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US-Cuban Economic Relations 1898-1959

Rich Sicotte is conducting joint research with Alan Dye (Barnard College, Columbia University) on the evolution of US-Cuban economic relations before the Revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power. Currently they are focusing on the consequences of the Hawley-Smoot... View Details
  • Forthcoming
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Reflexivity in Credit Markets

By: Robin Greenwood, Samuel G. Hanson and Lawrence J. Jin
Reflexivity is the idea that investors' biased beliefs affect market outcomes and that market outcomes in turn affect investors’ future biases. We develop a dynamic behavioral model of the credit cycle featuring this two-way feedback loop. Investors form beliefs about... View Details
Keywords: Reflexivity; Attitudes; Financial Markets; Forecasting and Prediction; Investment; Credit
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  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Optimal Illiquidity

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, Christopher Clayton, Christopher Harris, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
We calculate the socially optimal level of illiquidity in an economy populated by households with taste shocks and naive present bias. The government chooses mandatory contributions to accounts, each witha different pre-retirement withdrawal penalty. Collected... View Details
Keywords: Illiquidity; Commitment; Flexibility; Savings; Social Security; Retirement; Government Legislation; Taxation; Saving
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  • March 2010 (Revised December 2010)
  • Case

Danatbank

By: David A. Moss, Cole Bolton and Andrew Novo
In the summer of 1931, Germany was struggling with a deepening economic crisis. Production had fallen, unemployment was high, and bank deposits and gold were being withdrawn from the country at a rapid pace, threatening the value of the German mark. The country's third... View Details
Keywords: History; Risk Management; Business History; Capital Markets; Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; Germany
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  • February 1997
  • Case

RPG Enterprises--1995

By: Tarun Khanna
As in most emerging markets, a significant portion of the Indian private sector is dominated by extensively diversified, often family-owned or controlled, business groups. This case examines the strategy and structure of one of the largest business groups in India, at... View Details
Keywords: Emerging Markets; Restructuring; Corporate Strategy; Alignment; Policy; Problems and Challenges; India
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  • 03 Nov 2018
  • News

The path to economic development is growing more treacherous, again

  • 06 Dec 2017
  • News

Future Thinking

  • 24 Jan 2017
  • News

Air rage incidents are on the rise. First-class sections aren’t helping.

  • 12 May 2023
  • Video

Students Strive to Solve Climate Change

    How Quantitative Easing Works: Evidence on the Refinancing Channel

    When LSAPs are needed the most, simply bending the yield curve through purchasing government debt is not effective for stimulating the mortgage market (a key sector of the economy for the transmission of monetary policy). Purchasing mortgage-backed... View Details

    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Corporate Leaders Say They Are for Stakeholder Capitalism—But Which Version Exactly?: A Critical Look at Four Varieties

    By: Lynn S. Paine
    The past few years have seen an outpouring of articles and statements heralding the arrival of a new and more inclusive form of capitalism often called stakeholder capitalism. The new capitalism promises to strengthen companies, improve outcomes for their... View Details
    Keywords: Stakeholder Capitalism; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Economic Systems; Business and Shareholder Relations
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    • 2008
    • Book

    Mexico Since 1980

    By: Stephen Haber, Herb Klein, Noel Maurer and Kevin Middlebrook
    This book addresses two questions that are crucial to understanding Mexico's current economic and political challenges. Why did the opening up of the economy to foreign trade and investment not result in sustained economic growth? Why has electoral democracy not... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Foreign Direct Investment; Government and Politics; Growth and Development; Law Enforcement; Welfare or Wellbeing; Mexico
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    • June 2023
    • Case

    Block: Creating an Ecosystem of Ecosystems

    By: Lauren Cohen, Richard Ryffel, Grace Headinger and Ruoshi Qi
    At Investor Day 2022, Block announced a new vision for its businesses: creating an ecosystem of ecosystems. Outside the norm for many public growth companies, Block had recently acquired a variety of new business streams in the creator economy and Bitcoin despite a... View Details
    Keywords: Business Growth; Fintech; Company Management; Growth Strategy; Innovation And Strategy; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Change; Finance; Growth Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Communication Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Business Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; United States; California; San Francisco
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    • April 2002 (Revised October 2003)
    • Case

    Pension Plan of Bethlehem Steel, 2001, The

    By: Peter Tufano
    Bethlehem Steel's 2001 bankruptcy filing inspires an employee's daughter to evaluate her father's pension plan, weeks after September 11's tragedies exacerbated a weakening U.S. economy and just months before her father planned to retire. Battered equity markets and... View Details
    Keywords: Asset Management; Financial Instruments; Retirement; Steel Industry; United States
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    • 27 Feb 2009
    • News

    Switzerland has the medical bills covered

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    Seminars & Conferences - Faculty & Research

    Seminars & Conferences Seminars & Conferences The Digital Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard Events The D^3 builds community and expertise around the digital transformation of the economy at HBS and beyond through curated... View Details
    • February 1998 (Revised October 2002)
    • Case

    Uganda and the Washington Consensus

    By: Huw Pill and Courtenay Sprague
    Under the direction of President Museveni, much of the world has heaped praise on Uganda for transforming its economy from devastation to growth and managing the ethnic and racial strife that has divided the country in the past. Following a decade of reforms, Uganda is... View Details
    Keywords: Macroeconomics; Economy; Policy; Analysis; Development Economics; Borrowing and Debt; Management; Developing Countries and Economies; Uganda
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    Space, the Final Economic Frontier

    By: Matthew C. Weinzierl
    After decades of centralized control of economic activity in space, NASA and U.S. policymakers have begun to cede the direction of human activities in space to commercial companies. NASA garnered more than 0.7% of GDP in the mid-1960s but is only around 0.1% of GDP... View Details
    Keywords: Emerging Markets; Economics; Private Sector; Aerospace Industry
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    • May 14, 2014
    • Editorial

    In Terms of Social Progress, America Is Not #1—It's #16

    By: Michael E. Porter
    As Americans, we like to think of ourselves as a world leader. After all, the United States has the largest economy in the world and is near the very top in GDP per capita. We are used to thinking that we lead on social issues like education, access to information, and... View Details
    Keywords: Society
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    • February 2011
    • Module Note

    Business Cycles and the New Challenges of Globalization

    By: Diego A. Comin
    Business Cycles and the New Challenges of Globalization is one of the core modules in Business Government and the International Economy (BGIE), a course for the required curriculum of the Harvard Business School. BGIE teaches the economic, political and historical... View Details
    Keywords: Fluctuation; Business Cycles; Trade; Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Capital; Cash Flow; Globalization; Problems and Challenges; China
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