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(Mis)perceptions of Inequality

By: Oliver P. Hauser and Michael I. Norton
Inequality is arguably the defining societal issue of the 21st century. The debate over “who gets what’ underlies policy debates ranging from taxation to health care to wages and permeates society at all levels, attracting increasing interest from policymakers,... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Wealth and Poverty; Perception; Society; Policy
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Publications - Faculty & Research

three decades when... View Details Keywords: Wealth ; Equality and Inequality ; Taxation ; Insurance ; Welfare Citation Read Now Purchase Related Catherine, Sylvain, Max Miller, and Natasha Sarin. "Social Security and Trends in Wealth... View Details
  • 2012
  • Chapter

Citizens' Perceptions and the Disconnect Between Economics and Regulatory Policy

By: Jonathan Baron, William T. McEnroe and Christopher Poliquin
Economic theory is clear about the advantages and disadvantages of various ways of regulating negative externalities, such as command and control, cap and trade, taxation, subsidies, and tort law. Yet public policy rarely follows the recommendations that follow from... View Details
Keywords: Regulation; Decision Making; Government and Politics; United States
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  • 25 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

Taxation and Innovation in the 20th Century By: Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, Tom Nicholas, and Stefanie Stantcheva Abstract—This paper studies the effect of corporate and personal taxes on innovation in the United States over the 20th... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • June 2022
  • Case

Business Implications from Regulating Carbon Emissions in the EU

By: George Serafeim and Benjamin Maletta
In the beginning of the 21st century, the European Union (the EU) had led the global fight against climate change with a wide array of policy measures. The EU’s primary approach to climate policy had been taxation via the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU... View Details
Keywords: Regulation; Carbon Emissions; Trade; Sustainability; Decarbonization; Performance; Climate Change; Analysis; Strategy; Taxation; Policy; Environmental Regulation; Industry Structures; European Union
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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

Tariffs ; Trade ; Price ; Inflation and Deflation Citation Read Now Related Cavallo, Alberto, Paola Llamas, and Franco Vazquez. "Tracking the Short-Run Price Impact of U.S. Tariffs." Working Paper, April 2025. Extractive Taxation and the... View Details
  • 29 Apr 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Great Leap Forward: The Political Economy of Education in Brazil, 1889-1930

Keywords: by André Martínez-Fritscher, Aldo Musacchio & Martina Viarengo; Education
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Students on the Job Market - Doctoral

optimal export taxes depend on a trade-off between the good's military centrality and its distortion centrality. Military centrality is a network-adjusted sales share to the foreign military; distortion centrality reflects taxation... View Details
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Finance - Faculty & Research

response to system financing concerns. Keywords: Wealth ; Equality and Inequality ; Taxation ; Insurance ; Welfare Citation Read Now Purchase Related Catherine, Sylvain, Max Miller, and Natasha Sarin. "Social Security and Trends in Wealth... View Details
  • 02 Mar 2007
  • What Do You Think?

What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?

Summing Up This month's exchange of ideas regarding U.S. healthcare reform ranged far and wide. Some of us were interested primarily in the issue of cost escalation and how to contain it. Others addressed issues of quality. For still others, it was a matter of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

    Marlous van Waijenburg

    Marlous van Waijenburg is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches in the MBA required curriculum.

    Professor van Waijenburg’s main... View Details

    • 28 Apr 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Payout Policy

    Keywords: by Joan Farre-Mensa, Roni Michaely & Martin C. Schmalz

      C. Fritz Foley

      C. Fritz Foley is the Andre R. Jakurski Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean (SAD) for External Relations. As SAD, Foley works with ER to enhance alumni engagement, expand opportunities for lifelong learning, and develop fundraising... View Details

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      Finance - Faculty & Research

      potential changes to taxes and benefits in response to system financing concerns. Keywords: Wealth ; Equality and Inequality ; Taxation ; Insurance ; Welfare Citation Read Now Purchase Related Catherine, Sylvain, Max Miller, and Natasha... View Details
      • 15 Jan 2013
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Promise of Positive Optimal Taxation: A Generalized Theory Calibrated to Survey Evidence on Normative Preferences Explains Puzzling Features of Policy

      Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
      • 2013
      • Working Paper

      International Health Economics

      By: Mark Egan and Tomas J. Philipson
      Perhaps because health care is a local service sector, health economists have paid little attention to international linkages between domestic health care economies. However, the growth in domestic health care sectors is often attributed to medical innovations whose... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Global Range; Economics
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      Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

      Standards (4) State Ownership (1) Status and Position (9) Stock Options (2) Stocks (11) Strategic Planning (17) Strategy (432) Success (15) Supply Chain Management (19) Supply Chain (61) Supply and Industry (19) System Shocks (4) System (56) Talent and Talent... View Details

        Dutch Leonard

        Herman B. ("Dutch") Leonard is Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Sector Management at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In... View Details

        Keywords: education industry; federal government; health care; nonprofit industry; state government
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        Business History - Faculty & Research

        ; Political Elections ; Taxation ; Consumer Behavior ; Brazil ; Latin America ; Sao Paulo Citation Educators Purchase Related Alfaro, Laura, Hise O. Gibson, Leonard A. Schlesinger, and Pedro Levindo. "Doing Business in São Paulo, Brazil."... View Details
        • August 2015 (Revised June 2021)
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        Amazon.com, 2021

        By: John R. Wells, Benjamin Weinstock, Gabriel Ellsworth and Galen Danskin
        In February 2021, Amazon announced 2020 operating profits of $22,899 million, up from $2,233 million in 2015, on sales of $386 billion, up from $107 billion five years earlier (see Exhibit 1). The shareholders expressed their satisfaction (see Exhibit 2), but not all... View Details
        Keywords: Strategic Analysis; Retail; E-commerce; Amazon; Internet; Amazon.com; AmazonFresh; Jeff Bezos; Cloud Computing; Marketplaces; Streaming; E-reader Market; Digital Media; Mobile App; Online Retail; Shipping; Database; Tablet; Kindle; Kindle Fire; Smartphone; Delivery; Digital Platforms; Competition; Internet and the Web; Corporate Strategy; Digital Marketing; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Profit; Revenue; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Taxation; Business History; Human Resources; Resignation and Termination; Books; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Practices and Processes; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Media; Distribution; Distribution Channels; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Infrastructure; Logistics; Product Development; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Organizational Culture; Public Ownership; Work-Life Balance; Problems and Challenges; Labor and Management Relations; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Integration; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Price; Applications and Software; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Working Capital; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Retail Industry; Advertising Industry; Distribution Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Music Industry; Publishing Industry; Shipping Industry; Technology Industry; Video Game Industry; Web Services Industry; United States; Washington (state, US); Seattle
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