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  • 07 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

discuss the core challenges of fighting global carbon dioxide emissions in a shortsighted, ideologically polarized environment. To his mind, both in Europe and in the United States, government efforts to regulate carbon emissions have... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities
  • 04 Jun 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

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

Keywords: by Regina Abrami, Edmund Malesky & Yu Zheng
  • 2018
  • Working Paper

The State of Open Source Server Software

By: Shane Greenstein and Klaus Ackermann
The study assembles new data to construct a census of worldwide web server use across the globe. We document a large concentration of investment in the United States, and a wide dispersion across scores of countries. We find tens of billions of dollars of unmeasured... View Details
Keywords: Internet; Open Source; Internet and the Web; Policy; Open Source Distribution; Internet and the Web; Global Range
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  • July 2011
  • Supplement

Assistant Professor Gyan Gupta and the Wet Noodle Class (B)

By: Dorothy Leonard
Professor Gupta has imposed two new policies on his class, midway through the term: 1) No use of Internet to locate additional information on the company in the case; 2) an increase in the percentage of grades attributed to class participation. He meets with rebellion... View Details
Keywords: Teaching; Learning; Internet and the Web; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Change; Education Industry
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  • December 2008
  • Article

The Teaching of Strategy: From General Manager to Analyst and Back Again?

By: Joseph L. Bower
Courses in strategy are an outgrowth of the business policy course first taught at Harvard Business School in 1912. This article examines how the teaching of a course concerned with the development and implementation of the goals and policies of a firm changed during... View Details
Keywords: Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Teaching; Policy; Business History; Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy
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  • 2024
  • Article

Learning Under Random Distributional Shifts

By: Kirk Bansak, Elisabeth Paulson and Dominik Rothenhäusler
Algorithmic assignment of refugees and asylum seekers to locations within host countries has gained attention in recent years, with implementations in the U.S. and Switzerland. These approaches use data on past arrivals to generate machine learning models that can... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Refugees; Employment
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Coordinated R&D Programs and the Creation of New Industries

By: Daniel P. Gross and Maria P. Roche
Complex systems technologies—including “deep tech”—are prone to numerous frictions that stymie commercial development. Yet technologies with these features underpin some of the most valuable industries of the past century. We examine how large, mission-oriented... View Details
Keywords: Research and Development; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Technological Innovation; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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    Tarun Khanna

    Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School. For almost three decades, he has studied entrepreneurship as a means to social and economic development in emerging markets. At HBS since 1993, after obtaining degrees from Princeton... View Details

    • 07 Nov 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

    and policies that were influential as Europe first took off relative to the rest of the world. They also shed light on the historical interconnection of businesses and governments at the dawn of real... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 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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    • April 2005 (Revised March 2007)
    • Case

    eAccess, Ltd.

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Masako Egawa and Ariko Ota
    The managers of eAccess, Japan's third largest provider of digital subscriber line (DSL) service, must decide whether to enter the mobile communications business. Japan's mobile services are among the world's most expensive, and incumbent carriers' profits are high. To... View Details
    Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Diversification; Policy; Business Startups; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Communications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Japan
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    • 16 Sep 2015
    • News

    The Indian tortoise and the Chinese hare

    • April 2011 (Revised December 2017)
    • Case

    Latvia: Navigating the Strait of Messina

    By: Rafael Di Tella, Rawi Abdelal and Natalie Kindred
    This case describes Latvia's transition from a Soviet republic into an EU member, its economic boom and subsequent bust in 2008, and its policy response. After implementing significant economic and political reforms in order to qualify for EU membership in 2004, Latvia... View Details
    Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Competitive Strategy; Economic Growth; Policy; Financial Crisis; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Latvia
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    • 28 May 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Labor Market Shocks and the Demand for Trade Protection: Evidence from Online Surveys

    Keywords: by Rafael Di Tella and Dani Rodrik
    • Web

    Faculty & Research

    bias with naive beliefs. The government chooses mandatory contributions to accounts, each with a different pre-retirement withdrawal penalty. Collected penalties are rebated lump sum. When households have homogeneous present bias, , the... View Details

      Jerry R. Green

      Jerry R. Green

      David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy

      John Leverett Professor in the University

      Harvard University

       

      Jerry Green is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells... View Details

      Keywords: aerospace; education industry; insurance industry; professional services
      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      The Consequences of Invention Secrecy: Evidence from the USPTO Patent Secrecy Program in World War II

      By: Daniel P. Gross
      This paper studies the effects of the USPTO's patent secrecy program in World War II, under which over 11,000 U.S. patent applications were issued secrecy orders that halted examination and prohibited inventors from disclosing their inventions or filing in foreign... View Details
      Keywords: Invention Secrecy; Invention Disclosure; Trade Secrecy; Secrecy Orders; Cummulative Innovation; Wold War 2; Patents; National Security; History; Innovation and Invention; Outcome or Result; Intellectual Property; Policy; Commercialization; United States
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      • 2016
      • Article

      The Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet as a Financial-Stability Tool

      By: Robin Greenwood, Samuel Gregory Hanson and Jeremy C. Stein
      We argue that the Federal Reserve should use its balance sheet to help reduce a key threat to financial stability: the tendency for private-sector financial intermediaries to engage in excessive amounts of maturity transformation—i.e., to finance risky assets using... View Details
      Keywords: Central Banking; Policy; Risk Management; Public Administration Industry; United States
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      • July 2016
      • Article

      Taxation, Corruption, and Growth

      By: Philippe Aghion, Ufuk Akcigit, Julia Cagé and William R. Kerr
      We build an endogenous growth model to analyze the relationships between taxation, corruption, and economic growth. Entrepreneurs lie at the center of the model and face disincentive effects from taxation but acquire positive benefits from public infrastructure.... View Details
      Keywords: Endogenous Growth; Public Goods; Corruption; Crime and Corruption; Entrepreneurship; Taxation; Economic Growth
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      • April 1991 (Revised April 1992)
      • Case

      Hospital Sector in 1992

      Examines the major issues facing the hospital sector in 1992. The environment surrounding the industry is one of great uncertainty and rapid change, and involves significant public policy questions. Describes recent trends, issues and new types of competitors that... View Details
      Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Nonprofit Organizations; Competition; Health Care and Treatment; Policy; Change; Health Industry; United States
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