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2019
Working Paper

The Impact of the General Data Protection Regulation on Internet Interconnection

By: Ran Zhuo, Bradley Huffaker, KC Claffy and Shane Greenstein

The Internet comprises thousands of independently operated networks, where bilaterally negotiated interconnection agreements determine the flow of data between networks. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) imposes strict restrictions on... View Details

Keywords: Personal Data; Privacy Regulation; GDPR; Interconnection Agreements; Internet and the Web; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; European Union

June 2014
Supplement

ISS/AS The Buyout—spreadsheet supplement

By: Lucy White

Keywords: LBO; Private Equity; Contracts; Global Business; International Business; Finance; Ethics; Law; Service Industry; European Union

2013
Other Unpublished Work

Comments on Commitments in AT.39740 — Google

By: Benjamin Edelman

I evaluate the remedies in Google's proposed Commitments, and I propose additional remedies to more fully address the Commission's concerns. View Details

Keywords: Competition; Regulation; Google; Bias; Deterrence; Law; Internet; Search Technology; Technology Networks; European Union

June 2003 (Revised January 2004)
Case

The Euro-Dollar Decision (A)

By: Huw Pill, John C. Kelleher, Michael T. Nally and David Schlendorf

Explores the factors that determine floating exchange rates in the context of the introduction of the euro in January 1999. View Details

Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; European Union

December 1994 (Revised July 1996)
Case

USSR 1988, The: The Search for Growth

For decades after the revolution of 1917, Communist Party leaders claimed that the socialist economic system was superior to the capitalist system on both moral and economic grounds. By 1985, when Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary of the Communist Party of the... View Details

Keywords: Economic Systems; Economic Growth; Government and Politics; Soviet Union

Educators

March 1993
Teaching Note

Tambrands Inc.: The Femtech Soviet Joint Venture (B) TN

By: Willis M. Emmons III

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Soviet Union

August 1991 (Revised March 1993)
Case

Tambrands, Inc.: The Femtech Soviet Joint Venture (B)

By: Willis M. Emmons III

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Corporate Strategy; Soviet Union

November 1990
Background Note

Common Agricultural Policy of the EC: An Agenda for the Nineties

By: Ray A. Goldberg

Keywords: Agribusiness; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; European Union

September 2002
Article

Memories of Nations and States: Institutional History and National Identity in Post-Soviet Eurasia

By: Rawi Abdelal

Keywords: History; Soviet Union

December 1984 (Revised July 1990)
Teaching Note

Soviet Gas Pipeline, Teaching Note

By: David B. Yoffie

Keywords: Soviet Union

March 2016 (Revised September 2021)
Case

South Africa: A Fractured Rainbow?

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Haviland Sheldahl-Thomason

Twenty years after the end of Apartheid, South Africa's democracy persists, albeit with problems. A tripartite coalition — the African National Congress, the labor unions, and the Communist Party — still controls the political system but with diminishing economic... View Details

Keywords: Politics; Development; Productivity; Labor; Labor Unions; Infrastructure; Government and Politics; Economic Growth; Performance Productivity; Economy; Social Issues; South Africa

Educators

01 Dec 2020
What Do You Think?

How Can We Get Companies to Invest More in Low-Wage Workers?

the lower ranks. One of the causes may well be inequities in the ability of executives and frontline labor to negotiate compensation for their skills. In particular, the declining power of unions and the stickiness of minimum wage laws... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Web

GDPR & Other Data Privacy Laws | Information Technology

philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, or containing genetic, biometric or health data or data concerning sex life or sexual orientation, and criminal convictions and offenses. Identifiable genetic, biometric and health data... View Details

06 Nov 2009
News

Health Reform Paths Not Taken

No issues in the ongoing Congressional health-care debate have generated more heat than the so-called public option and proposed taxes on “gold-plated” health insurance plans. Conservatives view a new government-run health insurance option as creeping socialism. View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Health, Social Assistance

Web

Impact on Research & Curriculum | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

now call diversity . . . . Certainly African American issues were just a small part of the agenda, if any part of the agenda. E. Theodore Lewis Jr. , MBA 1969, “The Afro-American Student Union of HBS: A Salute to the Past, A Challenge to... View Details

January 2020
Supplement

Brexit: A Withdrawal Agreement? — Boris Johnson

By: Laura Alfaro and Sarah Jeong

The UK was due to leave the EU in March 2019 after a referendum vote in June 2016. Following additional extensions and multiple failed attempts to reach an agreement with Parliament, Theresa May stepped down as Conservative Party leader and was replaced by Boris... View Details

Keywords: Brexit; Government and Politics; International Relations; United Kingdom; European Union

02 May 2016
News

Can Brian Shortsleeve Fix the MBTA’s Budget Woes?

The Boston Globe has a long feature on Brian Shortsleeve (MBA 2001), the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s (MBTA) new chief administrator. The piece notes Shortsleeve’s challenge: $5.5 billion in debt and a $7 billion maintenance backlog, and pushback on his... View Details

April 1984 (Revised June 1986)
Case

Soviet Gas Pipeline

By: David B. Yoffie

Keywords: Energy Industry; Soviet Union

February 2021
Article

Rethinking the Role of the EU in European Competitiveness

By: Christian H.M. Ketels and Michael E. Porter

The aim of this conceptual paper is to delineate the scope and give directives towards higher levels of competitiveness and prosperity for EU members. The EU integration history and challenges are retraced and the EU’s current competitiveness context is presented. In a... View Details

Keywords: Competitiveness; Public Policy; Competitive Advantage; Government Administration; European Union