Thin Political Markets - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries

Vietnamese manicurists, Korean dry cleaners, Haitian cab drivers, Gujarati motel owners. Anyone who lives in an American city can see how immigrants tend to cluster in industries along ethnic lines. Is this because they are forced to by circumstance or because they... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Transportation; Beauty & Cosmetics; Retail

01 Jun 2008
News

Faculty Books

looks at the emergence of capitalism and democracy as systems of economic and political governance and considers how they may be both mutually supportive and antagonistic. Chapters on the theory and history of these systems challenge the... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management

01 Sep 2003
News

Globalization Revisited

intellectual fiefdom of the School’s legendary marketing professor emeritus, Theodore Levitt. The colloquium was pegged to the twentieth anniversary of Levitt’s seminal article, “The Globalization of Markets” (Harvard Business Review,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

William K. Coors

Under Coors' leadership, the brewery underwent a period of massive growth. Though it was a regional brewery, it held the top market share in 10 of the 11 western states in which its product was distributed, becoming the 4th largest brewer... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

November 2004
Teaching Note

Spain: Straddling the Atlantic (TN)

By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel

Teaching Note to (9-705-006). View Details

Keywords: Political Elections; Transformation; Relationships; Labor; Markets; War; Economy; Spain

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01 Dec 2008
News

Business at the Summit

three-dozen breakout sessions that focused on globalization, market capitalism, and leadership topics. Failures of Corporate and Political Leadership The flip side of government intervention is government... View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management

06 Dec 2011
Op-Ed

Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis

the European Financial Stability Fund, have been remarkable. Nevertheless, the markets have discounted every announcement and have continued to operate in a state of quasi-panic, as they move at a different speed than the View Details

Keywords: by Dante Roscini

12 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

and French size and value portfolios, the market portfolio, bond portfolios, and the entire cross-section of stocks. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-060.pdf Testing a Purportedly More Learnable Auction Mechanism... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation

high-growth companies, those with the greatest potential to create jobs. One challenge: geographic gaps across the United States. "Despite the fact that America has a very robust market for risk capital, about 70 percent of the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Financial Services

01 Jun 2001
News

Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies

and their role in emerging markets has been part of a larger effort to understand how local business environments influence company strategy. Strategy scholars have often emphasized how industry- and firm-specific characteristics affect... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services

11 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’

change to economists, political scientists, sociologists, and a host of popular writers." A renewal of interest in the "history of capitalism" is finally beginning to correct this peculiar omission. Related Article An... View Details

Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones

24 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 24, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-102.pdf Cases & Course Materials (None this week.) Publications Managing Up Author: Linda A. Hill Publication: Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, forthcoming Abstract Managing up is not View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

forthcoming New York: Palgrave Macmillan New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy By: Fredona, Robert, and Sophus A. Reinert, eds. Abstract—This volume offers a snapshot of the resurgent historiography of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2022
News

Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path

than in most other countries. For instance, developed markets such as Sweden and Finland had more muted fiscal responses. They also had different responses on the medical side of the crisis. All these factors are somewhat confounding; the... View Details

Keywords: April White

21 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Will American Brands Be a Casualty of War?

to recruit the best distributors, and to capture market share from weaker, local competitors. Selling the American dream has paid off handsomely. Eight of the ten most valuable brands in the world, according to the Interbrand consultancy,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Oct 2018
News

Capital Murder

sister cities. They’re both industry towns, and in many ways the marketing campaign for a movie or a television show is not unlike a campaign for a political candidate. You’re trying to inform people, arm... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

19 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech

and income statement will have no market effect. But to argue that proper costing of stock options would have a significant adverse impact on companies that make extensive use of them is to admit that the economics of stock options, as... View Details

Keywords: by Zvi Bodie, Robert S. Kaplan & Robert C. Merton

June 2023 (Revised January 2024)
Case

Chipmaking in the Desert: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's Global Expansion

By: William C. Kirby and Noah B. Truwit

On December 6, 2022, in Phoenix, Arizona, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) Executive Chairman Mark Liu outlined the company’s ambitious plans to invest $40 billion to build semiconductor manufacturing plants in Phoenix. The event also celebrated the... View Details

Keywords: Geopolitical Units; Government and Politics; Government Legislation; Expansion; Market Entry and Exit; Semiconductor Industry; Taiwan; United States

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2022
Working Paper

Small Campaign Donors

By: Laurent Bouton, Julia Cagé, Edgard Dewitte and Vincent Pons

In this paper, we study the characteristics and behavior of small donors, and compare them to those of large donors. We first build a novel dataset including all the 340 million individual contributions reported to the U.S. Federal Election Commission between 2005 and... View Details