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  • 24 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention

lead to more volatile inflation in the future. Prices also can react quicker to policy changes and demand-side shocks. In fact, policymakers at the Federal Reserve and elsewhere are the target audience for Cavallo’s message. His research,... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail
  • December 2007
  • Article

Learning to Live with Governments: Unilever in India and Turkey, 1950-1980

By: G. Jones
A noteworthy characteristic of the contemporary global economy is the uneven distribution of world foreign direct investment (FDI). In 2007 three-quarters of world FDI was located in developed countries. The residual was concentrated in a small number of emerging... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Ethics; Foreign Direct Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Consumer Products Industry; India; Turkey
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  • 1992
  • Chapter

The EMS, the EMU and the Transition to a Common Currency

By: K. A. Froot and K. Rogoff
Keywords: Currencies; Exchange Rates; International Macroeconomics; Monetary Policy; Currency Controls; Fixed Exchange Rates; Floating Exchange Rates; Currency Bands; Currency Zones; Currency Areas; Rational Expectations; International Finance; Currency Exchange Rate; Asset Pricing; Policy
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    James E. Austin

    Dr. Austin holds the Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. Previously he held the John G. McLean Professorship and the Richard P. Chapman Professorship. He has been a member of the Harvard... View Details

    Keywords: agribusiness
    • October 2013
    • Case

    Japan: Abe's Three Arrows?

    By: Richard H.K. Vietor
    After the Koizumi government ended in 2006, Japan continued to struggle with slow growth, deflation and, in 2011, a tsunami and nuclear disaster. Following a series of several more unsuccessful prime ministers, Shinzo Abe again became the prime minister in 2012 and... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Development; Quantitative Easing; Stagnation; National Strategy; Development Economics; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Strategy; Japan
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    • 11 Feb 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Leviathan as a Minority Shareholder: A Study of Equity Purchases by the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES), 1995-2003

    Keywords: by Sergio G. Lazzarini & Aldo Musacchio
    • June 2023
    • Teaching Note

    Agricultural Revolution without a Land Revolution: The Megafarms of CP Group

    By: William C. Kirby and Noah B. Truwit
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 316-150. The case introduces students to an innovative new agricultural venture on the outskirts of Beijing. It can be used as a platform to discuss broader issues of agricultural policy reform and regional disparities in social and... View Details
    Keywords: Agribusiness; Policy; Economic Growth; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Thailand
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      Andy Zelleke

      Andy Zelleke is the MBA Class of 1962 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. A member of the General Management unit, he is the Faculty Chair of HBS’ Middle East & North Africa Research Center.

      Since Spring 2021, Dr. Zelleke has taught “Unpacking... View Details

      Keywords: federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government
      • 06 Dec 2017
      • What Do You Think?

      Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

      a company for doing the best job they can and succeed?” Others argued that market definition is changing in ways that render United States anti-trust policy outdated in an increasingly global economy. As Craig Parietti & Partners put... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services
      • Article

      The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Financial Regulation for the Twenty-First Century

      By: Leonard J. Kennedy, Patricia A. McCoy and Ethan S. Bernstein
      After existing regulatory systems failed to prevent the recent financial crisis, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a sweeping reform designed to alleviate the crisis and prevent its recurrence. Out of this Act, the Consumer... View Details
      Keywords: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; Dodd-Frank; CFPB; Financial Crisis; Reform; New Agency; Market-based Approach; Evidence-based Analysis; Innovative Technologies And Transparency Policies; BEST Practices; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Finance; Financial History; Law; Markets; Organizations; Organizational Design; Business and Government Relations; Balance and Stability; Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; United States
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      • 1992
      • Chapter

      Exchange Rate Forecasting Techniques, Survey Data, and Implications for the Foreign Exchange Market

      By: J. Frankel and K. A. Froot
      Keywords: Currencies; Exchange Rates; International Macroeconomics; Monetary Policy; Currency Controls; Fixed Exchange Rates; Floating Exchange Rates; Currency Bands; Currency Zones; Currency Areas; Rational Expectations; International Finance; Currency Exchange Rate; Asset Pricing; Forecasting and Prediction; Policy
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        Richard H.K. Vietor

        Professor Vietor is Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He teaches courses on the international political economy. Before coming to the Business School in 1978, Professor Vietor held faculty appointments at Virginia... View Details

        Keywords: energy; oil ＆ gas; petroleum; railroad; shipping
        • September 2016 (Revised September 2016)
        • Case

        The Tavistock Group and the Australian Agricultural Company

        By: Dante Roscini and Matthew Preble
        In late 2015, Dr. Shehan Dissanayake, a managing director and board member of Bahamian investment firm The Tavistock Group (Tavistock), the largest shareholder in the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo), one of the country's largest agribusinesses, faces a... View Details
        Keywords: Agribusiness; Foreign Direct Investment; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Business and Government Relations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Australia; Bahamas
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        • 22 Jun 2007
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Proprietary vs. Open Two-Sided Platforms and Social Efficiency

        Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Video Game; Web Services
        • 2007
        • Working Paper

        A Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and Individualism

        By: Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra and Robert MacCulloch
        We study the correlation between a belief concerning individualism and a measure of luck in the US during the period 1983-2004. The measure of beliefs is the answer to a question related to whether the poor should be helped by the government or if they should help... View Details
        Keywords: Energy; Price; Policy; Government and Politics; Poverty; Welfare; Energy Industry; United States
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        • 2018
        • Book

        The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society

        By: William R. Kerr
        The global race for talent is on, with countries and businesses competing for the best and brightest. Foreign talent has transformed U.S. science and engineering, reshaped the economy, and influenced society at large. But America is bogged down in thorny debates on... View Details
        Keywords: Immigration; Policy; Labor; Economy; Talent and Talent Management; United States
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        • November 2023
        • Article

        Coalition Cascades: The Politics of Tipping Points in Clean Energy Transitions

        By: Jonas Meckling and Nicholas Goedeking
        Policy change often involves multiple policy subsystems, as in the case of clean energy transitions. We argue that trans- subsystem policy feedback is a central dynamic in policy change across subsystems. Policy in one subsystem creates ... View Details
        Keywords: Policy; Transition; Energy Sources; System
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        • 2023
        • Working Paper

        No Mask, No Service: Customer Reaction to Walmart’s 2020 National Mask Mandate

        By: Innessa Colaiacovo
        Multi-location firms face a complex series of economic tradeoffs when deciding whether to implement standard processes or allow processes to vary across establishments. One element of this tradeoff is customer response. This paper explores customer reaction to a... View Details
        Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Geographic Location; Policy; Health Pandemics; Retail Industry; United States
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        • 28 Nov 2023
        • Book

        Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

        policies and address risks in ways they may not prefer.” Silverthorne: To help explain these differences, you put forward a model that features “mutual alignment” and “mutual endangerment” as motivating forces. Can you explain? Rithmire:... View Details
        Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

          Mihir A. Desai

          Mihir A. Desai is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He received his Ph.D. in political economy from Harvard... View Details