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  • 18 Oct 2018
  • News

What Will Trump Do Next With Chinese Student Visas?

  • Research Summary

The Panama Canal

The Big Ditch is the first quantitative economic history of the Panama Canal and its effect on Panama, the United States, and the world economy.  It makes three general arguments.  First, that the Panama Canal was very important to... View Details

  • 08 Jun 2015
  • Working Paper Summaries

Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending

Keywords: by David Cutler, Jonathan Skinner, Ariel Dora Stern & David Wennberg; Health

    Waze Connected Citizens Program

    Di-Ann Eisnor, Director of Growth at Waze, founded the company’s Connected Citizens Program (CCP), a data-sharing partnership that provided officials with traffic incident and congestion data in exchange for data on anticipated road closures, re-routing, etc.... View Details
    • Web

    The Diamond Model - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    HBS ISC Competitiveness & Economic Development CED Competitiveness & Economic Development Frameworks & Key Concepts Research & Applications Frameworks & Key Concepts Frameworks & Key Concepts Drivers of Competitiveness The Diamond Model Clusters Stages of Development... View Details
    • November 2002
    • Background Note

    Strategy and Sources of Motion Picture Finance, The

    By: Mihir A. Desai, Gabriel J. Loeb and Mark Veblen
    This case considers the alternative financing mechanisms for film financing, the evolution of film finance in the United States, and the nature of tax-motivated film financing in the United States and around the world. It develops the strategy driving motion picture... View Details
    Keywords: Film Entertainment; Financial Instruments; Financial Strategy; Financing and Loans; Globalized Markets and Industries; Taxation; Motivation and Incentives; Competitive Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
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    • 13 Oct 2016
    • News

    Harvard Historian Explains Clinton's Abe Lincoln Moment

    • 30 May 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    US Antitrust Law and Policy in Historical Perspective

    Keywords: by Laura Phillips Sawyer; Education
    • 31 Jul 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

    Shankar MD, Suptendra N. Sarbadhikari PhD, Barbara Bierer, Kenneth D. Mandl MD, Sanjay Mehendale MD, MPH, and Tarun Khanna Abstract—In February 2018, the Government of India announced a massive public health insurance scheme extending... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • November 2021
    • Article

    The Nixon Doctrine and the Making of Authoritarianism in Island Southeast Asia

    By: Mattias Fibiger
    This article argues that the Nixon Doctrine was an instrument of authoritarianization in island Southeast Asia. It traces the formulation of the Nixon Doctrine and its implementation through foreign aid decisions, revealing that President Richard Nixon and his chief... View Details
    Keywords: Diplomacy; Foreign Aid; Authoritarianism; Geopolitics; Nixon; International Relations; Policy; History; Southeast Asia; United States
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    Marketing - Faculty & Research

    market, Intuition Robotics received significant interest from the New York State Office of the Aging. Company management considered whether a pivot to a limited business-to-government contract, fraught with complexities, would open the... View Details
    • 22 Apr 2020
    • News

    Oil Prices to Remain Low, Sen Says

    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    After the Carnival: Key Factors to Enhance Olympic Legacy and Prevent Olympic Sites from Becoming White Elephants

    By: Isao Okada and Stephen A. Greyser
    In recent years, the total spending on hosting the Olympic Games has snowballed. The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games spent $40 billion on infrastructure development, and the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics reached $50 billion. Even when the glorious but costly Olympic Games come... View Details
    Keywords: Olympic Venue; Effective Reuse; White Elephant; Sustainability; Buildings and Facilities; Sports
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    • 2017
    • Article

    Handgun Waiting Periods Reduce Gun Deaths

    By: Michael Luca, Deepak Malhotra and Christopher Poliquin
    Handgun waiting periods are laws that impose a delay between the initiation of a purchase and final acquisition of a firearm. We show that waiting periods, which create a “cooling off” period among buyers, significantly reduce the incidence of gun violence. We estimate... View Details
    Keywords: Gun Policy; Gun Violence; Waiting Period; Injury Prevention; Policy; Safety; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; United States
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    • March 1979 (Revised November 1980)
    • Case

    Beth Israel Hospital, Boston

    The hospital is reviewing its obstetrical services and trying to decide on future strategy relative to communications, pricing and service characteristics. Important environmental trends include increasing government health regulation, a declining birth rate, more... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Marketing Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Medical Specialties; Health Industry; Boston
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      Roberto Verganti

      Roberto Verganti is in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Design Theory and Practice for the double degree program MS/MBA conducted jointly by the Harvard Business School and the... View Details

      Keywords: automotive; computer; consumer products; electronics; fashion; food; furniture; high technology; home appliances; industrial goods; pharmaceuticals; semiconductor; software; telecommunications; textiles
      • February 15, 2024
      • Article

      What Does Banning Short-Term Rentals Really Accomplish?

      By: Sophie Calder-Wang, Chiara Farronato and Andrey Fradkin
      Concerns that short-term rentals fueled by platforms like Airbnb have caused long-term rents to rise in major cities has caused some governments to place limits, including bans, on them. But research of New York City found that short-term rentals are not the biggest... View Details
      Keywords: Renting or Rental; Price; Policy; New York (city, NY)
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      • 10 Feb 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: February 10, 2009

      average in the period 1953-2005, it was particularly high in the early 1980s and negative in the early 2000s. This paper specifies and estimates a model in which the nominal term structure of interest rates is driven by five state... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 2008
      • Working Paper

      The Ethnic Composition of U.S. Inventors

      By: William R. Kerr
      The ethnic composition of US scientists and engineers is undergoing a significant transformation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual patent records granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to document these trends with greater... View Details
      Keywords: Inventors; Scientists; Engineers; Information Technology; Patents; Ethnicity; Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; Immigration; China; United States; India
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      • December 1997 (Revised August 1998)
      • Case

      Shanghai Real Estate (A)

      By: Lynn S. Paine and Harold F. Hogan Jr
      An independent consultant from the United States must decide what to do when faced with his client's apparent violation of an agreement with a third party. The consultant is American, the client is a Chinese real estate developer, and the third party is a French... View Details
      Keywords: Ethics; Contracts; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Law; Agreements and Arrangements; Alliances; Corporate Accountability; Consulting Industry; Real Estate Industry; China; United States; France
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