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    Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in China: Symbol or Substance?

    This study focuses on how and why firms strategically respond to government signals regarding appropriate corporate activity. We integrate institutional theory with research on corporate political strategy to develop a political dependence model that explains (a) how... View Details
    • 28 Feb 2010
    • News

    America, the fragile empire

    • 02 May 2013
    • HBS Seminar

    Eric Werker, Harvard Business School

    • May 1986 (Revised November 1990)
    • Case

    Airbus vs. Boeing (A): Turbulent Skies

    By: Malcolm S. Salter
    Presents the economic and political dimensions of competition in the commercial aircraft industry, as demonstrated by Airbus of Europe and Boeing of the United States. View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Government and Politics; Competition; Aerospace Industry; Europe; United States
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    • April 2004 (Revised September 2005)
    • Case

    China and the WTO: Doing the Right Thing?

    In late 2001, the People's Republic of China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO). Sets the terms of China's accession agreement against its compliance record some two years later. Discusses why key actors, such as business, organized labor, and other governments,... View Details
    Keywords: Management; History; International Relations; Judgments; Trade; Business and Government Relations; Development Economics; Governance Compliance; Emerging Markets; Global Strategy; China
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    • 09 Sep 2013
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

    A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • July 2004 (Revised September 2004)
    • Case

    China and the WTO: Doing the Right Thing? (Abridged)

    In late 2001, the People's Republic of China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO). Sets the terms of China's accession agreement against its compliance record some two years later. Discusses why key actors, such as business, organized labor, and other governments,... View Details
    Keywords: History; International Relations; Judgments; Trade; Business and Government Relations; Development Economics; Governance Compliance; Emerging Markets; Economic Growth; Global Strategy; China
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    • 15 Dec 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Joel Isaac, University of Cambridge

    • April 2009 (Revised June 2020)
    • Case

    Al Capone

    By: Tom Nicholas and David Chen
    In 1929, Chicago, IL mob boss Al Capone was at the height of his power. As head of the extensive crime organization known as "The Outfit" during most of U.S.'s Prohibition Era (1920-1933), Capone oversaw hundreds of brothels, speakeasies, and roadhouses which served as... View Details
    Keywords: Bootlegging; Entrepreneurship; Crime and Corruption; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Business History; United States; Chicago
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    • 11 Feb 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans

    politicians get fooled into engaging in risky transactions, or did they take the risks knowingly, opting for the short-term benefits in spite of the risks?" Vallée recently tackled that question in the paper The Political Economy of... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
    • 16 Nov 2022
    • News

    Investing in Indigenous Sovereignty

      Rafael M. Di Tella

      I received my first degree in Economics in 1990 from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina and a D.Phil in Economics from Oxford University in 1996. After a short stay in Argentina I joined Harvard Business School in July 1997, where I... View Details

      Keywords: broadcasting; state government
      • 1 PM – 2:15 PM EDT, 27 Oct 2020
      • Virtual Programming

      The Role of American Business Leaders in a Challenging Election Season

      Amidst a pandemic, economic challenges, and social, racial, and political turmoil, the upcoming US presidential election has the potential to calm fears and help restore order at home and around the world--or to ignite a new wave of discord and dissent. In this... View Details

        Emily R. McComb

        Emily McComb is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance Unit at HBS, teaching "Finance 2" in the required curriculum of the MBA program, as well as a co-leader of the HBS Impact Investment Fund in the elective curriculum. Prior to joining the HBS faculty in 2017, Emily was... View Details

        Keywords: financial services; health care
        • 2008
        • Working Paper

        Accountability and Inequality in Single-Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China

        Over the past two decades, no two economies have averaged more rapid economic growth than China and Vietnam. But while China's income inequality has risen rapidly over that same time frame, Vietnam's has only grown moderately. Structural and socio-cultural determinants... View Details
        Keywords: Income Characteristics; Economic Growth; Policy; Government and Politics; Equality and Inequality; China; Viet Nam
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        • 2011
        • Book

        Capitalism: Its Origins and Evolution as a System of Governance

        By: Bruce R. Scott
        Capitalism, as defined in this book, is an indirect, three-level system of governance for economic relationships (i.e., economic, administrative, and political). Whereas economic markets can coordinate supply and demand within an existing system thanks to the invisible... View Details
        Keywords: Economic Systems; Price; Governance; Government and Politics; Books; Markets; Relationships; System
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        • 02 Jul 2015
        • Op-Ed

        The Future of the Greek Economy

        integration. It is time, therefore, for Europe to revisit the ideals of peace, democracy, unity, and prosperity that defined the origin of the European project and its attempts to unify Europe politically and economically. Greece is... View Details
        Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini & George Serafeim; Banking
        • 2019
        • Working Paper

        U.S. Antitrust Law and Policy in Historical Perspective

        By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
        The key pieces of antitrust legislation in the United States—the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 and the Clayton Act of 1914—contain broad language that has afforded the courts wide latitude in interpreting and enforcing the law. This article chronicles the judiciary’s... View Details
        Keywords: Antitrust; Trusts; Restraint Of Trade; Merger; Cartel; New Deal; Harvard School; Chicago School Of Law And Economics; Post-Chicago; Law; Competition; Policy; Vertical Integration; Horizontal Integration; Acquisition
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        • 03 Oct 2012
        • What Do You Think?

        Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?

        Summing Up Where Is the Leadership Necessary to Regenerate the "Industrial Commons" In their book Producing Prosperity, Gary Pisano and Willy Shih pointed to the lack of long-term thinking and investment as well as education necessary to rejuvenate an... View Details
        Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

          Channing Spencer

          Channing Spencer is a Doctoral Candidate in the Organizational Behavior program jointly offered by Harvard Business School and the Department of Sociology at Harvard. She is also an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS).
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