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  • 12 Apr 2022
  • Book

Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence

Britain’s 20th century empire was the largest in human history, with a quarter of the world’s land and nearly 700 million people. Yet the empire drew its strength from violence. That’s the conclusion Harvard Business School Professor Caroline Elkins draws in her new... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • Web

Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

tied to financial markets fell sharply. In 2010, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, legislation increasing government regulation of the financial industry. While financial markets were ultimately stabilized by... View Details
  • 10 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 10

better equilibrium-but courage will be needed to put such reforms in place. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/06/the-price-of-wall-streets-power/ar/1 August 2013 European Business Review The Magic of Innovation By: Thomke, Stefan, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Asia Pacific - Global

ecosystem. DECEMBER 2024 EVENT Professor John Kim’s Case Teaching on Indonesia’s Education Reform On December 2, Prof. John Jong-Hyun Kim taught the case “Indonesia Education Reform: Merdeka Belajar (‘Emancipated Learning’)”, co-authored... View Details
  • July 2017 (Revised November 2017)
  • Case

'Clarín Lies!': Bias, Post-Truth, and Populism in Argentina's Media War

By: Rafael Di Tella, Jose Liberti and Sarah McAra
In 2012, Argentine media conglomerate Grupo Clarín and President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner were embroiled in what some called “the mother of all battles.” Grupo Clarín was one of the preeminent media companies in Argentina, with leading newspapers, cable... View Details
Keywords: Media Regulation; Media; Government and Politics; Policy; Newspapers; Government Legislation; Business and Government Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Monopoly; Journalism and News Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Argentina
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  • 03 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 3, 2015

significant scope in choosing where to work, these uncompensated risks may undermine the efficacy of accountability reforms by limiting the ability of low-performing schools to attract and retain effective leaders. This paper empirically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 May 2023
  • What Do You Think?

How Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated—if at All?

(iStockphoto/Rost-9D) Artificial intelligence (AI) is the topic of the moment in circles ranging from science to business to religion. Its potential and implications are driven home when you see robot soccer players improve their game to the point that they behave as a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Information Technology; Technology

    Paul W. Marshall

    MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Management, Paul W. Marshall, is affiliated with the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager in the Turnaround Environment. This Elective Curriculum course focuses on the role of... View Details

    Keywords: aerospace; banking; brokerage; computer; consulting; defense; management consulting; manufacturing; metals; professional services; retail financial services; retailing; steel
    • 14 Dec 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Regulating for Legitimacy: Consumer Credit Access in France and America

    Keywords: by Gunnar Trumbull
    • 22 Sep 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: September 22

      Working PapersMixed Source Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gastón Llanes Abstract We study competitive interaction between profit-maximizing firms that sell software and complementary goods or services. In addition to tactical price competition, we allow firms... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Research Summary

    Modernization Regimes

    Professor Fabbe is currently conducting fieldwork for a book project that focuses on how societies respond to crisis and how states seek to use modernization initiatives to strengthen social resilience and cohesion. Towards this end, she is researching local... View Details

    • 2013
    • Teaching Note

    The COFCO Group (TN)

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming and Ziqian Zhao
    COFCO was China's sole legitimate window for agricultural foreign trade before 1987. The reform of China's foreign trade system beginning in 1987 cost COFCO its monopoly position. Subsequently, the SOE giant capitalized on its foreign trade expertise to strategically... View Details
    Keywords: China; Food; China
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    • 2014
    • Article

    Framework for China's Novel Sustainable Evaluation System Strategy

    By: Robert G. Eccles and Peijun Duan
    China’s sustainable development faces three challenges: first, the follow-up momentum of sustainable economic growth and economic transformation is insufficient; second, some resources and environment loads have reached their limits; third, some products affecting the... View Details
    Keywords: Sustainable Development; Integrated Report; New Evaluation System; China
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    • November 2020
    • Article

    Taxation in Matching Markets

    By: Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon, Sonia Jaffe and Scott Duke Kominers
    We analyze the effects of taxation in two-sided matching markets, i.e., markets in which all agents have heterogeneous preferences over potential partners. In matching markets, taxes can generate inefficiency on the allocative margin by changing who is matched to whom,... View Details
    Keywords: Matching Markets; Labor Markets; Taxation; Labor; Markets
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    • Article

    Contested Meanings of Freedom: Workingmen's Wages, the Company Store System and the Godcharles v. Wigeman Decision

    By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
    In 1886, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down a law that prohibited employers from paying wages in company store scrip and mandated monthly wage payments. The court held that the legislature could not prescribe mandatory wage contracts for legally competent... View Details
    Keywords: Wages; Rights; Fairness; Lawsuits and Litigation; Laws and Statutes; Pennsylvania
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    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Capitalism, Slavery, and the Legacy of Cesare Beccaria

    By: Sophus A. Reinert
    The Milanese Marquis Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794) dedicated his life first to theorizing a more just and equal society grounded in individual rights, anchored in secular political economy rather than in religious dogma, then to realizing this bold vision... View Details
    Keywords: Slavery; Racism; Capitalism; History; Society
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    • 2010
    • Chapter

    The Peculiar Politics of American Disaster Policy: How Television Has Changed Federal Relief

    By: David Moss
    Particularly since the 1960s, the federal government has played a significant role in financing disaster losses in the United States. The federal government may thus be thought of as providing an implicit form of public disaster insurance. However, unlike many... View Details
    Keywords: Insurance; Policy; Government and Politics; Media; Natural Disasters; United States
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    • June 2014
    • Article

    The Price of Wall Street's Power

    By: Gautam Mukunda
    Over and over again, executives make decisions that aren't in their companies' best interests, in response to pressure from Wall Street. Though many believe this happens because firms have a "fiduciary duty" to maximize shareholder returns, U.S. executives do not, as a... View Details
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      The Academy of Fisticuffs

      The terms “capitalism” and “socialism” continue to haunt our political and economic imaginations, but we rarely consider their interconnected early history. Even the eighteenth century had its “socialists,” but unlike those of the nineteenth, they paradoxically... View Details

      • 11 Apr 2024
      • In Practice

      Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains

      debate in Congress has been clogged into stasis. And the problem is, US policymakers have not been able to separate the semi-skilled and unskilled immigration policy reform from skilled reform. For that reason, they've not been able to... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne