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  • April 2011 (Revised April 2012)
  • Case

Angels in British Columbia

By: Josh Lerner, Thomas Hellmann and Ilkin Ilyaszade
The case study provides an overview of the angel investment practices and describes government policies towards angel and venture capital investing in British Columbia, Canada. It focuses in particular on the Equity Capital Program (BCECP henceforth), which provides... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity; Investment; Policy; Taxation; Performance Improvement; Programs; British Columbia
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  • 11 Oct 2015
  • News

Students favour menu of food industry courses

    Aiyesha Dey

    Aiyesha Dey has been part of the Accounting and Management unit at the Harvard Business School (HBS) since July 2017. She started her career as an accounting faulty at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, after which she joined the accounting group at... View Details
    • June 2004
    • Case

    Medical Technology Industry and Japan (A), The

    In a five-year effort, the Health Industry Manufacturers Association (HIMA) tried to influence government health policy in Japan. In 1993, HIMA mobilized in response to fears the Japanese government was planning to target the U.S. medical devices industry. The case... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Policy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Government and Politics; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Japan; United States
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    • Editorial

    Zeroing Out on zero-COVID

    By: William C. Kirby
    China’s culture reveres science, yet operates under a government that often defines what “science” is and is not. China’s “zero-COVID” policy has created a bifurcated scientific community that threatens international collaboration in science and technology. A... View Details
    Keywords: COVID; Scientific Community; World Health Organization; Pseudoscience; Governance; Government and Politics; Health; Research and Development; Social Media; China
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    • 31 Oct 2019
    • Video

    Anu Aga

    Anu Aga discusses the decision India-based engineering company Thermax took in 1996 to devote a specific share of profits to social spending, and to focus explicitly on education, supporting schools and the... View Details
    • 09 May 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

    Keywords: by Aaron Chatterji, Edward Glaeser & William Kerr
    • 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
    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    College Admissions as Non-Price Competition: The Case of South Korea

    By: Christopher Avery, Alvin E. Roth and Soohyung Lee
    This paper examines non-price competition among colleges to attract highly qualified students, exploiting the South Korean setting where the national government sets rules governing applications. We identify some basic facts about the behavior of colleges before and... View Details
    Keywords: Competition; Higher Education; Policy; Government and Politics; Education Industry; South Korea
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    • 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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    • Article

    Assessing the Impact of CEO Activism

    By: Aaron K Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel
    CEO activism refers to corporate leaders speaking out on social and environmental policy issues not directly related to their company’s core business. Distinct from nonmarket strategy and traditional corporate social responsibility, the recent wave of CEO activism... View Details
    Keywords: Business And Society; Leadership; Policy; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Governance; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Public Opinion
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    • 11 Sep 2013
    • News

    How to Create Another Housing Crisis

    • October 2012 (Revised July 2013)
    • Case

    Olympus (A)

    By: Jay W. Lorsch, Suraj Srinivasan and Kathleen Durante
    As 2012 approached, the woes of the financial crisis seemed to be fading, companies were resuming business as usual, and some of the scrutiny on corporate governance practices began to recede as well. That is until another major financial scandal emerged in Japan in... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Corporate Governance; Electronics Industry; Health Industry; Japan
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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
    • Video

    Aroon Purie

    Aroon Purie, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of India Today, explains the opening of the Indian economy and suggests that the major drivers of economic growth have not been government policies but rather due to a series of revolutions in the IT industry, the auto... View Details
    • 12 Oct 2017
    • HBS Seminar

    Benjamin Marx, MIT

    • 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
    • March 2011 (Revised May 2011)
    • Case

    Inequality in Brazil

    By: Aldo Musacchio
    This case examines the evolution of inequality in Brazil in the last few years and generates two debates. First, the case discusses inequality and whether it is a problem or not for capitalist societies, in this case Brazil. Second, the case discusses some of the... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Growth; Economic Systems; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations; Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Brazil
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    • 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
    • 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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