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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Capital Market Integration and Growth across the United States

By: Leonardo D'Amico and Maxim Alekseev
What drives the integration of national financial markets and what are its consequences for regional growth? We digitize and collect US state-level banking data from 1953 to 1983 and document a tight link between high nominal short rates and financial integration,... View Details
Keywords: Interest Rates; Financial Markets; Economic Growth; Banks and Banking; Analytics and Data Science
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  • December 2006
  • Case

Southern Company's Investment in CEMIG

In the spring of 1997, Southern Company had the opportunity to acquire a significant portion of the electric utility in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The shares in the utility, CEMIG, were being sold by the state government as part of a comprehensive... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Privatization; Investment; Acquisition; Globalized Markets and Industries; Utilities Industry; Brazil
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  • 10 Nov 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India

Keywords: by Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr & Stephen O'Connell
  • 07 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

officer Ken Lay made him president of Enron's new trading operations. In 2001, Skilling was named CEO. Before 1997, Enron was an innovative and profitable player in the newly deregulated natural gas industry. Skilling's big idea was to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • Research Summary

Regulatory Change/Business-Government Relations

“Sources of Learning Heterogeneity: Discontinuous Regulatory Shock and its Impact on Organizational Search Behaviors”

Co-authoring with Jerry Kim, in this study I look at how discontinuous regulatory shock shapes organizational... View Details

Keywords: Business ＆ Government Relations; Regulations; Regulatory Capture; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
  • 17 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women

higher education His stand on workplace deregulation raises concerns about continued protection of women’s (and men’s) human and civil rights A reshaped Supreme Court could roll back protections to the rights of women, including the right... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely
  • 08 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

an electric utility was actually looking forward to deregulation as a means of unfreezing a tradition-bound monopoly that was not adequately preparing for a more competitive future. But deregulation came... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter
  • 12 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

unexpectedly in the midst of chaos brought by the resistance of its staff who feared losing their civil servant status after privatization. Also facing Mao was the forthcoming deregulation of the telecommunication industry on the island... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

Mercadal “We use a detailed dataset on electricity transactions to investigate the impact of market-based deregulation in the context of the United States electricity sector. We find that the increase in markups dominates despite modest... View Details
  • 10 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Privatization and the New European Economy

"some 12 to 15 percent of GDP in Europe was public sector enterprise," he said. But all that began to change in the early 1980s amid loud cries of inefficiency, as markets opened up and governments sought sources of revenue. While View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 29 May 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

manager's skills. When the telecommunications industry was deregulated and challenged by new entrants, for instance, few former Bell Systems managers were able to successfully transition to the fast-moving, entrepreneurial,... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment
  • 20 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Next for Japan

for clues into the developing stance of the government. Added Ezra F. Vogel, Harvard professor and former director of Harvard's Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, "A lot of deregulation is really reregulation. It is a different... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
  • 08 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records

straight and narrow. Washington looks at deregulation The research takes on added weight as Obama-administration regulation protecting financial consumers faces an uncertain future. The US Labor Department’s fiduciary rule, in the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 11 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-006.pdf Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size Authors:William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda Abstract We examine the effect of U.S. branch banking deregulations on the entry size of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Sep 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?

of managers and shareholders. Takeovers were favored as a means of enforcing the urgency of such alignment. At about this time, according to Khurana, deregulation came along that both made it possible and more tempting for agents to act... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 26 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 26, 2008

Sugar Limited Harvard Business School Case 508-038 Until industry deregulation in 2006, Queensland Sugar ran Australia's single-desk marketing system for raw sugar exports. Since deregulation, eight of the ten Queensland sugar millers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 24

Journal of Law & Economics Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size: Evidence from India By: Alfaro, Laura, and Anusha Chari Abstract—This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

much more radical change (sacking of Troy / innovation). Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship Authors: William Kerr and Ramana Nanda Abstract We study how US branch banking deregulations... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 27

T. Pittinsky. Harvard Business School Press, 2009 Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size Authors: William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda Publication: Journal of the European Economic Association (forthcoming) Abstract We examine the effect of U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 16

investment in the yet-to-be-formed liberalized and deregulated electricity market in Russia. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709046 Global Health Partner: Obesity Care Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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