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  • 02 Mar 2007
  • What Do You Think?

What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?

Original Article Healthcare will grab more and more headlines in the U.S. in the coming months. Any service that is on track to consume 40 percent of the gross national product of the world's largest economy by the year 2050 will be hard... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health
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Research: The Cost of a Single U.S. Immigration Restriction

By: Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Britta Glennon
On June 22, 2020, President Trump passed an Executive Order drastically cutting the number of highly skilled international workers eligible for non-immigrant visas to the U.S. To quantify the impact of this policy, the authors examined the immediate change in stock... View Details
Keywords: Work Visas; H1-B; Restriction; Impact; Immigration; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Cost; Economy
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Bahar, Dany, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and Britta Glennon. "Research: The Cost of a Single U.S. Immigration Restriction." Harvard Business Review (website) (January 22, 2021).
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

It Came in the First Ships: Capitalism in America

business corporation. There are several million corporations in the United States today, and a handful existed at the nation's official birth in 1776. The device became integral to the American economy only... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
  • March 2012
  • Article

The Incentive Bubble

By: Mihir Desai
The past three decades have seen American capitalism quietly transformed by a single, powerful idea—that financial markets are a suitable tool for measuring performance and structuring compensation. Stock instruments for managers, high-powered incentive contracts for... View Details
Keywords: Economic Systems; Financial Markets; Executive Compensation; Motivation and Incentives; Corporate Governance; Equality and Inequality; Human Capital; United States
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Desai, Mihir. "The Incentive Bubble." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012).
  • 23 Aug 2006
  • Op-Ed

The Real Wal-Mart Effect

employed in the business—would be completely wiped out if Wal-Mart's million-plus employees were to receive a $2-per-hour pay increase, modest though that sounds. And since such a scenario would be unacceptable to Wal-Mart's shareholders, the millions of View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Ken A. Mark; Retail
  • 01 Nov 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

understand why it isn’t in the best interests of their organizations to weigh in on all issues facing society, but this is one that can have a direct impact on the performance of their organizations. It is controversial. But to a significant extent, the health of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • January 2006 (Revised April 2006)
  • Case

Capitalism and Democracy in a New World

By: Bruce R. Scott, Sarah Potvin and Alison Adams
Focuses on the formulation of the Northwestern Ordinance as the core of a development strategy for capitalism and democracy in the United States. A precursor to the Constitution, the Northwestern Ordinance was based on the New England Model to achieve a broad and... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Economic Systems; Income; Laws and Statutes; Government and Politics; Growth and Development Strategy; Power and Influence; United States
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Scott, Bruce R., Sarah Potvin, and Alison Adams. "Capitalism and Democracy in a New World." Harvard Business School Case 706-030, January 2006. (Revised April 2006.)
  • 2018
  • Chapter

Between Economic Planning and Market Competition: International Law and Economics in the U.S.

By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
The impact of institutional economics in shaping the American regulatory tradition has largely been dismissed as an incoherent attack on the neoclassical economic paradigm. This essay briefly reconstructs the interwar institutionalist movement, exploring the... View Details
Keywords: Economics; History; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; United States
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Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "Between Economic Planning and Market Competition: International Law and Economics in the U.S." In New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy, edited by Robert Fredona and Sophus A. Reinert, 349–374. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
  • February 2016 (Revised August 2017)
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Battle Over a Bank: Defining the Limits of Federal Power Under a New Constitution

By: David Moss and Marc Campasano
In late February, 1791, Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton submitted a report to President Washington defending his recent proposal for a national bank, which he hoped would bolster the American economy and assist the federal government in managing its finances.... View Details
Keywords: Governance; Central Banking; Laws and Statutes; Government and Politics; History; Public Administration Industry; United States
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Moss, David, and Marc Campasano. "Battle Over a Bank: Defining the Limits of Federal Power Under a New Constitution." Harvard Business School Case 716-052, February 2016. (Revised August 2017.)
  • 14 Apr 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Economic Crisis and Medical Care Usage

Keywords: by Annamaria Lusardi, Daniel Schneider & Peter Tufano; Health
  • August 2018 (Revised April 2019)
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Jackie Taylor: The Black Ensemble Theater

By: Steven Rogers and Dan Perkins
Jackie Taylor, an African American social entrepreneur, founded the Black Ensemble Theater in 1976. Since the ensemble’s inception, she has rented spaces where her group performed original musicals about black entertainers including Nina Simone, Etta James, and Marvin... View Details
Keywords: Theatre-company; Theatre Expansion; Theatre And Community; Black Theatre; Theater Entertainment; Buildings and Facilities; Strategic Planning; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Chicago
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Rogers, Steven, and Dan Perkins. "Jackie Taylor: The Black Ensemble Theater." Harvard Business School Case 319-013, August 2018. (Revised April 2019.)
  • 12 Apr 2018
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs

pocketbooks. Since then, as the stock market roller coaster has shown, the rhetoric has only ratcheted upwards. On April 5, the president threatened tariffs on an additional $100 billion in Chinese goods. China returned fire proposing new tariffs on $50 billion on... View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications
  • June 2022
  • Case

Mossadeq’s Gambit: The US, UK, and Iranian Oil Nationalization

By: Jeremy Friedman and Jingyu Liu
Many of the West’s political problems in the Middle East and in Iran in particular can be traced to the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh by military forces supported by the American CIA and the British MI6 in August 1953. Mossadegh, at the head of a... View Details
Keywords: Neo-imperialism; History; Conflict Management; War; Globalized Economies and Regions; Natural Resources; National Security; Government and Politics; Globalized Markets and Industries; Middle East; Iran
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Friedman, Jeremy, and Jingyu Liu. "Mossadeq’s Gambit: The US, UK, and Iranian Oil Nationalization." Harvard Business School Case 722-065, June 2022.
  • January 2010 (Revised October 2010)
  • Case

Colombia: Strong Fundamentals, Global Risk

By: Aldo Musacchio, Richard H. K. Vietor, Jonathan Schlefer and Carolina Camacho
By mid-2009 Colombian President Alvaro Uribe had ended decades of virtual civil war and strengthened the business climate, but he faced tough economic challenges. Though he had instituted prominent market reforms and brought inflation down sharply, Colombia seemed... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Macroeconomics; Trade; Global Strategy; Infrastructure; Business and Government Relations; Colombia
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Musacchio, Aldo, Richard H. K. Vietor, Jonathan Schlefer, and Carolina Camacho. "Colombia: Strong Fundamentals, Global Risk." Harvard Business School Case 710-012, January 2010. (Revised October 2010.)
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What Do We Know About Variance in Accounting Profitability?

By: Anita M. McGahan and Michael E. Porter
In this paper, we analyze the variance of accounting profitability among a broad cross-section of firms in the American economy from 1981 to 1994. The purpose of the analysis is to identify the importance of year, industry, corporate-parent, and business-specific... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; United States
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McGahan, Anita M., and Michael E. Porter. "What Do We Know About Variance in Accounting Profitability?" Management Science 48, no. 7 (July 2002): 834–851.
  • 14 Dec 2010
  • Op-Ed

Tax US Companies to Spur Spending

Recent tax deal-making has relied on conventional instruments of fiscal stimulus. Yet, we live in unconventional times, and more novel approaches suited to the peculiarities of our current economy are required. In particular, the... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
  • April 1996
  • Case

Confronting the Third Industrial Revolution

By: David A. Moss
Comprises three pieces. The first piece, which forms the body of the case, is adapted from a speech delivered by the author before the Harvard Business School Political Forum in early 1995. Originally entitled "The Economic Foundations of American Social Policy:... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Policy; Economy; Government and Politics; Society; United States
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Moss, David A. "Confronting the Third Industrial Revolution." Harvard Business School Case 796-161, April 1996.
  • 13 Jul 2022
  • Book

Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?

presented in the excerpt below, the authors outline what a greener and fairer economy would look like. Co-edited by Battilana, the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the Alan L. Gleitsman... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 16 Feb 2012
  • Op-Ed

Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters

rallying for us. They understand that the world is interdependent and that the US economy is still too large for anyone to profit from a rapid decline in its well-being. Americans may not realize this, but... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Making the Most of Government Upheaval

Business School, plan to survey 250 Latin American firms in various industries to test the validity of their findings. "Above all," they say, "we want to confirm the existence of the various stages of competitive... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
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