangling migration and employment The immigration system to the United States is very complex. We have many people coming at many... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Food Security and Human Mobility During the COVID-19 Lockdown

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Wesley W. Koo, Xina Li, Nishant Kishore, Satchit Balsari and Tarun Khanna
    During the COVID-19 crisis, millions of migrants around the world face food insecurity. This could force migrants to travel during the pandemic, exposing them to health risks and accelerating the spread of the virus. Anecdotal evidence demonstrates the importance of... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Migrants; Food Security; Mobility; Health Pandemics; Food; Distribution; Policy; Global Range
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    • 10 Apr 2025
    • HBS Seminar

    Erica Plambeck, Stanford Graduate School of Business

    • 18 Oct 2010
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech

    opposition to changes in energy and environmental policy is unbelievably strong. For the time being, public policy support in the form of subsidies or mandates is required if renewables are to be used."... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities; Financial Services

      Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets

      Emerging markets play an increasingly important role in the global economy, accounting for 31% of global GDP and more than 50% of global foreign direct investment in 2012. However, doing business in emerging markets remains subject to a high degree of "policy risk,"... View Details

      • Research Summary

      Overview

      By: Mattias E. Fibiger
      Professor Fibiger conducts research on twentieth-century international history, focusing primarily on political economy and international relations in Southeast Asia.

      Professor Fibiger's first book is entitled Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast... View Details
      Keywords: Authoritarianism; Political Economy; Foreign Aid; Foreign Direct Investment; Foreign Policy; Southeast Asia; United States; Finance; International Economy; International Capital Markets; History; International Relations; National Security; Government and Politics; Development Economics; Southeast Asia; United States; Indonesia; Philippines; Malaysia; Singapore
      • February 2021
      • Article

      Topic Classification of Electric Vehicle Consumer Experiences with Transformer-Based Deep Learning

      By: Sooji Ha, Daniel J Marchetto, Sameer Dharur and Omar Isaac Asensio
      The transportation sector is a major contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and is a driver of adverse health effects globally. Increasingly, government policies have promoted the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) as a solution to mitigate GHG emissions.... View Details
      Keywords: Natural Language Processing; Analytics and Data Science; Environmental Sustainability; Infrastructure; Transportation; Policy
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      • February 2013
      • Article

      Digitization, Innovation, and Copyright: What Is the Agenda?

      By: Shane Greenstein, Josh Lerner and Scott Stern
      This essay discusses the need for research on the consequences of digitization, as well as the impact of alternative policies governing the creation and use of digital information. This agenda focuses on the development of research to investigate the economics of... View Details
      Keywords: Information Technology; Research; Copyright; Information Management; Innovation and Invention
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      • January 2006
      • Case

      Ron Perez (A)

      By: Lynn S. Paine
      The division human resources officer must decide whether to discipline a long-time employee for misusing company time and for improperly filling out time cards for his work on government contracts. Intended to focus on the various factors relevant to disciplining... View Details
      Keywords: Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Employees; Business or Company Management; Management Practices and Processes; Organizations; Crime and Corruption
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      • 02 Sep 2015
      • What Do You Think?

      What's Wrong With Amazon’s Low-Retention HR Strategy?

      summed up this view commenting, “the retention strategy should be governed by the role of the employee in the organization. Our company has successfully strategized a two track policy.” All of this sounds as if low-retention View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Consumer Products; Fashion