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  • February 1984 (Revised November 1993)
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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.--1983

Reviews changes in Du Pont's debt policy from 1965 to 1982. This period ended with a dramatic increase in Du Pont's debt level attendant upon the merger with Conoco. Students are asked to develop a new debt policy for Du Pont in the 1980s. View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Policy; Borrowing and Debt
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Glauber, Robert R. "E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.--1983." Harvard Business School Case 284-062, February 1984. (Revised November 1993.)
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By: Debora L. Spar

Managing International Trade and Investment

Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details

  • 2016
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Trade Associations, State Building, and the Sherman Act: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1912–25

By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
From its founding in 1912 through the interwar years, the Chamber’s history shows a persistent preoccupation with progressive economics and policy making. Rather than flouting the new ideas of institutional economics, which favored federal regulators overseeing data... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Fairness; Supply and Industry; Policy; Business and Government Relations; United States
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Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "Trade Associations, State Building, and the Sherman Act: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1912–25." Chap. 1 in Capital Gains: Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America, edited by Richard R. John and Kim Phillips-Fein, 25–42. Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
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Accountability in the World Bank

This research, now complete, examines the roles of civil society actors in advocating for greater accountability at the World Bank at three levels of decision-making: (1) the project level, (2) the policy level, and (3) the board governance level. The research finds... View Details
  • 22 Feb 2018
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Economists cannot avoid making value judgments

  • July 2014
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Paramount Equipment, Inc.

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Wei Wang
Paramount Equipment, Inc., based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, is a large manufacturer of cranes and compact construction equipment, aerial work platforms, and food service equipment. Founded in 1987, Paramount now had manufacturing operations in 24 countries. However, it... View Details
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Baldwin, Carliss Y., and Wei Wang. "Paramount Equipment, Inc." Harvard Business School Brief Case 914-557, July 2014.

    Amitabh Chandra

    Amitabh Chandra is the Henry and Allison McCance Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School where he is the Faculty Chair of the joint View Details

    • January 2020
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    Chile: Unrest in the Copper Nation

    By: Laura Alfaro and Sarah Jeong
    For decades, Chile enjoyed the stability of being the world’s largest producer of copper. Keynes would have advised that this period of growth would have been the time for the government to save, that “the boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the... View Details
    Keywords: Copper Production; Protests; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Metals and Minerals; Production; Economy; Emerging Markets; Chile
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    Alfaro, Laura, and Sarah Jeong. "Chile: Unrest in the Copper Nation." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 320-054, January 2020.
    • 24 Jun 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: June 24, 2008

    Paul S. Adler. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, forthcoming Abstract No abstract is available at this time. Publisher's site: http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199535231 A Better Approach to Foreign Aid Authors: Justin Muzinich and Eric Werker Publication:... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace

      Laura Alfaro

      Laura Alfaro is the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration. At Harvard since 1999, she served as Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy in Costa Rica from 2010-2012, taking a leave from HBS. She is Co-Editor of the Journal of International... View Details

      • Winter 2024
      • Article

      Is Pay Transparency Good?

      By: Zoë B. Cullen
      Countries around the world are enacting pay transparency policies to combat pay discrimination. Since 2000, 71 percent of OECD countries have done so. Most are enacting transparency horizontally, revealing pay between coworkers doing similar work within a firm. While... View Details
      Keywords: Policy; Wages; Knowledge Sharing; Job Design and Levels; Negotiation; Performance Productivity; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives
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      Cullen, Zoë B. "Is Pay Transparency Good?" Journal of Economic Perspectives 38, no. 1 (Winter 2024): 153–180.
      • 2025
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      Small Business Innovation Applied to National Needs

      By: Kyle Myers, Lauren Lanahan and Evan E. Johnson
      Small businesses have long supplied a disproportionate share of major innovations in the United States. We review a centerpiece policy on this topic: the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. We trace its legislative history and summarize program... View Details
      Keywords: Small Business; Innovation and Invention; Government Legislation; Entrepreneurial Finance; Business and Government Relations
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      Myers, Kyle, Lauren Lanahan, and Evan E. Johnson. "Small Business Innovation Applied to National Needs." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-062, June 2025.
      • March 2024
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      How Foes Become Allies: The Shifting Role of Business in Climate Politics

      By: Irja Vormedal and Jonas Meckling
      Firms often oppose costly public policy reforms—but under what conditions may they come to support such reforms? Previous scholarship has taken a predominantly static approach to the analysis of business positions. Here, we advance a dynamic theory of change in... View Details
      Keywords: Policy; Environmental Regulation; Business and Government Relations
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      Vormedal, Irja, and Jonas Meckling. "How Foes Become Allies: The Shifting Role of Business in Climate Politics." Policy Sciences 57, no. 1 (March 2024): 101–124.
      • 2022
      • Chapter

      Prioritarianism and Optimal Taxation

      By: Matti Tuomala and Matthew Weinzierl
      Prioritarianism has been at the center of the formal approach to optimal tax theory since its modern starting point in Mirrlees (1971), but most theorists’ use of it is motivated by tractability rather than explicit normative reasoning. We characterize analytically and... View Details
      Keywords: Prioritarianism; Optimal Taxation; Utilitarianism; Redistribution; Inverse-optimum; Taxation; Theory; Policy
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      Tuomala, Matti, and Matthew Weinzierl. "Prioritarianism and Optimal Taxation." In Prioritarianism in Practice, edited by Matthew Adler and Ole Norheim. Cambridge University Press, 2022. (Also published in HBR Insights, December 2020.)
      • 1997
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      Discussion of "Microeconomic Policy, Technological Change, and Small Business" by Edwin Mansfield

      By: Joshua Lerner
      Edwin Mansfield’s thoughtful review of the literature on the economics of technological change raises a variety of interesting issues, far too many to address in a few pages. Consequently I will focus my discussion on the section that I found most challenging and... View Details
      Keywords: Policy; Technological Innovation
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      Lerner, Joshua. Discussion of "Microeconomic Policy, Technological Change, and Small Business" by Edwin Mansfield. In Technology and Growth: Proceedings of the 40th Economic Conference, edited by Jeffrey C. Fuhrer and Jane Sneddon Little, 208–213. Boston: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 1997.
      • January 2009
      • Background Note

      Financial Networks and Informal Banking in China: From Pawnshops to Private Equity

      By: Elisabeth Koll
      Provides an analysis of why informal financial networks and institutions still play an extremely important role in China's economy in the 21st century. Although China has emerged as one of the fastest growing economies in the world, it still suffers from a weak... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Private Equity; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; State Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Networks; China
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      Koll, Elisabeth. "Financial Networks and Informal Banking in China: From Pawnshops to Private Equity." Harvard Business School Background Note 809-111, January 2009.
      • 14 Nov 2011
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Process and Performance

      Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou & George Serafeim; Accounting
      • September – October 2009
      • Article

      U.S. Energy Policy: Overcoming Barriers to Acting

      By: Max Bazerman
      Energy policy is on everyone's mind these days. The U.S. presidential campaign focused on energy independence and exploration (drill, baby, drill), climate change, alternative fuels, even nuclear energy. But there is a serious problem endemic to America's energy... View Details
      Keywords: Policy; Climate Change; Energy Sources; Government and Politics; Cognition and Thinking; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Problems and Challenges; Non-Renewable Energy; Economics; Natural Environment; Energy Industry; United States
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      Bazerman, Max. "U.S. Energy Policy: Overcoming Barriers to Acting." Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development (September–October 2009). (This is a adaptation of a paper that originally appeared as "Barriers to Acting in Time on Energy, and Strategies for Overcoming Them" in K. Gallagher (Ed.), Acting in Time on Energy Policy. Washington, DC: Brookings, 2009.)
      • June 2011 (Revised November 2014)
      • Case

      Vehbi Koç and the Making of Turkey's Largest Business Group

      By: Asli M. Colpan and Geoffrey Jones
      The case describes the creation of Turkey's largest business group by Vehbi Koç. The foundation of this group in the interwar years, and its subsequent diversification into many industries, including automobiles, household goods, and services, is analysed. The case... View Details
      Keywords: Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Organizational Structure; Diversification; Manufacturing Industry; Turkey
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      Colpan, Asli M., and Geoffrey Jones. "Vehbi Koç and the Making of Turkey's Largest Business Group." Harvard Business School Case 811-081, June 2011. (Revised November 2014.)
      • 18 Feb 2011
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      A Behavioral Model of Demandable Deposits and Its Implications for Financial Regulation

      Keywords: by Julio J. Rotemberg; Financial Services
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