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18 Jun 2020
Working Paper Summaries

The Rise of the Investor State: State Capital in the Chinese Economy

Keywords: by Hao Chen and Meg Rithmire

Article

Do the Right Firms Survive Bankruptcy?

In U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, firms are either reorganized, acquired, or liquidated. I show that decisions to liquidate often reduce creditor recovery, costing creditors billions of dollars every year. I exploit the within-district random assignment of... View Details

Keywords: Bankruptcy; Bankruptcy Reorganization; Recovery Rate; Structural Estimation; Roy Model; 363 Sales; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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2019
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The Impact of the General Data Protection Regulation on Internet Interconnection

By: Ran Zhuo, Bradley Huffaker, KC Claffy and Shane Greenstein

The Internet comprises thousands of independently operated networks, where bilaterally negotiated interconnection agreements determine the flow of data between networks. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) imposes strict restrictions on... View Details

Keywords: Personal Data; Privacy Regulation; GDPR; Interconnection Agreements; Internet and the Web; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; European Union

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June 2019
Case

Fangda Partners: A Step Ahead

By: Ashish Nanda and Lisa Rohrer

Elite Chinese law firm Fangda Partners has steered Alibaba and other Chinese and international clients through the complex legal, corporate, and regulatory challenges associated with executing international transactions. “Fangda has traveled a long distance in a short... View Details

Keywords: Law Firm; Law Firms; Growth; Legal Industry; Regulation; Professional Services; Law; Leadership; Growth and Development; Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Legal Services Industry; China

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August 2011
Teaching Note

Lessons Learned? Brooksley Born & the OTC Derivatives Market (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Clayton Rose and Sally Canter Ganzfried

Teaching Note for 311-044 and 311-070. View Details

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Trade; Financial Crisis; Markets

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November 2010 (Revised January 2011)
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DoubleClick, Inc.: Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income

By: David F. Hawkins

FASB and IASB proposal to require comprehensive income statements. View Details

Keywords: Business Earnings; Financial Statements; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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01 Dec 2004
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Poverty and Security

At the IMF and World Bank Group annual meetings in October, World Bank president James Wolfensohn (MBA ’59) declared that along with its fight against terror, the global community must also address the longer-term issues of “poverty, frustration, and lack of hope” that... View Details

Keywords: IMF and World Bank Group; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

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Reflections on the State of Accounting Research and the Regulation of Accounting

By: Michael Jensen

Keywords: Accounting; Research; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Accounting Industry

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23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23

School Case 713-483 Yammer (B) Supplement to "Yammer (A)," HBS case 713-407 Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/713483-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 712-466 Moving to Universal Coverage: Health Care Reform in... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It

led us to decide to write this book. We sought to write a volume that would be readily accessible for business and government practitioners, and which conveyed clearly the system's problems and some steps to solving them. Q: What are the current barriers to fixing the... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

01 Oct 1997
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Doing Something Real

have been campaigns in favor of automobile insurance reform and against smoking. As told in the book, both efforts were conducted with typical frenetic panache. Tobias, whose principal residence is Miami, spent more than $250,000 of his... View Details

Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)

01 Dec 2008
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A U.S. Turnaround?

electronics industries were developing momentum. We took our leadership for granted, ignored this shift, and became complacent. Our problems became more serious when communism failed in Russia, Chairman Mao died, and reforms that were... View Details

Keywords: Byron Wien; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

Profile

Venus Miller

understand the challenges of education reform from the inside so that I could learn how to apply private sector resources to drive change from the outside. The experience has changed my vision of what I'd like to do." Returning to... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

How DC is Taxing the Country

to deliver desired outcomes our “gravest competitive weakness,” the authors propose their solution: an eight-point plan for Washington, recommending changes that they say would have impact within two to three years, such as streamlining regulation, easing high-skill... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

15 Sep 2016
News

US Competitiveness Report Sees ‘A Nation Divided’

for America and proposes federal policy priorities that can form the core of such a strategy. Further, it identifies corporate and personal tax reform as promising first steps in the strategy. However, the authors warn that it will be... View Details

April 2024
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Model-based Financial Regulations Impair the Transition to Net-zero Carbon Emissions

By: Matteo Gasparini, Matthew C. Ives, Ben Carr, Sophie Fry and Eric Beinhocker

Investments via the financial system are essential for fostering the green transition. However, the role of existing financial regulations in influencing investment decisions is understudied. Here we analyse data from the European Banking Authority to show that... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Energy Sources

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February 2022 (Revised April 2022)
Case

BUA Group

By: John D. Macomber, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Wale Lawal

BUA Group must decide between investments in cement, road building, power generation, or sugar. Private businesses are important to economic development in Africa. Students must assess the competitive nature of each of these industries, the magnitude of capital... View Details

Keywords: Investing; Transportation; Strategy; Project Finance; Agribusiness; Construction; Infrastructure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Nigeria; Africa

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February 2013
Article

An Activity-Generating Theory of Regulation

By: Joshua Schwartzstein and Andrei Shleifer

We propose an activity-generating theory of regulation. When courts make errors, tort litigation becomes unpredictable and as such imposes risk on firms, thereby discouraging entry, innovation, and other socially desirable activity. When social returns to activity are... View Details

Keywords: Courts and Trials; Lawsuits and Litigation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Theory